Crime and Delinquency Final Questions and Answers

Crime and Delinquency Final Questions and Answers

Question 1.
A survey of homicide rates shows that the number of homicides per 100,000 children
under age 15 in the United States was ________ times the number in other countries
combined.
Correct Answer: 5


Question 2.
To learn how the causes of crime vary at different ages, Alfred Blumstein and his
colleagues suggest that criminologists study
Correct Answer: criminal careers


Question 3.
Cloward and Ohlin's assumption that blocked opportunities are related to delinquency has
received
Correct Answer: mixed empirical support.


Question 4.
Research findings of Richard Wright and Scott Decker indicate that street robbers, before
committing their offenses, take into account familiarity with the area, fear of recognition,
and the possibility that a particular area is no longer cost-beneficial.
Correct Answer: false


Question 5.
Which of the following statements is not true about the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR)?
Correct Answer: They differentiate between completed acts and attempted acts.


Question 6.
One of the earliest sociological theories of criminal behavior was formulated by
Correct Answer: Gabriel Tarde


Question 7.
Which of the following is not one of the four common bankruptcy scams?
Correct Answer: the corporate pirate scam


Question 8.
________ is the assent to the society's value system.
Correct Answer: Belief


Question 9.
Which type of conflict, according to Sellin, arises when a single culture evolves into a
variety of cultures, each with its own conduct norms?
Correct Answer: secondary


Question 10.

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,The ________, passed by Congress in 1890, authorized the prosecution of corporations
engaged in monopolistic practices.
Correct Answer: Sherman Antitrust Act


Question 11.
Which of the following is not a biochemical factor?
Correct Answer: brain lesions


Question 12.
________ is a killing committed intentionally but without malice.
Correct Answer: Voluntary manslaughter


Question 13.
In a national sample of over 6,000 households, Straus and Gelles found that about one in
four couples experiences at least one physical assault during the year.
Correct Answer: false


Question 14.
________ is/are a resort to violence or a threat of violence on the part of a group seeking to
accomplish a purpose against the opposition of constituted authority.
Correct Answer: Terrorism


Question 15.
After analyzing studies on the relationship between pornography and violence, the
Attorney General's Commission concluded that nonviolent and nondegrading pornography
is not significantly associated with crime and aggression.
Correct Answer: T


Question 16.
Any scam designed to take advantage of loopholes in the bankruptcy laws is known as
Correct Answer: bankruptcy fraud.


Question 17.
________ is a type of elderly abuse where paid caregivers in a nursing home are
perpetrators of abuse.
Correct Answer: Institutional elder abuse


Question 18.
Who has been the spokesperson for the microsociological perspective since 1969?
Correct Answer: Travis Hirschi


Question 19.
Which of the following has been used to assert some governmental control over organized
crime?
Correct Answer: Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO)




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,Question 20.
All early societies imposed punishment for acts that were detrimental to their existence,
such as
Correct Answer: treason


Question 21.
Churning is the use of material, nonpublic financial information to obtain an unfair
advantage in trading securities.
Correct Answer: F


Question 22.
Who wrote On Crimes and Punishment?
Correct Answer: Cesare Beccaria


Question 23.
The theory of the born criminal by Cesare Lombroso defines atavistic stigmata as
Correct Answer: physical features of creatures at an earlier stage of
development, before they became fully human


Question 24.
An important step to curb government contract fraud was taken with the passage of the
________, creating a separate offense of government contract fraud in excess of $1 million.
Correct Answer: Major Fraud Act


Question 25.
The idea of "conditioned free will" implies that
Correct Answer: individuals make choices in regard to a particular action within
a range of possibilities that is "preset" yet flexible.


Question 26.
The peacemaking perspective is part of an intellectual and social movement toward
Correct Answer: restorative justice.


Question 27.
The decline in criminal activities with age is known as ________.
Correct Answer: the aging-out phenomenon


Question 28.
According to Wolfgang and Ferracuti, the perception about violence in subcultures of
violence is that ________.
Correct Answer: it is frequently an expected response


Question 29.
Criminology generally focuses on the study of
Correct Answer: criminality



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, Question 30.
Hans J. Eysenck claims that all human personality may be seen in three dimensions. What
are those dimensions?
Correct Answer: psychoticism, extroversion, neuroticism


Question 31.
According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, there were
approximately ________ million reports of suspected child abuse or neglect made to Child
Protective Services in 2014.
Correct Answer: 3.2


Question 32.
In the 1980s ________ constituted the United States' major drug problem.
Correct Answer: cocaine


Question 33.
Park and Burgess advanced the study of social disorganization by introducing ________ into
the study of human society.
Correct Answer: ecological analysis


Question 34.
William Sheldon brought the somatotype school to the United States. Which one of the
following is not one of the three somatotypes Sheldon formulated?
Correct Answer: andromorph


Question 35.
Moffitt posits that individual differences in crime commission may be attributed to levels of
self-control.
Correct Answer: false


Question 36.
The term "victimology" was coined in 1947 by
Correct Answer: Benjamin Mendelsohn.


Question 37.
The science of controlled reproduction to improve hereditary qualities is called
Correct Answer: eugenics


Question 38.
________, classified as "attention deficit hyperactivity disorder," produces asocial
behavioral patterns such as impulsivity, hyperactivity, aggressiveness, low self-esteem,
and temper outbursts.
Correct Answer: Minimal brain dysfunction


Question 39.
________ account for the most significant share of arsonists.


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