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,TEST BANK
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, Chapter 1
Criminology and the Sociological Perspective
Chapter 1 Essay
1. Provide a description of the sociological perspective and explain how sociology and
criminology are mutually relevant. Give several examples of this relevancy.
Answer: Answers will vary
Page number: 5–9
Level: Basic
2. Compare and contrast the consensus (functionalist) and conflict positions in the creation
of criminal law.
Answer: Answers will vary
Page number: 11–12
Level: Basic
3. Outline the principal types of research methods in criminology. Give an example of each.
Answer: Answers will vary
Page number: 15–17
Level: Basic
4. List the criteria for causality and provide an example of each.
Answer: Answers will vary
Page number: 15–19
Level: Basic
5. Write an essay explaining criminal intent. What is actus reus? mens rea? List the four
legal defenses to criminal liability and give an example of each.
Answer: Answers will vary
Page number: 13–14
Level: Intermediate
Chapter 1 True/false
1. The text points out that sociological criminology is not a structural criminology.
Answer: F
Page number: 4
Level: Basic
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, 2. Above all else, the sociological perspective stresses that people are social beings more
than individuals.
Answer: T
Page number: 5
Level: Basic
3. Research methodology originating in psychology provides the basis for most
criminological research.
Answer: F
Page number: 7
Level: Basic
4. Perhaps the first scientific criminologist was the French sociologist Emile Durkheim.
Answer: F
Page number: 9
Level: Basic
5. At one point in its history, Robert K. Merton’s anomie theory fell out of favor and in its
place arose a new control theory of criminal behavior that emphasized the criminogenic
effects of weak bonds to social institutions.
Answer: T
Page number: 9
Level: Basic
6. As a social science, criminology is essentially the same as forensic science (crime scene
investigation).
Answer: F
Page number: 10
Level: Basic
7. Deviance is a relative concept.
Answer: T
Page number: 10
Level: Basic
8. Consensus and conflict views of crime, law, and society are independent and have no
relationship to analogous perspectives in the larger field of sociology.
Answer: F
Page number: 11
Level: Basic
9. Conflict theory is generally the opposite of consensus theory.
Answer: T
Page number: 11
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,TEST BANK
2
, Chapter 1
Criminology and the Sociological Perspective
Chapter 1 Essay
1. Provide a description of the sociological perspective and explain how sociology and
criminology are mutually relevant. Give several examples of this relevancy.
Answer: Answers will vary
Page number: 5–9
Level: Basic
2. Compare and contrast the consensus (functionalist) and conflict positions in the creation
of criminal law.
Answer: Answers will vary
Page number: 11–12
Level: Basic
3. Outline the principal types of research methods in criminology. Give an example of each.
Answer: Answers will vary
Page number: 15–17
Level: Basic
4. List the criteria for causality and provide an example of each.
Answer: Answers will vary
Page number: 15–19
Level: Basic
5. Write an essay explaining criminal intent. What is actus reus? mens rea? List the four
legal defenses to criminal liability and give an example of each.
Answer: Answers will vary
Page number: 13–14
Level: Intermediate
Chapter 1 True/false
1. The text points out that sociological criminology is not a structural criminology.
Answer: F
Page number: 4
Level: Basic
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, 2. Above all else, the sociological perspective stresses that people are social beings more
than individuals.
Answer: T
Page number: 5
Level: Basic
3. Research methodology originating in psychology provides the basis for most
criminological research.
Answer: F
Page number: 7
Level: Basic
4. Perhaps the first scientific criminologist was the French sociologist Emile Durkheim.
Answer: F
Page number: 9
Level: Basic
5. At one point in its history, Robert K. Merton’s anomie theory fell out of favor and in its
place arose a new control theory of criminal behavior that emphasized the criminogenic
effects of weak bonds to social institutions.
Answer: T
Page number: 9
Level: Basic
6. As a social science, criminology is essentially the same as forensic science (crime scene
investigation).
Answer: F
Page number: 10
Level: Basic
7. Deviance is a relative concept.
Answer: T
Page number: 10
Level: Basic
8. Consensus and conflict views of crime, law, and society are independent and have no
relationship to analogous perspectives in the larger field of sociology.
Answer: F
Page number: 11
Level: Basic
9. Conflict theory is generally the opposite of consensus theory.
Answer: T
Page number: 11
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