CJUS TEST 1 EXAM QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS
What is crime? (three parts) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Violation of the law (legalistic), Act of
immortality (Moral definition/social harms), any act that causes pain and suffering.
Deviance - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Violation of a social norm
deliquency - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Crimes committed by "young people" (minors)
Examples of crimes against person? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Assault, homicide, battery
Examples of crimes against property? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Burglary, embezzlement, vehicle
theft, arson.
Examples of crimes against public order - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Disturbing the peace, disorderly
conduct, public intoxication.
Examples of crimes against the state? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Treason, espionage
Examples of crimes by the state? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Genocide, crimes against humanity,
political assassination
Examples of corporate crimes? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Toxic waste dumping, price-fixing,
corporate negligence
Criminology - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅The scientific study and understanding of crime and criminal
behavior
Criminal justice - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅The study of the 3 major parts of the system. (policing,
courts, corrections).
, Criminalistics - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅CSI
Mala prohibita - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Acts that are bad because they have been prohibited
Mala in se - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Acts that are inherently bad.
Gemeinschaft - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅simple, communal, relatively homogenous societies.
Characterized by normative consensus.
Gesellschaft - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Complex, associational, individualistic, heterogenous.
Consensus view - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅crime is functional, agreement between members of
society and what is 'wrong', equal application of the law.
Conflict view - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅The law is a tool of the ruling class, used to protect the
status quo.
Top 10 crimes: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅1. St Valentine's day massacre (1929)
2. The holocaust (1941-1945)
3. JFK (1963)
4. Murder of 3 civil rights workers in Mississippi (1964)
5. The manson family killings (1969)
6. Watergate (1972)
7. Columbine (1999)
8. OJ (1995)
9. OKC bombing, 9/11
10a. Attica prison riot
10b. George Floyd (2020)
What is crime? (three parts) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Violation of the law (legalistic), Act of
immortality (Moral definition/social harms), any act that causes pain and suffering.
Deviance - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Violation of a social norm
deliquency - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Crimes committed by "young people" (minors)
Examples of crimes against person? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Assault, homicide, battery
Examples of crimes against property? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Burglary, embezzlement, vehicle
theft, arson.
Examples of crimes against public order - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Disturbing the peace, disorderly
conduct, public intoxication.
Examples of crimes against the state? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Treason, espionage
Examples of crimes by the state? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Genocide, crimes against humanity,
political assassination
Examples of corporate crimes? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Toxic waste dumping, price-fixing,
corporate negligence
Criminology - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅The scientific study and understanding of crime and criminal
behavior
Criminal justice - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅The study of the 3 major parts of the system. (policing,
courts, corrections).
, Criminalistics - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅CSI
Mala prohibita - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Acts that are bad because they have been prohibited
Mala in se - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Acts that are inherently bad.
Gemeinschaft - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅simple, communal, relatively homogenous societies.
Characterized by normative consensus.
Gesellschaft - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Complex, associational, individualistic, heterogenous.
Consensus view - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅crime is functional, agreement between members of
society and what is 'wrong', equal application of the law.
Conflict view - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅The law is a tool of the ruling class, used to protect the
status quo.
Top 10 crimes: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅1. St Valentine's day massacre (1929)
2. The holocaust (1941-1945)
3. JFK (1963)
4. Murder of 3 civil rights workers in Mississippi (1964)
5. The manson family killings (1969)
6. Watergate (1972)
7. Columbine (1999)
8. OJ (1995)
9. OKC bombing, 9/11
10a. Attica prison riot
10b. George Floyd (2020)
