Deck 3: Explanations for Homicide

Question 1

Lombroso's term for the less evolved physically degenerate criminals.

A) Atavistic
B) Carnivalistic
C) Asthenic
D) Criminaloids

Answer 1

A

Question 2

According to Kretschmer, if we arrested a young man for criminal offending - especially murder, which body type would he be most likely to have?

A) Leptosome
B) Mesosome
C) Athletic
D) Pyknic

Answer 2

C

Question 3

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A) Most twins have been incarcerated.
B) The concordance rate was highest among fraternal twins suggesting that heredity was an important cause of crime.
C) The concordance rate was highest among identical twins suggesting that heredity was an important cause of crime.
D) The concordance rate was highest among fraternal twins suggesting that environment was an important cause of crime

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Studies of different hormones and violent offending suggest that all of the following are True except which one?

A) There is a positive relationship between testosterone and violence.
B) There is a positive relationship between adrenalin and aggression.
C) There is a negative relationship between adrenalin and aggression.
D) Higher blood serotonin levels were linked to higher self-reported levels of violence.

Question 5

The three basic criteria scientists follow to determine if causation is likely include all but which one of the following?

A) The relationship between cause and effect must not be spurious.
B) Cause must come before the effect.
C) The cause and effect must be correlated.
D) The relationship between cause and effect must be spurious.

Question 6

Which of these is a persistent disorder or disability of the mind that results in abnormally aggressive or irresponsible behavior that is not the product to psychosis or other illness.

A) Schizophrenia
B) Split Personality
C) Antisocial personality disorder
D) Mania

Question 7

According to the classical school perspective, individuals commit crime because they

A) Have rationally determined it makes sense to do crime.
B) Natural born criminals
C) They have a chemical imbalance.
D) They are poverty stricken.

Question 8

The importance of Shaw and McKay's study of crime in Chicago is that:

A) They proved that crime was inherited.
B) Regardless of who lived in high crime areas, they tended to remain high crime areas.
C) Criminals weighed the cost and benefits of doing crime.
D) Crime was inherent to certain racial groups.

Question 9

Following Durkheim's ideas of anomie, where might we expect homicide to be highest?

A) In rural areas where people are left to their own devices.
B) In urban areas where people are less connected to other people.
C) In suburban areas, where people have more to lose.
D) In non-urban areas where we would expect people to know others more intimately

Question 10

Which of the following is not given by Barkan as an explanation for the fact that the U.S. is one of the most violent industrial nations today?

A) Economic stratification
B) High rates of gun ownership
C) Racial hostility
D) Culture of violence