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_____ is defined as the underuse of the criminal law to control deviant activity.

Few are psychopaths

None of these

The majority of offenders are older

Undercriminalization

Answer

Correct Answer: Undercriminalization

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_____ is comte’s theory that knowledge has historically progressed from theological to metaphysical to scientific.

Social disorganization

Progression of knowledge

Routine activities

None of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Progression of knowledge

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Is overcriminalization the overuse of the criminal law as an attempt to control deviant activity?

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as prescribed rules of conduct.

Norms

All of these

Raison d’état

Parens patria

Answer

Correct Answer: Norms

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_____ is defined as more serious informal social controls.

Theft

All of these

Burglary

Answer

Correct Answer: Mores

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_____ is less serious crimes that result in less than 1 year in jail.

All of these

South

Midwest

Misdemeanors

Answer

Correct Answer: Misdemeanors

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Is manifest functions intended or planned consequences of social arrangements?

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as acts that are bad due to being prohibited.

None of these

Whistle blowing

Mala prohibita

Terrorism

Answer

Correct Answer: Mala prohibita

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_____ is defined as acts that are bad in themselves.

Misdemeanor

Mala in se

None of these

Felony

Answer

Correct Answer: Mala in se

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_____ is codified (written) rules that are more serious norms and contain sanctions.

All of these

Laws

Bolita

Loan sharking

Answer

Correct Answer: Laws

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Is latent functions unexplained, unanticipated (hidden) consequences of social activity?

False

True

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as says that crime is defined by abstract meanings and symbols and is a label assigned by society.

Emphasis on the criminalization of behavior

All of these

Mild pessimism

Interactionist model

Answer

Correct Answer: Interactionist model

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_____ is defined as an associational or heterogeneous society.

Gesellschaft

The pizza connection

All of these

The New Orleans incident

Answer

Correct Answer: Gesellschaft

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_____ is a communal or folk society.

Superego

Gemeinschaft

All of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Gemeinschaft

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Is functional necessity of crime (Durkheim) durkheim’s theory that society defines itself by reacting to crime and wrongdoing?

False

True

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as nice customs, traditions, or less serious norms.

Online piracy results in lost revenue.

All of these

Folkways

The criminal justice system is soft on white-collar crime.

Answer

Correct Answer: Folkways

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_____ is defined as more serious crimes generally punished by at least a year in jail.

Beccaria

Felonies

None of these

Marx

Answer

Correct Answer: Felonies

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_____ is behavior that is outside the limits of societal toleration.

Hezbollah

Deviance

Parens patria

None of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Deviance

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Is criminology the scientific study of crime and criminal behavior?

False

True

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as violations of law that are enforced by the state in order to protect victims.

Snitches

All of these

Boosters

Criminal law

Answer

Correct Answer: Criminal law

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_____ is defined as violations of criminal law.

Golden Triangle

All of these

Medeliin cartel

Crime

Answer

Correct Answer: Crime

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_____ is the costs of crime include financial and other costs, such as psychological and health costs. Estimates have been as high as $1.7 trillion.

All of these

Durkheim’s suicide

The American Revolution

Costs of crime

Answer

Correct Answer: Costs of crime

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Is consensus model the belief that criminal law originates in the will of the majority?

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as the belief that criminal law reflects the conflicts of interest of groups and that the more powerful groups define the law.

Al Capone

None of these

Conflict model

Jay Albanese

Answer

Correct Answer: Conflict model

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What kind of act is gambling an example of?

Mala in se

Mala prohibita

Folkway

Answer

Correct Answer: Mala prohibita

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The United States of America would be considered an example of a Gemeinschaft-type society.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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Which of the following states that “criminality is viewed as a label or stigma attached by a societal reaction that is subject to shifting standards”?

Conflict model

Consensus model

Interactionist approach

Manifest functions

Answer

Correct Answer: Interactionist approach

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What is the legislation of law to regulate personal conduct that does not include a clear victim?

Undercriminalization

Victim-less crime

Folkway

Overcriminalization

Answer

Correct Answer: Overcriminalization

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The development of criminology was closely linked with the development of sociology.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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Which of the following terms is important in establishing guilt?

Actus reus

Nullum crimen sine lege

Mens rea

Ex post facto

Answer

Correct Answer: Mens rea

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Not all deviant acts are considered criminal.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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Measuring the economic cost of crime is an easy and simple task.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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Which of the following is most concerned with the study of the causal explanations of crime?

Sociology

Criminal justice

Criminology

Victimology

Answer

Correct Answer: Criminology

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An example of a mala in se crime would be ______?

Vagrancy

Drug offenses

Murder

Illegal music downloads

Answer

Correct Answer: Murder

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August Comte argues that the progression of knowledge consisted of three stages. Which stage suggests the earliest explanation of criminal behavior?

Theological

Rational

Scientific

Metaphysical (philosophical)

Answer

Correct Answer: Theological

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Which model of law suggests that criminal law is the result among members of society who agree upon what constitutes wrongdoing?

Mala prohibita

Consensus

Conflict

Actus reus

Answer

Correct Answer: Consensus

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What term refers to traditions and customs that are preferred but not subject to serious sanctions?

Crime

Folkway

Deviance

Answer

Correct Answer: Folkway

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According to Durkheim, crime is normal, a positive product, and necessary.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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Most of the major developments in criminology have occurred in what country?

United States

Denmark

England

Germany

Answer

Correct Answer: United States

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