INTRODUCTION TO CRIMINAL JUSTICE BY
LARRY CERTIFICATION EVALUATION TEST 2026
FULL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
ALREADY PASSED GRADED A+
◉ Legal realism. Answer: A legal theory with a primary focus on the
decision-making processes of the courts. the law becomes whatever
the courts says it is
◉ Social norms. Answer: societal judgments about what individuals
should or should not do
◉ Subculture. Answer: a group that shares a set of norms that are
different from those of the larger society
◉ Socialization. Answer: The process by which individuals learn a
society's or culture's norms and also learn to conform to them
◉ Social Control. Answer: The processes by which society controls
individual and group behaviors
,◉ Informal social control. Answer: Tools used to control behavior in
everyday social life, including social control exercised by peers,
communities, families, and groups.
◉ Formal social control. Answer: Mechanisms exercised by the
government to control human behavior and to cause persons to
conform to norms and obey laws
◉ Stratification. Answer: Differences between members of a society
that occur when persons and groups are divided in a hierarchical
manner
◉ Penal social control. Answer: Views the violator of a social norm
that has been codified into criminal law as an offender who is
deserving of official condemnation and punishment. Through
criminal justice system
◉ Compensatory social control. Answer: Focuses on providing
restitution to the victim of a harmful act. Civil justice system
◉ Conciliatory social control. Answer: Attempts to create and
preserve social harmony via dispute resolution. Mediation
, ◉ Therapeutic social control. Answer: Views the deviant person as
someone who needs help to become nondeviant or "normal".
Science and medicine
◉ Medical model of deviance. Answer: A way of explaining deviance
that underlies therapeutic social control. Treatment of disease
◉ Medicalization of deviance. Answer: Defining a deviant behavior
as an illness or a symptom of an illness and then providing medical
intervention to treat the illness
◉ Insanity. Answer: A legal defense that refers to the defendant's
state of mind at the time a criminal offense is committed
◉ Deinstitutionalization. Answer: A movement in which persons
were released from mental hospitals in favor of community-based
social control
◉ Rational choice theory. Answer: An explanation for crime
suggesting that offenders use a strategic thinking process to evaluate
the potential rewards and risks from committing a crime and make
their decision accordingly
LARRY CERTIFICATION EVALUATION TEST 2026
FULL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
ALREADY PASSED GRADED A+
◉ Legal realism. Answer: A legal theory with a primary focus on the
decision-making processes of the courts. the law becomes whatever
the courts says it is
◉ Social norms. Answer: societal judgments about what individuals
should or should not do
◉ Subculture. Answer: a group that shares a set of norms that are
different from those of the larger society
◉ Socialization. Answer: The process by which individuals learn a
society's or culture's norms and also learn to conform to them
◉ Social Control. Answer: The processes by which society controls
individual and group behaviors
,◉ Informal social control. Answer: Tools used to control behavior in
everyday social life, including social control exercised by peers,
communities, families, and groups.
◉ Formal social control. Answer: Mechanisms exercised by the
government to control human behavior and to cause persons to
conform to norms and obey laws
◉ Stratification. Answer: Differences between members of a society
that occur when persons and groups are divided in a hierarchical
manner
◉ Penal social control. Answer: Views the violator of a social norm
that has been codified into criminal law as an offender who is
deserving of official condemnation and punishment. Through
criminal justice system
◉ Compensatory social control. Answer: Focuses on providing
restitution to the victim of a harmful act. Civil justice system
◉ Conciliatory social control. Answer: Attempts to create and
preserve social harmony via dispute resolution. Mediation
, ◉ Therapeutic social control. Answer: Views the deviant person as
someone who needs help to become nondeviant or "normal".
Science and medicine
◉ Medical model of deviance. Answer: A way of explaining deviance
that underlies therapeutic social control. Treatment of disease
◉ Medicalization of deviance. Answer: Defining a deviant behavior
as an illness or a symptom of an illness and then providing medical
intervention to treat the illness
◉ Insanity. Answer: A legal defense that refers to the defendant's
state of mind at the time a criminal offense is committed
◉ Deinstitutionalization. Answer: A movement in which persons
were released from mental hospitals in favor of community-based
social control
◉ Rational choice theory. Answer: An explanation for crime
suggesting that offenders use a strategic thinking process to evaluate
the potential rewards and risks from committing a crime and make
their decision accordingly
