Q: An individual commits a crime because he has "nothing to lose." This indicates a lack of which of the following social bonds?
A: Attachment
B: Belief
C: Commitment (current choice)
D: Involvement
Q: The proposal that crime is rooted in low self-control and the pursuit of self-interested is consistent with which of the following theories?
A: Anomie Theory
B: Differential Association Theory
C: Ecological Theory
D: General Theory of Crime (current choice)
Q: Which of the following is likely to affect the amount of crime in the US in the future?
A: Employment opportunities
B: Economic Inequality
C: Government Policies
D: All of the above (current choice)
Q: The __________ rate is the percentage of crimes that the police have solved to their satisfaction.
A: Clearance
B: Arrest
C: Incarceration
D: Conviction (I think it is this one but I'm not sure)
Q: Self-report surveys find that the amount of crime that people report on questionnaires is ________ the amount of crime reported b the police.
A: considerably greater than (current choice)
B: only slightly greater than
C: the same as
D: less than
Q: Which is NOT a characteristic of urban communities that have high rates of crime and delinquency?
A: Small numbers of children in families (current choice)
B: Overcrowded housing
C: Broken families
D: Low incomes
Q: Females are the majority of all suspects for:
A: Aggravated Assault
B: burglary
C: larceny (they make up a large percentage but still not more than men)
D: none of the above (current choice as I believe the correct answer is sexual assault)
Q: A nation in which the proportion of the population between the ages 15 and 24 decreases significantly over time is likely to experience:
A: a declining crime rate (current choice)
B: a constant crime rate
C: a rising crime rate
D: there is no basis for making a determination
Q: For this "cause of crime," it is difficult to disentangle whether biological or social factors are the real mechanisms involved.
A: extreme poverty
B: lead in the environment
C: watching an extreme amount of violent television
D: all of the above (current choice as A,B and C seem related to poverty/lower classes where racial minorities are overrepresented)
Q: Changes in unemployment rates:
A: are strongly associated with changes in crime rates
B: immediately lead to changes in crime rates
C: affects rates of property crime more than rates of violent crime (current choice)
D: all of the above
Q: The most important aspect of employment in relation to crime is that having a job gives people:
A: opportunities to commit crime
B: money to invest
C: a bond to a legitimate institution
D: a source of self-esteem
Q: According to differential association theory, associations that occur in _______ are the most important in forming definitions of the law.
A: childhood (current choice)
B: late adolescence
C: early adulthood
D: middle age
Q: ______ theory proposes that people acquire attitudes and techniques conductive to crime in both nonsocial and social situations from positive reinforcement (rewards) and negative reinforcement (punishments) that result from their own behavior, whether that behavior is criminal or law abiding.
A: Differential association (current choice because I believe the correct anwer is Differential Reinforcement theory, and this is the closes so could be a typo)
B: Social learning
C: Social control
D: age-graded
Q: A particular student wants to do well in school, but never seems to be able to earn higher than a "D." In pursuit of acadamic success, the student begins to chean on exams. This is most consistent with which for of adaptation in Merton's theory of anomie/strain?
A: conformity
B: innovation (current choice)
C: Rebellion
D: Commitment