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Pregunta 1 de 56

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What word is used in Chapter 7 to sum up how victims have been treated by the criminal justice system?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Orphans.

  • Integral.

  • Wards.

  • Participatory.

Explicación

Pregunta 2 de 56

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What is the main reason why victims were often forgotten in the criminal justice process?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Victims rarely cooperated with police.

  • Police viewed victims as inherently biased and prejudicial to an objective investigation.

  • The courts were not allowed to hear testimony from victims.

  • The process is overwhelmingly focused on the offender.

Explicación

Pregunta 3 de 56

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According to Chapter 7, which of the following is not one of the suggested ways to serve victims of crime?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • More funding for law enforcement agencies to combat crime.

  • Increase funding for initiatives that prevent crime and victimization.

  • Establish a victim’s bill of rights.

  • Expand services for victims of crimes.

Explicación

Pregunta 4 de 56

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International organization like the International Association of Chiefs of Police focus on three broad categories of victim’s needs. Which of the following is not one of these categories?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Justice.

  • Retribution.

  • Governance.

  • Support.

Explicación

Pregunta 5 de 56

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Which of the following is a principal reason why victims of crime do not access services available to them?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Police are unlikely to inform victims of relevant services.

  • Most victims believe such services will not help them in any way.

  • There is a cost to the victim to access such services.

  • There are usually no victim service units in their jurisdiction.

Explicación

Pregunta 6 de 56

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Among the groups listed below, who were largely the first pioneers of victimology and victim rights?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Parents of murdered children.

  • United Nations officials.

  • Government officials.

  • University professors.

Explicación

Pregunta 7 de 56

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In the context of the rights of crime victims, which of the following best represents the right to recognition?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • The right of the victim to see the evidence the offender will be presenting in his/her trial defence.

  • The right of the victim to be acknowledged as a consequence of crime.

  • The right of the victim to receive restitution from the offender and/or compensation from the state.

  • The right of the victim to know the identity of the offender.

Explicación

Pregunta 8 de 56

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Why was the UN Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power referred to as the Magna Carta for Victims?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • It was essential for helping Jewish victims of the Holocaust reclaim property stolen by the Nazis.

  • It was the forerunner to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

  • It established the International Criminal Court to hear complaints from victims of international crimes.

  • It was the first major document to enshrine the rights of victims of crimes.

Explicación

Pregunta 9 de 56

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Which province was the first to provide compensation for victims of violent crime in Canada?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Saskatchewan.

  • Ontario.

  • Quebec.

  • Nova Scotia.

Explicación

Pregunta 10 de 56

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Which of the following categories of victim’s needs and rights does the victim fine surcharge fall into?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • The right to information.

  • The right to a legal standing in a criminal trial.

  • The right to safety and security.

  • The right to reparations.

Explicación

Pregunta 11 de 56

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As per the Canadian Victims Bill of Rights, which of the following is not considered a part of the victim’s right to participation?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • To have the views of the victim considered in the criminal justice process.

  • To present a victim impact statement and to have it considered by the courts.

  • To participate in the prosecution of the alleged offender.

  • To convey their views about decisions to be made by authorities in the criminal justice system that affect the rights of the victim.

Explicación

Pregunta 12 de 56

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Which of the following is not true about Restorative Justice?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Restorative Justice was pioneered in the United Kingdom.

  • Nova Scotia leads the way in restorative justice for young offenders.

  • Victims of crime prefer restorative justice to tradition models of justice.

  • Criminologists argue that restorative justice has not been utilized to its full potential.

Explicación

Pregunta 13 de 56

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Which of the following Canadian cities was cited as being at the forefront of services for victims of domestic violence?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

  • London, Ontario.

  • Toronto, Ontario.

  • Edmonton, Alberta.

Explicación

Pregunta 14 de 56

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According to Waller, investments in programs like Stop Now and Plan can save taxpayers money in the future. Which of the following is not one of the ways that programs like this save taxpayer dollars?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • There are lower costs to victims.

  • They lower welfare costs.

  • They reduce criminal justice costs, such as incarceration of offenders.

  • Programs like this are funded by victims of crime.

Explicación

Pregunta 15 de 56

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Despite implementing compensation programs, many victims of crime do not access the funds set aside by provincial governments. Waller suggests that victims do not access compensation because:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Only Quebec has a victim compensation fund.

  • Most victims are unaware of victim compensation programs.

  • Only Ontario has a victim compensation fund.

  • Most victims receive insurance payments and do need further assistance.

Explicación

Pregunta 16 de 56

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According to pre–18th–century thinking, which of the following was considered the cause of criminal behaviour?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Lower intelligence.

  • Social factors.

  • Body type.

  • Evil spirits.

Explicación

Pregunta 17 de 56

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Judeo–Christian teachings provide two powerful explanations for the role of evil spirits in sinful behaviour. What are these two explanations?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Religion and philosophy.

  • Possession and vice.

  • Temptation and possession.

  • Temptation and theft.

Explicación

Pregunta 18 de 56

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Blaming social problems on the Devil and other evil spirits during the Middle Ages was a means to achieve which of the following objectives?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • It provided the foundation for scientists to study the relationship between the supernatural and crime.

  • It helped bring forth the creation of the modern criminal justice system.

  • It advanced the medical treatment of psychiatric disorders.

  • It diverted attention from the failings of elites by placing blame on individuals who were “possessed” by the Devil.

Explicación

Pregunta 19 de 56

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All of the following but one is an assumption of the Classical School. Which one is not an assumption of the Classical School?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Individuals were considered free and rational human beings.

  • People broke the law because they were possessed by evil spirits.

  • Individuals should give up some freedoms for a safer society.

  • The social order was based on a social contract between the individual and the state.

Explicación

Pregunta 20 de 56

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Which of the following was an important assumption of the Classical theorists?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Humans were rational beings who carefully calculated the consequences of their behaviour.

  • Humans were rational beings but they did not calculate the consequences of their behaviour.

  • Humans were rational beings but crime was the result of possession by the supernatural.

  • Crime was a sin cause by supernatural forces and possession.

Explicación

Pregunta 21 de 56

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Which of the following best represents the beliefs of Beccaria and the Classical School?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • The degree of punishment should exceed the degree of harm that was done to society.

  • The degree of punishment should be less than the degree of harm that was done to society.

  • The degree of punishment should be proportional to the degree of harm that was done to society.

  • The punishment should fit the criminal.

Explicación

Pregunta 22 de 56

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Which of the following terms best represents the idea that rational people can be persuaded from engaging in crime through the prospect of punishment?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Deterrence.

  • Torture.

  • Justice.

  • Punishment.

Explicación

Pregunta 23 de 56

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Of the following thinkers, who is associated with the Classical School?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Beccaria.

  • Sheldon.

  • Sutherland.

  • Lombroso.

Explicación

Pregunta 24 de 56

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Which of the following is true of the Classical School?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Its theory of punishment ignored the role that deterrence can play.

  • No amount of punishment was unjust.

  • It gave judges too much discretion in determining guilt and passing sentence.

  • It advocated due process safeguards for offenders.

Explicación

Pregunta 25 de 56

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Which of the following best characterizes the Statistical School?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • It emphasizes the biological causes of crime.

  • It focuses on how the structural features of society influence crime.

  • It emphasizes the psychological causes of crime.

  • It deals with individual offenders and not crime rates.

Explicación

Pregunta 26 de 56

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Someone who began using observation of known criminals during the 18th century to attempt to determine the correlates and causes of criminal behaviour would be part of which of the following “schools of thought”?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • The Classical School.

  • The Social Science School.

  • The Positive School.

  • The Statistical School.

Explicación

Pregunta 27 de 56

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Which of the following contradicts the ideas associated with the Positive School?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Punishment should fit the criminal.

  • Criminals are intelligent makers of rational choices.

  • Crime is caused by factors that can be discovered.

  • Criminologists should study individual offenders.

Explicación

Pregunta 28 de 56

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What was the term used by Cesare Lombroso to refer to the physical signs of a morally and evolutionary inferior person?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Stigmata.

  • Endomorph.

  • Survival of the fittest.

  • Mesomorphs

Explicación

Pregunta 29 de 56

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Which of the following schools of thought advocated that criminals were born, not made, and that they were less evolved than the law–abiding?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • The Neoclassical theorists.

  • The Positive School.

  • The Statistical School.

  • The Classical School.

Explicación

Pregunta 30 de 56

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According to the Positive School, what is the criminal type thought to be a throwback to an earlier stage of evolution known as?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Ectomorph.

  • Endomorph.

  • Atavist.

  • Criminaloid.

Explicación

Pregunta 31 de 56

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Which of the following influenced the idea that crime could be controlled if society could design punishments to fit the criminal?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Classical School.

  • Contract theory.

  • Statistical School.

  • Positivist School.

Explicación

Pregunta 32 de 56

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According to somatotype theory, who is most likely to commit crime?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • The endomorph.

  • The mesomorph.

  • The ectomorph.

  • Atavist.

Explicación

Pregunta 33 de 56

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Which of the following schools of thought was the basis for the institutionalization of those with intellectually deficiencies, and even for forced sterilization?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • The Classical School of the 18th century.

  • Biological theories of the 20th century.

  • The Neoclassical School of the 19th century.

  • Pre–18th–century theories of crime.

Explicación

Pregunta 34 de 56

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Which of the following best represents the belief that the stock of a race or nation can be improved through the sterilization of intellectually and morally inferior people?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Dysgenics.

  • Somatotypes.

  • Eugenics.

  • Atavism.

Explicación

Pregunta 35 de 56

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According to the textbook, which of the following assumptions is made in nearly all psychology research on offenders?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • The assumptions of offender deficit and unconscious determinants.

  • The assumptions of unconscious determinants and precipitating events.

  • The assumptions of discriminating traits and precipitating events.

  • The assumptions of offender deficit and discriminating traits.

Explicación

Pregunta 36 de 56

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Which of the following assumptions of psychological theories of crime is true?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Genetic influence is greater than environmental influence.

  • All criminal behaviour is treatable.

  • Offenders have special traits and deficits.

  • Behaviour is shaped by class and gender relations.

Explicación

Pregunta 37 de 56

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Which of the following theoretical perspectives has the most in common with sociology?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Psychoanalytic theory.

  • Community psychology.

  • Eysenck’s theory of personality.

  • Moral development theory.

Explicación

Pregunta 38 de 56

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Using Rappaport’s “levels of analysis” perspective in psychology, what level would the influence of drug– abusing friends best fit within?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Institutional or community.

  • Organizational.

  • Small group.

  • Individual.

Explicación

Pregunta 39 de 56

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Which of the following is most closely associated with the view that offenders who break the law have some psychological shortcoming that distinguishes them from normal law–abiding citizens?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Behavioural psychology.

  • Community psychology.

  • Moral development.

  • Assumption of offender deficit.

Explicación

Pregunta 40 de 56

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What perspective analyzes social problems, including crime, as largely a product of organizational and institutional characteristics of society?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Operant conditioning.

  • Corrections psychology.

  • Community psychology.

  • Psychoanalytic theory.

Explicación

Pregunta 41 de 56

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Which of the following is associated with psychoanalytic theory?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Id, ego, and superego.

  • Extraversion, neuroticism, psychoticism.

  • Preconventional, conventional, postconventional.

  • Individual level, small group level, organizational level, institutional or community level.

Explicación

Pregunta 42 de 56

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What is the term for the interactive process whereby individuals come to learn and internalize the culture of their society or group?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Behaviourism.

  • Moral development.

  • Operant conditioning.

  • Socialization.

Explicación

Pregunta 43 de 56

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Which of the following schools of thought is Kohlberg associated with?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Moral development theory.

  • Operant conditioning.

  • Psychoanalytical theory.

  • Crime and personality theory.

Explicación

Pregunta 44 de 56

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Which of the following is a psychological theory of crime?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Differential association theory.

  • Patriarchal theory.

  • Anomie theory.

  • Theory of moral development.

Explicación

Pregunta 45 de 56

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According to Kohlberg, how many stages of moral development are there?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Six.

  • Nine.

  • Eight.

  • Three.

Explicación

Pregunta 46 de 56

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What does moral development theory emphasize?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Moral development is related to childhood issues that operate unconsciously.

  • Morals develop at different times in different individuals.

  • Moral development occurs automatically.

  • Sexual activity correlates with delinquency.

Explicación

Pregunta 47 de 56

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According to your textbook, what term refers to a personality characteristic associated with sociability, impulsiveness, and aggression?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Introversion.

  • Extraversion.

  • Egomaniac.

  • Neuroticism.

Explicación

Pregunta 48 de 56

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What is the term for the basic form of learning whereby a neutral stimulus is paired with another stimulus that naturally elicits a certain response?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Operant conditioning.

  • Socialization.

  • Modelling.

  • Classical conditioning.

Explicación

Pregunta 49 de 56

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Which psychological perspective examines families, subcultures, and symbolic modelling as potential influences on aggressive behaviour?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Psychoanalytic psychology.

  • Behavioural psychology.

  • Social learning psychology.

  • Community psychology.

Explicación

Pregunta 50 de 56

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Generally speaking, what does research say regarding the association between aggressive behaviour by children and exposure to depictions of violence on television?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • There is a weak correlation but lack of clarity about the direction of causation.

  • There is no link.

  • There is a weak correlation but clarity about the direction of causation.

  • There is a strong correlation and clarity about the direction causation.

Explicación

Pregunta 51 de 56

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Schools are increasingly offering students at risk of dropping out material incentives, such as bus passes, restaurant vouchers, movie passes, etc. Which of the following terms best describes this strategy?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Social learning.

  • Symbolic modelling.

  • Operant conditioning.

  • Autonomic reactivity.

Explicación

Pregunta 52 de 56

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Which of the following is characteristic of an offender’s lack of feelings of guilt or remorse over serial violence committed against innocent people?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Automatic reactivity.

  • Psychopathy.

  • Extraversion.

  • Negative symbolic modelling.

Explicación

Pregunta 53 de 56

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Which of the following is the clinical name applied to individuals who have great disregard for the rights of others and who exhibit impulsive, irresponsible, and aggressive behaviour?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Psychopathy Disorder.

  • Antisocial Personality Disorder.

  • Sociopathic Disorder.

  • Extraversion Personality Disorder.

Explicación

Pregunta 54 de 56

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What are the brutal murders committed by Paul Bernardo, Clifford Olson, and Charles Manson cited as examples of?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Autonomic reactivity.

  • Major depression.

  • Autonomic personality.

  • Psychopathy.

Explicación

Pregunta 55 de 56

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Which of the following best represents how Cleckley and Hare characterize psychopaths?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • They learn from their experiences but do not fear the consequences of their behaviour.

  • They learn from their experiences and fear the consequences of their behaviour.

  • They fear the consequences of their behaviour but do not learn from their experiences.

  • They neither learn from their experiences nor fear the consequences of their behaviour.

Explicación

Pregunta 56 de 56

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Which of the following statements is true?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • The prevalence of mental disorder among those in correctional institutions is less than in the general population.

  • There are no reliable statistics on the prevalence of mental disorder among those in correctional institutions.

  • The prevalence of mental disorder among those in correctional institutions is about the same as in the general population.

  • The prevalence of mental disorder among those in correctional institutions is greater than in the general population.

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