Exam 2: Victimization and Criminal Behavior

Why do individuals who live in lower socioeconomic conditions have higher rates of crime and are also more likely to become victims of crime?

The idea that criminal law is a way for the rich to control the poor is called _________ theory.

Which type of criminology uses science to study the body, mind, and environment of the offender?

Cesare Lombroso's medical training led him to believe that certain people are born criminals.

__________ criminology maintains that crimes result from rational choices.

Beginning in the 1990s, theorists recognized that female criminality was best explained using the criminological theory branch of __________.

Apply two   crime-causation theories to females as offenders .

Which of the following is not a right guaranteed by the Justice for All Act in federal criminal cases?

Which of the following is not a feature of the positivist criminology approach?

Fear is regarded as a(n)_______ cost of crime.

Most theories about crime focus on both the poor and the wealthy.

Theories of crime causation do not affect laws and crime policies.

Freud proposed a psychoanalytic theory that crime is caused by unconscious drives and forces.

Repetitive victimization refers to individuals who are victimized by crime more than once during a relatively brief period of time.

The _____ are less likely than the poor to be the victims of crime.

Fear of crime is the greatest in urban areas.

According to the lifestyle exposure model, which groups are least  likely to be victimized because of where they live and how they spend their leisure time?

Race is a key factor in exposure to crime.

Which theorist argued that the women's movement increased the role of women in criminal activity?

Research shows that the number of women being arrested has decreased significantly.