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CMY2601 EXAM PACK 2025 {DETAILED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS }
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- Crime Risk Perspectives
- Institution
- University Of South Africa
CMY2601 EXAM PACK 2025 {DETAILED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS }
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,1. Kemshall (2008:7–8) is of the opinion that theidentification of high-risk offenders has been, and
still is, a problem. This, in the author's opinion, is
due to three major issues. Identify the correct
options that describe these issues:
1. designing and implementing a risk assessment
tool capable of reliably and consistently
identifying high-risk offenders
2. differing interpretations of what constitutes
"high risk" among practitioners and
sentencers
3. the opinions of the police, court officials and
medical practitioners about who is potentially a
high-risk offender
4. establishing sufficient criteria and evidence
upon which to base judgements about the future
2. "This perspective of risk has resulted in a
constant developing in the pursuit of reliable risk
assessment tools to identify dangerous offenders,
the ‘critical few' or highrisk offenders." Identify
which perspective or theoretical approach the
above statement forms part of:
1. psychological approach
2. cultural perspective
3. criminological and legal approaches
4. sociological approach
,3. Complete the sentence by choosing the correct
term: ... assessments and treatments often run
parallel to psychological approaches, targeted at
those high-risk offenders deemed to have a mental
illness.
1. Biophysical
2. Psychosocial
3. Neurological
4. Psychiatric
4. What does Kemshall (2008:40) refer to as "a
mechanism of social regulation in which
individuals are made responsible for their own
actions, including their own risks, and for their
own self-risk management"?
1. responsibilisation
2. self-regulation
3. individualisation
4. rationalisation
5. Complete the following statement correctly by
choosing the correct term: According to the
social construction approach the ... can
"champion" causes, validate causes and
experiences, demonise groups and popularise
new fears, risk, and dangers. 1. offenders
2. courts
3. media
, 4. victims
1. Residing in a high-crime neighbourhood that is
characterised by gangs and un employment are
factors that are associated with
(a) personal or personality-related risk assessment
factors
(b) social or environmental-related risk assessment
factors
(c) crime-related risk assessment factors
(d) victim-related risk assessment factors
2. All risk assessment attempts should be based
on the ….. Principle.
(a) Reaction-Risk-Need
(b) Responsivity-Risk-Need
(c) Need-Risk-Reaction
(d) Risk-Need-Responsivity
3. When a criminologist wants to take into
consideration whether an offender displays
personality disorder traits, the identification of
hereof should be grounded on a
(a) professional therapist such as a psychiatrist or
a psychologist's diagnosis
(b) self-assessment and according to the
criminologist's risk assessment
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