Test Item File Dr. Oliver R. Stoetzer, Assistant Professor Wilfred Laurier University
Criminology Today: Theories and Applications 7th Canadian Edition Frank Schmalleger The University of North Carolina at Pembroke
Rebecca Volk Algonquin College
Contents 1. What Is Criminology? Understanding Crime and Criminals 2. Crime Statistics: It’s How We Count 3. Patterns of Crime: It’s What We Count 4. Victimology: The Study of the Victim: It’s Personal 5. Classical and Neoclassical Thought: Choice or Consequences 6. Biological Roots of Criminal Behaviour: Interaction Is Key 7. Psychological and Psychiatric Foundations of Criminal Behaviour: It’s How We Think 8. The Meaning of Crime: Social Structure Perspective: It’s Where and How We Live 9. The Meaning of Crime: Social Process Perspective: It’s What We Learn 10. The Meaning of Crime: Social Conflict Perspective: It’s How We Relate 11. Criminology and Social Policy: From Research to Evidence-Based Policy 12. The Globalization of Crime: Our Small World
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1) Crime, like other social events, is fundamentally a social construction. a. True b. False Answer: a Diff: 1 Type: TF LO: 1.9 Skill: Recall 2) From a legalistic perspective, crime is human conduct in violation of the criminal laws of a state, the federal government, or a provincial or local jurisdiction that has the power to make such laws. a. True b. False Answer: a Diff: 1 Type: TF LO: 1.1 Skill: Recall 3) The Pluralist Perspective towards the question What Should be Criminal? Is an analytical approach to social organization that holds that a multiplicity of values and beliefs exists in any complex society but that most social actors agree on the usefulness of laws as a formal means of dispute resoultion. a. True b. False Answer: a Diff: 2 Type: TF LO: 1.3 Skill: Recall 4) The term criminalize means to make illegal. a. True b. False Answer: a Diff: 1 Type: TF LO: 1.1 Skill: Recall
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Canadian Criminology Today, Theories and Applications, Seventh Edition Chapter 1: What is Criminology? Understanding Crime and Criminals
5) The primary perspective from which most contemporary criminologists operate is a sociological one. a. True b. False Answer: a Diff: 2 Type: TF LO: 1.10 Skill: Recall 6) A serious shortcoming of the legalistic approach to crime is that it yields the moral high ground to powerful individuals who are able to influence the making of laws and the imposition of criminal definitions on lawbreakers. a. True b. False Answer: a Diff: 2 Type: TF LO: 1.1 Skill: Applied 7) Although Canada has enacted a comprehensive legal code, it still adheres to a common law tradition. a. True b. False Answer: a Diff: 1 Type: TF LO: 1.1 Skill: Recall 8) The qualitative method of criminological research is a research technique that produces subjective results, or results that are difficult to quantify. a. True b. False Answer: a Diff: 1 Type: TF LO: 1.6 Skill: Recall
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Canadian Criminology Today, Theories and Applications, Seventh Edition Chapter 1: What is Criminology? Understanding Crime and Criminals
9) A criminalist is a specialist in the collection and examination of the physical evidence of crime. a. True b. False Answer: a Diff: 1 Type: TF LO: 1.5 Skill: Recall 10) Criminality is a behavioural predisposition that disproportionately favours criminal activity. a. True b. False Answer: a Diff: 1 Type: TF LO: 1.4 Skill: Recall 11) In the context of the criminal event, inputs can include physical features of the setting in which a specific crime takes place. a. True b. False Answer: a Diff: 1 Type: TF LO: 1.9 Skill: Recall 12) Survey research is research using Facial Recognition and other biometric datagathering techniques. a. True b. False Answer: b Diff: 1 Type: TF LO: 1.6 Skill: Recall
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