Crime Typologies
CMY3702
Semester 1 & 2 Multiple Choice questions 2020
SEMESTER 1
ASSIGNMENT 02
UNIQUE NUMBER: 636203
MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS
1. Which one of the following determining factors plays a major role in practising
prostitution?
1. Socio-psychological
2. Cultural
3. Social
4. Economic
2. To which crime type does the following excerpt refer? “Anybody who accepts any
gratification from anybody else or gives any gratification to anybody else, in order to
influence the conduct of the receiver to conduct his/herself in a way that amounts to the
unlawful exercise of any duties commits …”
1. money laundering.
2. organised crime.
3. corruption.
4. embezzlement.
3. Under which SAPS crime category are cash-in-transit heists classified?
1. Aggravated robbery
2. Property-related
3. Contact-related
4. Common robbery
4. On a strategic level, police crime intelligence also looks at issues relating to the
increases and decreases in the different types of crime in a specific year. To which one of
the following terms does this statement refer?
1. Crime classification
2. Crime statistics
3. Crime patterns
4. Crime trends
, 5. Which one of the following drugs is considered a club drug?
1. Dagga
2. LSD
3. Mandrax
4. Cocaine
6. Which type of prostitutes are referred to as the aristocrats of prostitution?
1. Street walkers
2. Call girls
3. Bar girls
4. Brothel prostitutes
7. According to Hirschi and Gottfredson, white-collar crime is promoted by …
1. poor business ethics.
2. learnt behaviour.
3. self-interest.
4. moral decline.
8. A relatively new phenomenon, call houses, combines elements of …
1. escort services and bar girls.
2. skeezers and brothel prostitutes.
3. call girls and escort services.
4. brothel prostitutes and call girls.
9. Which one of the following options best describes crime classification?
1. The categorisation of types of crimes in order to differentiate between crime data, crime
statistics and legal definitions representative of criminal acts.
2. The division or arrangement of crime data into segments representative of legal
definitions of criminal acts according to recorded crime statistics.
3. The connection between types of crime in order to separate crime data, crime statistics
and legal definitions representative of criminal acts.
4. The division or arrangement of crime data into precise classes based on the fact that data
on certain crimes show explicit fundamental similarities.
10. There is no general accepted definition for … due to the lack of consensus on whether
this category of crime should be defined in terms of the offender’s characteristics or
according to the contravention itself.
1. prostitution
2. organised crime
3. terrorism
4. white-collar crime
CMY3702
Semester 1 & 2 Multiple Choice questions 2020
SEMESTER 1
ASSIGNMENT 02
UNIQUE NUMBER: 636203
MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS
1. Which one of the following determining factors plays a major role in practising
prostitution?
1. Socio-psychological
2. Cultural
3. Social
4. Economic
2. To which crime type does the following excerpt refer? “Anybody who accepts any
gratification from anybody else or gives any gratification to anybody else, in order to
influence the conduct of the receiver to conduct his/herself in a way that amounts to the
unlawful exercise of any duties commits …”
1. money laundering.
2. organised crime.
3. corruption.
4. embezzlement.
3. Under which SAPS crime category are cash-in-transit heists classified?
1. Aggravated robbery
2. Property-related
3. Contact-related
4. Common robbery
4. On a strategic level, police crime intelligence also looks at issues relating to the
increases and decreases in the different types of crime in a specific year. To which one of
the following terms does this statement refer?
1. Crime classification
2. Crime statistics
3. Crime patterns
4. Crime trends
, 5. Which one of the following drugs is considered a club drug?
1. Dagga
2. LSD
3. Mandrax
4. Cocaine
6. Which type of prostitutes are referred to as the aristocrats of prostitution?
1. Street walkers
2. Call girls
3. Bar girls
4. Brothel prostitutes
7. According to Hirschi and Gottfredson, white-collar crime is promoted by …
1. poor business ethics.
2. learnt behaviour.
3. self-interest.
4. moral decline.
8. A relatively new phenomenon, call houses, combines elements of …
1. escort services and bar girls.
2. skeezers and brothel prostitutes.
3. call girls and escort services.
4. brothel prostitutes and call girls.
9. Which one of the following options best describes crime classification?
1. The categorisation of types of crimes in order to differentiate between crime data, crime
statistics and legal definitions representative of criminal acts.
2. The division or arrangement of crime data into segments representative of legal
definitions of criminal acts according to recorded crime statistics.
3. The connection between types of crime in order to separate crime data, crime statistics
and legal definitions representative of criminal acts.
4. The division or arrangement of crime data into precise classes based on the fact that data
on certain crimes show explicit fundamental similarities.
10. There is no general accepted definition for … due to the lack of consensus on whether
this category of crime should be defined in terms of the offender’s characteristics or
according to the contravention itself.
1. prostitution
2. organised crime
3. terrorism
4. white-collar crime
