WorksheetsWJEC Criminology Unit 2
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 7mins
Which is a non Court sanction
Custodial sentences
Fines
Discharge
Conditional Cautions
What are Penalty Notices
Financial penalties
Agreement of set of rules and restrictions imposed by courts or police
Given for offences e.g. shoplifting which you can only receive if 18 or over
Administered by police and are given for minor offences e.g. graffiti
Norms are the:
Rules shared by most people in a given culture
Social expectation that guide behaviour and explain why people act the way they do.
Which of these are Informal sanctions of deviance?
Telling off
Shunning
Labelling behaviour
All of the above
Which is a Deviant and Criminal behaviour?
Kill or injury companion animals
Wearing a suit to swim at the beach
collecting large amount of newspaper
Speeding
Where is adultery not against the law?
UK & other European countries
United States of America
Saudi Arabia and Eqypt
When was Homosexuality decriminalised?
1961
1967
1976
1918
Jacob's XYY theory suggest males with extra Y chromosomes are:
Likely to be less aggressive
Likely to be more aggressive
Aggression level is the same
When a male has an extra Y chromosome it is sometimes labelled as:
Superman syndrome
Violent male syndrome
Super male syndrome
Aggressive male syndrome
Lombroso believed that:
Criminal behaviour was learnt
Criminal behaviour was heritable
Sheldon studied photographs of _____ in his study
Deceased and living criminals
Children
College students and delinquents
In Bandura's study children who observed a non-aggressive adult showed:
More aggression
Equal aggression
Less aggression
Sigmund Freud believed that the superego:
Seeks to find the most rational and sensible decision
Controls our most basic instincts and animalistic urges
Controls the moral conscience
Eysenck found that those who scored high on neuroticism were:
sociable and bored quickly
Uncaring, cold and aggressive
Anxious and irrational
Controlled, careful and calm
The Bobo Doll study is a laboratory study which means it has:
High ecological validity
Low ecological validity
Which of Freuds mindset does this represent?
Id
Ego
Superego
Lombroso labelled prisons as
(a)
Which acronym makes up Eysenck (1966) explanation of crime?
PEN
PET
NET
Ocean
What is a weakness of adoption studies?
Adoption studies rely on secondary data
There is no data on the biological parents
The children aren't exposed to their biological parents environments
Rely on qualitive data too much
What is a weakness of the XYY theory of criminality?
Not enough is known about chromosomes
Theory ignores cultural differences
It ignored the impact of other factors; e.g. social learning
Offers no real world solutions
