Ch 2 Quiz

c. Self report studies

____ provide info of the personal characteristics of offenders, such as their attitudes, values, beliefs, and psychological profiles

a. NIBRS data
b. UCR data
c. Self report studies
d. Victimization surveys
e. Criminal reports

b. Moral entrepreneurs

_____ are people who wage campaigns to control behaviors that they view as immoral or wrong

a. Social justice warriors
b. Moral entrepreneurs
c. Zealous
d. Strict constructionists
e. Puritans

a. The National Incident- Based Reporting System (NIBRS)

_____ is a form of crime data collection created by the FBI that require local police agencies to provide at least a brief account of each incident and arrest

a. The National Incident- Based Reporting System (NIBRS)
b. The UCR
c. The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)
d. a self report survey
e. The Monitoring the Future (MTF) survey

b. Traffic violations

____ are not reported in Part I or Part II of the offense sections of the UCR

a. Drug offenses
b. Traffic violations
c. Liquor law violations
d. Sex offenses
e. Sexual assaults

b. crime

A violation of social rules of conduct, interpreted and expressed by a written criminal code, is the definition of:

a. moral decay
b. crime
c. an ethical lapse
d. a social wrong
e. criminal law

c. consensus

According to the ____ view of crime, behaviors that become crimes are essentially harmful to a majority of citizens and therefore there is general agreement regarding which behaviors need to be controlled.

a. conflict
b. interactionist
c. consensus
d. constructionist
e. puritanical

b. crime can sometimes act as a social good

Although the three views of crime differ, they agree on all of the following points except

a. criminal law defines crime
b. crime can sometimes act as a social good
c. the definition of crime is constantly changing and evolving
d. social forces mold the definition of crimes
e. criminal law has a social control function

a. drug profits

Contemporary modern gangs are thought to be motivated by:

a. drug profits
b. emotional involvement
c. expressive violence
d. neighborhood turf wars
e. ethnic and racial divisions

b. kill many victims in a single violent outburst

Mass murders:

a. are motivated by the quest for drug profits and street power
b. kill many victims in a single violent outburst
c. spread their murderous outburst over a few days or weeks
d. kill over a long period of time but typically assume a "normal" identity between murders
e. tend to target women over men

d. chronic offenders

Persistent repeat offenders who organize their lifestyle around criminality are referred to as:

a. irredeemable
b. chronic criminals
c. career offenders
d. chronic offenders
e. hardened criminals

b. conflict

White collar crime is thought to be punished less severely than other crimes because the perpetrators are likely affluent members of the ruling class supports the ____ view of crime

a. interactionist
b. conflict
c. consensus
d. crime control
e. puritanical

a. NIBRS

The ____ was intended to supplement the UCR with more detailed info about victim and offender characteristics

a. NIBRS
b. NCVS
c. monitoring the future survey
d. self-report
e. Federal Crime Data report

b. interactionist

The ___ view of crime contends that there are moral entrepreneurs who want to control behaviors they view as immoral or wrong

a. conflict
b. interactionist
c. consensus
d. constructionist
e. puritanical

b. 18

The peak age for property crime is 16 the peak age for violent crime is:

a. 16
b. 18
c. 21
d. 25
e. 29

d. "early onset"

The term ____ refers to the beginning of antisocial behavior during early adolescence after which criminal behavior is more likely to persist throughout the life span.

a. "incorrigible children"
b. "truant children"
c. "starting young"
d. "early onset"
e. "learned criminal behavior"

b. decreased

The trend line for property victimization has ____ since the early 1990s

a. increased
b. decreased
c. sharply increased
d. remained the same
e. fluctuated with no clear patter

c. public order crimes

The police chief believes that the department needs to focus on prostitution and drug abuse because the two are interconnected, and he believes that both are linked to more serious crimes. Drug use and prostitution are examples of

a. economic crimes
b. property crimes
c. public order crimes
d. violent crimes
e. lower-class crimes

c. prostitution

The mayor is concerned w/violent crimes & believes that if ppl hear that her city has experienced an increase in violent crimes, they will no longer visit. The city is on a beach and tourism is a major source of $so she is concerned that the most recent crime stats will cause a decrease in$. If the mayor is most concerned w/violent crime which does not concern her as much?

a. murder
b. rape
c. prostitution
d. robbery
e. assault

b. cleared

One improvement pleasing the police chief is that over 45% of the city's Part I crimes have resulted in an arrest. When an offender is arrested and charged w/a crime the offense is ___

a. adjudicated
b. cleared
c. disposed
d. finished
e. closed

c. spread their murderous outburst over a few days or weeks

Spree killers

a. are motivated by the quest for drug profits and street power
b. kill many victims in a single violent outburst
c. spread their murderous outburst over a few days or weeks
d. kill over a long period of time but typically assume a "normal" identity between murders
e. tend to target men over women