Exam 1: Introduction and Overview of Crime and Criminology

During the Progressive Era (from about 1890 to 1920),_____ became the primary disciplinary home of criminology.

According to Thomas Sowell's typology,those who have a/an _____vision deny an innate human nature,viewing human activities as formed anew in each different culture.

"Criminality" is a legal term.

Provide two examples of acts that would be considered mala prohibita.

Questions of cause and effect should be answered at the same level of analysis at which they were posed.

Criminologists use what is known as the ______ to try to answer the questions they ask rather than simply speculate about the questions.

Explain the role that ideology plays in shaping criminological theory.Is it possible to formulate or evaluate theories without ideology playing a role? Defend your response.

Briefly explain the concept of correlation.How do we know if two factors are correlates?

Define "theory."

Laws tend to:

While theories are interesting to consider,they are often impractical,as they tend to be used to explain phenomena in the absence of any solid,practical evidence.

Lombroso's theory of the "born criminal" was aligned with which school of thought?

Criminology is an interdisciplinary field.

Crimes that are time and culture bound are described as _____.

The 1990s and early 2000s witnessed a strong resurgence of critical theories of criminology,such as Marxism.

Mala in se crimes tend to arouse the most intense emotional responses,because they trigger a sense of threat to our survival.

_____ is a way of looking at the world,a general emotional picture of "how things should be."

In the eyes of the law,a person reneging on a contract is handled as a _____ .

Criminality is a trait that is displayed by some individuals,but not by others.

A theory's _____ is assessed by how much of the empirical world falls under its explanatory umbrella relative to other theories.