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  • 1. This theory is combination of strain and disorganization principles into a portrayal of a gang sustaining criminal subculture, the main concept of this theory states that people in all strata of society share the same success goals but those in the lower class have limited means of achieving them.
A) Differential opportunity theory
B) Delinquent subculture theory
C) Drift theory
D) Containment theory
E) Cultural deviance theory
  • 2. This type of strain occurs when a youth aspires to wealth and gain, but lacking financial and educational resources, would assume that such goals are impossible to achieve.
A) Strain caused by the failure to achieve positively valued goals
B) Presentation of negative stimuli
C) Strain caused by disfunction of expectations and achievements
D) Removal of positively valued stimuli
  • 3. This theory combines the effects of social disorganization and strain to explain how people living in deteriorated neighborhoods react to social isolation and economic deprivation .
A) Cultural deviance theory
B) Differential opportunity theory
C) Delinquent subculture theory
D) Containment theory
E) Drift theory
  • 4. The loss of positively stimuli may lead to delinquency as the adolescent tries to prevent the loss, retrieve what has been lost, obtain substitutes, or seek revenge against those responsible for the loss.
A) Strain caused by the failure to achieve positively valued goals
B) Removal of positively valued stimuli
C) Strain caused by disfunction of expectations and achievements
D) Presentation of negative stimuli
  • 5. This theory clearly emphasizes that a sharp division between the rich and poor creates an atmosphere of envy and mistrust. Criminal motivation is fueled both by perceived humiliation and the perceived right to humilliate a victim in return.
A) Anomie theory
B) Relative deprivation theory
C) Social disorganization theory
D) Concentric zone theory
E) Strain theory
  • 6. This theory also called as social control theory, links the onset of criminality to the weakening of the ties that bind people to society, and that all individuals are potential to law violators, but they are keep under control because they fear that illegal behavior will damage their relationships with friends, parents, etc.
A) Cultural deviance theory
B) Containment theory
C) Social bond Theory
D) Primary and secondary deviance theory
E) Labeling theory
  • 7. The areas with heaviest concentration of crime appeared to be the transitional inner- city zone, where large numbers of foreign- born citizens had settled, the zone farthest from the city's center had lower crime rates.
A) Concentric zone theory
B) Strain theory
C) Anomie theory
D) Social disorganization theory
E) Relative deprivation theory
  • 8. This gang are double failures because they are unable to gain success through legitimate means and unwilling to do so through illegal ones..
A) Retreatist gang
B) Delinquent gang
C) Conflict theory
D) Criminal gang
  • 9. This theory was one in which rules of rapid social change and social crisis such as war of famine, and most likely Occors in societies that are moving froward from mechanical solidarity to organic solidarity.
A) Anomie theory
B) Strain theory
C) Social disorganization theory
D) Relative deprivation theory
E) Concentric zone theory
  • 10. This theory viewed that the process of becoming a criminal as a learning experience in which potential delinquents and criminal master techniques that enable them to counter balance or neutralize conventional values and drift back and forth between illegitimate and conventional behavior.
A) Cultural deviance theory
B) Delinquent subculture theory
C) Drift theory
D) Containment theory
E) Differentail opportunity theory
  • 11. This theory involves norm violations or crimes that have very little influence in the actor and can be quickly forgotten and occurs when a deviant event comes to the attention of significant other or social control agents who apply a negative label.
A) Containment theory
B) Social bond Theory
C) Primary and secondary deviance theory
D) Labeling theory
E) Cultural deviance theory
  • 12. This aspect happens when people compare themselves to peers who seem to be doing a lot better financially or socially.
A) Presentation of negative stimuli
B) Strain caused by disfunction of expectations and achievements
C) Strain caused by the failure to achieve positively valued goals
D) Removal of positively valued stimuli
  • 13. Thrive in highly disorganized ares marked by temporary residents and physical deterioration, they are willing to fight to protect their own and their gang's intergrity and honor.
A) Criminal gang
B) Delinquent gang
C) Retreatist gang
D) conflict gang
  • 14. It refers to the process by which a person who has been negatively labeled accepts the label as a person role or identity.
A) Self- fulfilling prophecy
B) Stigmatization
C) Dramatization of evil
D) Self-labeling
  • 15. Deviant behavior patterns that are in response to an ealier labeling experience, a person act out these social even if they were falsely bestowed.
A) Self- fulfilling prophecy
B) Self-labeling
C) Dramatization of evil
D) Stigmatization
  • 16. Involves the time, energy, and effort expended in conventional lines of action, such as getting an education and saving money for the future.
A) Dreams
B) Involvement
C) Attachment
D) Commitment
E) Belief
  • 17. Refers to a person's sensitivity to and interest in others.
A) Involvement
B) Belief
C) Attachment
D) Goals
E) Commitment
  • 18. This theory explains that society creates deviance through a system of social control agencies that designate certain individuals as delinquent thereby stigmatizing a person and encouraging them to accept this negative personal identity.
A) Social bond Theory
B) Containment theory
C) Cultural deviance theory
D) Primary and secondary deviance theory
E) Labeling theory
  • 19. This theory argues about the status frustration refers to the state where youths are incapable of achieving their ultimate goals in life because of the social conditions that they are into, such as having poor parents and living in slums areas.
A) Drift theory
B) Delinquent subculture theory
C) Containment theory
D) Differential opportunity theory
E) Cultural deviance theory
  • 20. Thus theory suggests that criminality is the direct result of negative affective states- like anger, frustration, depression, disappointment, and other adverse emotions that derive from strain.
A) Relative deprivation theory
B) Strain theory
C) General strain theory
D) Drift theory
E) Differential opportunity theory
  • 21. This theory holds that crime is a function of the conflict between the goals people have and the means they can use to legally obtain that goals, consequently, those who failed to attain their goals because of inadequate means would feel anger, frustration, And resentment.
A) General strain theory
B) Concentric zone theory
C) Strain theory
D) Anomie theory
E) Relative deprivation theory
  • 22. Exist in stable lower - class areas in which close connections among adolescent, young adult, and adult offenders create an environment for successful criminal enterprise such as joining gang.
A) Delinquent gang
B) Criminal gang
C) Retreatist gang
D) Conflict gang
  • 23. Strain may also be caused by the presence of negative stimuli.
A) Strain caused by disfunction of expectations and achievements
B) Strain caused by the failure to achieve positively valued goals
C) Removal of positively valued stimuli
D) Presentation of negative stimuli
  • 24. This theory views crime ridden neighborhoods as those in which residents are trying to leave at the earliest opportunity. Residents during this time are not interested anymore when it comes to community matters, that is why the common source of control such as the family , business community and social service agencies become weak and disorganized.
A) Strain theory
B) Relative deprivation theory
C) Social disorganization theory
D) Anomie theory
E) Concentric zone theory
  • 25. This theory assumes that for every individual, there exists a containing external structure and a protective internal structure, both of which provide defense, protection, or insulation against delinquency.
A) Differential opportunity theory
B) Containment theory
C) Delinquent subculture theory
D) Cultural deviance theory
E) Drift theory
  • 26. He is famous for his Marxist socialist concepts of crime causation , he believed that crime is of social and not biological origin, but exception of few special cases, crime lies within the boundaries of normal human behavior.
A) Willem bonger
B) Karl marx
C) Friedrich engels
D) Isaac ray
  • 27. Embraced a conflict model of crime who integrated his beliefs about power, social, and criminality into a theory referred to as;
A) Conflict theory
B) Crime of repression
C) Social reality of crime
D) Crime of reduction
  • 28. Views crime as the outcome of class struggle, the classes that are struggling here are the upper, middle and lower class.
A) Conflict theory
B) Social reality of crime
C) eft realism
D) Postmodern theory
  • 29. A woman does not have to suffer from baby blues or stress first, in act, a woman can go through a normal childbirth and recover completely when this stress strikes like a bolt and lightning.
A) Premenstrual syndrome
B) Battered woman syndrome
C) Postpartum depression
D) Postpartum stress syndrome
  • 30. Views crime as a function of the capitalistic mode of production , within this system economic competitiveness is the essence of social life and controls the form and function of social institutions.
A) Friedrich engels theory
B) Marxist criminology
C) Karl marx's theory
D) Conflict theory
  • 31. In this stage the violence may be short lived or last for a few days, often it is at this stage that police are notified or legal proceedings begun.
A) Loving contrition stage
B) Passion of crime
C) Violent incident stage
D) Tension building stage
  • 32. During this stage, relatively minor incidents increase the tension in the relationship and culminate in the eruption of violence.
A) Violent incident stage
B) Tension building stage
C) Crime of repression
D) Loving contrition stage
  • 33. This theory argues about the standard model of decision making where individuals choose between criminal activity and legal activity on the basis of the expected utility from those acts.
A) Biopsychosocial theoy
B) Economic model of crime
C) Friedrich engels theory
D) Karl marx's theory
  • 34. Assumes that the ideal society is one in which there is equality of opportunity and a general consensus to accept differences, in rewards as the outcome of fair competition.
A) Conservative ideologies
B) Left realism
C) Liberalism
D) Marxist criminology
  • 35. Component of the biopsychosocial model examines social factors that might influence the health of an individual,things like interactions with others, our culture, or our economic status.
A) Bio
B) Social
C) Gene
D) Psycho
  • 36. The woman wants to become a perfect mother and wife, but at the same time she feels exhausted and overwhelmed.
A) Battered woman syndrome
B) Premenstrual syndrome
C) Postpartum depression
D) Postpartum stress syndrome
  • 37. Occurs when the offended party experiences a loss of some quality relative to his or her present standing.
A) Passion of crime
B) Crime of repression
C) Crime of reduction
D) Moral insanity
  • 38. Refers to onset of the menstrual cycle that triggers excessive amounts of the female sex hormones, which affect antisocial, aggressive behavior.
A) Postpartum depression
B) Battered woman syndrome
C) Premenstrual syndrome
D) Postpartum stress syndrome
  • 39. Is a psychological term used to describe woman who are stuck within or have recently left a violent relationship characterized by the cycle of violence.
A) Postpartum depression
B) Premenstrual syndrome
C) Postpartum stress syndrome
D) Battered woman syndrome
  • 40. A medical diagnosis based on evidence that the child has been subjected to pattern of serious and unexplained abuse.
A) Battered child syndrome
B) Delinquent child
C) Youth delinquency
D) Juvenile syndrome
  • 41. This theory talks about the more realistic approach, saying that Street criminals prey on the poor, thus Making the poor douply abused, first by the capitalist system and then by the members of their own class.
A) Postmodern theory
B) Left realism
C) Conflict theory
D) Social reality of crime
  • 42. Focuses on the critical analysis of communication and language in legal code. It believes that language is value laden and can promote the same sort of inequities that are present in the rest of the social structure.
A) Conservative ideologies
B) eft realism
C) Conflict theory
D) Postmodern theory
  • 43. In his work, he portrayed crime as a function of social democratization- a collapse of people's humanity reflecting a decline in society.
A) Karl marx's theory
B) Friedrich engels theory
C) Biopsychosocial theory
D) Marxist criminology
  • 44. Assume that the ideal society is one in which authority is unquestioned, the hierarchy of wisdom and virtue is accepted by all as based on recognizing natural inequalities.
A) Conservative ideologies
B) Marxist criminology
C) Liberalism
D) Left realism
  • 45. Occurs when members of a group are prevented from achieving their fullest potential because of racism, sexsim, or some other status bias.
A) Passion of crime
B) Crime of repression
C) Moral insanity
D) Crime of reduction
  • 46. Was a term used to describe person who were normal in all respects except that something was wrong with the part of the brain that regulates affective response.
A) Crime of reduction
B) Crime of repression
C) Passion of crime
D) Moral insanity
  • 47. This theory viewed crime as the product of law enforcement policies and to a labeling process theory, it has a connection between criminality and the inequalities found in capitalist system.
A) Marxist criminology
B) Biopsychosocial theory
C) Karl marx's theory
D) Friedrich engels theory
  • 48. During this stage, the abuser is often very loving and remorseful. Promise are made by the batterer that he will not violently abuse the woman again.
A) Crime of reduction
B) Violent incident stage
C) Loving contrition stage
D) Tension building stage
  • 49. Defines crime as the application of harm to others, people who are Defined as committing criminal acts are at the same time being made unequal or disrespected, they are rendered powerless to maintain or express their humanity.
A) Institutive - constitutive theory
B) Conflict theory
C) Conservative ideologies
D) Postmodern theory
  • 50. The psycho component of the theory examines psychological component, things like thoughts, emotions, or behaviors.
A) Biopsychosocial theory
B) Friedrich engels theory
C) Economic model of crime
D) Karl marx's theory
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