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Chapter 1 The Importance of Violent Offenders to Criminology
1. Terrie Moffitt’s theory of developmental taxonomy suggests two types of offenders. What
does she call these groups?
a. normative and non-normative
b. pathological and antisocial
c. normative and pathological
d. non-normative and chronic
e. delinquent and violent
Answer: c
p. 4
2. According to Terrie Moffitt’s developmental taxonomy theory, what type of group is limited
to adolescents who commit lower level crimes and whose antisocial behavior is a result of
growing pains as one transitions from childhood to adulthood?
a. delinquent
b. pathological
c. habitual
d. normative
e. genetics
Answer: d
p. 4
3. According to Terrie Moffitt’s developmental taxonomy theory, what type of group is used to
describe life-course persistent offenders whose antisocial behavior is chronic, frequent, serious,
and violent?
a. pathological
b. habitual
c. normative
d. non-normative
e. psychotic
Answer: a
p. 4
4. Criminology struggled for most of the twentieth century; however, three major works
appeared near the end of the century that saved criminology. Which one of the following is
mentioned in the text as being the first to be published of the three major works?
a. Sigelman’s Life-span Human Development
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b. DeLisi’s Career Criminals in Society
c. Millon’s Psychopathy: Antisocial, Criminal, and Violent Behavior
d. Loeber and Farrington’s Serious and Violent Juvenile Offenders
e. Wilson and Herrnstein’s Crime and Human Nature
Answer: e
p. 4
5. Results of a study conducted by Viding, Blair, Moffitt, and Plomin found that there is a
significant genetic risk for psychopathy in 7-year-olds. What percent of extreme antisocial
behavior was explained by genetics and what percent was explained by shared environmental
factors?
a. 0 percent genetics; 67 percent environmental factors
b. 25 percent genetics; 67 percent environmental factors
c. 81 percent genetics; 53 percent environmental factors
d. 81 percent genetics; 25 percent environmental factors
e. 81 percent genetics; 0 percent environmental factors
Answer: e
p. 6
6. What is defined in the text as relatively enduring, distinctive, integrated, and a functional set
of psychological characteristics that result from people’s temperaments interacting with their
cultural and developmental experiences?
a. criminality
b. personality
c. antisocial behavior
d. conduct
e. psychopathy
Answer: b
p. 6
7. What is described in the text as the potential to engage in crime and violence that every person
has within. It ranges on a continuum from very low to very high and it is not normally
distributed?
a. performance
b. actions
c. criminality
d. conduct
e. personality
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Answer: c
p. 6
8. The ________ construct, developed by Gottfredson and Hirschi, is the most popular example
of criminality. They suggest that people who lack this construct tend to be impulsive, insensitive,
and short-sighted, and they are more likely to engage in criminal acts.
a. low self-control
b. risk-taking behaviors
c. antisocial
d. tempermental
e. low school performance
Answer: a
p. 7
9. Two types of neuropsychological defects contribute to an assortment of antisocial behaviors.
What are these two defects?
a. metamemory and decision-making functions
b. convergent thinking and executive functions
c. verbal and executive functions
d. verbal and olfaction functions
e. divergent thinking and cognitive functions
Answer: c
p. 7 & 8
10. Which of the following is an example of executive functions?
a. hyperactivity
b. problem-solving skills
c. memory
d. receptive listening
e. speech articulation
Answer: a
p. 8
11. Which of the following is an example of verbal functions?
a. inattention
b. habituation
c. memory
d. hyperactivity
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e. impulsivity
Answer: c
p. 8
12. Sexual homicides are categorized in two ways in the text. What type of sexual homicide is
planned, targets strangers, and reflects control.
a. spontaneous
b. structured
c. disorganized
d. unprompted
e. organized
Answer: e
p. 9
13. According to a study of more than 7,400 sex offenders in the United Kingdom, Francis and
Soothill found that about ____ percent of sex offenders ultimately commit murder.
a. 0
b. 3
c. 6
d. 9
e. 12
Answer: b
p. 9
14. Wilson and Herrnstein suggested that because of the existence of biological predispositions,
behavior in one individual will not be the same as behavior in another individual under the same
circumstances. They also said that social forces cannot deter criminal behavior in 100 percent of
the population.
Answer: True
p. 4
15. Wilson and Herrstein wrote about self-control being an important predictor of crime in Crime
and Human Nature.
Answer: False
p. 4
16. Terrie Moffitt describes the pathological group of offenders as being affected by biological
factors, especially genetic and neurological, that affect their antisocial behavior.
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Answer: True
p. 4
17. The normative group, described in Terrie Moffitt’s developmental taxonomy theory, has
antisocial behavior that is chronic, serious, frequent, and violent. Their antisocial behavior is a
product of turmoil and angst experienced during transition between childhood and adulthood.
Answer: False
p. 4
18. A study conducted by Viding, Blair, Moffitt, and Plomin found significant genetic risk for
psychopathy.
Answer: True
p. 6
19. Violent offenders are able to muffle their impulses or desires, they are able to turn the other
cheek and ignore trivial confrontations.
Answer: False
p. 7
20. Persons who displayed risky traffic behavior that resulted in accidents were also likely to
engage in various forms of criminal behavior.
Answer: True
p. 7
21. Piquero found that youths with the lowest self-control were also the most frequent, serious,
and persistent criminals.
Answer: True
p. 7
22. Organized sexual killers are compulsive sexual sadists with antisocial and narcissistic
personality disorders, according to Meloy. They are chronically emotionally detached, often
primary psychopaths, are have a low resting heart rate and most did not experience early trauma
or abuse in childhood.
Answer: True
p. 9
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23. Using a sample of extreme offenders with a minimum of 30 arrests, DeLisi and colleagues
found that offenders with low self-control are likely to accumulate many arrests for the most
serious forms of violence. Poorly controlled offenders discontinue violent behavior while
incarcerated; however, they continually run afoul of the criminal justice system upon release.
Answer: False
p. 7
24. Disorganized sexual homicide describes an attack where the perpetrator targets a stranger.
The perpetrator demands submission, uses restraints, does not use a weapon, and transports and
hides the body.
Answer: False
p. 9
25. Disorganized sexual homicides are random, involve post-mortem sexual acts, include
weapons at the scene, and the victims are left at the scene.
Answer: True
p. 9
26. The rate of murder among sex offenders is one homicide for every 3000 sex offenders
compared to a general population ratio of one homicide per 400 individuals.
Answer: False
p. 9
27. Offender types can be put into narrow categories because they usually only commit specific
types of offenses.
Answer: False
p. 10
28. Parenting was found to have little, if any, affects on self-control issues in children.
Answer: True
p. 11
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Chapter 2 The Overlap of Violent Offending and Violent Victimization: Assessing the
Evidence and Explanations
1. The first major criminological publication to explicitly recognize and attempt to theorize the
phenomenon of a conceptual link between offending and victimization was written by
a. Glueck and Glueck
b. Von Hentig
c. Addams
d. Gottfredson
Answer: b
p. 14
2. A person's involvement in accidents is in no way casually related to whether they are
victimized or commit crime; rather victimization, offending, and traffic accidents are symptoms
of ineffectual social control mechanisms and other common social conditions was stated by
a. Von Hentig
b. Glueck and Glueck
c. Osgood
d. Gottfredson
Answer: d
p. 15
3. The idea that characteristics such as genetic makeup, executive functioning, intelligence, and
personality factors are distributed within the population at non-constant levels supports the
scientific notion of
a. heterogeneity
b. homogeneity
c. sexual selection
d. social Darwinism
Answer: a
p. 16
4. Researchers argue that Gottfredson and Hirschi's theory of low self-control would agree with
all but which one of the following?
a. self control predicts offending
b. self control predicts victimization
c. self control confounds the victimization-offending link
d. offenders and victims have different characteristics
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Answer: d
p. 17
5. Research has found that high-rate offenders are more likely than low-rate offenders to have all
but which one of the following traits
a. have an elevated risk of accidental death
b. prematurely die of natural causes
c. involved in non-lethal accidents
d. less likely involved in unnatural deaths such as suicide
Answer: d
p. 17
6. Wolfgang's study on patterns of homicide in Philadelphia showed that victims of homicide
precipitated their own death in what percent of cases
a. 26
b. 20
c. 36
d. 15
Answer: a
p. 18
7. According to Singer's research, juvenile gang members who were victims also engaged in
serious adult offending by what percentage
a. 89
b. 94
c. 49
d. 66
Answer: b
p. 19
8. Anderson refers to the honor culture he observed in poor neighborhoods as the
a. gang status
b. enforcer code
c. secret society
d. street code
Answer: d
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Test Bank
Chapter 1 The Importance of Violent Offenders to Criminology
1. Terrie Moffitt’s theory of developmental taxonomy suggests two types of offenders. What
does she call these groups?
a. normative and non-normative
b. pathological and antisocial
c. normative and pathological
d. non-normative and chronic
e. delinquent and violent
Answer: c
p. 4
2. According to Terrie Moffitt’s developmental taxonomy theory, what type of group is limited
to adolescents who commit lower level crimes and whose antisocial behavior is a result of
growing pains as one transitions from childhood to adulthood?
a. delinquent
b. pathological
c. habitual
d. normative
e. genetics
Answer: d
p. 4
3. According to Terrie Moffitt’s developmental taxonomy theory, what type of group is used to
describe life-course persistent offenders whose antisocial behavior is chronic, frequent, serious,
and violent?
a. pathological
b. habitual
c. normative
d. non-normative
e. psychotic
Answer: a
p. 4
4. Criminology struggled for most of the twentieth century; however, three major works
appeared near the end of the century that saved criminology. Which one of the following is
mentioned in the text as being the first to be published of the three major works?
a. Sigelman’s Life-span Human Development
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b. DeLisi’s Career Criminals in Society
c. Millon’s Psychopathy: Antisocial, Criminal, and Violent Behavior
d. Loeber and Farrington’s Serious and Violent Juvenile Offenders
e. Wilson and Herrnstein’s Crime and Human Nature
Answer: e
p. 4
5. Results of a study conducted by Viding, Blair, Moffitt, and Plomin found that there is a
significant genetic risk for psychopathy in 7-year-olds. What percent of extreme antisocial
behavior was explained by genetics and what percent was explained by shared environmental
factors?
a. 0 percent genetics; 67 percent environmental factors
b. 25 percent genetics; 67 percent environmental factors
c. 81 percent genetics; 53 percent environmental factors
d. 81 percent genetics; 25 percent environmental factors
e. 81 percent genetics; 0 percent environmental factors
Answer: e
p. 6
6. What is defined in the text as relatively enduring, distinctive, integrated, and a functional set
of psychological characteristics that result from people’s temperaments interacting with their
cultural and developmental experiences?
a. criminality
b. personality
c. antisocial behavior
d. conduct
e. psychopathy
Answer: b
p. 6
7. What is described in the text as the potential to engage in crime and violence that every person
has within. It ranges on a continuum from very low to very high and it is not normally
distributed?
a. performance
b. actions
c. criminality
d. conduct
e. personality
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Answer: c
p. 6
8. The ________ construct, developed by Gottfredson and Hirschi, is the most popular example
of criminality. They suggest that people who lack this construct tend to be impulsive, insensitive,
and short-sighted, and they are more likely to engage in criminal acts.
a. low self-control
b. risk-taking behaviors
c. antisocial
d. tempermental
e. low school performance
Answer: a
p. 7
9. Two types of neuropsychological defects contribute to an assortment of antisocial behaviors.
What are these two defects?
a. metamemory and decision-making functions
b. convergent thinking and executive functions
c. verbal and executive functions
d. verbal and olfaction functions
e. divergent thinking and cognitive functions
Answer: c
p. 7 & 8
10. Which of the following is an example of executive functions?
a. hyperactivity
b. problem-solving skills
c. memory
d. receptive listening
e. speech articulation
Answer: a
p. 8
11. Which of the following is an example of verbal functions?
a. inattention
b. habituation
c. memory
d. hyperactivity
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e. impulsivity
Answer: c
p. 8
12. Sexual homicides are categorized in two ways in the text. What type of sexual homicide is
planned, targets strangers, and reflects control.
a. spontaneous
b. structured
c. disorganized
d. unprompted
e. organized
Answer: e
p. 9
13. According to a study of more than 7,400 sex offenders in the United Kingdom, Francis and
Soothill found that about ____ percent of sex offenders ultimately commit murder.
a. 0
b. 3
c. 6
d. 9
e. 12
Answer: b
p. 9
14. Wilson and Herrnstein suggested that because of the existence of biological predispositions,
behavior in one individual will not be the same as behavior in another individual under the same
circumstances. They also said that social forces cannot deter criminal behavior in 100 percent of
the population.
Answer: True
p. 4
15. Wilson and Herrstein wrote about self-control being an important predictor of crime in Crime
and Human Nature.
Answer: False
p. 4
16. Terrie Moffitt describes the pathological group of offenders as being affected by biological
factors, especially genetic and neurological, that affect their antisocial behavior.
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Answer: True
p. 4
17. The normative group, described in Terrie Moffitt’s developmental taxonomy theory, has
antisocial behavior that is chronic, serious, frequent, and violent. Their antisocial behavior is a
product of turmoil and angst experienced during transition between childhood and adulthood.
Answer: False
p. 4
18. A study conducted by Viding, Blair, Moffitt, and Plomin found significant genetic risk for
psychopathy.
Answer: True
p. 6
19. Violent offenders are able to muffle their impulses or desires, they are able to turn the other
cheek and ignore trivial confrontations.
Answer: False
p. 7
20. Persons who displayed risky traffic behavior that resulted in accidents were also likely to
engage in various forms of criminal behavior.
Answer: True
p. 7
21. Piquero found that youths with the lowest self-control were also the most frequent, serious,
and persistent criminals.
Answer: True
p. 7
22. Organized sexual killers are compulsive sexual sadists with antisocial and narcissistic
personality disorders, according to Meloy. They are chronically emotionally detached, often
primary psychopaths, are have a low resting heart rate and most did not experience early trauma
or abuse in childhood.
Answer: True
p. 9
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23. Using a sample of extreme offenders with a minimum of 30 arrests, DeLisi and colleagues
found that offenders with low self-control are likely to accumulate many arrests for the most
serious forms of violence. Poorly controlled offenders discontinue violent behavior while
incarcerated; however, they continually run afoul of the criminal justice system upon release.
Answer: False
p. 7
24. Disorganized sexual homicide describes an attack where the perpetrator targets a stranger.
The perpetrator demands submission, uses restraints, does not use a weapon, and transports and
hides the body.
Answer: False
p. 9
25. Disorganized sexual homicides are random, involve post-mortem sexual acts, include
weapons at the scene, and the victims are left at the scene.
Answer: True
p. 9
26. The rate of murder among sex offenders is one homicide for every 3000 sex offenders
compared to a general population ratio of one homicide per 400 individuals.
Answer: False
p. 9
27. Offender types can be put into narrow categories because they usually only commit specific
types of offenses.
Answer: False
p. 10
28. Parenting was found to have little, if any, affects on self-control issues in children.
Answer: True
p. 11
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Chapter 2 The Overlap of Violent Offending and Violent Victimization: Assessing the
Evidence and Explanations
1. The first major criminological publication to explicitly recognize and attempt to theorize the
phenomenon of a conceptual link between offending and victimization was written by
a. Glueck and Glueck
b. Von Hentig
c. Addams
d. Gottfredson
Answer: b
p. 14
2. A person's involvement in accidents is in no way casually related to whether they are
victimized or commit crime; rather victimization, offending, and traffic accidents are symptoms
of ineffectual social control mechanisms and other common social conditions was stated by
a. Von Hentig
b. Glueck and Glueck
c. Osgood
d. Gottfredson
Answer: d
p. 15
3. The idea that characteristics such as genetic makeup, executive functioning, intelligence, and
personality factors are distributed within the population at non-constant levels supports the
scientific notion of
a. heterogeneity
b. homogeneity
c. sexual selection
d. social Darwinism
Answer: a
p. 16
4. Researchers argue that Gottfredson and Hirschi's theory of low self-control would agree with
all but which one of the following?
a. self control predicts offending
b. self control predicts victimization
c. self control confounds the victimization-offending link
d. offenders and victims have different characteristics
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Answer: d
p. 17
5. Research has found that high-rate offenders are more likely than low-rate offenders to have all
but which one of the following traits
a. have an elevated risk of accidental death
b. prematurely die of natural causes
c. involved in non-lethal accidents
d. less likely involved in unnatural deaths such as suicide
Answer: d
p. 17
6. Wolfgang's study on patterns of homicide in Philadelphia showed that victims of homicide
precipitated their own death in what percent of cases
a. 26
b. 20
c. 36
d. 15
Answer: a
p. 18
7. According to Singer's research, juvenile gang members who were victims also engaged in
serious adult offending by what percentage
a. 89
b. 94
c. 49
d. 66
Answer: b
p. 19
8. Anderson refers to the honor culture he observed in poor neighborhoods as the
a. gang status
b. enforcer code
c. secret society
d. street code
Answer: d
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