Multiple Choice
Identify the letter of the choice that best
completes the statement or answers the question.
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Which
of the following is interactionist perspective? a. | structuralist Marxism | b. | instrumentalist Marxism | c. | differential association | d. | operant conditioning | e. | moral development | | |
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The
focus of interactionist criminiology is: a. | social structures | b. | shared values of culture | c. | interpersonal interaction | d. | group interaction | e. | interaction in small communities | | |
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The key
concept of symbolic interactionism is that: a. | individuals act within a context determined by cultural
expectations | b. | a person’s
actions are limited by their class situation | c. | social interaction is a dynamic process of interpretation
and negotiation | d. | there is great cross-cultural variation in
symbols | e. | interaction can
only take place when actors agree about symbols | | |
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The
identification of someone as criminal by public authorities is an outcome of: a. | criminal justice | b. | bureaucracy | c. | symbolic interactionism | d. | a labeling process | e. | stigma | | |
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A
person or group that demands new criminal laws or stricter enformcement of existing laws is
a(n): a. | legislator | b. | Attorney General | c. | Minister of Justice | d. | moral entrepreneur | e. | advocacy group | | |
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The
idea of a criminal career is linked to: a. | triads | b. | the Mafia | c. | primary and secondary deviation | d. | drift | e. | strain theory | | |
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Someone
who occasionally shoplifts personal clothing but has a full-time job and socially interacts with
non-deviants is an example of: a. | secondary deviation | b. | labeling | c. | differential association | d. | primary deviation | e. | drift | | |
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The
claim that it is legitimate to steal from foodstores because they make excessive profits is an
example of: a. | mercantilism | b. | strain theory | c. | drift | d. | moral rhetoric | e. | secondary deviation | | |
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Police,
judges, prison personnel, probation, and parole officers are all: a. | agents of social control | b. | public servants | c. | impartial | d. | legal administrators | e. | agents of correction | | |
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A
person defined as criminal by authorities is likely to find that will become their: a. | self-definition | b. | master status | c. | primary deviance | d. | agent of social control | e. | empirical evidence | | |
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An
unintended event process or situation that affects a person’s extent of involvement in crime is
a: a. | Freudian slip | b. | drift | c. | negotiation | d. | career contingency | e. | secondary deviation | | |
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Offenders who do not think they have an acceptable alternate lifestyle other than
criminal activity have: a. | self labelling | b. | deviant identity | c. | moral rhetoric | d. | stigma | e. | continuance commitment | | |
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The
statement that crime is learned in interaction in small groups that disregard the community’s
legal code is associated with: a. | class conflict | b. | secondary deviation | c. | different rates of crime by
gender | d. | differential
association | e. | criminal
identity | | |
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Which
of the following is one of the strongest correlates of criminal behaviour? a. | ethnic group | b. | religion | c. | having deviant friends | d. | being poor | e. | symbolic interaction | | |
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