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Introduction to Criminal Justice provides students with a comprehensive overview of the American criminal justice system, examining its key components: law enforcement, the courts, and corrections. The course explores the historical development, current practices, and key challenges facing each sector while reviewing the processes of criminal investigation, prosecution, adjudication, and punishment. Emphasis is placed on the roles and relationships of criminal justice professionals within the broader context of crime, law, public policy, and societal impact. Students will gain foundational knowledge and critical perspectives necessary for understanding contemporary issues and debates in the field of criminal justice.
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Introduction to Criminology 3rd Edition by Anthony Walsh
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Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview of Crime and Criminology
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Q1) In the eyes of the law,a person reneging on a contract is handled as a _____ .
A) Criminal violation.
B) Private wrong.
C) Social construction.
D) Socially harmful act.
Answer: B
Q2) According to John Hagan,which of the following criteria helps us differentiate between "real" crimes and those which are arbitrary and socially constructed?
A) Consensus
B) Harm
C) Severity
D) All of the Above
Answer: D
Q3) Crimes that are time and culture bound are described as _____.
A) Mala in se
B) Mala prohibita
C) Actus reus
D) Mens rea
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Measuring Crime and Criminal Behavior
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Q1) The primary source of official crime statistics in the United States is the annual _______ published by the FBI.
A) NIBRS report
B) UCR
C) NCVS
D) self-report survey
Answer: B
Q2) The UCR is the primary source of official crime statistics in the United States.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Identify two "index crimes."
Answer: Possibilities: homicide,assault,forcible rape,robbery,larceny/theft,burglary,motor vehicle theft,and arson.
Q4) NIBRS has almost completely replaced the UCR as the leading source of official crime statistics.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: The Early Schools of Criminology and Modern Counterparts
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Q1) What is choice structuring?
Answer: The process that individual offenders go through in making the choice to offend.
Q2) Rational choice theory is most closely linked to the _____ school.
A) Classical
B) German
C) Italian
D) Positivist
Answer: A
Q3) Beccaria's work can be summarized as arguing that:
A) Crime is the result of forces outside of an individual's control.
B) Capitalism is at the root of most crimes.
C) The punishment should fit the crime.
D) Crime rates are related to geography.
Answer: C
Q4) According to routine activities theory,what are the three components that combine for crime to occur?
Answer: Motivated offender,suitable target,and the lack of a capable guardian.
Q5) Which two theorists are most often associated with the classical school?
Answer: Cesare Beccaria and Jeremy Bentham.
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Chapter 4: Social Structural Theories
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Q1) Building on the work of Shaw and McKay,Robert Sampson has suggested that _____ is effective at reducing crime.
A) Providing coping strategies
B) Increasing collective efficacy
C) Increasing economic opportunities
D) Decommodification
Q2) Which term did Emile Durkheim coin to refer to normlessness,or a lack of rules,within society?
A) Anomie
B) Proletariat
C) Rebellion
D) Strain
Q3) Which of the following theorists is credited with strain theory,which argued that strain results from a disjunction between goals and the legitimate means of attaining them?
A) Henry McKay
B) Robert Agnew
C) Robert Merton
D) Steven Messner
Q4) According to Robert Merton's theory,what causes strain?
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Chapter 5: Social Process Theories
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Q1) Social process theorists believe that if we wish to understand social behavior,we have to understand how individuals subjectively perceive their social reality.
A)True
B)False
Q2) According to social bond theory,commitment refers to a lifestyle in which one has invested considerable time and energy in the pursuit of a lawful career,rendering much at stake if they were to engage in crime.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following is not a recognized component of social bond accourding to Travis Hirschi?
A) Attachment
B) Belief?
C)Involvement
D) Self-Concept
Q4) Identify one possible policy implication of differential association theory.
Q5) Edwin Sutherland is credited with neutralization theory.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Critical Theories: Marxist, Conflict, and Feminist
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Q1) Compare and contrast the core arguments and the policy implications of Marxist criminology and peacemaking criminology.
Q2) According to Marx,the lumpenproletariat would not play a decisive role in the expected revolution.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Research has supported that capitalism is associated with higher crime rates than socialism.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What is the central argument of Anne Campbell's "staying alive hypothesis"?
Q5) Karl Marx and Freidrich Engels used which term to refer to the lowest class of society,which they saw as "the dangerous class,the social scum"?
A) Bourgeoisie
B) Lumpenproletariat
C) Proletariat
D) Revolutionaries
Q6) What is the "lumpenproletariat"?
Q7) What is the generalizability problem in feminist criminology?
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Chapter 7: Psychosocial Theories: Individual Traits and Criminal Behavior
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Q1) According to David Wechsler,the ability to deal effectively with one's environment was one component of _____.
A) Hedonism
B) Intelligence
C) Rationality
D) Temperament
Q2) Individuals with a readily aroused ANS are difficult to socialize.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What is the "intellectual imbalance"?
Q4) What are the three key concepts of lifestyle theory?
Q5) The ___effect refers to the phenomenon of genetics and environment tending to be matched,so that a person's genetic advantage or disadvantage intellectually will tend to be magnified over time due to environmental influences.
A) Classical
B) Multiplier
C) Reticulant
D) Wechsler
Q6) Define "empathy."
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Chapter 8: Biosocial Approaches
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Q1) _____ theory is a neurological theory based on the proposition that behavior is regulated by to opposing mechanisms.
A) Behavioral dominance
B) Reward dominance
C) Behavioral inhibition
D) Behavioral activating
Q2) A person with which of the following characteristics is more likely to engage in antisocial behavior?
A) A person with a weak BAS
B) A person with a strong BIS
C) A person with a strong flight/flight system
D) A damaged prefrontal cortex
Q3) Individuals who have a dominant BIS are at a greater risk for criminality.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The findings of most behavior genetic studies are supportive of the idea that genes affect antisocial behavior.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Developmental Theories: From Delinquency to
Crime to Desistance
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Q1) Which of the following is true of risk factors for criminality?
A) An individual's risk factors tend to remain stable over time.
B) Risk factors tend to cluster together, so that a person with one risk factor is likely to have others.
C) Risk factors are evenly distributed across the population.
D) Risk factors are those factors which decrease the probability of offending.
Q2) According to Farrington,individuals with _____ AP may temporarily increase their AP in response to certain situations or inducements.
A) Long-term
B) Short-term
C) Covert
D) Overt
Q3) "Delinquency" is a legal term that distinguishes between youthful offenders and adult offenders.
A)True
B)False
Q4) There are some societies in which juvenile delinquency does not occur.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Violent Crimes
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Q1) Which of the following demographics are at the highest risk for being murdered in the United States?
A) White males
B) White females
C) Black males
D) Black females
Q2) The FBI defines _____ rape as the carnal knowledge of a female by force and against her will.
A) Acquaintance
B) Domestic
C) Forcible
D) Statutory
Q3) _____ argue that rape is motivated by power rather than sexual desire,and that all men are capable of rape.
A) Evolutionary psychologists
B) Feminists
C) Social learning theorists
D) Therapists
Q4) Identify two symptoms of rape trauma syndrome.
Q5) What makes robbery a particularly high-risk crime for those committing it?
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Chapter 11: Property Crimes
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Q1) Shoplifting is the most commonly studied sub-category of larceny/theft.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What is uttering?
Q3) Briefly describe the role of guardianship in burglars' assessment of a potential target.
Q4) Why is it difficult to gather accurate statistics on the crime of arson?
Q5) In order to be defined as "burglary" in the present day,a crime must:
A) Result in substantial financial loss to the victim.
B) Involve the unlawful entry into a structure.
C) Involve the use of force.
D) Take place during the night.
Q6) What is phishing?
Q7) Many burglars actually give up legitimate jobs in order to concentrate on burglary.
A)True
B)False
Q8) What is carjacking?
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Q9) Compare and contrast burglary to identity theft.How are these crimes similar? How are they different?
Chapter 11: A: Multiple Murder and Terrorism
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Q1) A mass murder is defined as the killing of several victims in three or more separate incidents over weeks,months,or even years.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Most funding for terrorist groups is obtained through which of the following?
A) Criminal activities
B) Government sources
C) Legitimate businesses
D) Private sympathizers
Q3) Explain the motivations of individuals engaging in 1)serial killing,and 2)terrorism.Compare and contrast the offenders that engage in these two crimes.
Q4) Most serial killers:
A) Are dysfunctional loners.
B) Are white females.
C) Cannot stop killing until they are caught or they die.
D) Plan their crimes carefully to avoid detection.
Q5) Define and describe "terrorism" as a category of crime.What element(s)distinguish terrorism from other forms of violence?
Q6) Identify and describe two typologies of serial killers.
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Chapter 13: Public Order Crime
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Q1) As part of a conflict surrounding control of a territory in the drug market,two gangs engage in a gun battle.This type of violence is identified in your readings as _____ in origin.
A) Conflict-oriented
B) Economic-compulsive
C) Pharmacological
D) Systemic
Q2) The effects of alcohol can be attributed to:
A) The individual user's physiology and personality.
B) Its pharmacological properties.
C) The social and cultural contexts surrounding its consumption.
D) All of the above.
Q3) Environmental factors are more important for understanding _____ alcoholism than _____ alcoholism.
A) Type I; Type II
B) Type II; Type I
C) Type III; Type IV
D) Type IV; Type III
Q4) Briefly describe the relationship that has been found between drug use and other forms of criminality.
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Chapter 14: White-Collar and Organized Crime
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Q1) _____ crime groups are probably the oldest and largest in the world.
A) American
B) Italian
C) Japanese
D) Russian
Q2) The top boss of La Cosa Nostra is referred to as the _____.
A) Button man
B) Don
C) Soldati
D) Wise guy
Q3) Which of the following increased the penalties for corporate crimes in the United States?
A) The Harrison Act
B) The McClellan Commission
C) Sarbanes-Oxley Act
D) Volstead Act
Q4) A study of brokerage firms found that many of the biggest names in the business have not had serious violations since the early 1980s.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Victimology: Exploring the Experience of Victimization
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Q1) According to victim precipitation theory,all victims provoke their offenders in some way,and therefore are to blame for their experiences.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Briefly discuss the risk of victimization at schools relative to other places.
Q3) The Crime Victims' Bill of Rights passed by the Senate applies to all state and federal violent crimes.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Most victimization is random and unpredictable.
A)True
B)False
Q5) As students progress through high school,their risk of being bullied increases.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Victimology seeks to answer why some individuals,households,groups,and other entities are targeted and others are not.
A)True
B)False
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