In one poll cited in the text, 65 percent of respondents named_______ as having the greatest influence on their views about crime.
(a) public opinion
(b) their peers
(c) the media
(d) official statistics
Criminology
According to the text’s discussion:
(a) less than 10 percent of convicted felons are found guilty at jury trials.
(b) only about 10 to 20 percent of police officers’ time is spent fighting crime.
(c) about 17,000 people a year die from illegal drugs.
(d) a, b, and c are all correct
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Which of the following is NOT a criticism of democratic theory?
(a) Public officials are influenced more by a small, wealthy, powerful elite than by the general public.
(b) In reality, the majority’s views may violate democratic principles of fairness, equality, and justice.
(c) Public opinion is often inaccurate.
(d) Decisions by public officials should public opinion.
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According to the text, history reminds us that crime:
(a) has been thought of as a social problem since the Industrial Revolution.
(b) has always been thought of as a social problem.
(c) has only very recently been thought of as a social problem.
(d) has been thought of as a social problem since the Civil Rights Movement.
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The ‘causal order’ problem is also referred to as_________ the question.
(a) dog-and-cat
(b) chicken-and-egg
(c) truth or consequences
(d) horse-before-the-cart
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The______variable does the influencing.
(a) independent
(b) control
(c) intervening
(d) dependent
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________are very common in psychology but less so in sociology and criminology.
(a) Experiments
(b) Surveys
(c) Existing data investigations
(d) Observational studies
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In the late 1930s, anthropologist Earnest Hooton concluded that the primary cause of crime is:
(a) poverty.
(b) drug use.
(c) biological inferiority
(d) None
Influenced by Darwin’s work on evolution Cesare Lombroso thought criminals were________or throwbacks, to an earlier stage of evolution.
(a) lost souls
(b) atavists
(c) functionalists
(d) anomic
Who is regarded as the founder of the positivist school of criminology?
(a) Earnest Hooton
(b) Franz Gall
(c) Cesare Lombroso
(d) Cesare Beccaria
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