Answer these 20 Characteristics of Crime and Criminals MCQs and see how sharp is your knowledge of Characteristics of Crime and Criminals.
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A. True
B. False
A. Available funding
B. Differential operating practices
C. Differential recording practices
D. Varying definitions
A. Official crimes
B. Precipitation crimes
C. Copycat crimes
D. Urban recorded crime
A. True
B. False
A. Poor home environments with little parental education
B. Conservative home environments
C. Weak parental discipline and a quarrelsome home environment
D. Religious home environments
A. Gender
B. Social class
C. Race
D. Age
A. Jim Crow laws
B. Slavery
C. Racial profiling
D. Androcentric bias
A. True
B. False
A. True
B. False
A. Differential treatment
B. Psychological differences
C. Poverty
D. Social views
A. Institutional criminals
B. Career criminals
C. Gray criminals
D. Elderly criminals
A. South
B. Northeast
C. Midwest
D. West
A. True
B. False
A. Institutional crime
B. Political crime
C. Organized crime
D. Transnational crime
A. Increases
B. Decreases
C. Stays the same
D. Multiplies
A. All of these
B. Mild pessimism
C. Interactionist model
D. Age-crime debate
A. True
B. False
A. Atavism
B. Catharsis hypothesis
C. Phrenology
D. All of these
A. All of these
B. Victim surveys
C. Copycat crimes
D. Fraud
A. Crime trends
B. Victim responsibility
C. Victim precipitation
D. None of these
A. False
B. True
A. Feminization of poverty
B. Vito Genovese
C. None of these
D. Al Capone
A. Cultural
B. All of these
C. Pathological
D. Gender
A. True
B. False
A. Cloward and Ohlin
B. Shaw and McKay
C. All of these
D. Precipitation hypothesis
A. Social class
B. None of these
C. It accounts for social control.
D. It takes into account negative relationships.
A. Operationalization
B. Triangulation
C. All of these
D. Urban versus rural crime