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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A heredity
B the media
C sociobiology
D sociobiology and heredity
Question #2
A females being suspected less for criminal behavior
B females being treated with more leniency by police
C females being suspected less for criminal behavior and male police officer who are respectful of delinquent women
D male police officer who are respectful of delinquent women
Question #3
A frustration hypothesis
B gender gap hypothesis
C maturation hypothesis
D liberation hypothesis
Question #4
A indirect aggression
B relational aggression
C physical aggression
D social aggression
Question #5
A their academic abilities
B their relations with others
C their athletic abilities
D their appearance
Question #6
A deterrence theory
B feminist theory
C deterrence and rational theory
D rational choice theory
Question #7
A individuals who are still in school from committing delinquent acts
B others from committing similar acts
C an individual from committing similar acts in the future
D all of the above apply
Question #8
A the responsibility for such choices can never be fully understood
B the responsibility is on both the individual and society
C the responsibility of such choices can be blamed on society
D the responsibility and accountability is directly on him/her
Question #9
A criminal behaviors throughout their adult years but were never delinquent as teens
B criminal behaviors due to mental illness not detected in infancy
C delinquency during adolescence but do not go on to commit more crimes as adults
D antisocial behaviors at an early age and persist through their entire life
Question #10
A real-life delinquent activities as fun and entertaining
B programs that are focused on education
C portraying delinquents as dangerous threats to social order
D children who are overly anxious about crime
Question #11
A personal health
B religiosity
C the youth’s relative position among other teenagers
D level of educational attainment
Question #12
A departs from more established and accepted criminological theories
B conforms to the more accepted criminological theories
C is no longer important
D is accepted by all sociologists as a valid explanation of delinquency
Question #13
A notion of a developmental process that precedes the attainment of a deviant or delinquent identity and career
B idea that people from the same environment are motivated by different factors
C suggestion that there is a difference between a deviant identity and deviant career
D view that delinquents eventually outgrow their deviancy and conform to the values of society
Question #14
A deviance really does not exist
B deviance cannot be seen
C deviance is the same to all
D deviance, like beauty, exists in the eyes of the beholder
Question #15
A when an individual may commit a deviant act (or several deviant acts but does not internalize the deviant self-concept and continues to occupy the role of conformist
B when the deviant act is committed by a person under the age of ten
C when a deviant act is instigated by the parent
D when an individual’s self-concept is altered and the deviant role is personally assumed
Question #16
A special privileges should be given to special prisoners
B inadequate medical care in prison
C the greater evil lies in the societal treatment, not in the original act
D solitary confinement
Question #17
A the treatment of the offender that makes a hardened criminal out of the accidental or occasional one
B the privileges given to incarcerated individuals
C the type of prison used to incarcerate convicted felons
D the type of treatment used to incarcerate those convicted of misdemeanors
Question #18
A relative unimportance
B having no effect on future behavior
C causing a variety of activities
D a catalyst for eliciting future behavior of the prescribed kind
Question #19
A situations can cause serious consequences
B when people define a situation as real, it becomes real in its consequences
C no situation is ever the same
D situations are defined differently
Question #20
A social status, social roles, and social expectations
B only social expectations
C only social status
D only social roles
Question #21
A were not interested in delinquency
B supported the social control theorists’ explanations of juvenile delinquency
C accepted the idea that delinquency is an inherent potentiality in all human beings
D rejected the notion that delinquency is an inherent potentiality in all human beings
Question #22
A They have strong social bonds
B They have a great deal of remorse
C They have absolutely no social bonds
D They have relatively weak social bonds and consequently feel little remorse for violations of generally accepted social standards
Question #23
A occasionally free to “drift”
B unchanging
C locked into a particular situation
D an immoral person
Question #24
A denial of harm
B condemning the condemner
C denial of responsibility
D appeal to higher loyalties
Question #25
A cannot be applied to juveniles
B applies only to juveniles
C represents the ability of a person to resist temptations
D does not vary among individuals
Question #26
A mental conflict and anxiety
B pride and self-worth
C alienation and frustration
D membership in a street gang or participation in a criminal subculture
Question #27
A they come from a wealthy background
B they have a strong religious background
C come from a hard-working background
D they have been rewarded for doing so
Question #28
A have no effect on females
B can become viable role models for some youngsters
C are ignored by most youth
D have no effect on juveniles
Question #29
A can never become a law-abiding citizen
B slips into juvenile delinquency
C will become a ward of the state
D loses interest in society
Question #30
A politicization
B characterization
C crystallization
D socialization
Question #31
A Chinese
B Japanese
C Cambodian
D Korean
Question #32
A in the suburbs
B in areas adjacent to the central business district and to heavy industrial areas
C in the rural outreaches of the city
D in jail
Question #33
A not identifiable
B uniform throughout the population
C really not that important
D not uniform throughout the population
Question #34
A rebellion-oriented gang
B conflict-oriented gang
C crime-oriented gang
D retreatist-oriented gang
Question #35
A middle class juveniles
B the behavior of lower class juveniles
C abused children
D average boys.
Question #36
A rebellion
B retreatism
C ritualism
D centralism
Question #37
A innovation
B retreatism
C conformity
D ritualism
Question #38
A prevailing social conditions
B arrest rates
C local government
D economic status
Question #39
A the rules that restrain us from socially unacceptable acts can become weak or suspended
B the police and military must then take over in order to preserve social stability
C suicide rates drop dramatically
D people will reach out to social institutions such as the family and religion in order to regain a sense of stability
Question #40
A prefer not to comment on the causes of juvenile delinquency
B neglect the causes of juvenile delinquency
C are not unanimous in pinpointing the exact causes of juvenile delinquency
D are unanimous in pinpointing the exact causes of juvenile delinquency
Question #41
A adults, adolescents, children and juveniles
B bullies, victims, and interlopers
C conduct disorder , diagnosis , and the later stages
D normal childhood behavior and boys will be boys
Question #42
A personality
B deviant behavior
C normal behavior
D social indifference
Question #43
A subjected to intense scrutiny and criticism by subsequent investigators
B totally ignored
C adopted by all foreign scholars as definitive conclusions concerning the cause of criminal behavior
D accepted by most criminologists
Question #44
A not only encourage the reformation of offenders, but discourage criminality in the general populace
B jam up the court system so much that most juvenile offenders would be adults before their case was heard in court
C only further encourage juveniles to break the law, as well as to hide their behavior better
D result in the elimination of the Juvenile court system altogether
Question #45
A victims distrust surveys
B victims really do not care to answer the questions
C victims are the only source of information
D victims have never filed any police complaint
Question #46
A dismiss the case
B divert the matter away from the court system
C send the juvenile directly to juvenile detention or foster care
D let the parents handle the case
Question #47
A because of their seriousness, frequency of occurrence, and likelihood of being reported to the police
B only because of the frequency of occurrence
C only because of the likelihood of being reported to the police
D only because of their seriousness
Question #48
A it yields the same results upon repetition of the measuring procedure or repetition by other investigators
B the average person believes it
C it produces results
D it in fact measures whatever it is supposed to measure
Question #49
A proscriptive norms
B prescriptive norms
C negative norms
D outdated
Question #50
A are prohibited for juveniles
B are referred to as status offenses
C are not illegal when done by adults
D all of the above