Criminology - Criminal Justice & Law
Practice questions to test your knowledge and improve your understanding.
_____ is defined as more serious informal social controls.
What term refers to traditions and customs that are preferred but not subject to serious sanctions?
Measuring the economic cost of crime is an easy and simple task.
_____ is known as acts that are bad due to being prohibited.
Is overcriminalization the overuse of the criminal law as an attempt to control deviant activity?
_____ is defined as more serious crimes generally punished by at least a year in jail.
According to Durkheim, crime is normal, a positive product, and necessary.
Is manifest functions intended or planned consequences of social arrangements?
_____ is defined as the underuse of the criminal law to control deviant activity.
The United States of America would be considered an example of a Gemeinschaft-type society.
Is latent functions unexplained, unanticipated (hidden) consequences of social activity?
Not all deviant acts are considered criminal.
_____ is less serious crimes that result in less than 1 year in jail.
_____ is defined as an associational or heterogeneous society.
_____ is defined as violations of criminal law.
_____ is behavior that is outside the limits of societal toleration.
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”?
What is the legislation of law to regulate personal conduct that does not include a clear victim?
What kind of act is gambling an example of?
Which of the following terms is important in establishing guilt?
Is criminology the scientific study of crime and criminal behavior?
_____ is a communal or folk society.
Is functional necessity of crime (Durkheim) durkheim’s theory that society defines itself by reacting to crime and wrongdoing?
_____ is defined as acts that are bad in themselves.
_____ is comte’s theory that knowledge has historically progressed from theological to metaphysical to scientific.
The development of criminology was closely linked with the development of sociology.
August Comte argues that the progression of knowledge consisted of three stages. Which stage suggests the earliest explanation of criminal behavior?
_____ is known as violations of law that are enforced by the state in order to protect victims.
Most of the major developments in criminology have occurred in what country?
An example of a mala in se crime would be ______?
_____ is known as says that crime is defined by abstract meanings and symbols and is a label assigned by society.
_____ is known as nice customs, traditions, or less serious norms.
_____ is known as prescribed rules of conduct.
_____ is known as the belief that criminal law reflects the conflicts of interest of groups and that the more powerful groups define the law.
_____ 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.
Is consensus model the belief that criminal law originates in the will of the majority?
Which of the following is most concerned with the study of the causal explanations of crime?
_____ is codified (written) rules that are more serious norms and contain sanctions.
Which model of law suggests that criminal law is the result among members of society who agree upon what constitutes wrongdoing?