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Crime Theories (Classical and Psychological) MCQ

_____ is known as restriction of the arbitrary use of power by restricting it by established laws.

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Correct Answer: Rules of laws

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_____ is defined as model or typical pattern of something.

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Correct Answer: Paradigms

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_____ is situations and factors that lead to an event. For example, bullying that preceded a student from hitting another student.

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Correct Answer: Mitigating circumstances

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Is free will acting on one’s own discretion, not believing in fate?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as programs or government policies that mandated the surgical sterilization, preventing individuals the ability to have children.

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Correct Answer: Forced sterilization

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_____ is defined as describes how closely scores on a test correspond (correlate) with behavior as measured in other contexts.

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Correct Answer: Empirical validity

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_____ is act of discouraging an action by instilling doubt or fear of the consequences.

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Correct Answer: Deterrence

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Is codified arranging laws or rules into a systematic code; for example, state laws are codified?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as factors that increases the severity or culpability of a criminal act, including, but not limited to, heinousness of the crime, lack of remorse, and prior conviction of another crime.

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Correct Answer: Aggravating circumstances

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Freud argued that the ______ acted as our mediator.

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Correct Answer: Ego

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Low levels of ______ have been found consistently to be related to criminal offending.

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Correct Answer: Serotonin

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Willem Bonger developed a theory of crime based on the works of ______, which attributes crime to the characteristics of modern capitalist economies.

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Correct Answer: Karl Marx

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According to Emile Durkheim, the weakening of social norms, what he refers to as ______, results in increased crime levels.

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Correct Answer: Anomie

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The ______ test, the forefather of the IQ test, was developed at the beginning of the 20th century.

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Correct Answer: Binet

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______ is considered the father of the positive school of criminology because he was the first person to apply the scientific method to the study of crime.

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Correct Answer: Cesare Lombroso

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Charles Darwin wrote which of the following books in 1859, which introduced the theory of evolution and natural selection?

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Correct Answer: On the Origin of Species

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Which of the following proposed the idea of the “felicific calculus,” which considered humans like calculators figuring the costs and benefits in deciding on the best course of action.

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Correct Answer: Jeremy Bentham

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The term mens rea refers to the ______.

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Correct Answer: Intent of the offender

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During the 18th century, crime was equated with ______.

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Correct Answer: Sin

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Who first coined the term criminology to refer to the scientific study of crime?

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Correct Answer: Raffaele Garofalo

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The ______ perspective assumes society consists of groups with competing interests and values that do not agree on what behaviors should be regulated and punished by law.

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Correct Answer: Conflict/critical

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Which of the following can be defined as atypical and usually the violation of social norms?

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Correct Answer: Deviant behavior

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Before explaining a certain phenomenon, a theory should first ______.

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Correct Answer: Define what it is trying to explain

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Logical consistency and ______ are the two pillars of science.

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Correct Answer: Empirical validity

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