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Criminology Overview MCQ

_____ is defined as one of the two so-called ideological visions of the world. The unconstrained vision denies an innate human nature, viewing it as formed anew in each culture.

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Correct Answer: Unconstrained Vision

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_____ is a set of logically interconnected propositions explaining how phenomena are related and from which a number of hypotheses can be derived and tested.

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Correct Answer: Theory

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Is policy a course of action designed to solve some problem and selected by appropriate authorities from among alternative courses of action?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as “Guilty mind.” Criminal liability does not attach based on actions alone; there must also be criminal intent.

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Correct Answer: Mens Rea

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_____ is defined as crimes that are “bad” simply because they are prohibited.

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Correct Answer: Mala Prohibita

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_____ is universally condemned crimes that are “inherently bad.”

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Correct Answer: Mala in Se

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Is level of Analysis that segment of the phenomenon of interest that is measured and analyzed (e.g., individuals, families, neighborhoods, states)?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as a way of looking at the world, a general emotional picture of “how things should be” that forms, shapes, and colors our concepts of the phenomena we study.

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Correct Answer: Ideology

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_____ is defined as statements about relationships between and among factors we expect to find based on the logic of our theories.

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Correct Answer: Hypotheses

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_____ is the legal principle stating that a crime must have a negative impact on either the victim or the general values of the community to be a crime.

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Correct Answer: Harm

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Is grand Jury an investigatory jury composed of seven to 23 citizens before which the prosecutor presents evidence that sufficient grounds exist to try the suspect for a crime. If the prosecutor is successful, he or she obtains an indictment from the grand jury listing the charges a person is accused of?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is a continuously distributed trait composed of a combination of other continuously distributed traits that signals the willingness to use force, fraud, or guile to deprive others of their lives, limbs, or property for personal gain.

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Correct Answer: Criminality

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Is crime an intentional act in violation of the criminal law committed without defense or excuse and penalized by the state?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as refers to the five elements of criminal liability that must be proven beyond a reasonable doubt in order to convict a person of a crime.

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Correct Answer: Corpus Delicti

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_____ is defined as one of the two so-called ideological visions of the world. The constrained vision views human activities as constrained by an innate human nature that is self-centered and largely unalterable.

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Correct Answer: Constrained Vision

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_____ is the legal principle stating that the act (actus reus) and the mental state (mens rea) concur in the sense that the criminal intention actuates the criminal act.

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Correct Answer: Concurrence

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Is causation a legal principle stating that there must be an established proximate causal link between the criminal act and the harm suffered?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as the act of being legally detained to answer criminal charges based on an arrest warrant or a law enforcement officer’s probable cause to believe the person arrested has committed a felony crime.

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Correct Answer: Arrest

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_____ is defined as a court proceeding in which the defendant answers to the charges against him or her by pleading guilty, not guilty, or no contest (nolo contendere).

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Correct Answer: Arraignment

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_____ is literally guilty act, it refers to the principle that a person must commit some forbidden act or neglect some mandatory act before he or she can be subjected to criminal sanctions.

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Correct Answer: Actus Reus

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Mens rea must be present in order to be found guilty of a crime?

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Correct Answer: True

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Criminology focuses on how the criminal justice system investigates, prosecutes, and supervises individuals who have committed crimes.

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Correct Answer: False

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A theory is a set of logically interconnected propositions explaining how observed facts within a domain of interest are related and from which a number of hypotheses can be derived and tested.

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Correct Answer: True

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Laws never change. Once an act is criminalized it remains a crime for eternity.

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Correct Answer: False

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Grand juries are typically selected from which of the following lists?

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Correct Answer: Both A and B

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Which of the following is NOT one of the basic principles of corpus delicti?

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Correct Answer: Mala prohibita

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Which of the following crimes is NOT considered mala in se?

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Correct Answer: Marijuana use

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Which of the following are NOT questions that criminologists ask in the pursuit of understanding criminal behaviors?

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Correct Answer: What can the corrections system do to help lower recidivism rates?

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Which of the following era were structural theories of crime formulated?

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Correct Answer: Progressive

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Criminologists use the scientific method to answer questions about why individuals commit crimes.

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Correct Answer: True

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