Early Development and Strain Models of Crime MCQs
Early Development and Strain Models of Crime MCQs
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1: According to Guerry, violent crime rates to be highest in poor areas, whereas property crimes tend to cluster in more wealthy areas.
A. True
B. False
2: ______ societies, in Durkheim’s model, have a high division of labor and thus a low level of agreement about societal norms, largely because everyone has such different roles in society.
A. Organic
B. Solid
C. Mechanical
D. Industrial
3: The one thing that all forms of strain theory have in common is their emphasis on a sense of frustration in crime causation.
A. True
B. False
4: According to Cloward and Ohlin, ______ gangs in lower-class neighborhoods have an organized structure of adult criminal behavior.
A. Delinquent
B. Retreatist
C. Conflict
D. Criminal
5: Collective ______, according to Durkheim, is the extent to which people in a society share similarities or likeness.
A. Thoughts
B. Mindset
C. Unconscious
D. Conscience
6: According to Guerry, violent crime rates are highest in poor areas, whereas property crimes tend to cluster in more wealthy areas.
A. True
B. False
7: According to Cohen, the ______ boy accepts his place in society as a lower-class individual who will somewhat passively make the best life at the bottom of the social order.
A. Delinquent
B. College
C. Corner
D. Conformist
8: According to Cohen, the ______ boy responds to a disadvantaged situation by dedicating himself to overcoming the odds and competing in the middle-class schools.
A. College
B. Corner
C. Delinquent
D. Retreatist
9: ______ societies, in Durkheim’s theory, were rather primitive with a simple distribution of labor (e.g., hunters and gatherers) and thus a high level of agreement regarding social norms and rules because nearly everyone was engaged in the same roles.
A. Organic
B. Solid
C. Mechanical
D. Industrial
10: ______, in strain theory, is an adaptation to strain in which an individual buys into the idea of conventional means and goals of success but does not buy into the current conventional means or goals.
A. Rebellion
B. Retreatism
C. Innovation
D. Ritual
11: Social structure theories suggest that crime is a result of societal structure and not of individual propensities or personal decision making.
A. True
B. False
12: Another key recommendation from social structure perspective involves developing healthy coping mechanisms to strain.
A. Areas that exhibit large differences in wealth, with many poor and many wealthy in close proximity, had the biggest problems is a concept referred to as ______.
B. Poverty deprivation
C. Relative depression
D. Relative deprivation
E. Poverty depression
13: According to Cloward and Ohlin, ______ gangs develop in neighborhoods that have weak stability and little or no organization.
A. Criminal
B. Conflict
C. Retreatist
D. Rebellious
14: According to Merton, this adaptation accepts both the institutionalized means and the cultural goals.
A. Retreatism
B. Ritualism
C. Innovation
D. Conformity
15: As proposed by Merton, there are _____ ways that individuals deal with feelings of strain.
A. Three
B. Four
C. Five
D. Six
16: In adaption to strain there are ________ ways that individuals deal with feelings of strain
A. 3
B. 4
C. 5
D. 6
17: Anomie is a concept originally proposed by Durkheim, which meant _____ that takes place when a society (e.g., economic structure) changes very rapidly.
A. Chaos
B. Normlessness
C. Religioness
D. Both a and b
18: Anomie is a concept originally proposed by Durkheim, which meant normlessness or the chaos that takes place when a society (e.g., economic structure) changes very rapidly
A. True
B. False
19: According to Durkheim, Collective Conscience is the extent to which people in a society share similarities or likenesses; the stronger the collective conscience, the _____ crime in that community.
A. Less
B. More
C. Both a and b
D. Average
20: According to Durkheim, the extent to which people in a society share similarities or likeness; the ________ collective conscience, the less crime in that community
A. Weaker
B. Stronger
C. Lower
D. Equal
21: A type of lower-class male youth who has experienced the same strains and status frustration as his peers but responds to his disadvantaged situation by dedicating himself to doing well in school despite his unlikely chance of success is known as _____
A. College Boy
B. School Boy
C. Corner Boy
D. All of these
22: College boys are type of _____ male youth who has experienced the same strains and status frustration as his peers but responds to his disadvantaged situation by dedicating himself to doing well in school despite his unlikely chance of success
A. Upper class
B. Lower class
C. Middle class
D. All of the above
23: Conflict Gang is a type of gang identified by Cloward and Ohlin that tends to develop in neighborhoods with_____
A. Weak stability
B. Little organization
C. No organization
D. All of these
24: Conflict gangs are a type of gang identified by Cloward and Ohlin that tends to develop in neighborhoods with weak stability and little or no organization
A. True
B. False
25: In strain theory,Conformity is an adaptation in which an individual buys into conventional goals (wealth, success, etc.) and also buys into conventional means of _____ them.
A. Attaining
B. Altering
C. Both a and b
D. Renewing
26: In strain theory, conformity is an adaptation in which an individual buys into conventional goals (wealth, success, etc.) but does not buy into conventional means of attaining them (work, school, etc.)
A. True
B. False
27: A type of lower-class male youth who has experienced the same strains and status frustration as others but responds to his disadvantaged situation by accepting his place in society as someone who will somewhat passively make the best of life at the bottom of the social order is known as _____
A. College Boy
B. Corner Boy
C. Delinquent Boy
D. School Boy
28: Corner boy is a type of ______-class male youth
A. Upper
B. Lower
C. Middle
D. None of these
29: Criminal Gangs is a type of gang identified by Cloward and Ohlin that forms in _____ class neighborhoods with an organized structure of adult criminal behavior.
A. Lower
B. Middle
C. Upper
D. All of these
30: Criminal gangs tend to be highly organized and stable
A. True
B. False
31: A type of lower-class male youth, identified by Cohen, who responds to strain and status frustration by joining with similar others to commit crime is known as _____
A. Delinquent Boy
B. College Boy
C. Corner Boy
D. Both a and b
32: A type of lower-class male youth, identified by Cohen, who responds to strain and status frustration by joining with similar others to commit crime
A. College boy
B. Delinquent boy
C. Corner boy
D. All of the above
33: In strain theory, innovation is an adaptation to strain in which an individual buys into conventional goals (wealth, success, etc.) but does not buy into conventional means of attaining them (work, school, etc.)
A. True
B. False
34: In strain theory, an adaptation to strain in which an individual buys into conventional goals (wealth, success, etc.) but does not buy into conventional means of attaining them (work, school, etc.) is known as _____
A. Innovation
B. Rebellion
C. Retreatism
D. Conformity
35: In Durkheim’s theory, primitive societies with a simple distribution of labor (e.g., hunters and gatherers) and thus a high level of agreement regarding social norms and rules because nearly everyone is engaged in the same roles refers to _____Societies.
A. Mechanical
B. Organic
C. Advanced
D. Both a and b
36: In Durkheim’s theory, Mechanical societies are primitive societies with a simple distribution of labor
A. True
B. False
37: In the Durkheimian model, those societies that have a high division of labor and thus a low level of agreement about societal norms, largely because there is such a wide variety of roles refers to _____ Societies.
A. Mechanical
B. Organic
C. Advanced
D. Both a and c
38: In the Durkheimian model, those societies that have a high division of labor and thus a low level of agreement about societal norms, largely because there is such a wide variety of roles
A. Mechanical societies
B. Organic societies
C. Innovation
D. None of the above
39: Reaction Formation is a Freudian defense mechanism applied to Cohen’s theory of youth offending, which involves adopting attitudes or committing behaviors that are similar to what is expected.
A. True
B. False
40: In strain theory, an adaptation to strain in which an individual buys into the idea of conventional goals and means of reaching them but does not buy into the current conventional means (work, school, etc.) or goals (wealth, success, etc.) is known as _____
A. Conformity
B. Innivation
C. Rebelllion
D. Retreatism
41: Relative Deprivation is the heightened perception of inequality that results when relatively poor people live in close proximity to relatively wealthy people.
A. True
B. False
42: The heightened perception of inequality that results when relatively poor people live in close proximity to relatively wealthy people is called
A. Relative Deprivation
B. Retreatism
C. Retreatist gangs
D. Ritualism
43: In strain theory, an adaptation to strain in which an individual does not buy into conventional goals (wealth, success, etc.) and also does not buy into conventional means of attaining them (work, school, etc.) refers to _____
A. Rebellion
B. Retreatism
C. Conformity
D. Innovation
44: A type of gang identified by Cloward and Ohlin that tends to attract individuals who have failed to succeed in both the conventional world and the criminal or conflict gangs of their neighborhoods
A. Relative Deprivation
B. Retreatism
C. Retreatist gangs
D. Ritualism
45: Retreatist Gang is a type of gang identified by Cloward and Ohlin that tends to attract individuals who have failed to succeed in _____
A. Conventional world
B. Criminal gangs
C. Conflict gangs
D. All of these
46: In strain theory, an adaptation to strain in which an individual buys into conventional means (work, school, etc.) of attaining goals but does not buy into conventional goals (wealth, success, etc.)
A. Relative Deprivation
B. Retreatism
C. Retreatist gangs
D. Ritualism
47: In strain theory, an adaptation to strain in which an individual buys into conventional means (work, school, etc.) of attaining goals but does not buy into conventional goals (wealth, success, etc.) refers to _____
A. Rebellion
B. Ritualism
C. Retreatism
D. None of these
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