Your Name:
March 5, 2000
Select the single best answer and return NO LATER THAN THURSDAY
March 8, at midnight. Each question is worth 2 points, for a total
of 30. Do not forget to answer the 70 point ESSAYS.
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1. Which of the following is NOT a feature of Classicical Criminology?
a) Crime is a legal process
b) Major weapon against crime is punishment
c) Control crime after it occurs
d) Personality of criminals NEED NOT be addressed
e) We must study the SOCIAL context of crime
2. According to the text and other sources, which of the following
IS NOT true of Becarria's view of crime?
a) Capital Punishment should be used more
b) Punishment should be swift
c) Punishment should be certain
d) Crime is the result of bad laws, not bad people
e) People are basically rational
3. Which of the following IS NOT true of the Neo-Classical School?
a) Punishment should consider mitigating circumstances
b) Humans are basically irrational
c) It was reform oriented
d) It suggested that some behaviors were "hard-wired" or determined
e) The use of experts in trials should be expanded
4. The belief of Lombroso and others that females who commit crimes
is the result of their being a biologial throwback to a primitive stage
of development. This theory is called:
a) Atavism
b) Ego-centrism
c) Primitivism
d) The Neanderthal Syndrome
e) Passive-Aggressive PersonalityDisorder
5. According to the text, which of the following WOULD NOT be an example
of an ASCRIBED STATUS?
a) Your age
b) Your religion
c) Your ethnicity
d) Your race
e) Your sexual orientation
6. The authors of our text book are Regoli and:
a) Poole
b) Hewitt
c) Pastorelli
d) Regoli
e) Maxwell
7. Which of the following IS NOT one of the UCR Index (street)
crimes?
a) Arson
b) Counterfeiting
c) Rape
d) Vehicle theft
e) All are Index crimes
8. According to Matza, delinquents
a) have few values
b) Are "sick"
c) Have the same values as the rest of us
d) Learn how to commit crimes
e) Drop out of school before they learn values
9. A person cannot obtain a job or go to college, so he/she
becomes a drug addict. According to Merton's anomie theory, this
could be an example of:
a) Innovation
b) Ritualism
c) Retreatism
d) Conforming
e) Drift
10. A person cannot get a job or go to school, so he/she becomes a
drug dealer in order to make money. According to Merton's anomie
theory, this could be an example of:
a) Innovation
b) Ritualism
c) Retreatism
d) Differential Association
e) Rebellion
11. Which of the following IS NOT a feature of Miller's FOCAL CONCERNS
of delinquent youth?
a) Trouble
b) Toughness
c) Money
d) Autonomy
e) Excitement
12. The central thesis of Shaw and McKay is that crime is most likely
to be found
a) Among genetically inferior ethnic groups
b) In socially disorganized neighborhoods
c) In Chicago
d) Equally distributed among social classes
e) Everywhere about equally
13. The view that people may engage in "deviant/delinquent"
acts when they don't have access to legitimate means to achieve
socially accepted goals is associated with which theorist?
a) Merton
b) Marx
c) Thomas
d) Sutherland
e) The Chicago School
14. The view that delinquency is the result of the breakdown in
"social glue" of a community is associated with:
a) Differential opportunity
b) Differential Oppression
c) Social disorganization
d) Conflict theory
e) All of the above
15. According to Cohen, a primary "value" for delinquent youths is:
a) Wealth
b) Status Attainment
c) Fighting
d) Hanging out
e) Retreatism