Law Studies Ch 2 Review

Which of the following is consistent with control theory?​

• ​Individuals commit

  crimes after being labeled by society.

• Individuals must be taught to commit illegal activities.

• ​Individuals are restrained from offending by their relationships with parents and peers.

• Offenders learn deviant values from parents and peers

Which model holds that substance abusers are forced into petty crime to feed their addictions?​

• Treatment

• Addiction

• Criminal

• Medical

Correlation means one variable causes a change in another.​ True False

• True

• False

Strain theory has its roots in the concept of​

• power.

• employment.

• peers.

• anomie.

Which of the following is not true according to Beccaria?​

• The more swift and certain a punishment is, the more effective it will be.

• Fear of punishment can deter the choice to commit crime.

• All decisions are the result of rational choice.

• Punishment must be designed to diagnose and treat the underlying causes of criminal behavior.

The research published in Delinquency in a Birth Cohort asserted that ________ percent of juvenile offenders were responsible for the majority of violent crime.​

• 1

• 14

• 22

• 6

The Chicago School showed a correlation between crime and​

• neighborhood conditions.

• physiology.

• low levels of self-control

• rational decision making

Which neurotransmitter regulates moods, appetite, and memory?​

• Testosterone

• Dopamine

• Norepinephrine

• Serotonin

In Bentham’s classical criminology, punishment aims to​

• ​return victims to the state they were in before the crime.

• give an incentive not to harm people.

• incapacitate offenders.

• rehabilitate offenders

The belief that illegal drug abusers are a danger to society and should be punished accordingly is consistent with the _______ of addiction.​

• systemic model

• medical model

• criminal model

• enslavement theory