CJFS 3750 Midterm Quiz

Intelligence (IQ) is generally found to weakly correlate with crime.

A key tenet of severity is the "fit" between the crime severity and the severity of punishment.

Criminological theory is...

The two primary ingredients of collective efficacy are...

The pillar of deterrence associated with punishment timing is

Crime is entirely the result of nuture, as opposed to nature.

Which crimes have modestly increased in 2020-2023?

Automating prosecutorial descision making would likely alter what mechanisms of deterrence?

Social learning theories are a "crime-specific" theory of human behavior.

The pillar of deterrence associated with punishment amounts/intensities is

Biosocial studies often use the following designs to study biosocial effects...

Social disorganization theory contends that neighborhood structure directly causes crime.

The adaptation to strain most closely associated with crime is...

Incapacitation refers to...

Which of the following aspects of neighborhood structure are theorized to relate to social organization and crime?

Which of the following characteristics are classically associated with psychopathy?

Empirical research indicates that changes in certainty, as opposed to severity, are more efficacious in reducing crime

Park and Burgess' key findings from the application of the concentric zone model to delinquency were...

In general, crime has declined since the early 90s.

The hallmark aspects of social organization include...

Social Learning Theory expanded Differential Association by incorporating...

Anomie is a condition regarding the breakdown of social norms.

The FBI's UCR is an example of which form of crime data?

Agnew's General Strain Theory has the following primary components...

The key mediating variable between strain and crime in General Strain Theory is...

The key difference between classic strain and general strain theories is the inclusion of operant conditioning

Crime etiology concerns the causal processes of criminal behavior.

In spite of crime increases in a number of large cities, the homicde rate is still half what is was in the early 1990s.

Merton's Classic Stain Theory contends that crime is largely a function of...

A crime is always a violation of social norms.

The pillar of deterrence associated with the high probability of apprehension and punishment is

Besides definitions, what else may individuals learn about crime from associations?

punishment reducing the crime of those not punished is an example of

Victimization surveys perfectly capture fluctuations in crime, in comparison to police data.

The heritability of crime is generally found to be small.

Illegitimate opportunity structures structure...

What are the foundational pillars of criminological study?

Legalistic definitions of crime involve violations of the criminal law.

In modern deterrence theory, the relationship between punishment and crime largely rests upon...

Social disorganization primarily concerns the inability to maintain effective imformal social controls.

Self-control concerns the influence of external controls (e.g., shame) on criminal behavior.

Cognitive psychological perspectives include...

Trait theories are fundamentally theories about social contexts.

In social disorganization theory, social cohesion is a...

In general, crime has skyrocketed in the COVID-19 era.

Self-report surveys can suffer from...

In our survey of criminological theories, crime is primarily the...

Rational Choice theorists assume that humans make decisions based upon self-interest.

Social disorganization is fundamentally a "kinds of places" theory of crime.