Category: Criminology MCQs

The Program of Research on the Causes and Correlates of Delinquency identified three distinct pathways to delinquency. This pathway is marked by minor aggression, such as bullying, that develops around age 11 or 12 and leads to fighting and physical violence.

This perspective placed the blame for criminality and deviant behavior squarely on officially sanctioned cultural and economic arrangements. The distribution of wealth and power in society was held to be the primary cause of criminal behavior.

This criminology refers to the process by which human beings create “an ideology of crime that sustains it as a concrete reality.” A central feature is its assertion that individuals shape their world while also being shaped by it.

This perspective placed the blame for criminality and deviant behavior squarely on officially sanctioned cultural and economic arrangements. The distribution of wealth and power in society was held to be the primary cause of criminal behavior.

This theory views crime as the product of socialization and sees it as being acquired by criminals according to the same principles that guide the learning of law-abiding behavior in conformists.

What is explained when saying that the exercise of free will would cause an individual to avoid committing a crime as long as the punishment for committing that crime outweighed the benefits derived from committing it?

New areas for psychological profiling include hostage negotiation and international terrorism.

What term is defined as a group of people who participate in a shared system of values and norms that are at variance with those of the larger culture?

Most social process theories highlight the role of social learning.

Differential association fails to explain why people have the associations they do and why some associations affect certain individuals more than others.