CMY1501
Assignment 1 (2021)
, 1. All theories and models in criminology have limitations. The … model, perceives
research to be value free, without biases and it does not assist in seeking
alternatives to the present social and economic order.
1. Critical
2. Positivist
3. Classical
4. Feminist
Reference: study guide p 26
2. Criminal behaviour is studied on different levels and dimensions. Aggressiveness
and acts of violence fall within the realm of the … dimension.
1. Biological
2. Psychological
3. Emotional
4. Intellectual
3. Which school of thought in criminology advocates that the term ‘victim’ should be
rejected in favour of the term ‘survivor’?
1. Positivist
2. Classical
3. Feminist
4. Neo-classical
Reference: study guide p 29
4. The National Crime Prevention Strategy (1996) highlights specific factors that
contribute to crime in South Africa. Which factor refers to the notion that old social
control methods were illegal, and that pre-1994 South African society was largely
overregulated, undemocratic and unaccountable?
1. Political culture, violence and the destruction of cultural control
2. Socio-psychological factor and the destruction of political control
3. The negotiated transition and the destruction of social control
4. Deprivation because of apartheid and the destruction of economical control
Reference: study guide p 170
Assignment 1 (2021)
, 1. All theories and models in criminology have limitations. The … model, perceives
research to be value free, without biases and it does not assist in seeking
alternatives to the present social and economic order.
1. Critical
2. Positivist
3. Classical
4. Feminist
Reference: study guide p 26
2. Criminal behaviour is studied on different levels and dimensions. Aggressiveness
and acts of violence fall within the realm of the … dimension.
1. Biological
2. Psychological
3. Emotional
4. Intellectual
3. Which school of thought in criminology advocates that the term ‘victim’ should be
rejected in favour of the term ‘survivor’?
1. Positivist
2. Classical
3. Feminist
4. Neo-classical
Reference: study guide p 29
4. The National Crime Prevention Strategy (1996) highlights specific factors that
contribute to crime in South Africa. Which factor refers to the notion that old social
control methods were illegal, and that pre-1994 South African society was largely
overregulated, undemocratic and unaccountable?
1. Political culture, violence and the destruction of cultural control
2. Socio-psychological factor and the destruction of political control
3. The negotiated transition and the destruction of social control
4. Deprivation because of apartheid and the destruction of economical control
Reference: study guide p 170
