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CRIM 249 QUIZ 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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CRIM 249 QUIZ 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERSWhat is crime? - Answers-Action or failure to act that is prohibited by law and subject to
legal sanction
What are the two definitions when it comes to deviance? - Answers-Normative: Acts,
persons, or conditions that society disvalues, or condemns
Statistical: Uncommon or rare behaviors
What is Criminology? - Answers-The scientific study of crime as a social phenomena
What does criminology seek to explain? - Answers-Causes
Consequences
Reactions
What is a hypothesis? - Answers-Assumptions ("educated guess") for how phenomena
are connected to each other
How is a scientific theory different from a scientific law? - Answers-Scientific theory a
working explanation of observations whereas scientific law is something that is found to
be most likely true
What is a macro-level theory? - Answers-Explains broad patters, social structures, and
crime rates (places, countries, institutions) AND focuses on macro-level associations
What is a micro-level theory? - Answers-Explains individual or small group behavior
Focuses on action-formation mechanisms
What motivates individual actions?
What do theories do? - Answers-Explain some phenomena
What is not theory? - Answers-Explanations of social phenomenon based on belief,
opinion , or values
How does theory play a role in criminology? - Answers-Human behavior is complicated,
so there are many different explanations for the same relationship. Also, if we want to
change behavior (reduce crime), we need to understand it and make accurate
predictions: Criminal Justice policies and costs of poor theories and "see if it works"
approaches
What components make a theory "good?" - Answers-If they have logical consistency,
efficiency & parsimony, testability, and empirical validity
What re the types of data? - Answers-Qualitative and Quantitative
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