terrorism promotes the interests of a minority ethnic or religious group that believes it
has been persecuted under majority rule and wishes to carve out its own independent
homeland.
a. Nationalist
b. Endemic
c. Retributive
d. State-sponsored
Agencies of social control include all of the following EXCEPT:
a. corrections
b. courts
c. police
d. legislatures
Officials at BP and the company itself faced heavy fines, as well as civil and criminal
suits. This type of legal and financial jeopardy is an example of what type of control?
a. deterrence
b. compliance
c. inducement
d. plea bargaining
The National Crime Victimization Survey addresses the nonreporting of crime issue
inherent in the UCR.
a. True
b. False
Police assume which role in the criminal justice system?
a. apprehending suspects
b. advocates for victims
c. sentencing defendants
d. incarcerating the guilty
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
According to conflict theorists, societal conflict promotes crime by
a. creating a social atmosphere in which the law is a mechanism for controlling
have-not members of society.
b. encouraging greater use of government resources by the poor.
c. decreasing the value of corporate profits.
d. decreasing the role of religion in shaping individual reality.
Many ADHD children also suffer from_____ and continually engage in aggressive and
antisocial behavior early in childhood.
a. conduct disorder.
b. schizophrenia.
c. hypoglycemia.
d. behavior modeling
Closed circuit television (CCTV) surveillance cameras and improved street lighting are
mechanical forms of
a. crime discouragers
b. crime inhibitors
c. crime obstructers
d. crime monitors
According to the social control theory, kids who feel attached to their____, are the ones
less likely to engage in antisocial behaviors.
a. friends
b. grandparents
c. parents
d. teachers
Madoff’s clients included director Steven Spielberg, actors John Malkovich and Kevin
Bacon, Harvard University Endowment, among others. Madoff used his position and
his clients’ names to snare more victims. This pattern approximates what type of
criminal?
a. a criminaloid
b. an exploiter
c. a financial chiseler
d. an android
Social structure theories suggest that social and economic forces operating in
deteriorated lower-class areas push many area residents into criminal behavior patterns.
a. True
b. False
Under common law, if a royal judge successfully applied a ruling in a number of
different cases and published that ruling in order that other judges could apply the
ruling in their subsequent decisions, the ruling would become
a. a precedent.
b. a royal order.
c. statutory law.
d. a key decision.
There is no “terrorist personality,” nor is there any accurate psychological profile of a
terrorist.
a. True
b. False
The UCR expresses data as raw figures, crime rates, and changes in the number and rate
over time. How are crime rates expressed in the UCR?
a. rates per 1,000 total U.S. population
b. rates per 10,000 total U.S. population
c. rates per 100,000 total U.S. population
d. rates per 1,000,000 total U.S. population
Which of the following households is most vulnerable to crime?
a. a rented urban home in the west
b. an owned rural home in the west
c. a rented suburban home in the east
d. an owned rural home in the east
The Supreme Court has ruled that material is obscene if it has prurient sexual content
and is devoid of social value.
a. True
b. False
The murders by T. J. Lane would constitute what form of murderous relation?
a. intimate partner murder
b. acquaintance murder
c. stranger murder
d. sexually based murder
Left realists support a strict “law and order” philosophy, which has at its centerpiece a
policy of punishing juveniles
severely in adult court.
a. True
b. False
Castro’s abduction and rape of these three women when some were minors makes this
case a offense.
a. pedophilia
b. sex-related
c. sex trade
d. paraphilias
What subarea of criminology would most interested in understanding the victim’s role
in Donald sʹ case?
a. Crime statistics
b. Penology
c. Sociology of Law
d. Victimology
Evidence exists that indicates abnormally low levels of brain chemical compounds
called_____are associated with violent behavior.
a. electrolytes
b. chemical ‘straightjackets”
c. chemical restraints
d. neurotransmitters
The common law definition of rape derives from the Latin word rapere
meaning_____and is defined as “the carnal knowledge of a female forcibly and against
her will.”
a. to take by right
b. to take by force
c. to take by surprise
d. to take by compulsion
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
Research indicates a variety of facts about murder. Which of the following murder facts
is inaccurate?
a. Over 40 percent of murders in which the attacker can be identified involved an
intimate partner.
b. Over the last decade, the number of stranger murders has decreased.
c. Most murders occur among people who are acquainted.
d. Three-strikes laws may encourage criminals to kill while committing burglaries and
robberies.
The weight of recent research suggests that serious crime is more prevalent in socially
disorganized lower class areas.
a. True
b. False
According to the biocentric approach, environmental harm is viewed as any human
activity that disrupts a biosystem.
a. True
b. False
The family-crime relationship is significant across racial, ethnic, and gender lines.
a. True
b. False
Those personal, social, and economic rights and freedoms that should belong to all
people are most commonly referred to as
a. human rights
b. personal liberties
c. civil rights
d. universal rights of man
Your friend committed a when he flooded an internet site with emails and made the
website “crash”
because the company refused to pay him a bribe.
a. denial-of-service attack
b. “oneoffkamikaze” attack
c. manipulation-of-service attack
d. phishing attack
According to_____, for a variety of genetic and environmental reasons, people’s brains
function differently in response to environmental stimuli.
a. excitement theory
b. arousal theory
c. danger theory
d. stimuli theory