Criminal Justice Studies
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Criminal Justice Studies provides a comprehensive examination of the institutions, policies, and processes that comprise the criminal justice system, including law enforcement, the courts, and corrections. The course explores the historical development and contemporary functions of the criminal justice system, the roles and responsibilities of key stakeholders, and the social, ethical, and legal considerations that impact justice administration. Students will gain a foundational understanding of criminological theories, investigative procedures, legal frameworks, and societal responses to crime, preparing them for further specialization or careers within the field of criminal justice.
Recommended Textbook Criminology A Canadian Perspective 7th Edition by Rick Linden
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Chapter 1: Crime, Criminals, and Criminology
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Q1) Crimes that are committed by upper-class people in the course of their legitimate business activities are referred to as
A) Blue-collar crime
B) White-collar crime
C) Pink-collar crime
D) "Society" crimes
Answer: B
Q2) All of the following are new branches of criminology except one. Which is the exceptio?
A) Terrorism studies
B) Crimes against human rights
C) Green criminology
D) Genocide studies
Answer: B
Q3) The term criminology
A) Refers to the body of knowledge regarding crime as a social phenomenon.
B) Only encompasses the breaking and reaction to the breaking of laws.
C) Refers to the study es of the effects of culture on crime and criminals.
D) Refers to established rules of behaviour or standards of conduct.
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: The Origins and Role of Law in Society
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Q1) The state form of social organization first arises in:
A) hunter-gatherer societies
B) pastoral societies
C) agricultural societies
D) industrial societies
Answer: C
Q2) Which of the following persons declared him/herself the "supreme Landlord" of all of England?
A) William the Conqueror
B) Henry VIII
C) Pope Pius I
D) Queen Elizabeth I
Answer: A
Q3) Free trade zones:
A) strengthen regulation of corporations
B) must have a Charter of worker's rights and freedoms
C) reduce taxation and regulation of corporations
D) strengthen environmental protection
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Criminal Law
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Q1) The Supreme Court of Canada recently ruled that extreme drunkenness could be used as a defence
A) only for a provincial offence.
B) only for crime which require specific intent
C) for all crimes if it can be proven to be extreme.
D) for sexual assault against women
Answer: B
Q2) If you do not look at the evidence presented to you and question the facts,you are committing the mental element of
A) Negligence
B) Mistake of fact
C) Intention
D) Wilful blindness
Answer: D
Q3) If you have committed a crime and have used a defence of duress,you were:
A) threatened with death or grievous bodily harm.
B) forced to act based on forces of nature or emergency.
C) not in control of your mental state
D) extremely provoked into retaliation and lost self control
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Counting Crime
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Q1) Canada's most reliable crime statistics are probably those regarding:
A) reported crime
B) sentences
C) corrections
D) victimization
Q2) In the 1960s and 1970s social scientists began to suggest that offical records of crime:
A) were basically good measures
B) were systematically biased
C) were poor measures of how the criminal justice system works to create crime
D) covered only small parts of the country
Q3) If a researcher divides the amount of crime by the population size and multiplies it by 100 000,they are studying the:
A) validity of crime
B) reliability of crime
C) methodology of crime
D) crime rate
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Chapter 5: Correlates of Criminal Behaviour
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Q1) According to the Toronto Youth Crime and Victimization Survey:
A) Asian youths were more likely to report gang membership while Black students reported the highest levels of drug and alcohol use.
B) Black youths were more likely to report gang membership while white students reported the highest levels of drug and alcohol use
C) White youths were more likely to report gang membership while black students reported the highest levels of drug and alcohol use
D) Black youths were more likely to report gang membership while Asian students reported the highest levels of drug and alcohol use
Q2) Which of the following countries had the highest had the highest homicide rate in 2005?
A) United States
B) England and Wales
C) Canada
D) Japan
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Chapter 6: Feminism and Criminology
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Q1) In her writing on the aftermath of the Montreal Massacre,Dana Bronson indicated that she was fearful primarily because:
A) Governments do not take sexual assault seriously enough
B) The police do not protect women enough
C) Universities are supposed to be places of ideas and change
D) There was a lot of pent up anger and hatred against women expressed
Q2) Which of the following terms does not fit with the perspective of gendering crime?
A) accomplishing femininity
B) pattern of practice
C) the violent woman
D) hegemonic masculinity
Q3) In the liberal approach,the finding that women are more likely to be charged with shoplifting offences was explained with reference to their
A) biological makeup.
B) domestic instincts.
C) gender roles and socialization.
D) economic status.
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Chapter 7: Victimology, victim Services, and Victim Rights in Canada
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Q1) Restorative justice was pioneered internationally by
A) Mennonites from Canada
B) Quakers from Philadelphia
C) Aboriginals from Saskatchewan
D) The Manitoba government
Q2) How many of the six principles set out in the Ontario Police Services Act that structure 911 calls deal with victims of crime?
A) 0
B) 1
C) 3
D) 5
Q3) Which province was the first to provide compensation for victims of violent crime?
A) Nova Scotia
B) Saskatchewan
C) Quebec
D) Ontario
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Chapter 8: Early Theories of Criminology
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Q1) The Statistical School is important because:
A) it deals with individual offenders and not crime rates
B) it is an important expression of the Classical School
C) it emphasizes the psychological causes of crime
D) it focuses on structural features of society
Q2) I n 18 century England,as many as _______________________ offences were punishable by death.
A) 30 percent
B) 15 percent
C) 5 percent
D) 70 percent
Q3) In 18 century England,about ____________________ of death sentences were given for robbery and burglary.
A) 350
B) 500
C) 15
D) 25
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Chapter 9: Psychological Perspectives on Criminality
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Q1) A test of someone's physical reaction to a particular stimulus provides an examination of their:
A) subconscious guilt
B) psychoticism
C) autonomic reactivity
D) expressive orientation
Q2) Which of the following terms refers to a measurement of the extent to which an individual's physical organism reacts to external stimuli.
A) Operant pairing
B) Autonomic reactivity
C) Classical pairing
D) limpic response
Q3) Psychological theories of crime usually assume that:
A) behaviour is shaped by class and gender relations
B) genetic influence is greater than environmental influence
C) offenders have special traits and deficits
D) all criminal behaviour is curable
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Chapter 10: Strain Theories
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Q1) The condition known as microanomie is where an individual
A) places more value on self-interest than on collective values.
B) places less value on self-interest than on collective values.
C) places equal value on self-interest and collective values.
D) places interest in other peoples values and not their own.
Q2) Which of the following focuses on the inherent divisions of societies based on social inequality and the way these social diversions give rise to different and competing interests.
A) Strain theory
B) Consensus perspective
C) Conflict perspective
D) Anomie
Q3) In order to understand strain theories,it is important to distinguish between cultural factors and structural factors.A cultural factor would be:
A) blocked opportunity
B) inequality
C) racial discrimination
D) an emphasis on the pursuit of wealth
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Chapter 11: Conflict Theories
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Q1) George Vold explained that there are two general classes of group conflict that can result in criminal behaviour.He believed that
A) conflict between interest groups is a normal social process.
B) theories should focus on individual choices and responsibility for criminal behaviour.
C) there is no real democracy in organized political society
D) conduct norms clash on the border areas between distinct cultures .
Q2) Which of the following view(s)conflict as rooted in the very structure of capitalist society,and especially capitalist economic relations.
A) Thorsten Sellin
B) George Vold
C) Marxists
D) Chicago School
Q3) Honour crimes in Canada are best explained by :
A) socialist feminist theories
B) group conflict theories
C) cultural conflict theory
D) left realism
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Chapter 12: Contemporary Critical Criminology
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Q1) The work of Derrida on deconstruction
A) alerts critical criminologists to the many forms of power that are amassed and the role they play in the domination over and definition of criminalized classes.
B) revives the ethnographic tradition in criminology and directs it towards crime as a living experience.
C) understands criticism of the police actions and criminology.
D) provides critical criminologists a tool for evaluating what is hidden or unspoken with social life and criminal justice practices.
Q2) A methodological requirement that researchers immerse themselves in,where crime occurs in everyday world in order to better understand the ways in which crime is experience and interpreted by individuals is
A) soft city
B) risk
C) attentive gaze
D) adrenaline
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Chapter 13: Interactionist Theories
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Q1) Interactionist theory centers on:
A) the early stages of deviance.
B) the deviant interchanges people have with one another, and the meanings of these interchanges in the present, past, and future.
C) the study of how rules are applied to some people and not to others.
D) how a person lifestyle changes their behaviour and creates deviant behaviour.
Q2) Ethnomethodologists are interested in
A) how agents of social control and ordinary citizens make sense of deviants and deviant acts.
B) the deviant interchanges people have with one another, and the meanings of these interchanges in the present, past, and future.
C) the study of how rules are applied to some people and not to others.
D) how a person lifestyle changes their behaviour and creates deviant behaviour.
Q3) Which of the following best illustrates the concept of stigma?
A) being unemployed
B) being a drinker
C) being a prisoner
D) being a cocaine user
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Chapter 14: Social Control Theory
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Q1) The key element in Social Bond theories state that
A) lack of ties to the conventional order will increase the likelihood of association with deviant peers.
B) deviance will be highest in disorganized communities that lack social controls.
C) personal controls, particularly those provided by the family, are extremely important.
D) there are four elements of the social bond: attachment, commitment, involvement, and belief.
Q2) The "general theory of crime" (Gottfredson and Hirschi)argues that some people lack self-control because of:
A) poor or weak childhood socialization
B) anomie
C) strong unconventional bonds
D) differential association
Q3) Which author is NOT a control theorist?
A) Hirschi
B) Reiss
C) Nye
D) Glueck
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Chapter 15: Deterrence, routine Activity, and Rational
Choice Theories
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Q1) Who is (are)associated with environmental criminology?
A) Hindelang
B) the Brantinghams
C) Cohen and Felson
D) Linden
Q2) Which factor is taken for granted in their routine activities approach?
A) a motivated offender
B) police availability
C) a suitable target
D) lack of effective guardianship
Q3) Into which of Ronald Clarke's categories of situational crime prevention techniques does posting a "shoplifting is stealing" sign fit?
A) Increase the effort
B) increase the risks
C) reduce the rewards
D) remove excuses
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Chapter 16: Organized Crime
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Q1) A recruit attempting to join an outlaw motorcycle gang is referred to as a(n)
A) Striker
B) outlaw
C) one-percenter
D) filthy few
Q2) Ethnic succession theory is based on
A) strain theory
B) social control theory
C) differential association theory
D) deterrence theory
Q3) All of the following are terms for a member of a mafia family EXCEPT
A) associate
B) wise guy
C) made guy
D) good fellow
Q4) Prohibition in the United States is used as an example supporting the ideas of:
A) alien conspiracy theory
B) ethnic succession theory
C) public policy impetus
D) economic theories
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Chapter 17: Corporate and White-Collar Crime
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Q1) White-collar crime that is committed by an individual exclusively for personal gain is known as
A) Occupational crime
B) Conventional crime
C) Organized crime
D) Political crime
Q2) The fact that top members of a corporation do not know about the criminal activity engaged in for the benefit of the corporation is known as:
A) executive disengagement
B) juristic person
C) anti-trust violation
D) criminogenic market
Q3) The concept of a "juristic person" refers to:
A) equality before the law
B) the concept of intention or mens rea
C) judges and other members of the court
D) the legal principle that businesses are to be treated as individuals
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