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Crime and Criminology Ch 1 Questions and Answers
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Crime and Criminology Ch 1 Questionsand Answers
______________ is the scientific study of the nature, extent, cause, and control of
criminal behavior. - Answer-Criminology
______________ involves creating methodologies that are able to accurately measure
activities, trends, and patterns in crime. - Answer-Criminal statistics
Why might criminologists become involved in sociolegal studies? - Answer-to
investigate the history of legal thought in an effort to understand how criminal acts (such
as theft, rape, and murder) evolved into their present form
A criminologist who views crime as a function of personality, development, social
learning, or cognition takes what approach to crime causation? - Answer-psychological
A criminologist who views crime by looking at the specific causes producing criminal
behavior, including neighborhood conditions, poverty, socialization, and group
interaction, takes what kind of approach to crime? - Answer-sociological
____________ is a subarea of criminology that focuses on the correction and control of
criminal offenders. - Answer-Penology
Which of the following is not an interest of victimologists? - Answer-assisting the victim
advocates in making recommendations for punishments
Which of the following do criminologists see as playing a critical role in the criminal
process? - Answer-victims
The theoretical approach that suggests that people choose to commit crime, and that
crime can be controlled if potential criminals fear punishment, is known as
_______________. - Answer-classical criminology
__________________ is the branch of social science that uses the scientific method of
the natural sciences, and suggests that human behavior is a product of social,
biological, psychological, or economic forces which can be empirically measured. -
Answer-Positivism
Sociological criminology is which of the following? - Answer-an approach to criminology,
based on the work of Émile Durkheim, that focuses on the relationship between social
factors and crime
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