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Introduction to Criminology: Crime, Offenders and Criminal Behaviour. CMY1501 Exam Pack 2020 with 600 Questions and Answers.
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1) QUESTIONWhich one of the following is not an assumption made by the classical school?
(a) All people are by their nature self-seeking and therefor liable to commit crime
(b) In order to live in harmony, people agree to give up certain freedoms in order to be protected
by a strong central state
(c) Punishment is necessary to deter crime and the state has the prerogative to administer it
(d) Punishment should be proportionate to the crime (fit the crime) and be used to
rehabilitate the offender
2) QUESTION
Identify the correct statement with regard to the neo-classical school
(a) It heralded the beginning of modern scientific criminology
(b) The purpose of criminal justice system is to prevent crime through deterrence
(c) Free will can be inhibited by pathology, incompetence or other conditions
(d) Crime is defined in terms of the concept of oppression
3) QUESTION
To which criminological school of thought does the following excerpt relate? “A legitimate
response to crime must be built upon a strategy of social empowerment.”
(a) Feminist criminology
(b) Postmodern criminology
(c) Critical criminology
(d) Positivist criminology
4) QUESTION
Which one of the following can be regarded as the central thrust of postmodern
criminology?
(a) it focuses on integrated crime perspectives and is not bound to a specific school of
thought
(b) The state acts unjustly and selectively and discriminates against the poor and powerless
(c) It accepts the juridical definition of crime, but rejects free will and rational choice
(d) It focuses on the way individuals become criminals by studying socialisation and learning
processes
,5) QUESTION
Which feminist variant sees the subordination of women as being located in the capitalist
exploitation of their domestic role?
(a) Liberal feminism
(b) Radical feminism
(c) Black feminism
(d) Marxist feminism
6) QUESTION
Which of the following concepts was important for righting the wrongs of crime in
precolonial Africa?
(a) Retribution and punishment
(b) Reconciliation and compensation
(c) Rehabilitation and treatment
(d) Reconstruction and development
7) QUESTION
In relation to criminology in Africa, identify the missing words
“Whereas European law stresses the protection of the ….., traditional African law focuses
on the protection of the …… as a whole”
(a) victim, society
(b) innocent, victim
(c) individual, community
(d) community, victim
8) QUESTION
Who is regarded as the father of criminology?
(a) Beccaria
(b) Quinney
(c) Quetelet
(d) Lombroso
9) QUESTION
With which criminological school of thought do you associate the names Beccaria and
Bentham?
(a) Classical school of thought
(b) Feminist school of thought
(c) Critical school of thought
(d) Postmodern school of thought
,10) QUESTION
Who was the first person to use the term “white collar crime”?
(a) Lombroso
(b) Quetelet
(c) Beccaria
(d) Sutherland
11) QUESTION
According to liberal feminist theory, the lower crime rate for women in comparison to me
can be attributed to…..
(a) lack of opportunity to commit crime
(b) women’s lower economic and social position
(c) women’s physical weakness
(d) inborn qualities
(e) lower level of aggression
12) QUESTION
Farrington’s Integrated Cognitive Antisocial Potential (ICAP) theory stresses…..
(a) antisocial behaviour at all ages
(b) neurological and temperamental difficulties
(c) low self-control and irritability
(d) antisocial potential and cognition
(e) the power of informal social control
13) QUESTION
The term “motivation” refers to……
(a) mental events such as beliefs, expectations and self-concept
(b) subjective feelings that stem from physiological needs
(c) the desire that a specific result will follow from a particular action
(d) a causative factor that drives an action to bring about a definite result
(e) physiological preparedness to meet situational demands
, 14) QUESTION
To understand why an offender committed a particular crime, it is essential to establish the
perpetrator’s…….
(a) intelligence
(b) previous criminal record
(c) personality characteristics
(d) mental make-up
(e) motive
15) QUESTION
Which one of the following statements is incorrect?
(a) Emotions are subjective feelings that make us feel a particular way, such as angry,
joyful or sad
(b) Emotions are short-lived subjective-physiological-functional-expressive phenomena that
orchestrate how we react to events in our lives
(c) Emotions indicate the desire that a specific result will follow from a particular action
(d) Emotions prepare our bodies for action
(e) Emotions have four components, namely feelings, bodily arousal, sense of purpose and
social expressions
16) QUESTION
Arnold, Robertson and Cooper are of the opinion that there are three components of
motivation, namely….
(a) Goal, effort and persistence
(b) Direction, effort and persistence
(c) Need, goal and action
(d) Direction, need and effort
(e) Goal, persistence and effort
17) QUESTION
Cognitive processes play an important role in appraising available aims when designing a
particular strategy. Cognition involves……
(a) thoughts, needs, emotions and understanding
(b) goals, judgment, emotions and understanding
(c) emotions, judgment, interpretation and understanding
(d) thought, judgment, interpretation and understanding
(e) needs, emotions, interpretation and understanding
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