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 theory, all of the following are considered capable
guardians except ______.
a. police officers
b. homeowners
c. security systems
d. teenage boys
Sigmund Freud believed that human aggression and violence are produced by
instinctual drives. ____ is the death instinct that is sometimes expressed externally as
violence or internally as suicide and alcoholism.
a. Hostility
b. Eros
c. Narcissism
d. Thanatos
Treason is the only crime mentioned in the U.S. Constitution.
a. True
b. False
During WWII, any resistance of German efforts in Europe was viewed by the Nazi’s as
terrorism.
a. True
b. False
Which of the following is not one of the three principal sources of behavior modeling?
a. Genetic predispositions
b. Family interactions
c. Environmental experiences
d. Mass media
Which of the following is not true of treason?
a. There have actually been less than 40 prosecutions for treason in the entire history of
the United States.
b. Helping an enemy in the time of war is considered a war crime and is not treason.
c. Many nations have applied the death penalty for treason.
d. Treason is the only crime mentioned in the U.S. Constitution.
Loeber’s covert pathway begins with minor, underhanded behaviors, such as lying and
shoplifting.
a. True
b. False
The definition of larceny evolved with the growth of manufacturing and the
development of the free enterprise system.
a. True
b. False
Feminists’ sexual equality view considers the prostitute a victim of ______.
a. child sexual abuse
b. economic circumstances
c. male dominance
d. personal choices
David Fahey, a businessman in a medium-sized Ohio town, decides to run for city
council. While he has earned a masters degree, he is married, has three sons, and is a
respected member of society. He fears he may lose the upcoming city council election
to a new comer who recently moved back to town after establishing himself in South
Carolina. While it is known that David regularly cheats on his wife, he has not been
known to be unethical in any other aspects of his life. Answer the following questions.
David hires his best friend, John, to call in a bomb threat on election day to a precinct
where his rival, Keith Joseph, is supposed to get the majority of support. This is an
example of ______.
a. disruption
b. intimidation
c. misinformation
d. none of the above
What does research indicate about the effects of legalizing prostitution?
a. Legalization leads to zoned areas where prostitution is cordoned off from suburban
neighborhoods.
b. Legalization results in lower pay but increased freedom for prostitutes.
c. Legalization protects women from violence, verbal abuse, and physical injuries.
d. Legalization leads to massive expansion of the trade, both legal and illegal.
The aristocrats of prostitution are _____ who charge customers thousands of dollars per
night and who may net over $200,000 per year.
a. streetwalkers
b. circuit travelers
c. Ehookers
d. call girls
Walter Miller identified the unique conduct norms that define the lower-class culture
and that often clash with conventional values. Which of the following is not one of
those norms?
a. Fate
b. Toughness
c. Autonomy
d. Education
Catherine is a college professor who was recently appointed to chair of the department.
As chair, she illegally removes small sums of money from a large number of accounts
associated with the department and uses the money to fund her lavish vacations to the
Africa, Asia, and Europe. This is an example of a______.
a. Trojan horse
b. salami slice fraud
c. Ponzi scheme
d. warez scheme
All of the following family factors are associated with delinquency except______.
a. inconsistent discipline
b. poor parental supervision
c. noncoercive parenting
d. drug abusing parents
Developmental theories attempt to explain the natural history of a criminal career
encompassing its onset, continuation, and termination.
a. True
b. False
According to the author, the most important wielder of informal social control is
religion.
a. True
b. False
While there is a link between criminal offending and family relations, there is no
research which supports family dysfunction leading children to have long-term social
problems.
a. True
b. False
The male hormone testosterone is linked to criminality.
a. True
b. False
According to Hagan and his associates, within the paternalistic home, mothers are
expected to control the behavior of their sons while granting greater freedom to
daughters.
a. True
b. False
Dropout factories consist of high schools in which the completion rate is consistently 40
percent or less.
a. True
b. False
The academic discipline of criminology uses scientific methods to study
the__________ of criminal behavior.
a. nature, extent, cause, and control
b. history, economics, and control
c. prevalence, placement, and reduction
d. economics, politics, and policies
The ____________________ Act is a federal law that subjects to criminal and civil
sanctions any person who shall make any contract or engage in any combination or
conspiracy in restraint of interstate commerce.
a. Sherman Antitrust
b. Interstate Commerce
c. Lautenberg
d. Illegal Restraint
Syria, Libya, and Iraq have all lost control of their own territory and have been unable
to provide services and protection to their citizens with the rise of ISIS. These countries
would be examples of a ______.
a. failed state
b. freed state
c. collapsed state
d. crisis state
The view of crime suggesting that the social and economic roles of women in society
control their crime rates is termed ______.
a. liberation theory
b. the femininity hypothesis
c. the masculinity hypothesis
d. liberal feminist theory
Research indicates that people who are labeled with one positive trait are assumed to
have other positive traits.
a. True
b. False
In the 1930s, Harry Anslinger, then head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, launched a
successful effort to criminalize marijuana, which had been legal until that time. Which
concept of crime does Anslinger’s moral crusade reflect?
a. Consensus view of crime
b. Conflict view of crime
c. Interactionist view of crime
d. Legalistic view of crime
Gloria is a 22-year-old woman from Florida who is attempting to finish college. She is
studying to become a nurse. She began dancing as an exotic dancer at a gentlemen’s
club when she turned 20 to help pay for her tuition. Answer the following questions.
After dancing for roughly a year, Gloria heard several of the other girls talk about
prostitution. Gloria believed she could make more money by being both an exotic
dancer and as an escort. Her belief most likely fits the view of prostitution called the
___________.
a. free choice view
b. sexual equality view
c. sexual inequality view
d. rational choice view
The _______ view of crime sees society as a collection of diverse groups who are in a
constant and continuing struggle to gain political power in order to advance their
economic or social situation.
a. consensus
b. conflict
c. interactionist
d. legalistic
Donald was arrested for murdering an acquaintance. At the trial, Donald takes the stand
and testifies that he and the victim knew each other. He admits that they would drink
and use drugs together. One night while “partying,” Donald explains in his testimony,
an argument got out of hand during a card game. Donald explains that the victim
accused him of cheating and pulled out a knife on him and started swinging it in the air.
Donald said that he had no choice but to pull out his gun and shoot the victim. The jury
convicted Donald of manslaughter.
According to Marvin Wolfgang, the incident described above is best characterized as a
______.
a. criminological enterprise
b. misdemeanor
c. victim-precipitated homicide
d. white-collar homicide
_________ refers to a style of parenting with parents who are supportive and who
effectively control their children in a noncoercive way.
a. Parent pathology
b. Low frequency parenting
c. Parental efficacy
d. Low coercion parenting
Extorting money from an Internet service user by threatening to prevent the user from
having access to the service is known as ______.
a. denial-retrial
b. Trojan horse
c. warez
d. denial-of-service attack
Because of strict federal laws, identity theft has decreased at surprising rates over the
past few years.
a. True
b. False
Empirical research is considered incompatible with critical criminology.
a. True
b. False
_____________ refers to the bizarre or abnormal sexual practices that may involve
nonhuman objects, humiliation or children.
A lack of norms or clear social standards is referred to as ____________.
The propensity to commit crime is stable; those who have it continue to commit crime
over their life course. This is known as ____________________.
According to the ______________ view of terrorism, terror recruits suffer dissension
from friends, family, and society with many having been raised to hate the groups who
are in power and believe that they have been victimized by state authorities whom they
view as oppressors.
________________ refers to the injury caused to others by willful wrongful conduct.
Describe the development of rational choice theory and the philosophers central to the
concept of rational choice.
Answer:Answers will vary.
_____________ theory explains the view that people acquire the techniques and
attitudes of crime from close relationships with criminal peers.
The treatment of criminal offenders that is aimed at preventing future criminal behavior
is _______________.
To convict a person of obscenity, the Court uses the ______________ doctrine, where
the state or local jurisdiction must specifically define obscene conduct in its statute, and
the pornographer must engage in that behavior.
Explain what is meant by the statement ‘some offenders, and some crimes, are more
deterrable than others.”
Answer:Answers will vary.
___________ theory is the view that a stable unchanging feature or characteristic, such
as defective intelligence, makes people crime prone over the life course.
As a result of status frustration, Cohen found that many youth join gangs and engage in
behavior with three distinctive characteristics; these include behaviors that are
malicious, negativistic, and ___________________.
Compare and contrast the data on sex crimes and the ability of these crimes to be
rational? Provide evidence which supports your opinion on the rational nature of sex
crimes.
Answer:Answers will vary.
Compare and contrast the terms surplus value and marginalization and discuss the role
each plays with crime and criminality.
Answer:Answers will vary.
Suspected causes of rape include male socialization, hyper-masculinity, and
__________________ determinism.
__________________ terrorist groups refrain from tying specific acts to direct
demands and instead redirect the balance between what they believe is good and evil.
Explain why there is a great deal of victimization in schools.
Answer:Answers will vary
Explain the origin of the words “pornography” and “obscenity” and discuss the current
legal meanings of these terms.
Answer:Answers will vary
Explain the relationship between race/ethnicity and victimization.
Answer:Answers will vary