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Criminological Theories (Sociological) MCQ

_____ is rationalizations (excuses) used by juveniles to explain away responsibility for their actions.

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Correct Answer: Techniques of neutralization

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Is subterranean values underground values that exist alongside conventional values?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as theories that view the type of crime as due to various forms of delinquent subcultures.

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Correct Answer: Subcultural theories

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_____ is defined as theories that indicate that certain forces have an influence but do not determine behavior.

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Correct Answer: Soft determinism

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_____ is shaw and McKay’s theory that crime is due to social disorganization and social breakdown of an area.

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Correct Answer: Social disorganization theory

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Is social control theories view crime as taking place when social control or bonds to society break down?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as people become criminal when their stakes in society are broken.

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Correct Answer: Social bond theory

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_____ is defined as in egalitarian households, both boys and girls have more similar delinquency levels.

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Correct Answer: Power-control theory

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_____ is according to the Chicago school, these are subcommunities that emerge to serve specific, specialized functions.

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Correct Answer: Natural areas

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Is modes of personality adaptation part of Merton’s theory of anomie that results in personality adaptations: conformist, innovator, ritualist, retreatist, and rebel?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as cohen’s theory that delinquency involves a lower-class reaction to unachievable middle-class values.

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Correct Answer: Lower-class reaction theory

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_____ is defined as cooley’s theory of personality as a perceived perception of the reaction of others.

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Correct Answer: Looking-glass self

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_____ is the study of the interrelationship between human organisms and the physical environment.

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Correct Answer: Human ecology

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Is focal concerns miller’s theory of crime that reflects an overemphasis on lower-class values?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as a problem in which group rates are used in order to describe individual behavior.

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Correct Answer: Ecological fallacy

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_____ is defined as cloward and Ohlin’s theory that crime takes place due to a lack of legitimate opportunity and is also due to the availability of illegitimate opportunities.

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Correct Answer: Differential opportunity theory

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_____ is sutherland’s theory that crime is learned due to exposure to an excess of contacts that advocate criminal behavior.

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Correct Answer: Differential association theory

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Is developmental and life course (DLC) theories espouse the belief that criminal activity changes over an individual’s lifetime from onset to persistence to desistance?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as in life course criminality theory, the quitting or cessation of criminal activity.

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Correct Answer: Desistance

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_____ is defined as matza’s theory that delinquents exist in a limbo wherein they drift back and forth between delinquency and conventionality.

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Correct Answer: Delinquency and drift

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_____ is reckless’s theory that crime takes place when pressures are high and containments (protections) are low.

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Correct Answer: Containment theory

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Is chicago school a school of sociology in the 1920s and 1930s that produced many urban ecological and ethnographic studies of Chicago?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as farrington’s notion that bad life events increase one’s antisocial disposition.

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Correct Answer: Antisocial potential (AP)

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_____ is defined as a moral confusion or breakdown in mores or a gap between goals and means in society.

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Correct Answer: Anomie

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Which theory revolves around the usage of longitudinal data as its primary research methodology?

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Correct Answer: Life course theory

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In what way does the general strain theory differ from earlier versions of strain theory?

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Correct Answer: It takes into account negative relationships.

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Lifestyle exposure theory proposes that the probability of crime varies by time, place, and social setting.

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Correct Answer: True

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According to social disorganization theory, most crime occurs in Zone 1, also called the Central Business Zone.

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Correct Answer: False

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Farrington’s anti-social personality theory suggests that very few individuals have the capacity to commit anti-social acts.

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Correct Answer: True

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Which theory focuses on modes of personal adaptation to account for criminality?

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Correct Answer: Merton’s theory of anomie

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Which of the following is a version of social control theory?

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Correct Answer: Containment theory

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Which of the following theories is considered the most popular in the U.S. criminology?

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Correct Answer: Differential association

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An example of the technique of neutralization, denying harm to anyone, is associated with victimless crimes.

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Correct Answer: True

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One of the assumptions of ______ posits that crime in teenage years tends to take place in groups.

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Correct Answer: Developmental / life course

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Developmental life course theories argue that the onset of crime occurs in the ______-year age range.

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Correct Answer: 8-14

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Who is/are the theorist/s associated with social disorganization theory?

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Correct Answer: Shaw and McKay

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The ecological fallacy attributes group characteristics to individuals.

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Correct Answer: True

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Which one of the following were identified as types of illegitimate juvenile subcultures?

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Correct Answer: Class

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Gottfredson and Hirschi's general theory of crime would argue that ______ is the key predictor of criminality.

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Correct Answer: Low self-control

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