1. Today the term victims commonly refers to:
a. individuals who have suffered harm or loss for any reason.
b. individuals who are involved with repairing harm.
c. someone who was sacrificed in a religious ceremony.
d. none of these.
ANS: A LO: 1 REF: p. 2
2. Which of the following correctly describes the relationship between victimology and
criminology?
a. Victimology encompasses several sub-disciplines, including criminology.
b. Victimology can be considered an area of specialization within criminology.
c. Victimologists only study the victims of crimes, and criminologists only study the offenders.
d. The two disciplines are similar but there are clearly-defined boundaries between them.
ANS: B LO: 4 REF: p. 2
3. Victimology is considered:
a. a subjective examination of victims.
b. a scientific study of the harm people suffer due to crime.
c. something studied across academic disciplines.
d. any or all of these
ANS: B LO: 1 REF: p. 2
4. The scientific study of the physical, emotional and financial harm people suffer because of illegal
activities is known as which of the following?
a. criminology
b. victimology
c. sociology
d. psychology
ANS: B LO: 4 REF: p. 2
5. Which of the following is the major function of victimologists?
a. investigating the victim’s plight
b. carrying out research on the public’s reaction to victims’ plight
c. studying how victims are handled by officials and agencies in the criminal justice system
d. all of these
ANS: D LO: 1 REF: p. 2
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6. Those that experience the criminal act and its consequences firsthand are called:
a. indirect victims.
b. primary victims.
c. secondary victims.
d. direct impactees.
ANS: B LO: 1 REF: p. 2
7. Those that suffer emotionally or financially from a crime but are not immediately involved or
physically injured by it are known as:
a. direct victims.
b. primary victims.
c. secondary victims.
d. social workers.
ANS: C LO: 1 REF: p. 2
8. An objective approach to the study of victims requires the research to:
a. integrate their own experiences into the research.
b. explore the experiences of victimization of their friends and family.
c. consider all the possible exceptions to the rule.
d. to remain neutral and unbiased.
ANS: D LO: 1 REF: p. 4
9. For research to be considered scientific, it must be:
a. subjective.
b. objective.
c. a combination of subjective and objective.
d. none of these.
ANS: B LO: 1 REF: p. 13
10. People who routinely engage in lawbreaking are:
a. less likely to be victimized than others.
b. more likely to be victimized than their law-abiding counterparts.
c. seldom on the receiving end of victimization.
d. protected because they know how get around the law.
ANS: B LO: 3 REF: p. 7
11. Victimologists must:
a. reserve judgment in their research.
b. refrain from jumping to any conclusions.
c. not be strictly ‘pro-victim’.
d. all of these.
ANS: D LO: 1 REF: p. 11 & 18
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12. The suffix “ology” merely means:
a. a set of known facts.
b. hard to understand.
c. the study of.
d. all of these
ANS: C LO: 1 REF: p. 13
13. An ‘ideal’ victim is:
a. someone who suffered less harm than the offender.
b. someone who is weak.
c. someone who is scared.
d. socially constructed.
ANS: D LO: 3 REF: p. 5
14. People who accept a victim-centered outlook believe that:
a. insight results from understanding history.
b. much of our economy and legal system depend upon the existence of offenders and victims.
c. once offenders have paid their debt to society they should be left alone.
d. most so-called “victims” deserved the harm they received.
ANS: A LO: 5 REF: p. 14
15. In most instances, the victim:
a. knows the offender.
b. is attacked by a stranger.
c. is to blame as well as the offender.
d. an innocent bystander.
ANS: A LO: 5 REF: p. 9
16. People commit crime against:
a. someone they know.
b. another known offender.
c. innocent bystanders.
d. all of these.
ANS: D LO: 1│5 REF: p. 14
17. The intergenerational transmission of misusing force:
a. can transform a victim into an offender.
b. is not a part of victimology.
c. is the main reason for victimization.
d. none of these.
ANS: A LO: 5 REF: p. 8
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