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Multiple Choice Quiz

1
Before any human event can qualify as an act there must be a conscious interaction between:
A)reflex and convulsion.
B)mind and body.
C)conduct and suggestion.
D)reaction and movement.
2
What did the Supreme Court hold was unconstitutional in Robinson v. California?
A)arresting persons with venereal disease
B)being drunk in public
C)making it illegal to be a drug addict
D)making vagrancy a crime
3
How are most crimes grouped from a criminological perspective?
A)by the harm
B)by the dollar cost
C)number of habitual offenders
D)loss of status
4
Which of the following refers to the "guilty mind" causation requirement of a criminal act?
A)actus reus
B)strict liability
C)concurrence
D)mens rea
5
Which of the following is considered a civil wrong for which a person cannot be criminally sanctioned?
A)felonies
B)torts
C)misdemeanors
D)violations
6
A person taking someone else's bicycle believing it to be their own, would most likely use which of the following defenses?
A)defense of infancy
B)insanity defense
C)mistake of fact
D)defense of property
7
Which of the following is credited with providing the original categorization of crimes generally used worldwide today?
A)Ancient Romans
B)France
C)England
D)The United States
8
A systematic set of principles that explain how two or more phenomena are related refers to which of the following terms?
A)theory
B)hypothesis
C)measurement
D)methods
9
Which of the following research methods is probably the most cost effective, even though they are limited in their reliability?
A)experiments
B)participant observation
C)case studies
D)surveys
10
When did the United States begin officially collecting crime statistics?
A)1905
B)1930
C)1954
D)1970
11
Which of the following events has led to critics suggesting politics may be influencing national crime statistics?
A)assassination of John F. Kennedy
B)World Trade Center attacks
C)passage of the U.S. A. Patriot Act
D)declaration of war on drugs
12
Which category of the Uniform Crime Report (UCR) would incorporate the crimes of vandalism and simple assaults?
A)Part I
B)Index crimes
C)violation crimes
D)Part II
13
Which of the following is considered a limitation of the Uniform Crime Reports?
A)police may alter numbers to improve their image
B)UCR's do not measure crime reported to police
C)they do not measure serious offenses
D)they are not analyzed by a central agency
14
Which of the following measuring methods utilizes collection of data through the Bureau of Census?
A)Uniform Crime Reports
B)National Incident-Based Reporting System
C)National Crime Victimization Survey
D)self-report surveys
15
Which of the following findings was not substantiated by the first International Self-Report Delinquency (ISRD) in 1991 to 1993?
A)boys commit more delinquency than girls
B)socioeconomic status is related to delinquency
C)drug use is related to leaving school early
D)school failure is related to violent offenses
16
What may have accounted for the gradual decline in the crime rate after 1980, according to the text?
A)age distribution of the population
B)advent of increased probation programs
C)increase in drug treatment programs
D)increase in parole options
17
According to the National Crime Victimization Survey, most violent juvenile crime occurs:
A)during the night.
B)in the morning hours.
C)after eleven o'clock at night.
D)in the late afternoon.
18
At what age do arrest rates begin to decline?
A)21
B)30
C)50
D)65
19
Which type of crime is committed more frequently by females than by males?
A)shoplifting
B)forgery
C)sexual abuse
D)embezzlement
20
Which of the following statements is not correct?
A)Blacks are disproportionately arrested for crime
B)murder is a leading cause of death for young Black men
C)Whites are more likely to be imprisoned for serious crime than Blacks
D)18 percent of Black men will serve time in jail or prison





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