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LESSON NO. 12 DISCOVERING THE ECOLOGY OR ENVIRONMENTAL THEORIES

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who used the first modern criminal statistics in 1827 in France to demonstrate that crime rates varied with social factors?

a)

Adolphe Quetelet

b)

Ernst Haeckel

c)

Robert Ezra Park

d)

Andre Michel Guerry

2.

Which theory is concerned with the examination of the relationship between man and his environment?

a)

Broken Windows Theory

b)

Ecological Systems Theory

c)

Crime Pattern Theory

d)

Human Ecology Theory

3.

Who formulated the Ecological Systems Theory in 1975?

a)

Adolphe Quetelet

b)

Urie Bronfenbrenner

c)

Robert Park

d)

Ernst Haeckel

4.

According to the Broken Windows Theory, what might reduce more serious crime?

a)

Policing minor offenses

b)

Punishing minor offenses

c)

Ignoring minor offenses

d)

Legalizing minor offenses

5.

Which theory combines rational choice theory and routine activity theory to help explain the distribution of crime across places?

a)

Human Ecology Theory

b)

Ecological Systems Theory

c)

Broken Windows Theory

d)

Crime Pattern Theory

6.

Who proposed that policing minor offenses might reduce more serious crime?

a)

Patricia Brantingham

b)

Ronald Clarke

c)

James Q Wilson

d)

Philip Zimbardo

7.

What is the smallest and most immediate environment that a child lives in according to the Ecological Systems Theory?

a)

Mesosystem

b)

Exosystem

c)

Microsystem

d)

Macrosystem

8.

Who first introduced the term 'human ecology' in 1921?

a)

Robert Park

b)

Urie Bronfenbrenner

c)

Adolphe Quetelet

d)

Ernst Haeckel

9.

Which theory is based on two main theoretical approaches: utilitarianism and the theory on economic choice?

a)

Ecological Systems Theory

b)

Crime Pattern Theory

c)

Broken Windows Theory

d)

Rational Choice Perspective

10.

Who analyzed criminal statistics and concluded that overall patterns of behavior of groups across a whole society consist of regularity of rates of various behavior?

a)

Ernest W Burgess

b)

Robert Ezra Park

c)

Louis Wirth

d)

Adolphe Quetelet