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Feminist Theories of Crime MCQ

1. Women's Agency is the more traditional approach to criminological research overlooks social ______ of women’s marginalization and places too much emphasis on female offenders as “active subjects” who pursue criminal opportunities.

Relations

Values

Locations

Interactions

Answer

Correct Answer: Locations

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2. According to traditional and conservative perspective causes of gender inequality are due to biological sex differences

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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3. Third wave of feminism started around the late

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

Answer

Correct Answer: 1980s

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4. The personal in the politics" refers to the notion that the “private sphere” is less structured by power relations than the “public sphere”

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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5. Socialist feminism revolves around the belief that women should take control of their own bodies and reproductive functions via contraceptives

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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6. Research using the sex-role approach has been criticized, primarily because of the tendency to perceive these roles as being almost sex-linked

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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7. Sex differences typically refer to

Biological variations

Different reproductive organs

Different levels of hormones

All of the above

Answer

Correct Answer: All of the above

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8. Second wave of feminism started in 1990s

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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9. Radical feminism emphasises the importance of

Personal feelings

Experiences

Relationships

All of the above

Answer

Correct Answer: All of the above

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10. Quantitative methods are nonnumerical research methods

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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11. Qualitative methods are nonnumerical research methods

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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12. Praxis refers to _______ that will provide models for change, which then change consciousness

Consciousness-raising

Establishment of alternative arrangements

Both

None

Answer

Correct Answer: Both

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13. An integrated theory of crime that assumes that, in households where the mother and father have relatively similar levels of power at work, mothers will be _ likely to exert control over daughters, and in households where mothers and fathers have dissimilar levels of power in the workplace, mothers will be likely to suppress criminal activity in daughters than in sons

Less, more

More, less

More, more

Less, less

Answer

Correct Answer: Less, more

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14. Postmodern feminism is a perspective that says women as a group _____ understood

Can be

Cannot be

Can rarely be

All of the above

Answer

Correct Answer: Cannot be

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15. Patriarchy is a _______ climate based on male dominance and hierarchy

Social

Legal

Political

All of the above

Answer

Correct Answer: All of the above

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16. Pathways research typically collects data, usually through interviews, at a particular point in time to provide _______ inquiry as to an individual’s life and life experiences

Perspective

Retributive

Retrospective

None of the above

Answer

Correct Answer: Perspective

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17. Paternalism is the idea that women need to be ______ for their own good

Educated

Protected

Valu free

Unbiased

Answer

Correct Answer: Protected

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18. Objectivity refers to being

Neutral

Value free

Unbiased

All of the above

Answer

Correct Answer: All of the above

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19. An intersectional framework that includes such defining social characteristics as race, class, gender, sexuality, nationality, and age

Liberal feminism

Liberation thesis

Marxist feminism

Multiracial feminism

Answer

Correct Answer: Multiracial feminism

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20. A perspective of crime that emphasizes men’s ownership and control of the means of economic production

Liberal feminism

Liberation thesis

Marxist feminism

Multiracial feminism

Answer

Correct Answer: Marxist feminism

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21. _______ attempts to link the women’s liberation movement with female crime rates

Liberal feminism

Liberation thesis

Marxist feminism

Multiracial feminism

Answer

Correct Answer: Liberation thesis

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22. One of the areas of feminist theories of crime that emphasize the assumption that differences between males and females in offending are due to the lack of opportunities for women in education, employment, etc., compared with men

Liberal feminism

Liberation thesis

Marxist feminism

Multiracial feminism

Answer

Correct Answer: Liberal feminism

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23. Gender-Specific programming are programs for juvenile

Girls

Men

Boys

Old

Answer

Correct Answer: Girls

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24. Gender usually refers to social definitions of what it means to be a

“woman”

“man”

Both

None

Answer

Correct Answer: Both

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25. First wave of feminism started in the mid-_____ century, when women demanded the right to vote

17th

18th

19th

20th

Answer

Correct Answer: 19th

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26. ________ Pertains to behaviors and attitudes toward certain individuals that treat them as though they are on a pedestal

Stir

Waiver

Objectivity

Chivalry

Answer

Correct Answer: Chivalry

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27. Add women and stir is when one uses an existing theoretical perspective based on men and simply “adds” women

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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28. Women and men commit crime at an equal rate.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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29. Classical liberal feminists support limited government and a free market as well as political and legal rights.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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30. Ecofeminists perceive domination of women, minority groups, animals, and the earth as essential problems rather than patriarchy.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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31. The first wave of feminism started in the mid-1800s when women demanded the right to vote.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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32. Radical feminists maintain, in principle, that ______ is the first, most widespread form of human oppression.

Racism

Classism

Sexism

None of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Sexism

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33. Feminism is a belief that women have more inherent value than men.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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34. ______ feminism rejects the traditional assumptions about truth and reality; the emphasis is more on the plurality, the diversity, and the multiplicity of woman as distinct from men.

Liberal

Postmodern

Radical

Marxist

Answer

Correct Answer: Postmodern

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35. ______ feminism purports that gender inequality is due to women’s blocked opportunities to participate in various aspects of the public sphere such as education, employment, and political activity.

Liberal

Radical

Socialist

Postmodern

Answer

Correct Answer: Liberal

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36. The power-control theory attempted to explain gender differences in delinquency rates by including family dynamics.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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