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WorksheetsCriminology Exam 2 Practice Quiz
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 15mins
In Concentric Zones Theory, what zone is considered the working class Zone?
Zone 4
Zone 1
Zone 3
Zone 6
Biosocial theories argue that conditions including____________, contribute to potential criminality. (Choose all that apply)
Genetics
Pollution
Hormones
Diet
What is the most important assumption about crime from a social structural perspective?
Crime is abstract
Crime is based on one's environment
Crime is innate
Crime is inevitable
In Behavioral Theory, what is an example of a Negative Punishment?
Assigning a paper to an unruly class
Taking away a child's TV privilege's for failing a test
Clapping for winning a competition
Washing a child's mouth out with soap for swearing.
Stealing a car to get to work would be an example of which response to anomie?
Ritualism
Rebellion
Retreatism
Innovation
Who claimed that social disorganization is directly correlated with higher rates of juvenile delinquency?
Shaw & McKay
Thomas & Hirschi
Messner & Rosenfeld
Sykes & Matza
Which technique of neutralization would a person be using if they argued their crime was due to their rough childhood?
Denial of Victim
Condemning the Condemners
Denial of Responsibility
Denial of Injury
In Psychopathology, how do psychopaths differ from sociopaths?
Psychopaths are capable of feeling empathy
Sociopaths may be capable of feeling empathy
Psychopaths are capable of feeling regret
Sociopaths are incapable of feeling empathy
In Ivan Pavlov's Classical Conditioning test, what end behavior did the dogs portray?
Neutral Stimulus/
Conditioned Response
Conditioned Stimulus/
Conditioned Response
Unconditioned Stimulus/
Unconditioned Response
Neutral Stimulus/
Unconditioned Response
Using Freud's Theory, what part of the personality would the motivation to commit a crime come from?
Ego
SuperId
Id
SuperEgo
Broken Windows Theory is a theory that has been proven correct in almost every city or geographical setting.
True
False
In Differential Opportunity Theory, what types of opportunities likely give rise to Delinquent Behavior?
Legitimate Opportunities
Direct Opportunities
Sporadic Opportunities
Illegitimate Opportunities
Strain Theory can best be described as what?
The clashing between social groups over acceptable behavior
The overcoming of societal pressures to achieve specific goals
Determining whether an offender got what they deserved
Turning to crime because it was what your parents did
One of the single most important factors leading a person to follow the rules and norms of society is what?
Deterrence
External Containment
Love
Empathy
Children who were fearful of their environment and unwilling to explore it, were said to have what types of attachments?
Anxious Resistant
Anxious Avoidant
Secure
Anxious Detached
Cracking down on quality of life offenses is a model of __________ policing developed from _____________ Theory.
Order Maintenance/Broken Windows
Sporadic/Social Control
Community/Strain
Directed/Social Disorganization
A lot of the early work on subcultural theories reflected research done on _______ .
white-collar criminals
skinhead groups
serial killers
gangs
Which technique of neutralization is a person using if they argue that they are justified in running a credit card scam because "credit card companies scam people all the time, so why can't I?"?
Condemning the Condemners
Denial of Injury
Denial of the Victim
Denial of Responsibility
Messner and Rosenfeld believe that inconsistencies in the American Dream lead to what?
Relative Deparivation
Relative Isolation
Social Deprivation
Criminal Deprivation
Criminal _________ exist in larger society as a way to replace the norms and rules of society.
Gangs
Subcultures
Conflicts
Opportunities
