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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:

The ________ approach suggests that crime is geographically patterned.
a) Chicago School
b) Bio-criminology
c) Environmental psychology
d) Human Genetics

Question 3:

According to Thrasher (1927), ________ are more common in neighbourhoods where conventional social controls are weak or absent.
a) high suicide rates
b) youth with low IQ scores
c) youth gangs
d) gender acts of violence

Question 4:

According to Merton’s strain/anomie theory, the innovator 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:

According to Hirschi’s control theory, the first two social bonds referred to as “inner controls” are ________.
a) commitments and attachments
b) involvements and strains
c) beliefs and attitudes
d) strains and attachments

Question 7:

Edwin Sutherland’s ________ theory suggests that criminal behaviour is learned behaviour.
a) labelling
b) differential association
c) behaviourism
d) Chicago school

Question 8:

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

Question 9:

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

Question 10:

________ 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, Third Edition: Chapter 4: Classical Sociological Explanations of Crime