, Canadian Criminology Today, Theories and Applications, Seventh Edition
Chapter 1: What is Criminology? Understanding Crime and Criminals
1) Crime, like other social events, is fundamentally a social construction.
a. True
b. False
Answer: a
Diff: 1
Type: TF
LO: 1.9
Skill: Recall
2) From a legalistic perspective, crime is human conduct in violation of the criminal laws
of a state, the federal government, or a provincial or local jurisdiction that has the power
to make such laws.
a. True
b. False
Answer: a
Diff: 1
Type: TF
LO: 1.1
Skill: Recall
3) The Pluralist Perspective towards the question What Should be Criminal? Is an
analytical approach to social organization that holds that a multiplicity of values and
beliefs exists in any complex society but that most social actors agree on the usefulness
of laws as a formal means of dispute resoultion.
a. True
b. False
Answer: a
Diff: 2
Type: TF
LO: 1.3
Skill: Recall
4) The term criminalize means to make illegal.
a. True
b. False
, Canadian Criminology Today, Theories and Applications, Seventh Edition
Chapter 1: What is Criminology? Understanding Crime and Criminals
5) The primary perspective from which most contemporary criminologists operate is a
sociological one.
a. True
b. False
Answer: a
Diff: 2
Type: TF
LO: 1.10
Skill: Recall
6) A serious shortcoming of the legalistic approach to crime is that it yields the moral
high ground to powerful individuals who are able to influence the making of laws and the
imposition of criminal definitions on lawbreakers.
a. True
b. False
Answer: a
Diff: 2
Type: TF
LO: 1.1
Skill: Applied
7) Although Canada has enacted a comprehensive legal code, it still adheres to a common
law tradition.
a. True
b. False
Answer: a
Diff: 1
Type: TF
LO: 1.1
Skill: Recall
8) The qualitative method of criminological research is a research technique that
produces subjective results, or results that are difficult to quantify.
a. True
b. False
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