Sociology of Crime Review Questions
Course Introduction
Sociology of Crime examines the social dimensions of criminal behavior, exploring how societal structures, cultural norms, and inequalities influence the definition, occurrence, and response to crime. The course covers key theories of crime causation, including classical, positivist, and critical perspectives, and investigates the roles of family, peers, media, and institutions in shaping criminality. Students analyze patterns and trends in criminal activity, the impact of laws and policies, and the functioning of the criminal justice system, while considering the effects of race, class, gender, and power dynamics on the construction and control of crime within society.
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Canadian Criminology Today Theories and Applications 5th Canadian by Frank Schmalleger
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Chapter 1: What Is Criminology?
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Q1) There is a growing tendency to reserve application of the term ____________ to academics, researchers, and policy analysts with advanced degrees who are involved in the study of crime and crime trends andin the analysis of societal reactions to crime.
A) judge
B) pathologist
C) police officer
D) teacher
E) criminologist
Answer: E
Q2) Quantitative methods or techniques produce measurable results that can be analyzed statistically.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Administrative law regulates many daily business activities.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Crime Statistics
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Q1) The Victimization Survey has always been part of the General Social Survey.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Although not an official source of crime data, Self-Report Studies do help to ________.
A) highlight the realities of crime victims
B) highlight the discrepancies between the UCR and Victimization Survey
C) overcome the methodological shortcomings of the UCR
D) overcome the methodological shortcomings of the Victimization Survey
E) highlight the relationship between crime and education levels, home life, peer group, and general socio-economic realities of the offender
Answer: E
Q3) The accuracy of self-report studies is largely predicated on _______________.
A) the honesty and forthrightness of the respondent
B) the age and gender of the respondent
C) the ability of the respondent to analyze data
D) the gender and social class of the respondent
E) The social class and age of the respondent
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Patterns of Crime
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Q1) Most robberies occur in an outdoor public location such as the street or a parking lot (50 percent).
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Prostitution, illicit drug use, pornography, and gambling are often referred to as
A) violent crimes
B) property crimes
C) public order crimes
D) personal crimes
E) other crimes
Answer: C
Q3) Geographically, homicide rates in Canada increased from west to east over the last 40 years.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Victimology: The Study of the Victim
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Q1) Manitoba was the first province to place principles from the United Nations' Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuses of Power into provincial law.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Hans von Hentig is credited with coining the term "victimology."
A)True
B)False
Q3) The Canadian Statement of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime (2003) serves as a guideline for the development of policy and legislation for victims of crime at both the federal and provincial levels.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Victim fine surcharges provide funds which supplement local victims' assistance programs.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Define and briefly elaborate upon Irvin Waller's four (4) principles that all nations must adopt in order to recognize crime victims' needs and rights.
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Chapter 5: Classical and Neoclassical Thought
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Q1) The panopticon was a prison design by __________________ that was to be a circular building with cells along the circumference, each clearly visble from a central location staffed by guards.
A) Thomas Paine
B) Cesare Beccaria
C) Jean-Jacques Rousseau
D) John Locke
E) Jeremy Bentham
Q2) The principle of punishment states that an accused should be presumed innocent until proven otherwise.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Hedonistic calculus or utilitarianism advocates that capital punishment is a very strong general deterrent and that individuals know this when they commit capital offences.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Geographic profiling is based on "mapping out" probabilities.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Biological Roots of Criminal Behaviour
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Q1) According to the theory of phrenology, criminality can be determined by ________.
A) social influences
B) physical characteristics
C) personality characteristics
D) the shape of a person's skull
E) the number of siblings a person has
Q2) Dizygotic twins are twins who develop from a separate ovum and carry the genetic material shared by siblings.
A)True
B)False
Q3) ________ is the systematic study of the biological basis of all social behaviour.
A) Sociobiology
B) Phrenology
C) Positivism
D) Somatotypology
E) Criminal anthropology
Q4) According to the text, criticisms of sociobiology can be grouped into four central themes. List these four themes.
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Chapter 7: Psychological and Psychiatric Foundations of Criminal Behaviour
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Q1) Perhaps the most commonly used classification instrument in correctional facilities today is the MMPI, or the _________________.
A) Mass Mutant Personality Icon
B) Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
C) Minnesota Mental Purpose Illness Test
D) Mississippi Multiphasic Personality Item Listing
E) Massachusetts Multiphasic Personality Inventory
Q2) Hervey Cleckley, Robert Hare and others are best known for this category of psychological and psychiatric theory.
A) Alloplastic Adaptation
B) Psychoanalytic Criminology
C) Operant behaviour
D) Psychiatric Criminology
E) Modelling
Q3) Forensic psychiatry views crime as a result of the interaction between the environment and the psychological urges every individual experiences.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Briefly distinguish between the concepts of id, ego, and superego.
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Chapter 8: The Meaning of Crime: Social Structure Perspective
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Q1) Social structure theories are consistent with the social problems approach.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Social change, uneven development of culture, disharmony, conflict, and lack of consensus are said to produce ________.
A) social pathology
B) focal concerns
C) culture conflict
D) social disorganization
E) conduct norms
Q3) In the 1930s, Clifford Shaw attempted to put his theories into practice by establishing the ______________, which sought to reduce social disorganization in transitional neighbourhoods through the creation of community committees. Shaw staffed these committees with local residents rather than professional social workers.
A) Ethnographic Mapping Project
B) Chicago Area Project
C) Atlanta Demographic Transition Project
D) St. Louis Area Community Project
E) Chicago Land Relocation Project
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Chapter 9: The Meaning of Crime: Social Process Perspective
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Q1) According to David Matza, by employing techniques of neutralization, delinquents need not be fully alienated from the larger society because these techniques provide an effective way of overcoming feelings of guilt so they can commit crimes.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The technique of neutralization which involves a young offender claiming that the unlawful acts were "not my fault" is known as ________.
A) denial of injury
B) denial of responsibility
C) appeal to higher loyalties
D) condemnation of the condemners
E) denial of the victim
Q3) When an offender justifies the harm done to a victim by indicating the victim deserved the victimization, the offender is using the neutralization technique referred to as "denial of injury."
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: The Meaning of Crime: Social Conflict Perspective
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Q1) A central tenet of ________________ is the claim that radical ideas must be translated into realistic social policies if contemporary criminology is to have any practical relevance.
A) Radical feminism
B) Liberal feminism
C) Right realism
D) Left realism
E) Utopian capitalism
Q2) What is restorative justice and how has it contributed to our understanding of the crime victim?.
Q3) Left-realist criminology is a conflict perspective that insists on a psychological and biosocial approach to understanding criminality in inner-city neighbourhoods.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The conflict perspective sees laws as the tool of the disenfranchised.
A)True
B)False
Q5) List and briefly elaborate upon five issues that peacemaking criminology draws attention to.
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Chapter 11: Criminology and Social Policy
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Q1) Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design is an example of a ________ strategy.
A) nurturant
B) deterrence
C) public health
D) protection/avoidance
E) social epidemiology
Q2) One of the National Crime Prevention Strategy programs is the Youth Gang Prevention Fund.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The third stage of public policy development is referred to as __________________.
A) Identification of the problem
B) Restoration
C) Protection/avoidance
D) Deterrence
E) Policy formation
Q4) Briefly elaborate on the crime prevention strategy referred to as the "protection/avoidance strategy."
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Chapter 12: Future Directions and Emerging Trends
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Q1) Viruses can spread from one computer to another via modem or high-speed cable and DSL connections and through networks or direct links.
A)True
B)False
Q2) All computer crime is committed for financial gain.
A)True
B)False
Q3) According to the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) in the United States, transnational crime groups have profited more from globalization than ___________________.
A) legitimate business
B) human trafficking groups
C) global food companies
D) computer criminals
E) fraud investigators
Q4) According to Foresight's Crime Prevention Panel, organizations everywhere "are adapting to the opportunities offered by the flexibility of the internet."
A)True
B)False
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