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Test Bank For Criminology Today Theories and Applications 7th Canadian Edition by Frank Schmalleger
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Test Item FileDr. Oliver R. Stoetzer, Assistant Professor
Wilfred Laurier University
Criminology Today: Theories and
Applications
7th Canadian Edition
Frank Schmalleger
The University of North Carolina at Pembroke
Rebecca Volk
Algonquin College
ISBN 978-0-13-661795-2
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,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
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, Canadian Criminology Today, Theories and Applications, Seventh Edition
Chapter 1: What is Criminology? Understanding Crime and Criminals
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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, Canadian Criminology Today, Theories and Applications, Seventh Edition
Chapter 1: What is Criminology? Understanding Crime and Criminals
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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