WorksheetsChapter 3 True & False
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
There is some concern about the diagnosis of “psychopathy” because it is difficult to
recognize before serious crime has occurred.
TRUE
FALSE
Kohlberg theorized that the quality of our moral development was in no way related to
how we adapt to cognitive disequilibrium or the thinking that occurs when we realize
that what we learn does not match what we know.
CORRECT
INCORRECT
Both Hooton and Lombroso believed that tattooing was the mark of an inferior person.
TRUE
UNTRUE
Bandura's most famous experiment was the “Bobo doll experiment.”
RIGHT
WRONG
MAYBE
I DON'T KNOW
Differential association theory states that criminal offenders are physically different
from the rest of the population.
ACCURATE
INACCURATE
MAYBE
Rational choice theory states that individuals' environments cause them to break the law.
SOMETIMES
FALSE
TRUE
In the past, crime research assumed that women were just a subset of men and that
research findings could be easily applied to women.
VERIFIABLE
UNTRUE
Labeling does not happen accidentally.
POSSIBLY
MAYBE
NEVER
YES
Hirschi's social control theory seeks to explain why people break the law.
RIGHT
WRONG!
Neutralization theory states that offenders use techniques to deflect feelings of blame
and shame.
AFFIRMATIVE
NEGATIVE
According to Merton, individuals disregard the goal when the means are lacking.
ERRONEOUS
PRECISE
According to Merton's strain theory, crime problems arise when there is unequal access
to societal norms and goals.
UNBLEMISHED
FLAWED
Chicago--school criminologists rejected the role of external factors in causing crime.
DEFECTIVE
UNDAMAGED
According to operant conditioning, behavior is more likely to occur when it is rewarded
and less likely to occur when it is punished or not rewarded.
GENUINE
COUNTERFEIT
The positivist school of criminology is a natural outgrowth of the rise of the scientific
method.
FACTUAL
MAKE-BELIEVE
Behaviorism focuses on unconscious forces and drives.
FALSE
TRUE
Both Beccaria and Bentham were concerned more with reforming the criminal justice
system than with finding the causes of crime.
PERFECT
IMPERFECT
The modern U.S. criminal justice system still uses supernatural theories to explain
ABSOLUTELY NOT
ABSOLUTELY
The earliest explanations for deviant behavior attributed crime to supernatural forces
TRUE
FALSE
Labeling does not happen accidentally.
PROPER
IMPROPER
