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Criminology Today: Theories and
Applications
7th Canadian Edition

,Contents
1. What Is Criminology? Understanding Crime and Criminals

2. Crime Statistics: It’s How We Count

3. Patterns of Crime: It’s What We Count

4. Victimology: The Study of the Victim: It’s Personal

5. Classical and Neoclassical Thought: Choice or Consequences

6. Biological Roots of Criminal Behaviour: Interaction Is Key

7. Psychological and Psychiatric Foundations of Criminal Behaviour: It’s How We Think

8. The Meaning of Crime: Social Structure Perspective: It’s Where and How We Live

9. The Meaning of Crime: Social Process Perspective: It’s What We Learn

10. The Meaning of Crime: Social Conflict Perspective: It’s How We Relate

11. Criminology and Social Policy: From Research to Evidence-Based Policy

12. The Globalization of Crime: Our Small World

,1) Crime, like other social events, is fundamentally a social construction.
a. True
b. False

Answer: a
Diff: 1
Type: TF
LO: 1.9
Skill: Recall

2) From a legalistic perspective, crime is human conduct in violation of the criminal laws
of a state, the federal government, or a provincial or local jurisdiction that has the power
to make such laws.
a. True
b. False

Answer: a
Diff: 1
Type: TF
LO: 1.1
Skill: Recall

3) The Pluralist Perspective towards the question What Should be Criminal? Is an
analytical approach to social organization that holds that a multiplicity of values and
beliefs exists in any complex society but that most social actors agree on the usefulness
of laws as a formal means of dispute resoultion.
a. True
b. False

Answer: a
Diff: 2
Type: TF
LO: 1.3
Skill: Recall

4) The term criminalize means to make illegal.
a. True
b. False

Answer: a
Diff: 1
Type: TF
LO: 1.1
Skill: Recall




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, 5) The primary perspective from which most contemporary criminologists operate is a
sociological one.
a. True
b. False

Answer: a
Diff: 2
Type: TF
LO: 1.10
Skill: Recall

6) A serious shortcoming of the legalistic approach to crime is that it yields the moral
high ground to powerful individuals who are able to influence the making of laws and the
imposition of criminal definitions on lawbreakers.
a. True
b. False

Answer: a
Diff: 2
Type: TF
LO: 1.1
Skill: Applied

7) Although Canada has enacted a comprehensive legal code, it still adheres to a common
law tradition.
a. True
b. False

Answer: a
Diff: 1
Type: TF
LO: 1.1
Skill: Recall

8) The qualitative method of criminological research is a research technique that
produces subjective results, or results that are difficult to quantify.
a. True
b. False

Answer: a
Diff: 1
Type: TF
LO: 1.6
Skill: Recall




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