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Applications of criminal and forensic psychology 2024
unit 7 applications of criminal and forensic psych
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Forensic and Criminal Investigation
Unit 5 Applications of Criminology
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1. ______ is an interdisciplinary science that gathers and analyzes data on crime and criminal behavior.
a. criminology
b. theory
c. sociology
d. law
2. Criminologists use what is known as the ______ to try to answer the questions they ask rather than
simply speculate about the questions.
a. scientific procedure
b. scientific method
c. technique of natural science
d. observational analysis
3. Universally condemned crimes are known as ______.
a. mala in se
b. mala prohibita
c. actus reus
d. mens rea
4. Crimes that are time and culture bound are described as ______.
a. mala in se
b. mala prohibita
c. actus reus
d. mens rea
6. A(n) ______ is a set of logically interconnected propositions explaining how phenomena are related.
a. theory
b. hypothesis
c. ideology
d. policy
8. During the Progressive Era (from about 1890 to 1920), ______ became the primary disciplinary home
of criminology.
a. biology
b. psychology
c. sociology
d. theology
10. Lombroso’s theory of the born criminal was aligned with which school of thought?
a. biosocial
b. classical
c. positivist
d. psychological
, 11. According to John Hagan, which of the following criteria helps us differentiate between real crimes
and those which are arbitrary and socially constructed?
a. consensus
b. harm
c. severity
d. all of these
12. Policy
a. is a set of logically interconnected propositions explaining how phenomena are related, and from
which a number of hypotheses can be derived and tested
b. is the segment of the phenomenon of interest that is measured and analyzed
c. is a course of action designed to solve some problem that has been selected from among alternative
courses of action
d. is an interdisciplinary science that gathers and analyzes data on crime and criminal behavior
13. The primary source of official crime statistics in the United States is the annual ______ published by
the FBI.
a. NIBRS report
b. UCR
c. NCVS
d. self-report survey
14. The crime ______ is the actual number of reported crimes standardized by some unit of the
population.
a. rate
b. statistic
c. degree
d. ratio
16. If a person is arrested and charged for a Part I offense, the UCR records the crime as ______ by
arrest.
a. cleared
b. established
c. resolved
d. solved
17. Which of the following is true of the number of crimes reported to police?
a. It is the best source available to criminologists to assess the dark figure of crime.
b. This number is a direct reflection of the number of crimes actually committed.
c. Due to false reports, this number is larger than the number of crimes actually committed.
d. Due to unreported crimes, this number is smaller than the number of crimes actually committed.
18. The official source of crime data that includes detailed information on the circumstances surrounding
a criminal incident, including victim and offender characteristics is known as
a. UCR
b. NCVS
c. NIBRS
d. DSM-5
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