Juvenile Delinquency Pre-Test
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Course Introduction
This course examines the nature, extent, and causes of juvenile delinquency, exploring patterns of youth offending and the social, psychological, and environmental factors that contribute to adolescent deviant behavior. Students analyze various theoretical perspectives on delinquency and critically assess the development and effectiveness of the juvenile justice system, including prevention, intervention, and rehabilitation strategies. The course also addresses current issues such as gang involvement, substance abuse, and the impact of family, schools, and community on juvenile behavior, preparing students to understand policy responses and engage in informed discussions about solutions to juvenile crime.
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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) Define "ideology."
Answer: A way of looking at the world-a general emotional picture of "how things should be."
Q3) Criminology is an interdisciplinary field.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) Briefly contrast the constrained vision of human nature with the unconstrained vision of human nature.
Answer: Those with a constrained vision of human nature see human activities as constrained by an innate human nature that is self-centered and largely unalterable.Those with an unconstrained vision view human nature as being formed anew in each different culture,and perceive human nature to be perfectible.
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Chapter 2: Measuring Crime and Criminal Behavior
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Q1) The "hierarchy rule" refers to the:
A) Fact that those of a higher socioeconomic status are less likely to be arrested for crimes.
B) Ranking system of different crime data sources by their level of accuracy.
C) Practice of only reporting the most serious offense committed in a given incident.
D) Tendency of respondents to only report serious crimes in self-report surveys.
Answer: C
Q2) Identify one weakness of self-report surveys.
Answer: Examples: It does not provide a good measure of serious crimes; it is subject to the dishonesty of respondents; most of these studies are based on "convenience" samples.
Q3) Identify one advantage that NIBRS has over the UCR as a source of crime data.
Answer: Examples: It does not use the "hierarchy rule," and it provides more detailed information regarding the circumstances of each offense.
Q4) The NCVS and UCR are in general agreement regarding recent crime trends.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: The Early Schools of Criminology and Modern Counterparts
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Q1) The doctrine whose central tenet is that the achievement of pleasure is the main goal of life is known as:
A) Hedonism.
B) The principle of utility.
C) The cartographic approach.
D) The contrast effect.
Answer: A
Q2) What is recidivism?
Answer: Committing another crime after previously being punished for one.
Q3) Cesare Beccaria and Jeremy Bentham are associated with the classical school of criminology.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) Committing another crime after previously being punished for one is called:
A) Rehabilitation
B) Retribution
C) Recidivism
D) Deterrence
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Social Structural Theories
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Q1) Which mode of adaptation is characterized by the rejection of legitimate cultural goals and the institutionalized means of attaining them?
A) Conformity
B) Innovation
C) Retreatism
D) Ritualism
Q2) What is "social disorganization"?
Q3) A high school student steals money from a classmate's locker.How would institutional anomie theory account for this crime?
A) The offender must have come from a community that lacked informal social controls. B) The offender engaged in innovation to reach a legitimate goal through illegitimate means.
C) The offender was influenced by America's strong cultural emphasis on economic success.
D) The offender did not have coping mechanisms in place to adequately deal with their negative emotions.
Q4) Identify three of the lower-class focal concerns proposed by Walter Miller.
Q5) What is "collective efficacy"?
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Chapter 5: Social Process Theories
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Q1) _____ is a perspective on learning that asserts that behavior is governed and shaped by consequences.
A) Labeling
B) Operant psychology
C) Reinforcement
D) Symbolic interactionism
Q2) Which of the following is a valid critique of labeling theory?
A) It largely ignores primary deviance as a social concern.
B) It only applies to property crimes.
C) It adopts a consensus view of deviance.
D) It unquestioningly accepts official definitions of criminality.
Q3) Identify and explain the five techniques of neutralization according to Sykes and Matza's work.Provide one example of each.
Q4) Which of the following provides an explanation for how people learn to commit crime from those around them?
A) Differential Association Theory
B) Labeling Theory
C) Social Bonding Theory
D) Self-Control Theory
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Chapter 6: Critical Theories: Marxist, Conflict, and Feminist
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Q1) The _____ perspective of criminology encompasses Marxism,conflict,and feminist theories.
A) Chicago
B) Classical
C) Conspiracy
D) Critical
Q2) Briefly describe peacemaking criminology.
Q3) Identify the main tenets of conflict theory.Do you think that this theory has any practical policy implications in our efforts to reduce crime? Support your answer with information that you have learned in this class.
Q4) George Vold views conflicts of interest as important in the understanding of criminal behavior.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe the foci and arguments of feminist criminology; explain what feminist theorists have contributed to our understandings of crime; and identify some of the weaknesses or challenges of feminist criminology.
Q6) Identify one critique of Marxist criminology.
Q7) What is the central argument of Anne Campbell's "staying alive hypothesis"?
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Chapter 7: Psychosocial Theories: Individual Traits and Criminal Behavior
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Q1) What is the "intellectual imbalance"?
Q2) _____ is a personality trait that refers to the tendency to experience many situations as aversive,and react to them with irritation and anger.
A) Negative emotionality
B) Conscientiousness
C) Sensation seeking
D) Impulsiveness
Q3) Briefly identify the policy implication(s)of a psychosocial approach to crime.
Q4) Criminals typically differ from non-criminals on performance IQ.
A)True
B)False
Q5) 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
Q6) Briefly describe antisocial personality disorder (APD).
Q7) Define "empathy."
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Chapter 8: Biosocial Approaches
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Q1) According to evolutionary psychologists,while we all have the potential to exploit others,most of us do not because our minds have been forged by evolution to form cooperative relationships with others.
A)True
B)False
Q2) List and describe the three types of G/E correlation.Provide an example of each.
Q3) The approach of _____ explores human behavior in reference to the ways that humans have changed throughout history.
A) Behavior genetics
B) Evolutionary psychology
C) Neuroscience
D) Psychology
Q4) Compare the perspectives of evolutionary psychologists and neuroscientists.How does each perspective explain criminal behavior? Do you feel that one has more to offer in our efforts to understand crime? Support your answer.
Q5) Compare the reward dominance theory to the prefrontal dysfunction theory.What do the two theories have in common,and how do they differ?
Q6) According to reward dominance theory,what causes crime?
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Chapter 9: Developmental Theories: From Delinquency to
Crime to Desistance
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Q1) ADHD is more prevalent among males than females.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What is meant by "the maturity gap"?
Q3) Which of the following theorists are credited with age-graded theory?
A) Gottfredson and Hirschi
B) Sampson and Laub
C) Shaw and McKay
D) Sykes and Matza
Q4) Which of the following has not been identified as a protective factor for delinquency?
A) Being male.
B) Having a high IQ.
C) Having friends who engage in conventional behavior.
D) Living in a stable, organized neighborhood.
Q5) Identify one reason that the authors of your text highlight developmental theories as the "gold standard" among criminological theories.
Q6) List the two "super traits" identified by "super traits theory."
Q7) Describe the main concepts and arguments from age-graded theory.What makes this theory unique? Page 11
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Chapter 10: Violent Crimes
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Q1) Identify and explain two theoretical arguments that have been used to explain the crime of rape.Compare and contrast these arguments.Do you think that one is more accurate than the other? Support your answer with information you have learned in this course.
Q2) When women kill men,it is typically a spouse,ex-spouse,or boyfriend in a self-defense situation.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The FBI defines _____ as "the willful (non-negligent)killing of one human being by another."
A) Manslaughter
B) Murder
C) Homicide
D) Assault
Q4) Women who have been victimized by rape sometimes suffer from "rape trauma syndrome," which is similar to post traumatic stress syndrome.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What is an "honor subculture"?
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Chapter 11: Property Crimes
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Q1) Most stolen identity information is for the personal use of the individual who stole it.
A)True
B)False
Q2) _____ is the most common property crime in the United States.
A) Arson
B) Burglary
C) Larceny
D) Motor Vehicle Theft
Q3) A potential burglar notices a house in the country that appears to have a side door that is partially obscured from street view by shrubs and bushes.These details would factor into the offender's assessment of:
A) Guardianship.
B) Proximity.
C) Target attractiveness.
D) Target exposure.
Q4) Compare and contrast burglary to identity theft.How are these crimes similar? How are they different?
Q5) Describe the "salami technique."
Q6) What is uttering?
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Chapter 11: A: Multiple Murder and Terrorism
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Q1) A serial killer who murders prostitutes because he believes it is his purpose to rid the world of them would be best categorized as a _____ killer.
A) Hedonistic
B) Mission-oriented
C) Power/control
D) Visionary
Q2) The sniper team of Lee Malvo and John Muhammad serve as an example of _____ murderers.
A) Mass
B) Sadistic
C) Serial
D) Spree
Q3) To date,all known serial killers have been white males.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Most serial killers are hedonistic-they kill for thrills.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Compare and contrast spree murder and serial murder.
Q6) Identify and describe two typologies of serial killers.
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Chapter 13: Public Order Crime
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Q1) Far more fatalities each year are attributed to drug abuse than are linked to alcohol use.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What was the Harrison Narcotic Act? Include its significance.
Q3) Public order crimes are those which:
A) Have been determined not to cause social harm.
B) Cause some social harm, though there is debate surrounding whether it is sufficient to justify regulation by the crimial justice system.
C) Cause a great deal of harm and physical injury in comparison to other categories of criminality.
D) Are clearly "victimless."
Q4) Should prostitution be legalized? Discuss the pros and cons of legalizing prostitution.Use examples from your reading to support your answer.
Q5) Coca Cola used to be made with the same ingredient from which cocaine is derived.
A)True B)False
Q6) Identify one physiological effect of alcohol.
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Chapter 14: White-Collar and Organized Crime
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Q1) Do you think that the motives of occupational criminals are the same as,or different than,those of street criminals? Support your answer with what you have learned in class.
Q2) What is the Sarbanes-Oxley Act?
Q3) Those with a strong internal locus of control:
A) Operate at higher stages of cognitive moral development.
B) Tend to behave according to their personal beliefs about right and wrong.
C) Have characteristics consistent with those of whistleblowers.
D) All of the Above
Q4) Intelligence agencies in the United States feel that because of their higher level of criminal sophistication,_____ will present a greater threat to American society than the traditional Italian-American crime families ever have.
A) Japanese organized crime groups
B) La Cosa Nostra
C) Russian organized crime groups
D) Tammany Society
Q5) Most white collar crime is committed by persons of particularly high status.
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) List two risk factors for the molestation of girls.
Q3) Girls are more likely to be molested by their biological fathers than by stepfathers.
A)True
B)False
Q4) A sex offender kidnaps a screaming young girl from a playground and molests her.According to the continuum of resposibility provided by victim precipitation theory,the young girl in this case would possess which level of responsibility?
A) None
B) Some C) More
D) Much
Q5) Provide one example of a victim provoking a crime.
Q6) What is victimology?
Q7) Briefly discuss the risk of victimization at schools relative to other places.
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