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ANSWER ALL THE QUESTIONS
1 Behaviour linked to genetic and environmental factors combined with specific biological,
psychological and social processes, and an inability to cope with adverse environmental
as individual risk factors, associated with criminal causation.
1. intelligence; physical factors
2. mental; physiological disorders
3. personality; temperament
4. biological; physical factors
(2)
2 According to the general theory of crime, the root cause of poor self-control can be traced to:
1. Alcohol and drug abuse
2. Inappropriate peer associations
3. Poor academic achievement
4. Inadequate child-rearing practices
(2)
3
1. the official crime statistics; 43
2. crime trends; 45
3. crime patterns; 25
4. the code of crime list; 35
(2)
4 Narrow definitions of conventional concepts, ie
ical perspective.
1. classical
2. postmodern
3. neo-classical
4. positivistic
(2)
5 With regard to crime trends, stress levels that increase because of long-term exposure to
extreme temperatures, affecting the increase of violent crimes, relates to:
1. Crime trends according to regions
2. Crime trends according to categories
3. Crime trends according to crime patterns
4. Crime trends according to day, season and climate
(2)
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6 Conklin (2013) distinguishes between four (4) types of violent offenders, namely:
1. Antisocial violent offenders; consensus violent offenders; rational violent offenders and
gender-related violent offenders
2. Situationally violent offenders; criminally violent offenders; culturally violent offenders and
pathologically violent offenders
3. General violent offenders; sexual violent offenders; substance abuse violent offenders and
conventional violent offenders
4. Political violent offenders; unemployed violent offenders; revenge-driven violent offenders
and power-control violent offenders
(2)
7 Research has found that factors such as age composition, urbanisation, household size, ethnic
heterogeneity, standard of living and income inequality, have a small and statistically
insignificant association with:
1. Culture
2. Race
3. Norms
4. Morals
(2)
8
1. Ronald Akers;
2. Travis Hirschi;
3. Edwin Sutherland;
4. Cesare Lombrosso;
(2)
9 ts between cultural and ethnic groups.
1. official crime statistics
2. racial breakdowns
3. police statistics
4. self-report studies
(2)
10 Which option below focuses on the family, educational, religious, economic and political
institutions that construct the patterns of relationships that members of society have with one
another?
1. Social structure theories
2. Social process theories
3. Social thought theories
4. Social class theories
(2)
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school and mass media and is linked to individual risk factors for criminal causation.
1. substance abuse
2. crime
3. socialisation
4. the community
(2)
12 The premise that certain people are born to be criminals through the inheritance of a genetic or
physiological predisposition to crime is linked to the:
1. Rational choice perspective
2. Deterministic approach
3. The social learning perspective
4. The biological dimension
(2)
13 actor
that is often present when crimes are committed.
1. depression
2. socialisation
3. alcoholism
4. criminal association
(2)
14
1. population
2. national
3. ethnic
4. victimisation
(2)
15 People learn to become offenders. This statement relates to:
1. Process theories
2. Consensus theories
3. Feminist theories
4. Structure theories
(2)
16 In theory development, providing a meaningful and logically consistent explanation for the
relationship between two or more facts, refers to:
1. Plausibility
2. Evidence of validity
3. Falsifiability
4. Predictability
(2)
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HRM3706 SUMMARISED NOTES
CMY1501 EXAM
PACK
FOR ASSISTANCE CONTACT
, lOMoARcPSD|48680473
Page 3 of 12
CMY1501
May/June 2020
ANSWER ALL THE QUESTIONS
1 Behaviour linked to genetic and environmental factors combined with specific biological,
psychological and social processes, and an inability to cope with adverse environmental
as individual risk factors, associated with criminal causation.
1. intelligence; physical factors
2. mental; physiological disorders
3. personality; temperament
4. biological; physical factors
(2)
2 According to the general theory of crime, the root cause of poor self-control can be traced to:
1. Alcohol and drug abuse
2. Inappropriate peer associations
3. Poor academic achievement
4. Inadequate child-rearing practices
(2)
3
1. the official crime statistics; 43
2. crime trends; 45
3. crime patterns; 25
4. the code of crime list; 35
(2)
4 Narrow definitions of conventional concepts, ie
ical perspective.
1. classical
2. postmodern
3. neo-classical
4. positivistic
(2)
5 With regard to crime trends, stress levels that increase because of long-term exposure to
extreme temperatures, affecting the increase of violent crimes, relates to:
1. Crime trends according to regions
2. Crime trends according to categories
3. Crime trends according to crime patterns
4. Crime trends according to day, season and climate
(2)
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6 Conklin (2013) distinguishes between four (4) types of violent offenders, namely:
1. Antisocial violent offenders; consensus violent offenders; rational violent offenders and
gender-related violent offenders
2. Situationally violent offenders; criminally violent offenders; culturally violent offenders and
pathologically violent offenders
3. General violent offenders; sexual violent offenders; substance abuse violent offenders and
conventional violent offenders
4. Political violent offenders; unemployed violent offenders; revenge-driven violent offenders
and power-control violent offenders
(2)
7 Research has found that factors such as age composition, urbanisation, household size, ethnic
heterogeneity, standard of living and income inequality, have a small and statistically
insignificant association with:
1. Culture
2. Race
3. Norms
4. Morals
(2)
8
1. Ronald Akers;
2. Travis Hirschi;
3. Edwin Sutherland;
4. Cesare Lombrosso;
(2)
9 ts between cultural and ethnic groups.
1. official crime statistics
2. racial breakdowns
3. police statistics
4. self-report studies
(2)
10 Which option below focuses on the family, educational, religious, economic and political
institutions that construct the patterns of relationships that members of society have with one
another?
1. Social structure theories
2. Social process theories
3. Social thought theories
4. Social class theories
(2)
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school and mass media and is linked to individual risk factors for criminal causation.
1. substance abuse
2. crime
3. socialisation
4. the community
(2)
12 The premise that certain people are born to be criminals through the inheritance of a genetic or
physiological predisposition to crime is linked to the:
1. Rational choice perspective
2. Deterministic approach
3. The social learning perspective
4. The biological dimension
(2)
13 actor
that is often present when crimes are committed.
1. depression
2. socialisation
3. alcoholism
4. criminal association
(2)
14
1. population
2. national
3. ethnic
4. victimisation
(2)
15 People learn to become offenders. This statement relates to:
1. Process theories
2. Consensus theories
3. Feminist theories
4. Structure theories
(2)
16 In theory development, providing a meaningful and logically consistent explanation for the
relationship between two or more facts, refers to:
1. Plausibility
2. Evidence of validity
3. Falsifiability
4. Predictability
(2)
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