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What assumptions are included in most classical theories of crime causation?

A. Pain and pleasure are the two central determinants of human behavior

B. Crime prevention is possible through swift and certain punishment that offsets any gains to be had through criminal behavior .

C. Crime is caused by the individual exercise of free will

D. All of the above

This theory posits that lifestyles significantly affect both the volume and type of crime found in any society and the risk of criminal victimization various dramatically among the circumstances and locations in which people place themselves and their property.

A. Routine activities theory

B. Anomie

C. Positivism

D. Conflict theory

What is a main proposition of routine activities theory?

A. Criminal behavior is learned

B. Crime is the result of the powerful asserting their dominance over the powerless

C. Crime is the result of a weakening of the bonds to society

D. Crime is the likely to occur when a motivated offender and a suitable target come together in the absence of a capable guardian

What term describes a throwback to easier stages of evolution where individuals were not sufficiently mentally advanced for successful life n the modern world?

A. Anomie

B. Somatotype

C. Atavism

D. Innovator

According to Sheldon, which body type is most prone to aggression, violence, and delinquency?

A. Endomorphs

B. Ectomorphs

C. Msomorphs

D. Blotomorphs

This United States Supreme Court case dealt with the eugenics movement.

A. Brown v. Board of Education

B. Buck v. Bell

C. Boston v. United States

D. Becker v. New York

These theories highlight the role of human DNA, environmental contaminates, nutrition, hormones, physical trauma, and body chemistry in human cognition, feeling, and behavior:

A. Classical school

B. Social process

C. Conflict

D. Psychobiology

This is a psychological principle that holds that the frequency of any behavior, including criminal or deviant behavior, can be increased or

A. Anomie

B. Conflict

C. Conditioning

D. None of the above

These individuals are characterized by disordered or disjointed thinking in which the types of logical associations they make are atypical of other people.

A. Schizophrenics

B. Innovators

C. Ritualists

D. Fatalists

This term id defined as the attempt to derive a composite picture of an offender’s social and psychological characteristics from the crime he/she committed and from and manner in which it was committed:

A. Consitutive criminology

B. Deviance detection

C. Psychological profiling

D. Crime scene separation

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