Criminology - Criminal Justice & Law

Practice questions to test your knowledge and improve your understanding.

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Question 1 Medium Mcq

_____ is defined as more serious informal social controls.

Question 2 Easy Mcq

What term refers to traditions and customs that are preferred but not subject to serious sanctions?

Question 3 Medium Mcq

Measuring the economic cost of crime is an easy and simple task.

Question 4 Easy Mcq

_____ is known as acts that are bad due to being prohibited.

Question 5 Easy Mcq

Is overcriminalization the overuse of the criminal law as an attempt to control deviant activity?

Question 6 Easy Mcq

_____ is defined as more serious crimes generally punished by at least a year in jail.

Question 7 Easy Mcq

According to Durkheim, crime is normal, a positive product, and necessary.

Question 8 Easy Mcq

Is manifest functions intended or planned consequences of social arrangements?

Question 9 Easy Mcq

_____ is defined as the underuse of the criminal law to control deviant activity.

Question 10 Easy Mcq

The United States of America would be considered an example of a Gemeinschaft-type society.

Question 11 Easy Mcq

Is latent functions unexplained, unanticipated (hidden) consequences of social activity?

Question 12 Easy Mcq

Not all deviant acts are considered criminal.

Question 13 Easy Mcq

_____ is less serious crimes that result in less than 1 year in jail.

Question 14 Easy Mcq

_____ is defined as an associational or heterogeneous society.

Question 15 Easy Mcq

_____ is defined as violations of criminal law.

Question 16 Easy Mcq

_____ is behavior that is outside the limits of societal toleration.

Question 17 Medium Mcq

Which of the following states that “criminality is viewed as a label or stigma attached by a societal reaction that is subject to shifting standards”?

Question 18 Medium Mcq

What is the legislation of law to regulate personal conduct that does not include a clear victim?

Question 19 Easy Mcq

What kind of act is gambling an example of?

Question 20 Easy Mcq

Which of the following terms is important in establishing guilt?

Question 21 Easy Mcq

Is criminology the scientific study of crime and criminal behavior?

Question 22 Easy Mcq

_____ is a communal or folk society.

Question 23 Medium Mcq

Is functional necessity of crime (Durkheim) durkheim’s theory that society defines itself by reacting to crime and wrongdoing?

Question 24 Easy Mcq

_____ is defined as acts that are bad in themselves.

Question 25 Easy Mcq

_____ is comte’s theory that knowledge has historically progressed from theological to metaphysical to scientific.

Question 26 Easy Mcq

The development of criminology was closely linked with the development of sociology.

Question 27 Easy Mcq

August Comte argues that the progression of knowledge consisted of three stages. Which stage suggests the earliest explanation of criminal behavior?

Question 28 Easy Mcq

_____ is known as violations of law that are enforced by the state in order to protect victims.

Question 29 Easy Mcq

Most of the major developments in criminology have occurred in what country?

Question 30 Medium Mcq

An example of a mala in se crime would be ______?

Question 31 Medium Mcq

_____ is known as says that crime is defined by abstract meanings and symbols and is a label assigned by society.

Question 32 Easy Mcq

_____ is known as nice customs, traditions, or less serious norms.

Question 33 Easy Mcq

_____ is known as prescribed rules of conduct.

Question 34 Easy Mcq

_____ is known as the belief that criminal law reflects the conflicts of interest of groups and that the more powerful groups define the law.

Question 35 Easy Mcq

_____ is the costs of crime include financial and other costs, such as psychological and health costs. Estimates have been as high as $1.7 trillion.

Question 36 Easy Mcq

Is consensus model the belief that criminal law originates in the will of the majority?

Question 37 Easy Mcq

Which of the following is most concerned with the study of the causal explanations of crime?

Question 38 Easy Mcq

_____ is codified (written) rules that are more serious norms and contain sanctions.

Question 39 Easy Mcq

Which model of law suggests that criminal law is the result among members of society who agree upon what constitutes wrongdoing?