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Criminology Initiation MCQ

Criminology Initiation MCQ

 

1. Is specific Deterrence the effect of punishment on the future behavior of the person who experiences the punishment?

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Correct Answer: True

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2. _____ is known as a theory of punishment asserting that its purpose is not to deter or to rehabilitate but to defend society against criminals.

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Correct Answer: Social Defense

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3. _____ is defined as refers to “falling back” into criminal behavior after having being punished.

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Correct Answer: Recidivism

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4. _____ is rational behavior is consistent with logic, a logical “fit” between the goals people strive for and means they use to achieve them.

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Correct Answer: Rational

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5. Is principle of Utility posits that human action should be judged moral or immoral by its effect on the happiness of the community and that the proper function of the legislature is to promulgate laws aimed at maximizing the pleasure and minimizing the pain of the largest number in society—“the greatest good for the greatest number.”?

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Correct Answer: True

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6. _____ is defined as an extension of the scientific method—from which more positive knowledge can be obtained—to social life.

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Correct Answer: Positivism

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7. _____ is a theory of deterrence that refers to offenders’ perception of the likelihood of arrest and how severe they believe the punishment will be for a crime if caught.

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Correct Answer: Perceptual Deterrence Theory

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8. Is italian School of Criminology positivist school of criminology associated with Cesare Lombroso, Raffaele Garofalo, and Enrico Ferri?

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Correct Answer: True

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9. _____ is known as one of Lombroso’s criminal types. Insane criminals bore some stigmata but were not born criminals. Among their ranks were alcoholics, kleptomaniacs, nymphomaniacs, and child molesters.

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Correct Answer: Insane Criminal

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10. _____ is defined as combining hedonism and rationality to logically weigh the anticipated benefits of a given course of action against its possible costs.

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Correct Answer: Hedonistic Calculus

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11. _____ is a doctrine assuming that the achievement of pleasure or happiness is the main goal of life.

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Correct Answer: Hedonism

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12. Is general Deterrence the assumed preventive effect of the threat of punishment on the general population, that is, potential offenders?

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Correct Answer: True

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13. _____ is known as that which enables human beings to purposely and deliberately choose to follow a calculated course of action.

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Correct Answer: Free Will

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14. _____ is defined as a major intellectual shift in the way people viewed the world and their place in it, questioning traditional religious and political values and substituting humanism, rationalism, and naturalism for supernaturalism.

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Correct Answer: Enlightenment

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15. _____ is the prevention of criminal acts by the use or threat of punishment; deterrence may be either specific or general.

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Correct Answer: Deterrence

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16. Is determinism the position that events have causes that precede them?

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Correct Answer: True

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17. _____ is known as one of Lombroso’s criminal types. They had none of the physical peculiarities of the born or insane criminal and were considered less dangerous.

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Correct Answer: Criminaloid

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18. _____ is defined as the effect of punishment on future behavior depends on how much the punishment and the usual life experience of the person being punished differ or contrast.

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Correct Answer: Contrast Effect

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19. _____ is a police management and accountability process that has been implemented across the nation.

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Correct Answer: CompStat

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20. Is classical School the classical school of criminology was a nonempirical mode of inquiry similar to the philosophy practiced by the classical Greek philosophers?

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Correct Answer: True

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21. _____ is known as criminologists who employ maps and other geographic information in their research to study where and when crime is most prevalent.

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Correct Answer: Cartographic Criminologists

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22. _____ is defined as cesare Lombroso’s term for his “born criminals,” meaning evolutionary “throwbacks” to an earlier life form.

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Correct Answer: Atavism

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23. What is at the heart of reducing the crime rate in New York City?

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Correct Answer: CompStat

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24. Who is the father of criminology?

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Correct Answer: Lombroso

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25. According to Jeremy Bentham, the philosophy of social control is based on which principle?

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Correct Answer: Greatest happiness for the great number

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26. Demonological explanations for criminal behavior began to wane in the 18th century?

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Correct Answer: True

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27. Who is the father of classical criminology?

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Correct Answer: Beccaria

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28. All criminal justice systems in the world assume the classical position that persons are free agents who deserve punishment when they transgress the law?

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Correct Answer: True

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29. Betham was a bridge between classical and positivist schools?

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Correct Answer: True

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30. Classicists viewed criminals and non-criminals as similar beings who chose different pathways?

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Correct Answer: True

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31. Modern Criminology is the product of two main schools of thought: The classical and the positivist.

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Correct Answer: True

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32. Committing another crime after previously being punished for one is called?

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Correct Answer: Recidivism

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