Test Bank for Criminology The Core, 7th E
1. Criminology is an academic discipline that uses scientific methods to study the nature, extent, cause, and control of
criminal behavior.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
2. The criminological enterprise subarea of criminal statistics/crime measurement...
Test Bank for Criminology: The Core, 7th Edition Larry J. Siegel 1. Criminology is an academic discipline that uses scientific methods to study the nature, extent, cause, and control of criminal behavior. a. True b. False ANSWER: True 2. The criminological enterprise subarea of criminal statistics/crime measurement involves creating methodologies that are able to accurately measure activities, trends, and patterns in crime. a. True b. False ANSWER: True 3. The branch of social science that uses the scientific method of the natural sciences and suggests that human behavior is a product of social, biological, or economic forces which one can measure empirically is known as the Classical School of Criminology. a. True b. False ANSWER: False 4. Chicago School sociologists argued that social forces operating in urban areas created a crime -promoting environment; some areas were “natural areas” for crime. a. True b. False ANSWER: True 5. Critical criminologists contend that society’s economic system plays a significant role in producing criminal behavior. a. True b. False ANSWER: True 6. The juvenile delinquency research of Eleanor and Sheldon Glueck (in the 1940s and 1950s) profoundly influenced criminology and formed the basis for today’s trait theory. a. True b. False ANSWER: False 7. A crime becomes a deviant act when it is deemed by lawmakers as socially harmful or dangerous. a. True b. False ANSWER: False 8. According to the conflict view of crime, criminal laws are viewed as acts created to protect the haves from the have -
nots. a. True b. False ANSWER: True
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