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March 1, 2000

Select the single best answer and return NO LATER THAN Friday,
March 3, at midnight. Quizzes will be used to assess the degree to
which people are keeping up on readings and other material.


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. Some people think that by placing the 10 commandments in schools
and making students address adults as "sir" or "maam" we can reduce 
crime among grade school students. The INDEPENDENT VARIABLE(S) is/are:


   a) 10 Commandments and forms of address

   b) Crime

   c) Grade school students and crime

   d) Forms of address and adults

   e) Crime and grade school students

3. According to the text and URLs, a method of producing data
that is based on the principles of science is called:


   a) Positivism

   b) Scientism

   c) Behavioralism

   d) Classicism

   e) Data Dredging

4. 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

5. 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

6. Girls constitute roughly what percent of all juvenile arrests?


   a) 10 pct

   b) 25 pct

   c) About 1/3

   d) About 1/2

   e) Unclear, but probably under 3 pct

7. Juvenile males commit far more violent offenses than females.
How much more?


   a) About twice as much

   b) About 4 times as much

   c) About 7 times as much

   d) About 11 times as much

   e) About 18.5 times as much

8. 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

9. According to the text, which of the following WOULD NOT be an example
fo an ASCRIBED STATUS?


   a) Your age

   b) Your religion

   c) Your ethnicity

   d) Your race

   e) Your sexual orientation

10. The authors of our text book are Regoli and:


   a) Poole

   b) Hewitt

   c) Pastorelli

   d) Regoli

   e) Maxwell