Yllana Bay View College

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Midterm Examination in Crim.2 (Theories of Crime Causation)

Directions: Read and understand the test. Write your answer in your booklet. Any forms of alterations,
erasures and tearing of booklet will be considered as wrong. Use black pen in answering the questions.

Test I. Simple Recall (2 points each)

Read carefully and give the answer correctly.
1. He is the contributor of Human Ecology Theory.
2. It explains that the absence of norms in a society provides a setting conductive to crimes and other anti-
social acts.
3. It refers to a normlessness society.
4. He is best known for Differential Association Theory.
5. He believed that criminal behavior is learned and not inherited.
6. He is an American Sociologist that was born on July 4, 1910 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
7. The failure of a man to achieve a higher status of life caused them to commit crimes in order for that
status/goal to be attained.
8. It is a category of anomie that explained when society fails to establish clear limits on goals and is
unable to regulate the conduct of members in the society.
9. It is a kind of strain caused in a large part of society, and result when society creates ideals and
individuals then struggle to meet these ideals.
10. It is a kind of strain caused by the person themselves, as they create their own ideals and then struggle to
meet them.
11. Refers to the study of the interrelationship of people and their environment.
12. He was a French sociologist, born in France in 1858.
13. He believed that crime is a natural thing in the society.
14. This theory believes that criminal behavior is learned in interaction with other persons in a process of
communication.
15. This theory believes that when you are under great pressure and frustration you will do all the means to
achieve your goals.

Test II. Enumeration (2 points each)

1-5. Famous Sociologists.
6-7. Specific categories of Anomie
8-9. Kinds of Strain.
10-12. Durkheim principles about Anomie Theory.
13-15. Principles of Criminology by Edwin H. Sutherland.
Test III. Essay
1. Explain briefly Anomie theory. (10 pts.)
2. Explain briefly Differential Association Theory. (10pts)
3. What is Strain Theory? (10pts)
4. What is General Strain Theory? (10 pts)

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