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CH. 4,5,6 CRIMINOLOGY QUESTIONS COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
(VERIFIED ANSWERS)
Quiz: What are the features Shaw and McKay (1942) believed
characterized the transition zone?
Ans: All of these
Quiz: Shaw and McKay found that delinquency rates were always
highest in which zone, regardless of who lived there?
Ans: Transition
Quiz: According to Shaw and McKay (1942), poverty, residential
mobility and ethnic heterogeneity of the transition zone led to
delinquency how?
Ans: They undermine the organizing ability of social institutions, diminish
informal social control and increase opportunities to consort with delinquents
Quiz: According to Sampson, Raudenbush and Earls (1997),
________ is positively associated with violence
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Ans: Concentrated disadvantage
Quiz: According to Sampson, Raudenbush and Earls (1997), dynamic
mutual trust and support built on bonds among neighbors that
enables them to exercise informal social control as needed, which is
otherwise known as ________, mediates the effects of
concentrated disadvantage on violence.
Ans: Collective efficacy
Quiz: While social disorganization theory can explain _________, it
cannot explain __________.
Ans: Neighborhood crime rates; why most people in high crime neighborhoods
do not commit crime
Quiz: What is the ecological fallacy?
Ans: The idea that it is inappropriate to draw conclusions about individual
people on the basis of characteristics of groups to which they happen to belong
Master01 | Dec, 2024/2025 | Latest update
CH. 4,5,6 CRIMINOLOGY QUESTIONS COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
(VERIFIED ANSWERS)
Quiz: What are the features Shaw and McKay (1942) believed
characterized the transition zone?
Ans: All of these
Quiz: Shaw and McKay found that delinquency rates were always
highest in which zone, regardless of who lived there?
Ans: Transition
Quiz: According to Shaw and McKay (1942), poverty, residential
mobility and ethnic heterogeneity of the transition zone led to
delinquency how?
Ans: They undermine the organizing ability of social institutions, diminish
informal social control and increase opportunities to consort with delinquents
Quiz: According to Sampson, Raudenbush and Earls (1997),
________ is positively associated with violence
Master01 | Dec, 2024/2025 | Latest update
, 2
Ans: Concentrated disadvantage
Quiz: According to Sampson, Raudenbush and Earls (1997), dynamic
mutual trust and support built on bonds among neighbors that
enables them to exercise informal social control as needed, which is
otherwise known as ________, mediates the effects of
concentrated disadvantage on violence.
Ans: Collective efficacy
Quiz: While social disorganization theory can explain _________, it
cannot explain __________.
Ans: Neighborhood crime rates; why most people in high crime neighborhoods
do not commit crime
Quiz: What is the ecological fallacy?
Ans: The idea that it is inappropriate to draw conclusions about individual
people on the basis of characteristics of groups to which they happen to belong
Master01 | Dec, 2024/2025 | Latest update
