Exam 1: Introduction to Criminology

An offender can be placed on probation,incarcerated,or transferred to some type of community-based corrections facility.

______ is a criterion of causality that requires a change in a predictor variable (X)to be consistently associated with some change in the explanatory variable (Y).

Why is the U.S.judicial system referred to as a dual court system?

The term criminal justice often refers to all of the following EXCEPT:

Explain how some mala prohibita acts are not necessarily viewed as highly deviant.

______ is generally reserved for those convicted of more serious crimes with longer sentences who may be housed in a supermax,maximum,medium,or minimum security prison,based on security concerns.

Explain what comparative criminology is and how it is used.

According to the text,journalists play a key role in examining crime by exploring what is happening in criminal justice and revealing injustices as well as new forms of crime.

How is the concept of parens patriae related to the juvenile justice system? Why do we,as a nation,treat juveniles differently then adults?

Criminology is not only the study of crime,but also what?

Several criminologists,such as Richard Quinney,William Chambliss,and Austin Turk,maintained that criminological theory has placed too much emphasis on explaining criminal behavior;rather,theory needs to shift this focus toward explaining criminal law.

______ is given by the state/government,and restitution is given by the offender (typically as part of the sentence given).