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Criminological Theory MCQ

Criminological Theory MCQ

 

1. According to the rational choice approach, the decision to commit crime is structured by ______.

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Correct Answer: Where the crime occurs and the characteristics of the target

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2. Is weed and Seed Program program designed to prevent crime by removing dangerous offenders from neighborhoods and providing funds to develop the community?

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Correct Answer: True

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3. _____ is known as the theory that subcultural factors contribute to criminal and delinquent behavior.

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Correct Answer: Subcultural Theory

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4. _____ is defined as criminal justice policies designed to build prosocial networks.

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Correct Answer: Social Support Policies

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5. _____ is the theory that a community’s or neighborhood’s level of disorganization contributes to the crime rate in that community or neighborhood.

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Correct Answer: Social Disorganization Theory

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6. Is social Control Theory a theory that asserts that individuals commit crime because of weak bonds to societal institutions?

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Correct Answer: True

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7. _____ is known as criminal justice policies designed to build commitment to helping one another.

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Correct Answer: Social Altruism Policies

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8. _____ is defined as the theory that a lack of self-control is the main factor behind deviant behavior.

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Correct Answer: Self-Control Theory

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9. _____ is the theory that crime occurs when three things occur at the same time and in the same location: a motivated offender is present, capable guardians are absent, and vulnerable targets are present.

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Correct Answer: Routine Activities Theory

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10. Is rational Choice Theory the theory that offenders decide to commit crimes for specific purposes?

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Correct Answer: True

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11. _____ is known as adherents of the theory that crime is caused by factors beyond choice.

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Correct Answer: Positivist School

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12. _____ is defined as written practices or strategies guiding behavior.

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Correct Answer: Policies

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13. _____ is the theory that juveniles tend to know right from wrong, but they engage in delinquent acts after rationalizing (or neutralizing) their behavior as appropriate in specific situations.

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Correct Answer: Neutralization Theory

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14. Is neurocriminology study of the way that the brain contributes to criminal behavior?

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Correct Answer: True

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15. _____ is known as the types of values that school children are expected to demonstrate and adhere to in their scholastic endeavors.

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Correct Answer: Middle-Class Measuring Rod

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16. _____ is defined as an interdisciplinary developmental theory that explains human behavior by examining how past events put individuals on certain trajectories for future behaviors.

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Correct Answer: Life Course Theory

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17. _____ is a theory that suggests that criminal behavior is learned just as other behavior is learned.

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Correct Answer: Learning Theory

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18. Is labeling Theory the theory that labeling individuals contributes to future offending and that expectations of individuals, whether positive or negative, may lead individuals to meet those expectations?

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Correct Answer: True

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19. _____ is known as the theory that structural factors related to strain or anomie contribute to overall crime rates in a society.

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Correct Answer: Institutional Anomie Theory

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20. _____ is defined as the theory that crime is caused by the way individuals respond to frustrations they encounter.

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Correct Answer: General Strain Theory

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21. _____ is based on the classical school, the theory that offenders choose to commit crime as a result of their free will.

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Correct Answer: Deterrence Theory

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22. Is conflict Theory the theory that crime is caused or influenced by the actions and decisions of those with power?

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Correct Answer: True

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23. _____ is known as a theory developed by Park and Burgess that divided the city into a series of concentric zones, with the assumption that crime is more likely to occur in the zones with more disorder.

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Correct Answer: Concentric Zone Theory

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24. _____ is defined as adherents of the theory that crime is the result of free choice on the part of the individuals.

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Correct Answer: Classical School

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25. _____ is the theory that minor crimes and disorder send a signal to people that a community does not care, thus inviting an unwanted element that engages in more serious crime.

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Correct Answer: Broken Windows Theory

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26. Is anomie Theory a theory that suggests that crime is produced by normlessness or confusion?

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Correct Answer: True

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27. ______ theory explains crime by suggesting that minor forms of disorder will lead to additional disorder.

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Correct Answer: Broken windows

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28. Transitions are long-term events embedded in trajectories.

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Correct Answer: False

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29. Different set of theories are used to explain juvenile delinquency.

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Correct Answer: False

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30. Criminological theories are explanations of crime and criminal justice behaviors and should be taken as fact.

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Correct Answer: False

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31. According to the crime prevention strategies listed in the text, homes with barking dogs are believed to have higher burglary rates.

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Correct Answer: False

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32. The phrase upper class measuring rod refers to the types of values that school children are expected to demonstrate and adhere to in their scholastic endeavors.

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Correct Answer: False

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33. Emile Durkheim’s concept of anomie or normlessness is synonymous with ______.

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Correct Answer: Social strain theory

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34. ______ deterrence focuses on preventing the public from committing future offenses.

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Correct Answer: General

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35. According to deterrence theory, in order for punishment to be effective, it must meet all of the following criteria EXCEPT______

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Correct Answer: Shaming

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36. What theory is useful in explaining why some offenders are specialists who concentrate on specific types of offenses?

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Correct Answer: Rational choice theory

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37. The classical school argued that crime was a matter of free choice.

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Correct Answer: True

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38. Condemning the deviant behavior without condemning the individual is known as ______.

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Correct Answer: Reintegrative shaming

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39. ______ was (were) the founder(s) of the positivist school of criminology, which adhered to the principle of determinism to explain crime.

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Correct Answer: Cesare Lombroso

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40. Research shows that severity is a stronger predictor of deterrence than certainty and swiftness.

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Correct Answer: False

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41. ______ theories examine the way that individual-level factors influence decisions to commit crime.

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Correct Answer: Macro-level

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