Quiz 04 | Higher Education | Oxford University Press Canada

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Question 1:

Durkheim’s theory of suicide focused on levels of suicide in ________.
a) North America
b) Europe
c) Asia
d) South America

Question 2:

________ approach suggests that crime was geographically patterned.
a) The Chicago School
b) The bio-criminology
c) The environmental psychology
d) The human genetics

Question 3:

In neighbourhoods where conventional social controls are weak or absent, ________ are common.
a) high suicide rates
b) youth with low IQ scores
c) the development of youth gangs
d) gender violence

Question 4:

According to Merton’s strain/anomie theory, the conformist is one who ________.
a) believes in both culturally defined goals and legitimate means of goal attainment
b) believes in neither culturally defined goals nor legitimate means of goal attainment
c) does not believe in culturally defined goals but does believe in legitimate means of goal attainment
d) believes in culturally defined goals but does not believe in legitimate means of goal attainment

Question 5:

Albert Cohen’s theory of delinquency focused on ________.
a) youth subcultures
b) female delinquency
c) crimes, such as drug-dealing
d) prostitution

Question 6:

Hirschi’s control theory discussed the role played by four types of social bonds. Which of the following contain two of those bonds?
a) Commitments and attachments
b) Involvements and strains
c) Beliefs and attitudes
d) Strains and attachments

Question 7:

Differential association theory was designed to explain what type(s) of crime?
a) Street crime only
b) Street and white-collar crime
c) White-collar crime only
d) Crimes involving both legal and illegal drugs

Question 8:

The origins of labelling theory can be traced back to ________.
a) the classical school of psychology
b) bio-criminology
c) symbolic interactionism
d) psychopathy

Question 9:

Critical criminology can be traced back to the work of ________.
a) Sigmind Freud
b) Karl Marx
c) Thomas Hobbes
d) Plato

Question 10:

Which of the following is a key issue that is normally addressed by feminist criminologists?
a) Minor property crime
b) Fraud
c) Victimology
d) Bullying

Higher Education

Crime in Canadian Context, second edition: Chapter 4: Classical Sociological Explanations of Crime