Edwin Sutherland’s explanation of crime centered on peer influences, which formed the heart of his famous________ theory
(a) differential association
(b) anomie
(c) somatotype
(d) social disorganization
Criminology
Sociologist C. Wright Mills referred to the ability to understand the structural and historical basis for personal troubles as:
(a) interactionism.
(b) the sociological imagination.
(c) conflict theory
(d) functionalism
Sociological criminology is a/an_________ criminology, meaning that it takes into account the social and physical characteristics of communities and of the profound influence of race, ethnicity, and gender.
(a) individualistic
(b) structural
(c) generalized
(d) macro
Which of the following is not required to consider an organization for designation as a foreign terrorist organization?
(a) The organization must be foreign.
(b) The organization must engage in terrorist activity as defined by the Immigration and Nationality Act.
(c) The organization must threaten national security or the security of U.S. nationals.
(d) The organization must raise funds within the United States to support its terrorist activities
The intentional or threatened use of viruses or bacteria to produce death or disease is known as
(a) international terrorism.
(b) bioterrorism.
(c) domestic terrorism.
(d) cyberterrorism
Public judgments of crime seriousness are important because:
(a) these judgments are part of a society’s ways of thinking, feeling, and acting.
(b) these judgments help determine criminal appropriate penalties for offenders.
(c) people’s perceptions of crime seriousness affect their own views of appropriate punishment for criminal offenders, and also, to some extent, their own fear of crime.
(d) a, b, and care all correct
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Which of the following is NOT an individual characteristic regarding the fear of crime?
(a) age
(b) race
(c) gender
(d) population size
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Which of the following is NOT identified in the text as one ofthe effects of media coverage of crime?
(a) diversion from white-collar crime
(b) elevated public awareness of crime victimization
(c) public fear and concern
(d) public ignorance
False beliefs about crime are called ‘crime______:
(a) stories.”
(b) folk tales.”
*(c) myths.”
(d) lies.”
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