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1. Which of the following statement(s)
is/are TRUE with regard to the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)?
A. The NCVS
gives an indication of the extent of crime unreported to the police
B. The NCVS
interviews victims of crimes more extensively than offenders of crime
C. A and B
D. The NCVS
generates crime data for all Index Crimes including murder
E. All of
the above
2. Which statements are true?
A. Stranger-to-stranger
rape is by far the most common form of rape
B. Marital
rape is very rare and likely unimportant for the criminal justice system
C. The marital exception means that legally a married husband can not
be charged with raping his wife
D. All of
the above
3. Which statement(s) are TRUE about
robbery?
A. Robbery
is mainly a street crime (e.g., parks, alleys, streets)
B. Robbery
rates are highest in the northeast
C. Both A and B
D. Victims
are more likely to be injured if the robber uses a gun
E. The
highest robbery rates occur in the winter months from November to March
4. Crimes such as gambling and drug
possession have been created by legislative order to maintain and protect the
"fabric" of society. Laws relating to such crimes are considered?
A. Actus
delicti
B. Mala in
se
C. Stare
decisis
D. Mala Prohibitum
5. Which of the following are TRUE of a
tort?
A. Civil or
private wrong
B. Individual
brings the action and receives damages
C. The
standard of proof is “beyond a reasonable doubt.”
D. All of
the above
E. A and B
7. An individual can be found criminally
guilty of an act under acts rules if?
A. The
action is voluntary
B. The
individual failed to act when there is a legal duty to do so
C. The
action involved real actions and not simply words
D. All of
the above
E. A and B
8. When the FBI indicates that the murder
rate was 8 in 1995, it means that?
A. About 8
people in the average U.S. city were murdered that year
B. About 8
people in the average U.S. county were murdered that year
C. About 8 people per 100,000 were murdered that year
D. About 8
people per 1,000,000 people were murdered that year
9. Which statement(s) is/are TRUE about auto
theft?
A. Thieves
prefer cars with interchangeable parts
B. A greater
proportion of stolen cars were returned to their owners in the 1990s then they
were in the1960s
C. Cars are
sometimes stolen for the purpose of being used in other crimes
D. Joy
riding is the most common motive of auto theft today
E. Both A and C
10. Which of the following are TRUE
statements?
A. Homicide
rates are higher in northern states
B. Public
perceptions of crime are heavily influenced by the media
C. Less than
3 percent of the cases tried each year in the United States use the
"insanity" defense
D. Both B and C
E. All of
the above
11. Which statement(s) is/are true about
thieves, burglars, and fences?
A. Professional
thieves are more common than occasional thieves
B. A fence
is usually a violent criminal
C. Under the
legal definition of burglary, there does NOT have to be specific intent to
steal once the individual has broken into a house
D. Professional thieves are more likely to adhere to “codes of honor”
than occasional thieves
E. B and D
12. Which behaviors are generally good legal
excuses to commit a crime?
A. Threatened
by an armed gunman, a woman hits assailant with a bat to defend herself
B. An
individual was extremely drunk and hit a person
C. An
individual did not know right from wrong in a state where the M’Naghten Rule is
used
D. An
individual was hungry on a deserted island, thus killed and ate their friend
E. A & C
13. Which statement correctly lists the order
of crimes with respect to how common they are as reported by the UCR. (LEAST
COMMON, MOST COMMON)?
A. Aggravated
assault, murder, burglary, auto theft, larceny-theft
B. Burglary,
murder, aggravated assault, larceny-theft, auto theft
C. Murder, aggravated assault, burglary, auto theft, larceny-theft
D. Auto
theft, larceny-theft, murder, aggravated assault, burglary
14. The M’Naghten rule?
A. Is used
as an insanity defense in criminal prosecution
B. Maintains
that an individual is legally insane if he or she is unable to tell right from
wrong
C. Maintains
that an individual could not control their behavior because of a mental disease
D. A and B
E. All of the above
15. Which statements are TRUE about common
law?
A. Generally
emerges from precedent, or from previously decided cases
B. Is
completely inflexible to change and cannot evolve when unprecedented cases
occur.
C. Was
common before the time of William the Conqueror in England (pre-1066)
D. Emerged
through sharing of case information between judges
E. Both A and D
16. Which statements are TRUE about the
insanity defense?
A. The
M’Naghten rule is the most narrowly defined and strict of the insanity laws
(e.g., most difficult for a defendant to escape prosecution)
B. The
irresistible impulse test incorporates the M’Naghten rule with the possibility
that a person could not control their criminal behavior
C. The
substantial capacity test measures insanity through IQ tests
D. A and B
17. Which statements are TRUE about
individuals being punished by the state for omission to act?
A. Strangers
who did not help Kitty Genovese while she was being attacked were arrested for
failing to aid a fellow citizen
B. A husband
failing to aid his wife can be criminally charged because of a relationship by
status
C. Some
state have statutes which mandate citizens to aid others (e.g., must help
police).
D. B and C
E. All of
the above
18. White-collar crime?
A. Is often
considered more of a social problem by the public than “street crimes” such as
robbery
B. Involves individuals
using businesses, or the “marketplace” to commit crimes
C. Results in
social and economic damage that is equally or more damaging than “street
crimes”
D. All of
the above
E. B and C
19. Terrorism?
A. Is completely unrelated to hate crime
B. Involves only
hatred; terrorists just want people dead
C. Involves strategies to use the best amount of violence
D. Is easy
to define
E. Is mainly
a white-collar crime
20. Instrumental homicides usually?
A. Are committed while offenders are committing other crimes (e.g.,
robbery)
B. Involve
interpersonal disputes
C. Are an
expressive form of homicide
D. Are the
most common form of homicide
21. Which statement(s) are TRUE concerning
the perception of crime?
A. People
generally understand that property crime is more common than violent crime
B. Michael Moore (in Bowling for Columbine) argues that, due to the
media, Americans believe Black males are prone to criminality
C. Non-white
minorities do not perceive crime as a problem
D. None of
the above
E. A and B
22. A professional fence is more likely than
a non-professional fence to?
A. Have interpersonal relationships with police and legal officials
B. Deal with
nonprofessional thieves
C. Have a
very strong code of honor
D. None of
above
23. When people in a population are producing
material wealth we might expect?
A. Scroungers
to move to different locations
B. Scroungers to become motivated to steal some of their wealth
C. Scroungers
to start producing more
D. None of
the above
24. What factors are associated with honor in
the American South?
A. White
males
B. Scotch-Irish
Herders
C. Instrumental
violence
D. All of the
above
E. Both A and B
25. Which type of intent would be the most
relevant to a person who kills a stranger while driving drunk?
A. Constructive intent
B. Specific
intent
C. Transferred
intent
D. None of
the above
26. Which of the following are true?
A. Crime is a behavioral event
B. Criminality
is a legal category
C. Criminals
are those who violate social norms
D. All of
the above are true
27. Date rape?
A. Has only
one type, and is easy to categorize
B. Is unique
to the U.S.
C. Is
uncommon on university campuses
D. Is reported in about 1 out of 10 cases
28. Criminologists refer to the "dark
figure" of crime as?
A. Index
crimes listed in the Uniform Crime Reports
B. The
number of incorrectly reported crimes received by the police
C. The
number of brutal crimes where no arrest is made
D. The number of unreported crimes
29. Uniform crime reports?
A. Are the most widely cited source of aggregate crime statistics
B. Count
only index crimes
C. Compile
records from 200 police departments located in major U.S. cities
D. All of
the above
30. A system of social control is?
A. Comprised
of rules, that are sanctioned by actors (individuals)
B. Often categorized
by unilateral, bilateral, and trilateral social controllers
C. NOT
relevant to discussions of regional patterns of violence (e.g., southern
“cultures of honor”
D. A and B
E. All of
the above
31. Laws differ from social rules because?
A. Laws are
sanctioned by state third-party controllers (trilateral controls)
B. Only legal
rules, when enforced, produce sanctions
C. Law violations
define criminal behavior and social rule violations define deviant behavior.
D. Social rules
are only sanctioned by trilateral controllers
E. A and C
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