Criminology Exam Preparation Guide
Course Introduction
Criminology is the scientific study of crime, criminal behavior, and the criminal justice system. This course explores the causes and consequences of crime, examining various theories that explain why individuals engage in criminal activity. Students will analyze patterns and trends in crime, evaluate the effectiveness of criminal justice policies, and consider the social, economic, and psychological factors that influence criminality. The course also covers the impact of crime on victims and society, as well as contemporary issues and challenges facing law enforcement, courts, and correctional institutions.
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Introduction to Forensic Psychology Research and Application 5th Edition by Curtis R. Bartol
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Forensic Psychology
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Q1) Police psychology is synonymous with correctional psychology.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Which of the following statements about prescription privileges for psychologists is correct?
A) Recent surveys indicate that almost all psychologists are in favor of prescription privileges.
B) Some states give psychologists prescription privileges.
C) No state allows psychologists to prescribe medication.
D) Military psychologists are the only psychologists who have prescription privileges. Answer: B
Q3) In 2009, psychologists were granted permission to prescribe medication in all states. A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Police and Public Safety Psychology
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Q1) All of the following are included in Aumiller and Corey's domains of practice except ______.
A) augmentation
B) intervention
C) operational support
D) organizational consultation
Answer: A
Q2) Which type of validity is the most desirable yet most difficult to achieve?
A) true validity
B) predictive validity
C) face validity
D) content validity
Answer: B
Q3) The use of psychologists in crisis negotiation is decreasing.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Psychology of Investigations
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Q1) The goal of profiling is to predict who will commit a crime.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Explain how the case of the Central Park 5 pertains to the issue of false confessions.
Answer: Five teenagers were convicted of attacking and raping a jogger in 1989. They were later exonerated, but not before one had served 11 years and four had served 7 years in prison. Defense lawyers argued unsuccessfully that their confessions were false, produced by coercive interrogation techniques. Thirteen years after the crime a prisoner serving a sentence for three rapes and a murder confessed to the attack. His unique knowledge of the crime and a DNA match on the samples recovered from the victim resulted in the original convictions of the teenagers being vacated. Some of the original suspects in the Central Park case apparently confessed at the urging of a parent or because they believed they would then be free to go home after being held at the police station for many hours.
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Chapter 4: Consulting and Testifying
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Q1) Research suggests that expert testimony would be most influential in which situation?
A) expert testimony regarding whether or not to civilly commit a sex offender at the posttrial stage
B) expert testimony about a defendant's competence to be executed at the sentencing stage
C) expert testimony concerning which parent should be given custody at the trial stage
D) expert testimony pertaining to the dangerousness of a defendant at the pretrial stage
Q2) Which violence risk assessment instrument is an actuarial measure designed for adult male sex offenders?
A) Static-99
B) ERASOR
C) HCR-20
D) SAVRY
Q3) The Jenkins standard is also referred to as the general acceptance rule.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Define and provide an example of an amicus curiae brief.
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Chapter 5: Consulting With Criminal Courts
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Q1) The law states that an individual found NGRI cannot be held solely based on dangerousness if there is no longer evidence of mental illness. Which group is the exception?
A) serial killers
B) sexually violent predators
C) law enforcement personnel
D) juvenile delinquents
Q2) Evaluations in which a clinician evaluates a defendant's competency to stand trial and criminal responsibility at the same time are called ______.
A) insanity standards
B) dual-purpose evaluations
C) criminal responsibility screenings
D) product tests
Q3) Who gets the report when a defense attorney requests a competency evaluation for his or her client?
A) the defense attorney
B) the judge
C) the prosecutor
D) all parties
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Chapter 6: Family Law and Other Forms of Civil Litigation
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Q1) Gretchen has decided to complete a legal document to make her health wishes known, should she become physically incapacitated. Gretchen is working on a(n) ______.
A) advance directive
B) competency evaluation
C) death with dignity application
D) treatment assessment tool
Q2) A forensic psychologist who has been appointed by family court to provide emotional support during a divorce proceeding is playing the role of ______.
A) coach
B) review expert
C) consultant
D) mediator
Q3) Which type of capacity is often evaluated retrospectively?
A) capacity to consent to treatment
B) mental capacity
C) capacity to withdraw treatment
D) testamentary capacity
Q4) Identify and briefly describe the three forms of outpatient civil commitment.
Q5) Who is Kendra Webdale? How does she pertain to concepts in the chapter?
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Chapter 7: The Development of Delinquent and Criminal Behavior
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Q1) Childhood onset and adolescent onset are two subtypes of which diagnosis?
A) ADHD
B) antisocial personality disorder
C) conduct disorder
D) psychopathy
Q2) Which common childhood diagnosis is closely linked to poor executive functioning?
A) ADHD
B) substance abuse
C) psychopathy
D) schizophrenia
Q3) An individual who engages in habitual criminal behavior and demonstrates a cluster of psychological, interpersonal, and neurological features that discriminate him or her from the general population is referred to as a psychopath.
A)True
B)False
Q4) ADHD causes antisocial behavior.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe the Uniform Crime Reports. Include the limitations of these data.
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Chapter 8: Psychology of Violence and Intimidation
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Q1) Another term for reactive violence is ______ violence.
A) impulsive
B) expressive
C) provoked
D) instrumental
Q2) According to Shihadeh and Barranco (2010), which change in Latino communities may lead to an increase in violence?
A) an increased participation in the labor force
B) a shift in migration patterns from large communities to less established communities
C) a decrease in the availability of social service programs that target low-income Latinos
D) a decentralization of the Latino nuclear family
Q3) Young children are especially susceptible to long-term effects of media violence on aggressive behavior.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Compare and contrast violence and aggression. Provide an example of each.
Q5) Identify the four violent crimes reported in the UCR.
Q6) Discuss how the UCR may perpetuate racial stereotypes of criminal violence.
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Chapter 9: Psychology of Sexual Assault
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Q1) The majority of interfamilial pedophilia involves older siblings molesting younger siblings.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which category of the MTC:R3's aggression variable is characterized by extreme violence and desire to degrade the victim?
A) expressive aggression
B) instrumental aggression
C) strategic violence
D) sadistic violence
Q3) All of the following are true about the MTC rape typology except it ______.
A) considers the context in which rape occurs
B) focuses on behavioral patterns of rapists
C) is based on personality traits of rapists
D) is not useful to victims of sexual assault
Q4) According to research, juvenile sex offenders are less likely to reoffend than adult offenders.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Define psychosexual evaluation.
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Chapter 10: Forensic Psychology and the Victims of Crime
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Q1) Victimization data continually indicated that ______ of all crimes are not reported to police.
A) 5%
B) 15%
C) 25%
D) 50%
Q2) Less than 5% of online sexual solicitors are arrested for violent contact sexual offenses.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A fundamental flaw with child sexual abuse accommodation syndrome is that the behaviors may occur in any child who has experienced trauma.
A)True
B)False
Q4) It is estimated that ______ of the U.S. population has some type of disability.
A) 1-6%
B) 7-13%
C) 14-20%
D) 22-30%
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Chapter 11: Family Violence and Child Victimization
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Q1) Acquisition, storage, and retrieval are the components of ______.
A) repression
B) human memory
C) reconstructive theory
D) cognitive templates
Q2) Professional caregivers are the most frequent abusers of older adults.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What do most treatment programs for batterers have in common?
A) a focus on coping skills and relationship building
B) short-term treatment that focuses on anger management
C) some type of cognitive behavioral psychotherapy
D) a treatment plan that addresses substance use
Q4) Which source of support do female same-sex IPV victims typically find the most helpful?
A) domestic violence shelters
B) physicians
C) friends
D) attorneys
Q5) Discuss three limitations of human memory.
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Chapter 12: Correctional Psychology in Adult Settings
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Q1) Imagine you are conducting a competency to be executed evaluation. Refer to some techniques described in the chapter and explain the process that you would use.
Q2) The IACFP recommends that all new inmates be screened for ______ and ______ before being placed with the general inmate population.
A) psychopathy; weapons
B) treatment; community reentry
C) substance abuse; prior institutionalizations
D) mental illness; suicide risk
Q3) The LSI-R is scored on the basis of record reviews and ______.
A) offender interviews
B) correctional staff feedback
C) intelligence tests
D) conviction data
Q4) Which of the following is an example of self-directed violence?
A) homicide
B) solitary confinement
C) electronic monitoring
D) suicide
Q5) How is recidivism measured?
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Chapter 13: Juvenile Justice and Corrections
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Q1) Research suggests that it is always best for children to remain in their own homes, despite family dysfunction.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Relapse prevention is essential to the treatment of juvenile sex offenders.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Discuss Henggeler's model of multisystemic therapy including the treatment strategy used and the role of psychologists. What does the research suggest about the effectiveness of this model?
Q4) When evaluating a juvenile's amenability for rehabilitation, labeling the juvenile a psychopath would likely result in transfer to criminal court.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Identify the major problems facing juvenile corrections at the end of the 20th century. Which of these problems continue today?
Q6) Describe the process of juvenile sex offender assessment. Why is assessment of sex offenders controversial?
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