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Criminology - Exam 1 Questions andAnswers 2024-2025
__________ crimes refer to behaviors that violate contemporary standards only. -
Answer-Mala prohibita
Comparative research usually means cross-cultural or international research. - Answer-
True
Random-digit dialing requires a separate procedure in order to yield random samples of
respondents. - Answer-False
__________ are very common in psychology, but much less common in sociology and
criminology. - Answer-Experiments
Deviance is a(n) __________ concept. - Answer-relative
Consensus and conflict views of crime, law, and society are independent and have no
relationship to analogous perspectives in the larger field of sociology. - Answer-False
C. Wright Mills referred to the ability to understand the structural and historical basis for
personal troubles as - Answer-the sociological imagination.
C. Wright Mills emphasized that what people may define as private troubles are often
more accurately described as - Answer-public issues.
In constructing a legal defense to their criminal liability, some antiwar protestors during
the Vietnam conflict who had been arrested for civil disobedience claimed in their trials
that they were - Answer-acting under duress of their consciences.
In his most famous study, the French sociologist Emile Durkheim determined that
__________ has social roots. - Answer-suicide
__________ means "guilty mind" and refers to criminal intent. - Answer-Mens rea
Conflict theory is generally the opposite of consensus theory. - Answer-True
The case of W.C. Frosch is a well-known example of duress as a defense to criminal
prosecution. - Answer-False
One problem of experiments is that they are not generalizable. - Answer-True
Behavior that violates social norms and arouses negative social reactions is called -
Answer-deviance.
, __________ refer(s) to the organized patterns of social interaction and social
relationships that exist in a group or society. - Answer-Social structure
In criminology, surveys are a popular way of gathering "__________" data on crime and
delinquency. - Answer-self-report
As a social science, criminology is essentially the same as forensic science (crime
scene investigation). - Answer-False
Edwin Sutherland's __________ theory centered on peer influences as a prime
ingredient in the promotion of criminality. - Answer-differential association
A random sample allows for generalization of research results to the total population -
Answer-True
In larger, more modern societies, norms tend to be more formal and codified; these
formal norms are referred to as - Answer-laws
Increasingly, intensive interviewing has been combined with surveying in - Answer-
longitudinal studies.
At one point in its history, Robert K. Merton's anomie theory fell out of favor and in its
place arose a new control theory of criminal behavior that emphasized the criminogenic
effects of weak bonds to social institutions. - Answer-True
The text lists three of the most common kinds of surveys. Which of the following is not
one of these?
-face-to-face interviews
-mailed surveys
-telephone surveys
-non-structured survey - Answer-non-structured survey
n developing his __________ theory, Robert K. Merton attributed deviance to the
socioeconomically disadvantaged's inability to achieve economic success in a society
that highly values such success. - Answer-anomie
The familiar Gallup Poll is a __________ sample of the adult population of the United
States, allowing for generalization of the results to the population. - Answer-random
The most important goal of criminal law is to prevent and control crime and criminal
behavior - Answer-True
Law in the United States has its origins in Native American spiritual principles. - Answer-
False
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