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, TEST BANKMULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Today, the term “victim” commonly refers to individuals who have _____.
a. suffered injuries, losses or hardships for any reason
b. suffered direct injury or loss as a result of a crime
c. been the target of a crime, whether or not injury, loss, or hardship has occurred
d. been overwhelmed by the challenges and hardships of life
ANS: A LO: 1 REF: p. 2
2. Which of the following correctly describes the relationship between victimology and
criminology?
a. Victimology encompasses several sub-disciplines, including criminology.
b. Victimology can be considered an area of specialization within criminology.
c. Victimologists only study the victims of crimes, and criminologists only study the offenders.
d. Although they address similar topics, their research and analytic methods markedly differ.
ANS: B LO: 4 REF: p. 18
3. Victimology is best described as the scientific study of_____.
a. the psychological characteristics of victims, regardless of cause
b. the harm people endure due to illegal activity
c. how specific individuals and entities become the targets of crime
d. the complex relationships between criminals and their victims
ANS: B LO: 1 REF: p. 2
4. The scientific study of the physical, emotional and financial harm people suffer because of illegal
activities is most accurately known as _____.
a. criminology
b. victimology
c. sociology
d. psychology
ANS: B LO: 4 REF: p. 2
5. Which of the following is the major function of victimologists?
a. investigating the victim’s plight
b. carrying out research on the public’s reaction to victims’ plight
c. studying how victims are handled by officials and agencies in the criminal justice system
d. all of these
ANS: D LO: 1 REF: p. 2
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6. Those who experience the criminal act and its consequences firsthand are called _____ victims.
a. distal
b. primary
c. secondary
d. proximal
ANS: B LO: 1 REF: p. 2
7. Those that suffer emotionally or financially from a crime but are not immediately involved or
physically injured by it are known as _____.
a. distal
b. primary
c. secondary
d. proximal
ANS: C LO: 1 REF: p. 2
8. An objective approach to the study of victims requires that the researcher _____.
a. integrate his or her own experiences into the research
b. explore the experiences of individuals known to the researcher
c. be grounded in the applicable philosophical and religious traditions
d. remains neutral and unbiased, not allowing personal feelings to enter
ANS: D LO: 1 REF: p. 3
9. For research to be considered scientific, it must be _____.
a. subjective
b. objective
c. quantitative
d. quantitative
ANS: B LO: 1 REF: p. 3
10. People who routinely engage in lawbreaking are _____.
a. less likely to be victimized than others
b. more likely to be hurt than their law-abiding counterparts
c. typically only victimized in they are not in a gang
d. protected because they know how get around the law
ANS: B LO: 3 REF: p. 9
11. Victimologists must _____.
a. reserve judgment in their research
b. refrain from jumping to any conclusions
c. avoid being strictly ‘pro-victim’
d. do all of these
ANS: D LO: 1 REF: p. 5
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, Chapter 1: What is Victimology?
12. The suffix “ology” means _____.
a. a set of known facts
b. hard to understand
c. the study of
d. methods for preventing
ANS: C LO: 1 REF: p. 14
13. The status of being a legitimate or bona fide victim worthy of support is _____.
a. based in legal distinctions
b. a philosophical concept
c. of limited scientific importance
d. socially constructed
ANS: D LO: 3 REF: p. 5
14. Research that is victim-centered focuses on _____.
a. the way victims are treated by the criminal justice system
b. how criminals identify and pursue likely victims
c. why some people make “better” victims than others
d. why some people are “worthy” victims and others are not
ANS: A LO: 5 REF: p. 14
15. A study that tracked the lives of boys and girls known to have been physically and sexually
abused over a follow-up period of several decades concluded that being harmed at an early age
substantially increased the odds of _____.
a. involvement in violent criminal activities
b. only nonviolent delinquency and criminality
c. choosing a helping profession such as social work
d. developing a victimism ideology
ANS: A LO: 5 REF: p. 9
16. Whenever different interpretations of the facts lead to sharply divergent conclusions about who is
actually the guilty party and who really is the injured party _____.
a. the individual who has the least history of police contact is typically the victim
b. it is most likely that both should be charged, allowing the courts to tease it out
c. it is useless to try to pursue any sort of criminal justice-based resolution
d. knee-jerk pro-victim impulses provide no useful guidance for action
ANS: D LO: 1│5 REF: p. 8
17. The intergenerational transmission of misusing force _____.
a. can transform a victim into an offender
b. is based largely in biology, not behavior
c. is the main reason for much violent crime
d. can be traced to attitudes that devalue criminals
ANS: A LO: 5 REF: p. 9
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