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1
Which of the following phrases does not define criminology?
A)it is a scientific study of making laws and the breaking of laws
B)it is a subjective view of why crime occurs
C)it is society's reaction to the breaking of law
D)it adopts methods of study from all the social and behavioral sciences
2
Which of the following is a misconception about the study of crime?
A)criminologists utilize a broad scientific perspective
B)criminology studies street crime, corporate, and global crimes
C)crime is a local matter
D)criminology includes the study of crime, penal codes, and deviance
3
Criminologists are primarily interested in the study of terrorism because:
A)it is at the hub of many other forms of criminality.
B)large numbers of people die.
C)it is a foreign-based crime.
D)most people do not understand its motivation.
4
What crime did the United Kingdom's Prime Minister Tony Blair say is linked to terrorism in a speech he gave at a party conference in 2001?
A)money laundering
B)computer crime
C)destruction of cultural property
D)illicit drug trafficking
5
How have some suggested that Al Qaeda may have been prepared for the freezing of their bank accounts by opposing governments?
A)exhausting their resources in advance
B)shifting assets into diamonds and gold
C)purchasing the banks
D)bribing banking officials
6
Which type of enterprise has Al Qaeda used to infiltrate legal business?
A)import-export firms
B)construction companies
C)new media outlets
D)restaurants
7
Which of the following commonalities do both Lenin and Hitler's terrorists, and the Taliban share?
A)religious motivation
B)shared vision
C)destruction of cultural property
D)millennial goals
8
Who coined the term "criminology" to encompass the scientific concern about crime?
A)Raffaele Garofalo
B)Cesare Lombroso
C)Edwin Sutherland
D)Emile Durkheim
9
Who was among the first researchers to analyze empirical data in a search for the biological causes of crime?
A)Paul Topinard
B)Edwin Sutherland
C)Cesare Lombroso
D)Emile Durkheim
10
In the 1920s most scholars attributed the cause of crime to:
A)demons.
B)birth defects.
C)psychological imbalance.
D)influx of immigration.
11
The text defines deviance as behavior that:
A)violates civil laws.
B)violates social norms, including laws.
C)violates all laws.
D)is considered bizarre.
12
Why should society not make all behavior that is considered deviant a crime?
A)society would become very rigid
B)society is unsure of who would enforce the laws
C)governments would victimize citizens
D)society is too diverse
13
Which of the following is considered a primary interest to most criminologists?
A)deviant behavior
B)informal norm violations
C)criminal behavior
D)civil norm violations
14
Which of the following acts did early societies impose punishment for violating?
A)murder
B)theft
C)rape
D)treason
15
Which of the following views suggests that law expresses the values of the ruling class in a society?
A)consensus model
B)conflict model
C)interactionist model
D)humanist model
16
Which model argues that when an act offends the collective conscience of a society it should be defined as criminal?
A)consensus
B)conflict
C)interactionist
D)feminist
17
What did Edwin Sutherland suggest criminologists study to explain crime?
A)the process of breaking laws
B)failure of educational systems
C)law abiding behavior
D)child-parent relationships
18
What factors do most contemporary criminologists attribute to producing strain among social groups and lawbreaking behaviors?
A)biological causes
B)psychological causes
C)economic and social conditions
D)vague legal interpretations
19
Which of the following is not considered a typical societal reaction to lawbreaking?
A)irrationality
B)political motivations
C)emotionality
D)productive
20
In what year did the term "criminal justice system" become popular?
A)1923
B)1944
C)1967
D)1974





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