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Test Questions James, an introvert, typically does not engage in any physical activity with his friends and is considered to be antisocial at school. Moreover, he lacks sympathy for underprivileged members of society and is easily embarrassed by others. In this scenario, James shows signs of: - ANS Neuroticism The relationship between age and crime is: - ANS correlation When Hagen says "the relationship between class and crime is class- and crime-specific," what does he mean? - ANS Various classes are involved in different kinds of criminal opportunities to commit crimes A theory that explores why men commit more crime than women is a: - ANS Macro theory Sharada has designed a study to analyze physical characteristics of a population of male criminals in a state prison system. She collects information on the height, weight, body mass index (BMI), and overall body type of criminals who have committed violent crimes. Which term is most closely related to the researcher's study? - ANS samatoyping Which of the three elements of deterrence are easiest to change? - ANS severity Which of the following findings lend the most support to the role convergence hypothesis? - ANS Increases in property crime are associated with expanded employment opprotunities for women Choice theories (i.e., rational choice, deterrence theory) are: - ANS process theories Choice theories (i.e., rational choice, deterrence theory) are: - ANS classical theories Generally speaking, what does research say regarding the association between aggressive behaviour by children and exposure to depictions of violence on television? - ANS There is a weak correlation and clarity about the direction of causation Which of the following is the clinical name applied to individuals who have great disregard for the rights of others and who exhibit impulsive, irresponsible, and aggressive behaviour? - ANS antisocial personality disorder Early theorists believed that criminals and non-criminals had different physical characteristics. - ANS true Which of the following terms refers to a personality characteristic associated with sociability, impulsiveness, and aggression? - ANS extroversion Which of the following describes a key critique of how cultural theories of Indigenous overrepresentation in the justice system understand "culture"? - ANS Cultural theories assume that indignous culture is a calcified relic of the past Which of the following provides the basis of a structural explanation of criminal involvement amongst indigenous canadians - ANS Indigenous Canadians experience more unemployment and less quality education than the dominant society. During home renovations, a family removes solid fences for wrought-iron fences, they install a peep-hole in their front door, and they install a lamp so their front pathway is light at night. These are examples of which Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) concept? - ANS Natural surveillance. Which concepts from Rational Choice Theory do we see in the video clip from The Wire? - ANS Involvemeny decisions, event decisions, bounded rationality Lombroso's theory of the born criminal can be criticized as lacking in: - ANS logical consistency What did Hutchings & Mednick tell us with the adoptive study? - ANS This tells us that biological father's criminal record is more important than adoptive father's criminal record. Biological and psychological theories of crime are ... - ANS Micro theories According to Daly (1992), which of the following represents a gendered pathway to crime for women? - ANS Relationships with violentg men The criminal anthropologists who studied the Jukes and the Kallikaks were focusing on: - ANS Heredity Which of the following associated with psychoanalyitic theory? - ANS Id, ego, and superego Doug commits home burglaries to support his drug habit. He targets homes in gated communities, because he believes the homeowners will have more valuables for him to steal, and he only commits crimes when no one is home. Which of the following theories can best explain Doug's criminal behaviour? - ANS Routine Activities Theory Researchers from the Chicago School studied: - ANS Life histories, concentric zones, official data Beer bottles, used condoms, and drug paraphernalia are signs of: - ANS physical disorder A neighbourhood watch is an example of: - ANS Collective Efficacy Chicago school theorists were consensus theorists (not conflict theorists). - ANS True The United States has a higher rate of firearm crime than Canada, but for other types of crimes the rates are similar between the two countries. - ANS false Those with power create laws which benefit them and allow them to maintain their power. - ANS conflict Laws reflect the values shared by most members of the particular society. - ANS Consensus Religious values often serve as the basis of, and become codified as law. - ANS true Which of the following statements is/are true of the age-crime curve? 1. People are accused of fewer crimes ad they get older 2. People are accused of commiting crimes at all ages 3. The peak age for people accused of cimmiting crime is around 17-20 - ANS All of the above Is the most common offence committed by youth theft under $5000? - ANS YES Women's imprisonment has not increased in the past few decades in Canada despite significant media attention to female crime and a perceived increase in incarceration rates of women. - ANS True About half of all prisoners classified as dangerous offenders are women. - ANS False Working class males were theorized to be more delinquent than working class females because there was less control in the home (often by the mother) and were not deterred, or put off, by the threat of punishment. - ANS True Police in Canada rarely collect and report information on race. - ANS True Which event instigated the social upheaval that generated the beginning of our modern criminal justice system? - ANS The breakdown of feudalism What are the three criteria necessary for punishments to be effective, according to Beccaria? P - ANS Proportinal, swift, and certain The classical school advocated due process safegueards for offenders - ANS true Criminals make informed and rational choices contradicts which school? - ANS Positive School The decision-making process of offenders best describes which theories? - ANS Deterrence theories Mandatory minimum sentences is typically adopted to enhance the certainty of punishment - ANS False Answer: Hot Spots policing Boston's Operation Ceasefire program is an example of what strategy of crime control? - ANS Individualized detterence What feature of the situational crime prevention perspective distinguishes it from other deterrence theories? - ANS Situational crime prevention assumes that much crime is opprotunistic The link between low intelligence and criminality is: - ANS Correlation Much of the early biological research has been called into question because - ANS It did not take envionmental factors into account and it used poor research methodology Individuals with low IQ scores were sterilized so that they were unable to procreate and potentially create more criminals. This occurred in Canada even until the early 1970s. - ANS True When a social problem is suggested to be caused by the policies created by an organization or insitution, the level of analysis would be the: - ANS Institutional or community level Which of the following is an impulse, not a form of controlling our behaviour? - ANS Id Offenders with antisocial personality disorder know their actions are wrong - ANS True The prevalence of mental disorder among thpse in correctional institutions is greater than in the general population - ANS True Gangs arise spontaneously in areas where social controls are weak - ANS True What best represents the causes of crime according to Shaw and McKay's ecological analysis? - ANS Deviance will be highest in disorganized communities that lack social controls Indigenous Canadians experience more unemployment and less qualoity education than the dominant society - ANS True What best descirbes a key assumption of critical race theory? - ANS Racism in the criminal justice system is inevitable