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Higher Education

Crime in Canadian Context, second edition: Chapter 1: Crime, Fear, and Risk

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Question 1:

The study of rule makers in society is associated with which of the following concepts?
a) The objectivist-legalistic approach
b) The social reaction perspective
c) The moral panic perspective
d) Feminist criminology

Question 2:

Adherents of the ________________perspective would contend that all rules and laws are endorsed by everyone in Canadian society.
a) objective-legalistic
b) classical school
c) biological
d) social reaction

Question 3:

_______________ law is a form of public law that governs the relationships between individuals and the state.
a) Criminal
b) Corporate
c) Cannon
d) None of the above

Question 4:

According to Hagan, social deviance is best understood as ________.
a) static and does not change over time
b) an objective social fact
c) increasing as societies become more economically developed
d) a continuous variable

Question 5:

In what year did Canada create its first drug law?
a) 1867
b) 1908
c) 1945
d) 1960

Question 6:

Which of the following examples in Chapter 1 was used to illustrate the concept of a moral panic?
a) The ‘war on drugs’ in the USA in the 1980s
b) The political unrest in several north African countries in 2011
c) The 9/11 terrorist attack in the USA in 2001
d) The earthquake and Tsunami that struck Japan in 2011

Question 7:

A ___________is an enterprising person (or group of people) who wants to bring a particular non-criminalized behaviour under the purview of criminal behaviour, whether or not there is societal consensus on its dangers.
a) lobbyist
b) social activist
c) politician
d) None of the above

Question 8:

Modes of regulation often included in the study of moral regulation usually imply social controls exercised on ________.
a) low-consensus crime and non-criminal deviance
b) high-consensus crime and criminal deviance
c) crimes committed by women
d) crimes committed by men

Question 9:

The simple possession of an opiate in Canada can result in ________.
a) 2 years of house arrest (a conditional sentence)
b) 25 years in prison
c) capital punishment
d) 5 years in prison

Question 10:

A study in England by Reiner and Livingstone (1998) found a decrease in the number of portrayals of property crime, but a steady rise from the 1950s to the mid-1990s in treatments of crime related to ________.
a) violent, sexual, and drug-related crime
b) terrorism
c) human trafficking
d) cyber crime