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CRIMINOLOGY CH 7,8,9,10 COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
(VERIFIED ANSWERS)
Quiz: What is a risk factor?
Ans: Something that increases the likelihood of offending
Quiz: Which of these is NOT a risk factor for crime?
Ans: High intelligence
Quiz: In his general theory of crime and delinquency, Agnew (2005)
says crime is more likely when _____ are high and _____ are low.
Ans: Motivations; constraints
Quiz: According to Agnew (2005), which of these life domains and
risk factors for crime are INCORRECTLY matched?
Ans: Peer domain—low self control and high irritability
Quiz: According to Agnew, how do irritability and low self control
specifically facilitate other causes of crime?
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Ans: People with these traits are likely to be poor parents, to have no or bad
marriages, to have poor school performance, to associate with delinquent peers
and to be unemployed or have bad jobs
Quiz: What is the central concept of Farrington's integrated
cognitive antisocial potential theory?
Ans: Antisocial potential
Quiz: According to Farrington, only a few people have high long
term antisocial potential. When that potential becomes behavior
through cognitive processes, these people tend to:
Ans: Commit a wide variety of offenses over the lifetime
Quiz: Being bored, angry, drunk, high, frustrated or encouraged by
peers describes what, according to Farrington?
Ans: A high level of short term antisocial potential
Quiz: Whether a person commits crime depends on what three
things, according to Farrington?
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Ans: Level of antisocial potential, social environment, cost benefit analysis
Quiz: . _______ is the hallmark of life course persistent offenders
and ______ is the hallmark of adolescent limited offenders,
according to Moffitt.
Ans: Continuity; discontinuity
Quiz: . According to Moffitt, the vast majority of offenders are:
Ans: Adolescent limited
Quiz: According to Moffit and with respect to rewards, life course
persistent offenders do not desist from crime because _____ but
adolescent limited offenders do desist because ______.
Ans: Over time, there are fewer and fewer opportunities for rewarding
prosocial behavior; prosocial behavior ultimately becomes more rewarding than
antisocial behavior
Quiz: What is the maturity gap, according to Moffitt?
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CRIMINOLOGY CH 7,8,9,10 COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
(VERIFIED ANSWERS)
Quiz: What is a risk factor?
Ans: Something that increases the likelihood of offending
Quiz: Which of these is NOT a risk factor for crime?
Ans: High intelligence
Quiz: In his general theory of crime and delinquency, Agnew (2005)
says crime is more likely when _____ are high and _____ are low.
Ans: Motivations; constraints
Quiz: According to Agnew (2005), which of these life domains and
risk factors for crime are INCORRECTLY matched?
Ans: Peer domain—low self control and high irritability
Quiz: According to Agnew, how do irritability and low self control
specifically facilitate other causes of crime?
Master01 | Dec, 2024/2025 | Latest update
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Ans: People with these traits are likely to be poor parents, to have no or bad
marriages, to have poor school performance, to associate with delinquent peers
and to be unemployed or have bad jobs
Quiz: What is the central concept of Farrington's integrated
cognitive antisocial potential theory?
Ans: Antisocial potential
Quiz: According to Farrington, only a few people have high long
term antisocial potential. When that potential becomes behavior
through cognitive processes, these people tend to:
Ans: Commit a wide variety of offenses over the lifetime
Quiz: Being bored, angry, drunk, high, frustrated or encouraged by
peers describes what, according to Farrington?
Ans: A high level of short term antisocial potential
Quiz: Whether a person commits crime depends on what three
things, according to Farrington?
Master01 | Dec, 2024/2025 | Latest update
, 3
Ans: Level of antisocial potential, social environment, cost benefit analysis
Quiz: . _______ is the hallmark of life course persistent offenders
and ______ is the hallmark of adolescent limited offenders,
according to Moffitt.
Ans: Continuity; discontinuity
Quiz: . According to Moffitt, the vast majority of offenders are:
Ans: Adolescent limited
Quiz: According to Moffit and with respect to rewards, life course
persistent offenders do not desist from crime because _____ but
adolescent limited offenders do desist because ______.
Ans: Over time, there are fewer and fewer opportunities for rewarding
prosocial behavior; prosocial behavior ultimately becomes more rewarding than
antisocial behavior
Quiz: What is the maturity gap, according to Moffitt?
Master01 | Dec, 2024/2025 | Latest update
