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She comes from an affluent family. This means her family is ______________ indigent impoverished wealthy bellicose - correct answer Wealthy Which of the following is NOT one of the 4 property offenses contained in the Uniform Crime Reports? robbery motor vehicle theft larceny-theft arson - correct answer Robbery It is estimated that about _______________% of American homes have at least 1 television 66 76 86 96 - correct answer 96% The police are required to read the Miranda warnings to a person in their custody before proceeding to interrogate her or him. This is a good example of the civil law procedural criminal law substantive criminal law mala prohibita laws - correct answer Procedural criminal law Which of the following is NOT one of the terms used to describe the process of sending a minor offender to adult court to stand trial as an adult __________ bindover jurisdictional changeover transfer removal - correct answer Jurisdictional changeover Under the concept of parens patriae, the state should act_________________ in the best interests of the parents in the best interests of the child in the best interests of society in the best interests of the school - correct answer In the best interests of the child A person's ascribed status includes all of the following EXCEPT _________________ sex race ethnicity age grade level in high school - correct answer Grade level in high school Which of the following is NOT one of the "violent crimes" or "crimes against persons" compiled and discussed in the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports? aggravated assault burglary robbery rape - correct answer Burglary To desist from delinquency means that the delinquency has _______________ escalated persisted ceased proliferated - correct answer Ceased She admitted to her classmates that she occupied several statuses simultaneously. She was female, a daughter, a niece, a Christian, a sorority member, a college student and a young mother. She said when asked who she was, she would almost immediately say "college student." This makes "college student" her ____________ ascribed status insignificant status volitional status master status - correct answer Master status Socialization which occurs during the first five years of a child's life is called _____________________ primary socialization secondary socialization anticipatory socialization reverse socialization - correct answer Primary socialization Spanking or flogging is a type of ___________________ capital punishment corporal punishment lethal punishment expressive punishment - correct answer Corporal punishment "Brush your teeth every day and floss regularly;" "Maintain a safe driving distance between you and the vehicle ahead of you" are examples of a/an proscriptive norms prescriptive norms volitional norms instrumental norms - correct answer Prescriptive norms Poverty simply means "deprivation." To be poor is to be deprived. The two types of poverty are achieved and ascribed poverty expressive and instrumental poverty absolute and relative poverty intrusive and obtrusive poverty - correct answer Absolute and relative poverty The amount of crime or delinquency that is not discovered by police or anyone else, therefore is unreported to the police, unrecorded by police and therefore unknown is called ______________ the expressive version of crime the dark figure of crime the instrumental portion of crime and delinquency the averted portion of official crime - correct answer The dark figure of crime Which of the following is not an example of a total institution? prison mental institution military bootcamp a college dormitory - correct answer A college dormitory "Do not take someone's property without their permission." This is an example of _____________ a prescriptive norm a proscriptive norm a diurnal norm a rendevouz norm - correct answer Proscriptive norm When people commit crimes or delinquent acts out of anger, frustration, rage or hate, what type of motivation is said to form the basis of the act(s)? expressive motivation instrumental motivation intrinsic motivation regressive motivation - correct answer Expressive motivation "Do not rip off coupons from magazines in the library." This is a good example of ________________ a prescriptive norm a proscriptive norm a somatic norm a peripatetic norm - correct answer A proscriptive norm A professional who studies crime and criminals is a criminologist. A professional who studies suicide is a/an suenterologist suicidologist suicidalister suentologist - correct answer Suicidologist About how many states in the United States currently allow corporal punishment in public schools? 20 30 40 45 - correct answer 20 The United States Supreme Court ruled in ______________ that corporal punishment in public schools is perfectly legal. McKeiver v. Pennsylvania In re Winship Ingraham v. Wright Roper v. Simmons - correct answer Ingraham v. Wright Which sociologist coined the term "total institution"? Marvin Wolfgang Jeffrey Reiman Max Weber Erving Goffman - correct answer Erving Goffman Sociologists call it SOCIALIZATION. Cultural Anthropologists call it ________________ revolutionizing somatization enculturation nihilism - correct answer Enculturation Her parents would not allow her to play with her toys in the middle of the night so she poisoned them to death. She was only 9 years old and the law did not allow police to charge her with any crime because of her tender age. What term best describes this situation? alium cepa mutatis mutandis caveat emptor doli incapax - correct answer Doli incapax In adult court, criminal suspects are tried; in juvenile court, juvenile offenders are _____________ jettisoned imprisoned adjudicated dispositioned - correct answer Adjudicated In 2001, 66 inmates were executed in the United States; this was 19 fewer than 2000. How many inmates were executed in the United States in 2000? 85 47 46 96 - correct answer 85 14-year old Anna Robinson was taken custody by police for the murder of her 54-year-old mother. She was then transferred to adult court for criminal prosecution. Following the initi