Test Bank for Criminology: The Core, 7th Edition

Test Bank for Criminology: The Core, 7th Edition

Larry J. Siegel

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• Criminology is an academic discipline that uses scientific methods to study the nature, extent, cause, and control of

criminal behavior.

• True
• False

ANSWER: True

• The criminological enterprise subarea of criminal statistics/crime measurement involves creating methodologies that

are able to accurately measure activities, trends, and patterns in crime.

• True
• False

ANSWER: True

• The branch of social science that uses the scientific method of the natural sciences and suggests that human behavior is

a product of social, biological, or economic forces which one can measure empirically is known as the Classical School of Criminology.

• True
• False

ANSWER: False

• Chicago School sociologists argued that social forces operating in urban areas created a crime-promoting environment;

some areas were “natural areas” for crime.

• True
• False

ANSWER: True

• Critical criminologists contend that society’s economic system plays a significant role in producing criminal behavior.
• True
• False

ANSWER: True

• The juvenile delinquency research of Eleanor and Sheldon Glueck (in the 1940s and 1950s) profoundly influenced

criminology and formed the basis for today’s trait theory.

• True
• False

ANSWER: False

• A crime becomes a deviant act when it is deemed by lawmakers as socially harmful or dangerous.
• True
• False

ANSWER: False

• According to the conflict view of crime, criminal laws are viewed as acts created to protect the haves from the have-

nots.

• True
• False

ANSWER: True

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