The statute that allows the detention or supervision of a juvenile presumed to be in need
of protection is called
A) Status Protection.
B) Brawner Rule.
C) PINS.
D) Incorrigibility.
Answer:
All of the following are status offenses except
A) running away.
B) incorrigibility.
C) cocaine use.
D) truancy.
Answer:
An individual in Kohlberg’s late preconventional stage would likely be focused on
A) avoiding punishment.
B) satisfying his/her own needs.
C) self-chosen, consistent ethical principles.
D) conformity and others’ approval.
Answer:
Berkowitz’s two criminal personality classifications are
A) psychopathic/nonpsychopathic.
B) violent/nonviolent.
C) greedy/altruistic.
D) socialized/individual.
Answer:
Recent evidence suggests a relationship between
A) heroin addiction and money-producing crime.
B) amphetamine addiction and violence.
C) marijuana use and family violence.
D) cocaine use and sexual assault.
Answer:
Research by Merry and Hansent (2000) found that the psychological impact of burglary
on victims is especially severe if the invasion involves
A) bedrooms.
B) kitchen cupboards.
C) motor vehicles.
D) decks or porches.
Answer:
At which age range is fascination with fire typical?
A) Between ages 1 and 3
B) Between ages 5 and 7
C) Between ages 10 and 12
D) Between ages 13 and 15
Answer:
A major difference between robbery and other property crime is that
A) robbery involves direct contact with a victim.
B) robbers are less likely to be apprehended.
C) robbers are more likely to rationalize their behavior.
D) on average, robbery brings in more money for the offender.
Answer:
Which of the following is an example of rape by fraud?
A) A 20-year-old male having sexual relations with a 13-year-old female
B) A male slipping a date-rape drug into the drink of a female, then having sexual
relations with her
C) A male having sexual relations with a consenting female under an assumed name
D) A therapist having sexual relations with a consenting patient under the guise of
effective treatment
Answer:
Bandura believes that terrorists justify their horrific acts in what way?
A) Through a process of cognitive restructuring
B) By associating themselves with religious zeal
C) By accepting responsibility for their actions
D) Through a process of learned helplessness
Answer:
Dysfunction in the ________ lobe has been strongly linked to violent behavior.
A) frontal
B) temporal
C) occipital
D) parietal
Answer:
Which individual is a well-known social learning theorist?
A) B. F. Skinner
B) Hans Eysenck
C) John Watson
D) Julian Rotter
Answer:
Which factor is associated with a high probability of delinquent behavior in high
school?
A) Parental divorce
B) Lower socioeconomic class
C) Rejection by peers in elementary school
D) Below average intelligence
Answer:
Psychological definitions of delinquency usually include
A) conduct disorder and antisocial behavior.
B) habitual behavior and violent behavior.
C) cruelty to animals and fire setting.
D) status offenses and antisocial behavior.
Answer:
The irresistible impulse to steal unneeded objects is referred to as kleptomania.
Answer:
Some experts regard ________ as the most addictive drug available on the street, but
other experts have questioned this assumption in recent years.
A) crack
B) heroin
C) dexedrine
D) PCP
Answer:
What occurs when the user ingests cocaine and alcohol at the same time?
A) The body begins to have auditory hallucinations.
B) The body converts the drugs to the toxic substance cocethylene.
C) The body reacts with concomitant hyper-alertness.
D) The body begins the flash.
Answer:
All of the following are true of lone wolf terrorists except
A) they operate individually.
B) they act without the direct influence of a leader.
C) their acts of violence are spontaneous and haphazard.
D) their backgrounds include poor interpersonal and social skills.
Answer:
Research on repetitive arsonists has concluded that this behavior is associated with
A) poverty.
B) psychological problems.
C) caregiving.
D) sexual deviations.
Answer:
Match up the terminology in the left column to the definitions in the right column.
A) Terrorists who consider the goals of the organization and the possible consequences
of their actions
B) A withdrawal response
C) Extremist groups or individuals that generally adhere to an antigovernment or racist
ideology
D) A category of terrorists often driven by a sense of failure or inadequacy
E) A stage of moral development in which the correct action is determined by an
understanding of the general rights of the individual as compared with the standards
which that have been critically examined and agreed upon by the whole society
F) Posits that the motivation to engage in terrorism, the model posits, is the search to be
meaningful and recognized
G) A terrorist who acts alone
H) Violent acts or acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws
of the United States or any state and under the direction of a foreign government, group,
organization, or person
I) These lone terrorist or insular groups that are directly or loosely tied to terrorist
organizations in other countries
J) Terrorists train who and carry out attacks in many different countries, and are
typically associated with a philosophy that advocates a violent jihad, or duty to be
violent
1. Post-conventional
2. Homegrown Violent Extremists
3. Quest for significance theory
4. Psychologically motivated terrorists
5. International terrorism
6. Right-wing terrorists
7. Multi-nationalist terrorists
8. Learned helplessness
9. Lone wolf
10. Rationally motivated terrorists
Answer:
Disorganized, catatonic, paranoid, undifferentiated, and residual are all subtypes of
A) schizophrenia.
B) bipolar disorder.
C) obsessive-compulsive disorder.
D) delusional disorder.
Answer:
Criminal psychopaths make up about what percent of the male inmate population in a
maximum security prison?
A) 5-8%
B) 10-25%
C) 20-38%
D) 45-55%
Answer:
The tendency to perceive hostile intent in others even when it is totally lacking is called
A) hostile preference.
B) Meckel’s syndrome.
C) hostile attribution bias.
D) inductive bias.
Answer:
Match up the terminology in the left column to the definitions in the right column.
A) Physical violence in intimate or family relationships
B) The killing of another as a result of recklessness or culpable negligence
C) The capacity to control and alter one’s behavior and emotions
D) A mental shortcut
E) The intentional inflicting of bodily injury on another person, or the attempt to inflict
such injury
F) A particular system for classifying personality, motivations, or other behavioral
patterns
G) The unlawful killing of one human being by another with malice aforethought, either
expressed or implied
H) The killing of the newborn within the first 24 hours after birth
I) Homicides that occur in the process of committing a serious crime and are motivated
by instrumental aggression
J) The visible presence of a handgun, a club, or a knife automatically brings
violence-related thoughts (cognitions) to mind
1. Murder
2. Weapons effect
3. Negligent manslaughter
4. Availability heuristic
5. Typology
6. Self-regulation
7. Felony murders
8. Battering
9. Assault
10. Neonatacide
Answer:
The phenomenon that occurs when a mental disorder or syndrome is unintentionally
caused by a clinician or practitioner is known as
A) Iatrogenic.
B) Tautological fallacy.
C) Projection syndrome.
D) Transference.
Answer:
Of the following treatment approaches, which has shown the most promise in the
overall treatment of sexual offenders?
A) Behavior modification
B) Reality therapy
C) Implosive therapy
D) Cognitive-behavioral approaches
Answer:
According to the MTC, an individual who had a normal adolescence and heterosexual
experiences but then later develops feelings of sexual inadequacy and seeks the
frequent companionship of children would be classified as a(n)
A) fixated.
B) retrograde.
C) exploitative.
D) regressed.
Answer:
The phenomenon in which the brain’s structure and function are affected by experience
is called
A) intelligence quotient.
B) elasticity.
C) durability.
D) plasticity.
E) neural synapse.
Answer:
Which piece of data would be included in the UCR?
A) A reported robbery with no arrest
B) A reported forgery with no arrest
C) A reported simple assault with no arrest
D) A reported statutory rape with no arrest
Answer:
Cocaine is typically classified as a central nervous system
A) hallucinogen.
B) opiate-narcotic.
C) depressant.
D) stimulant.
Answer:
After getting into a physical altercation with a co-worker at his job site, George
tailgates two cars on the drive home and throws a cell phone at his wife when he arrives
home to find that dinner is not ready. The above scenario is an example of
A) excitation transfer theory.
B) weapons effect.
C) road rage.
D) rumination.
Answer:
Criminal behavior is best defined as
A) antisocial behavior.
B) deviant behavior.
C) an intentional act in violation of a criminal code.
D) a failure to impede the criminal process.
Answer:
The major focus of MST is
A) the substance abusing delinquent.
B) the family.
C) socio-economic status.
D) adolescent-limited offenders.
Answer:
According to Robert Hare, antisocial individuals who display aggressive behavior
learned from their subculture are ________ psychopaths.
A) secondary
B) neurotic
C) symptomatic
D) dissocial
Answer:
The most common form of intrafamilial violence involves
A) siblings.
B) spouses.
C) parent acting violently toward a child.
D) child acting violently toward a parent.
Answer:
The word ________ in TMT refers to the high anxiety of eventual death that all humans
face.
Answer:
Prenatal and life experiences affect that both twins in the same way are known as
________ environments.
Answer:
The actuarial approach concentrates on the description, understanding, and
identification of a(n) ________ offender.
Answer:
Briefly describe the core characteristics of the criminal psychopath.
Answer:
Watson frequently declared that psychology was the ________ of behavior.
Answer:
Psychosocial context is a cognitively constructed world that is sustained through the
________ process associated with each culture.
Answer:
The individual who commits state-authority occupational crime is essentially violating
the ________ trust.
Answer:
Delusional disorder is now included under the ________ spectrum and other psychotic
disorders section in the DSM-5.
Answer:
Classic murders also may be called ________ mass murders.
Answer:
How does the legal definition of crime limit our understanding of criminal behavior?
What role does culture play in one’s definition of crime?
Answer:
A major criticism of drug treatment is the ________ they often produce.
Answer:
Explain the concern with the term profiling. Include two flaws in modern profiling that
were discussed in the text.
Answer:
Discuss the situational factors that can influence criminal behavior. In addition to those
mentioned in this chapter, what others might be identified?
Answer:
GAM posits that violence often occurs because of a(n) ________ cycle, which begins
with an initial triggering event that may be serious or relatively benign.
Answer:
Staging refers to the intentional ________ of a crime scene prior to the arrival of the
police.
Answer: