CJUS 700 Quiz 1 Theory
CJUS 700 Quiz: Theory, Crime, and Theology
Week 1
- Warren Court legal protections have a substantial effect on the crime rate.
- The behavior of criminal law explanation of crime suggests that people are driven to crime through opportunity.
- Violent crime and prison populations both increased between the early 1970s and mid-1990s.
- The modern-day penitentiary developed by the Quakers was based on the spiritual explanation of crime.
- Currie pinpointed the rise in incarceration rates between 1970 and the mid- 1990s to the war on drugs.
- Examples of punishments for crimes based on spiritual explanations include:
- Bernard and his colleagues discuss three different ways of thinking about crime (i.e., assumptions about criminal behavior). Which one of the choices below is NOT one of the them?
- Criminology is the study of:
- ____________________is a court ruling attributed to reductions in crime.
- “Super-predators” were believed to become responsible for an increase in violent crime.
- Identify the four elements of meaningful scientific causation. How do they contribute to theoretical testing?
- Describe the changes in the national reporting systems of crime: UCR and NIBRS. How did NIBRS attempt to improve on the UCR? What remains a challenge to our quantification of crime?