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Chapter 10 In cases of spousal abuse, physical abuse is commonly accompanied
True / False 1. Guns do not cause violence, but their presence can escalate its severity. a. True b. False ANSWER: True REFERENCES: Causes of Violence LEARNING OBJECTIVES: CRIM.SIEG.17.10.01 KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Remembering 2. The UCR indicates that about 70 percent […]
Chapter 11 Espionage is the practice of obtaining information about a government
True / False 1. According to research in the text, most political criminals do not consider themselves antisocial but instead patriotic and altruistic. a. True b. False ANSWER: True REFERENCES: Political Crime LEARNING OBJECTIVES: CRIM.SIEG.17.11.01 KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Remembering 2. In […]
Chapter 12 Ponzi schemes are named after famed criminal Arthur Ponzirelle
True / False 1. Economic crimes were even punished 3,000 years ago in the Code of Hammurabi. a. True b. False ANSWER: True REFERENCES: History of Economic Crimes LEARNING OBJECTIVES: CRIM.SIEG.17.12.01 KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Remembering 2. Green-collar crimes involve violations of […]
Chapter 13 One of the most high-profile cases of pedophilia among the
True / False 1. Public order crimes are outlawed because they threaten the general well-being of society and challenge society’s accepted moral principles. a. True b. False ANSWER: True REFERENCES: Law and Morality LEARNING OBJECTIVES: CRIM.SIEG.17.13.01 KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Remembering 2. […]
Chapter 14 It is estimated that the revenue generated from
True / False 1. The cyber age has generated an enormous amount of revenue and information sharing, with an estimated 190 billion email messages sent per day. a. True b. False ANSWER: True REFERENCES: Crime in the Cyber Age LEARNING […]
Chapter 15 Over the past decades, it has been shown that criminological research
True / False 1. Criminology is an academic discipline that uses scientific methods to study the nature, extent, cause, and control of criminal behavior. a. True b. False ANSWER: True REFERENCES: Criminology in Action LEARNING OBJECTIVES: CRIM.SIEG.17.01.01 KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Remembering […]
Chapter 2 Remembering Discovery The Chronic Offender Has Forced
True / False 1. The Bureau of Justice Statistics is the federal agency that collects data from local law enforcement agencies and publishes them yearly in its Uniform Crime Report (UCR). a. True b. False ANSWER: False REFERENCES: Primary Sources […]
Chapter 3 Who Ordinarily Pays This compensational Victim Advocates The
True / False 1. Until about 50 years ago, crime victims were viewed by criminologists as passive targets who were considered to be in the “wrong place at the wrong time.” a. True b. False ANSWER: True REFERENCES: The Victim’s […]
Chapter 4 Situational crime prevention suggests that crime prevention can be
True / False 1. Rational choice theory has its roots in classical criminology and the work of Cesare Beccaria. a. True b. False ANSWER: True REFERENCES: Development of Rational Choice Theory LEARNING OBJECTIVES: CRIM.SIEG.17.04.01 KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Remembering 2. Rational choice […]
Chapter 5 Errors in cognition and information processing have been used to explain
True / False 1. The early research of Lombroso and his contemporaries is regarded as scientific fact. a. True b. False ANSWER: False REFERENCES: Development of Trait Theory LEARNING OBJECTIVES: CRIM.SIEG.17.05.01 KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Remembering 2. According to sociobiology, living in […]
Chapter 6 The social disorganization concepts articulated by
True / False 1. People in the United States live in a stratified society in which social strata are created by the unequal distribution of wealth, power, and prestige. a. True b. False ANSWER: True REFERENCES: Economic Structure LEARNING OBJECTIVES: […]
Chapter 7 Stealing From Large Department Store That Has
True / False 1. Social process criminologists focus on socialization rather than the environment when explaining crime. a. True b. False ANSWER: True REFERENCES: Institutions of Socialization LEARNING OBJECTIVES: CRIM.SIEG.17.07.01 KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Remembering 2. What separates social learning theory from […]
Chapter 8 State-corporate crime is committed by individuals
True / False 1. According to the conflict view, crime is a political concept designed to protect the power and position of the upper classes at the expense of the poor. a. True b. False ANSWER: True REFERENCES: Origins of […]
Chapter 9 Regardless of gender or environment, those who maintain
True / False 1. Developmental theories attempt to explain the natural history of a criminal career encompassing its onset, continuation, and termination. a. True b. False ANSWER: True REFERENCES: Foundations of Developmental Theory LEARNING OBJECTIVES: CRIM.SIEG.17.09.01 KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Remembering 2. […]
EDU 56959
Which of the following is not true about pornography a. Legal restrictions have made the prosecution of possession of pornography difficult especially for material involving children b. The scientific evidence linking pornography to violence is mixed. c. Sexually explicit films […]
EDU 61563
Although criminal offenders are people predisposed to crime, they are not robots who commit crime without restraint. According to the general theory of crime, change in the frequency of criminal activity is a function of ______. a. change in one’s […]
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Most of these hate crime incidents were motivated by ______. a. sexual orientation b. ethnicity c. religion d. race Which of the following is not considered to contribute to a healthy diet, and thus to good mental health and well-adjusted […]
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Criminologists should be ethical in their research because ______. a. they may face a jail sentence if they are not b. they are moral entrepreneurs c. the lives of millions of people may be influenced by their research d. they […]
EDUC 44608
The creation of false emails or websites that look legitimate but are designed to gain illegal access to a victim’s personal information a. phishing b. warez c. dumpster diving d. spearing The illegal sale of counterfeit goods and illegal use […]
EDUK 44125
Efforts to prevent crime through community organization and youth involvement are known as ______. a. preemptive deterrence b. general deterrence c. specific deterrence d. perspective deterrence Which of the following is not true about election fraud according to the text? […]
EDUK 66081
Beth was a victim of childhood physical and sexual abuse. She is now 40 years old and is a well-respected journalist who works for a nationally known magazine. She also travels around the country speaking to crime victims. Beth wrote […]
EDUK 68526
Power-control theory is most credited to ______. a. John Hagan b. Robert Merton c. Meda Chesney-Lind d. Jake Gibbs The police chief in Anytown, USA, is conducting weekly seminars where the residents of his city can come and learn about […]
EDUK 81308
According to the U.S. Department of Education, minority students, especially boys, face much harsher discipline in public schools than other students. a. True b. False People in the United States live in a stratified society in which social strata are […]
SED According To Conflict Theorists Societal Conflict Promotes Crime By
Social disorganization theory was popularized by the work of two Chicago sociologists ______. a. Robert Agnew and Albert Cohen b. Robert Merton and Emile Durkheim c. Clifford Shaw and Henry McKay d. Paul Klenowski and Keith Bell Trajectory theories assume […]
SED AP 30146
According to learning theories, even corporate executives may be exposed to procriminal definitions and learn to neutralize moral constraints. a. True b. False Because crime rates are higher in lower-class areas, many criminologists believe that the causes of crime are […]
SED AP 48106
Wolfgang and associates’ second cohort study found that 6 percent of female delinquents were chronic offenders. a. True b. False The boyhood friend of a convicted murderer is interviewed by the media and reports that the offender was withdrawn, suspicious, […]
SED CE 10036
Children who are psychologically, sexually, or physically abused are more likely to suffer low self-esteem and be more suicidal as adults. a. True b. False Exhibitionism is the deriving of sexual pleasure from rubbing against a nonconsenting person in a […]
SED CE 15403
What separates social learning theory from social control and social reaction theories is that social learning theory fails to recognize that criminal activity can be reversed and criminals can be turned around by proper socialization and interactions. a. True b. […]
SED CE 24277
The number of state-funded technical assistance offices to help local prosecutors has decreased significantly with less than 20 states offering such services. a. True b. False Espionage is the practice of obtaining information about a government, organization, or society that […]
SED CE 60584
Gottfredson and Hirschi trace the root cause of poor self-control to ______. a. lack of education b. inadequate child-rearing practices c. weak social bonds d. peer associations Research has shown that family group conferencing is the least effective form of […]
SED EM 68302
Developmental theories attempt to provide a natural history of criminal careers by encompassing ______. a. its onset, continuation, and termination b. delinquency and criminal behaviors c. unidimensional and multidimensional treatment efforts d. offenders’ race/ethnicity, age, and gender The view that […]
SED EM 91340
By the eighteenth century, three separate groups of property criminals were active; these were skilled thieves, smugglers, and poachers. a. True b. False Lockhead Martin, the world’s largest aerospace company, announced it detected a significant cyber attack against its information […]
SED LR 16064
People with high-risk lifestyles have a lower risk of victimization. a. True b. False Daniel Lee is a college professor at a mid-sized university in Maryland. He ran for city council and won in 2014 and his wife is the […]
SED LR 19227
In its purest form, __________ theory argues that even crimes such as murder, rape, and assault are only bad or evil because people label them as such. a. social control b. social reaction c. social structure d. social process Instrumental […]
SED LR 86837
Schools are the locale of a great deal of victimization because they are populated by a dangerous segment of society, teenage males. a. True b. False __________, the most abundant androgen, has been linked to criminality. a. Testosterone b. Estrogen […]
SED LR 98900
Which of the following is not true in regard to deterrence strategies for white-collar criminals? a. Strategies are aimed at creating conditions that induce conformity to the law. b. Deterrence systems are oriented toward apprehension and punishments. c. Justice system […]
SESP 11899
What separates a revolution from a coup is that revolutions rely on armed forces and violence, while coups traditionally are nonviolent? a. True b. False The police chief in Anytown, USA, is conducting weekly seminars where the residents of his […]
SESP 36006
Late bloomers combine psychopathology with risk-taking behavior and poor social skills. a. True b. False The crime and human nature model proposes that biological and psychological traits influence the crime”non-crime choice. a. True b. False Answer: True Social ecology school […]
SESP 37389
Agencies of social control include all of the following except a. corrections b. courts c. police d. legislatures Catherine was adopted at the age of 6. She is currently 14 years of age, attends public high school in Baton Rouge, […]
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Terrorist attacks against failed states are traditionally less lethal than attacks against other nations because the failed states have no strong leadership, and therefore, no direct target of the terrorist acts. a. True b. False According to the routine activities […]
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Studies conducted on twin behavior have detected a significant relationship between the criminal activities of _____ twins. a. AZ b. DZ c. MZ d. QZ According to deterrence theory, not only does the actual chance of punishment influence criminality, but […]
SESP 91287
The “Hierarchy Rule” impacts the validity of the National Crime Victimization Survey. a. True b. False The term terrorist is often used interchangeably with the term guerrilla, but the terms are quite different. a. True b. False Answer: True Members […]