Test Bank for Victimology, 9th Edition Doerner (All Chapters included)
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Complete Test Bank for Victimology, 9th Edition by William G. Doerner, Steven P. Lab ; ISBN13: 9780367418137. (Full Chapters included Chapter 1 to 14).....Chapter 1: The Scope of Victimology.
Chapter 2: Measuring Criminal Victimization.
Chapter 3: The Costs of Victimization.
Chapter 4: Remedying...
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,Chapter 1: The Scope of Victimology
SHORT-ANSWER REVIEW QUESTIONS
1. To what does the term mala in se refer?
2. What is the difference between retribution and restitution?
3. What does the term lex talionis mean?
4. Define deterrence.
5. Compare and contrast the victim’s justice system with the criminal’s justice system.
6. How did the victim’s justice system turn into the criminal’s justice system?
7. What is the relevance of the terms gemeinschaft and gesellschaft for victim treatment?
8. What major concept or concern captivated the early victimologists?
9. What is a typology, and why did the early victimologists concentrate on creating typologies?
10. What is the significance behind the book titles The Criminal and His Victim and The Victim
and His Criminal?
11. What does the term agent provocateur imply?
12. Explain von Hentig’s victim typology that appears in Table 1.1 of the textbook.
13. What does the phrase “blaming the victim” mean?
14. Explore the typology, presented in Table 1.3 of the textbook, which Schafer developed.
15. What does “victim precipitation” mean?
16. What was the importance of Wolfgang’s homicide study?
17. How did Wolfgang define victim precipitation?
18. What three findings or empirical regularities emerged from Wolfgang’s homicide study?
19. Did Wolfgang’s study and Amir’s research support or refute the concept of victim
precipitation?
20. Why did some people object to Amir’s conclusions?
21. Explain the four assumptions behind the victim precipitation argument.
, Chapter 1: The Scope of Victimology
22. What does Curtis gain by merging victim precipitation with offender responsibility in Table
1.4 of the textbook?
23. Using Figure 1.1 of the textbook, what four broad questions does general victimology raise?
24. How does “critical victimology” represent a different approach?
25. What kinds of questions does “critical victimology” raise?
26. List some topics that would capture the interest of a critical victimologist.
27. What was the importance of the victim movement as the academic field of victimology
developed?
28. What movements led to the rise of concern over victim rights?
29. What do the book’s authors mean when they talk about examining the transition from the
criminal’s justice system to the victim’s justice system?
MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS
1. The transition from a victim’s justice system to a criminal’s justice system was marked by
the trend away from which of the following and towards which of the following?
a. away from a gemeinschaft society and towards a gesellschaft society
b. away from a gesellschaft society and towards a gemeinschaft society
c. away from an industrialized society and towards a rural society
d. away from an agricultural society and towards a democratic society
e. away from a feudal society and towards a dictatorship
2. Prior to the Middle Ages, the concept of lex talionis prevailed in the pursuit of justice. This
concept included which of the following items?
a. rehabilitation
b. retribution
c. deterrence
d. a victim injustice system
e. all of the above
3. The idea of retribution:
a. was started by Stephen Schafer
b. is that the offender should suffer in proportion to the degree of harm he or she caused
c. is the opposite of restitution
d. is the feeling that the victim played an active role in his or her victimization
e. was begun by feudal barons
4. Which one of the following items refers to totally unacceptable or immoral behavior?
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