P3A Crime and Delinquency Vocabulary

Crime and Delinquency in an Urban World

CC Vocabulary Study

Multiple Choice

The company had to ______ the project due to lack of financial resources.

• abandon

• amplify

• forge

• prosper

Multiple Choice

Not stopping the car when the lights turn red is a traffic ________ .

• fraud

• forgery

• offence

• evasion

Multiple Choice

The ____ of life in big cities sometimes makes adjustment very difficult for those who have come from rural areas where everybody knows each other.

• anonymity

• disturbance

• embezzlement

• representation

Multiple Choice

_______ is the act of stealing money that you are responsible for or that belongs to your employer.

• fraud

• forgery

• embezzlement

• corruption

Multiple Choice

The journalist is a/n _____ supporter of civil rights. She reports in favor of individual freedoms with enthusiasm.

• ardent

• conformist

• deviant

• invasive

Multiple Choice

Group therapy is a prominent method to ______ victims of substance abuse.

• offend

• predispose

• rehabilitate

• scapegoat

Multiple Choice

Most laws ____ the moral values of the middle classes.

• fabricate

• embody

• inherit

• violate

Multiple Choice

Proponents of capital punishment say that it ____, that is to say, “discourages” people from committing murder.

• associates

• deters

• intimidates

• rehabilitates

Multiple Choice

When parents or teachers belittle and ______ children, they destroy their self-esteem.

• exempt

• humiliate

• marginalize

• underrepresent

Multiple Select

Some criminologists think that some people are born with a/an ______ to commit crime. [CHOOSE TWO]

• determination

• predisposition

• tendency

• temptation

Multiple Choice

In times of economic ______, incidences of crime tend to rise.

• asset

• concession

• turmoil

• temptation

the apple, the forbidden fruit, symbolizes temptation, sin, and the fall of mankind.

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Multiple Choice

The goal keeper was made a/n _____ for the team's failure.

• asset

• justification

• scapegoat

• offender