Deck 1: What Is Criminology

Question 1

__________ is the systematic study of the nature, extent, cause, and control of lawbreaking behavior.

A) Criminology
B) Victimology
C) Criminal justice
D) Sociology

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Science requires criminologists to build criminological knowledge from _______________ hypotheses that are subject to retesting.

A) logically interrelated
B) theoretically grounded
C) empirically tested
D) All of the above

Answer 2

D

Question 3

__________ is the scientific study of the physical, emotional, and financial harm people suffer because of criminal activities.

A) Criminology
B) Victimology
C) Criminal justice
D) Sociology

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Victimology is the study of:

A) Who becomes a victim and how they are victimized
B) How much harm victims suffer
C) Victims' role in the criminal act and well as their rights and role in the criminal justice system
D) All of the above

Question 5

__________ refers to the crime-control practices, philosophies, and policies used by the police, courts, and system of corrections.

A) Criminology
B) Victimology
C) Criminal justice
D) Sociology

Question 6

Those who study crime-control practices, philosophies, and policies used by the police, courts, and system of corrections are as likely to identify themselves, or be identified by others, as __________. However, so are those who study criminal behavior and its causes.

A) psychologists
B) police officers
C) criminologists
D) victims

Question 7

Criminology involves the following component(s):

A) The definition and nature of crime as harm-causing behavior
B) Looking at different types of criminal activity as well as creating profiles of typical offenders and victims
C) An analysis of the cause, extent, incidence, patterning, and cost of crimes
D) All of the above

Question 8

The term criminology was coined in _____.

A) 1847
B) 1885
C) 1947
D) 1985

Question 9

The term victimology was coined in _____.

A) 1847
B) 1885
C) 1947
D) 1985

Question 10

The process whereby people react to issues in terms of reference points that transcend their own locality, society, or region is referred to as ____________.

A) Victimization
B) Criminalization
C) Globalization
D) Legalization

Question 11

___________ criminology involves the cross-cultural or cross-national study of both crime and crime control, applying the comparative scientific method in criminology.

A) Peacemaking
B) Comparative
C) Ecological
D) Feminist

Question 12

Globalization ___________________.

A) is a process of unification in which differences in economic, technological, political, and social institutions are transformed from a local or national network into a single system
B) relates to an international universalism, whereby events happening in one part of the world affect those in another
C) relates to the recognition of different cultures' diversity of experience and the formation of new identities
D) All of the above

Question 13

Criminology is best defined as multidisciplinary.

Question 14

Comparative criminology is the systematic study of crime, law, and social control of two or more cultures.

Question 15

Qualititative research methods involve numbers, counts, and measures that are arrived at via a variety of research techniques.

Question 16

Quantitative research methods are designed to enable the researcher to understand the meaning of criminal activity to the participants.

Question 17

What distinguishes science from non-science is the insistence on testable hypotheses whose support or refutation through empirical research forms the basis of what is accepted among scientific criminologists as valid knowledge.

Question 18

Criminology is policy oriented. The criminal justice system that implements the law and policy of governments itself is a significant source of employment and expenditure.

Question 19

The process whereby people react to issues in terms of reference points that transcend their own locality, society, or region is referred to as victimization.

Question 20

Comparative analysis of crime enables criminologists to overcome their ethnocentric tendencies and sharpen their understanding of key questions.

Question 21

Criminology requires that criminologists strictly adhere to the scientific method.

Question 22

Criminology refers to the crime-control practices, philosophies, and policies used by the police, courts, and system of corrections.

Question 23

The process whereby people react to issues in terms of reference points that transcend their own locality, society, or region is referred to as ____________.

Question 24

___________ is the systematic study of the nature, extent, cause, and control of lawbreaking behavior.

Question 25

The crime-control practices, philosophies, and policies used by the police, courts, and system of corrections is referred to as ____________.

Question 26

Those who study crime-control practices, philosophies, and policies used by the police, courts, and system of corrections are as likely to identify themselves, or be identified by others, as ___________, however, as are those who study criminal behavior and its causes.

Question 27

___________ is the scientific study of the physical, emotional, and financial harm people suffer because of criminal activities.

Question 28

____________ research methods involve numbers, counts, and measures that are arrived at via a variety of research techniques.

Question 29

____________ research methods are designed to enable the researcher to understand the meaning of criminal activity to the participants.

Question 30

____________ criminology is the systematic study of crime, law, and social control of two or more cultures.

Question 31

Please briefly list and describe the six fundamental changes identified by Lanier, Henry and Anastasia that demonstrate the changed nature of our world. How do these changes all move toward increasing interconnection and inter dependence?

Question 32

Related to globalization and global unemployment are two trends: a decline in collective social action and increased economic polarization. What does this mean for society?

Question 33

Please briefly list and explain the categorical core components of criminology. How do these relate to one another?

Question 34

Is criminology scientific? What distinguishes science from non-science?

Question 35

What does it mean to adhere to the responsibilities of criminology as a profession? What does this involve?