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Ebook Canadian Criminology Today Theories and Applications Canadian 5Th Edition Schmalleger Test Bank Full Chapter PDF
Answer: a
Diff: 1
Type: TF
Page Reference: 141
Skill: Recall
2) Sexual sterilization laws in Alberta and British Columbia resulted in the sterilization of
almost 3000 citizens between 1928 and 1972.
a. True
b. False
Answer: a
Diff: 1
Type: TF
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Skill: Recall
Answer: a
Diff: 1
Type: TF
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Skill: Recall
4) Atavism refers to the belief that criminals are physiological throwbacks to earlier
stages of human evolution.
a. True
b. False
Answer: a
Diff: 1
Type: TF
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Skill: Recall
Answer: a
Diff: 2
Type: TF
Page Reference: 142
Skill: Recall
Answer: b
Diff: 2
Type: TF
Page Reference: 144
Skill: Recall
Answer: a
Diff: 1
Type: TF
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Skill: Recall
Answer: a
Diff: 1
Type: TF
Page Reference: 147
Skill: Recall
Answer: b
Diff: 2
Type: TF
Page Reference: 148
Skill: Applied
10) The offender who is "thin and fragile" is an ectomorph, according to William H.
Sheldon.
a. True
b. False
Answer: a
Diff: 1
Type: TF
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Skill: Recall
Answer: b
Diff: 1
Type: TF
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Skill: Recall
12) Some studies have implicated food additives, such as the flavour enhancer
monosodium glutumate, dyes, and artificial flavourings in producing criminal violence.
a. True
b. False
Answer: a
Diff: 2
Type: TF
Page Reference: 149
Skill: Applied
13) Low brain levels of serotonin have been linked to impulsive crimes.
a. True
b. False
Answer: a
14) The term criminaloids was a term coined by Cesare Lombroso to describe occasional
criminals who were pulled into criminality primarily by environmental influences.
a. True
b. False
Answer: a
Diff: 1
Type: TF
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Skill: Recall
Answer: a
Diff: 1
Type: TF
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Skill: Recall
16) Sociobiology may be defined as the systematic study of the biological basis of all
social behaviour.
a. True
b. False
Answer: a
Diff: 1
Type: TF
Page Reference: 160
Skill: Recall
17) Prior to the theory of phrenology, it was believed that personality was determined by
different organs in the body.
a. True
b. False
Answer: a
Diff: 1
Type: TF
Page Reference: 143
18) Criminal anthropology may be defined as the scientific study of the relationship
between human physical characteristics and criminality.
a. True
b. False
Answer: a
Diff: 1
Type: TF
Page Reference: 143
Skill: Recall
19) According to Ernst Kretschmer, offenders who were classified as schizoid were likely
to commit non-violent offences.
a. True
b. False
Answer: a
Diff: 1
Type: TF
Page Reference: 147
Skill: Recall
20) Society tends to shy away from biological explanations of criminality and disordered
behaviour because of concern with concepts such as “genetic determinism,” which have
come to be seen as synonymous with inevitability since the physical makeup of a person
is hard to change.
a. True
b. False
Answer: a
Diff: 1
Type: TF
Page Reference: 141
Skill: Recall
21) Dizygotic twins are twins who develop from a separate ovum and carry the genetic
material shared by siblings.
a. True
b. False
Answer: a
Diff: 1
Type: TF
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22) Open inquiry, as C. Ray Jeffrey notes, requires objective consideration of all points
of view, and an unbiased examination of each for its ability to shed light upon the subject
of study. Thus biological explanations for criminality must be considered.
a. True
b. False
Answer: a
Diff: 2
Type: TF
Page Reference: 141
Skill: Recall
23) Murder data has demonstrated that men commit more murders than women and
subsequently we can conclude that men are genetically predisposed to commit acts of
interpersonal violence.
a. True
b. False
Answer: b
Diff: 2
Type: TF
Page Reference: 158
Skill: Recall
24) According to biological theories of crime causation, observed gender and racial
differences in rates and types of criminality may be at least partially the result of
biological differences between the sexes and between racially distinct groups.
a. True
b. False
Answer: a
Diff: 1
Type: TF
Page Reference: 141
Skill: Recall
25) Aboriginal people are over-represented throughout the criminal justice system in
Canada.
a. True
b. False
Answer: a
Diff: 1
Type: TF
Answer: a
Diff: 1
Type: TF
Page Reference: 160
Skill: Recall
27) A “supermale” has been defined as a male individual displaying the XYY
chromosomal structure.
a. True
b. False
Answer: a
Diff: 1
Type: TF
Page Reference: 156
Skill: Recall
Answer: b
Diff: 1
Type: MC
Page Reference: 148
Skill: Recall
29) According to Cesare Lombroso, a wide variety of bodily features can be deemed to
be predictive of criminal behaviour. Which of the following traits would best predict a
violent criminal career according to Lombroso?
a. A diseased personality
b. Exceptionally long arms, an index finger as long as the middle finger, and large teeth
c. Having friends who were criminals
d. Being unemployed and panhandling in the streets
Answer: b
Diff: 2
Type: MC
Page Reference: 145
Skill: Applied
30) Which of the following foods or additives has NOT been implicated in the production
of criminal violence?
a. Coffee
b. MSG
c. Processed foods
d. Artificial sweeteners
e. Fruits and vegetables
Answer: e
Diff: 1
Type: MC
Page Reference: 149-150
Skill: Recall
31) The studies of the Juke and Kallikak families emphasized ________ as the primary
source of criminality.
a. Environment
b. Ecology
c. Genetics
d. physical shape
e. psychology
Answer: c
Diff: 2
Type: MC
Page Reference: 155
Skill: Recall
32) A condition characterized by low blood sugar and said to reduce the mind's capacity
to effectively reason or to judge the long-term consequences of behaviour is known as
________.
a. Testosterone
b. Eugenics
c. Hypoglycemia
d. Supermale
e. hyperglycemia
Answer: c
33) Konrad Lorenz’s greatest contribution to the study of human behaviour may have
been his claim that all human behaviour is, to at least some degree,
_______________________________.
a. ectomorphic behaviour
b. endomorphic behaviour
c. adapted instinctive behaviour
d. the born criminal tendency
e. social environmentalist preconditioning
Answer: c
Diff: 1
Type: MC
Page Reference: 142
Skill: Recall
34) Studies of ________ twins, that is, those which develop from the same egg and carry
virtually the same genetic material, tend to support the notion that criminal tendencies are
inherited.
a. schizoid
b. dizygotic
c. born criminal
d. monozyotic
e. adopted
Answer: d
Diff: 1
Type: MC
Page Reference: 157
Skill: Recall
35) ________ is the systematic study of the biological basis of all social behaviour.
a. Sociobiology
b. Phrenology
c. Positivism
d. Somatotypology
e. Criminal anthropology
Answer: a
Diff: 1
Type: MC
Page Reference: 160
36) Although ________ recognize social factors in the development of personality, they
suggest that constitutional factors predispose a person to specific types of behaviour and
that societal reactions to such predispositions may determine, to a large degree, the form
of continued behaviour.
a. Cesare Lombroso and Ernst Kretschmer
b. James Q. Wilson and Richard J. Herrnstein
c. James Q. Wilson and Johann Gasper Spurzheim
d. Konrad Lorenz and William Sheldon
e. Charles Darwin and Konrad Lorenz
Answer: b
Diff: 1
Type: MC
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Skill: Recall
Answer: e
Diff: 1
Type: MC
Page Reference: 162
Skill: Recall
38) According to Lombroso, women exhibit far less anatomical variation than do men but
he also insisted that criminal behaviour among women, as among men, derived from
____________ foundations.
a. Somatotype
b. Hedonistic
c. Atavistic
d. YYX
e. phrenologistc
Answer: c
Diff: 2
Type: MC
Page Reference: 145
Skill: Recall
39) Constitutional factors which James Q. Wilson and Richard J. Herrnstein cite as
contributing to crime include: age, body type, intelligence, personality, and ________.
a. Upbringing
b. Gender
c. Educational attainment
d. Crowding
e. socioeconomic status
Answer: b
Diff: 1
Type: MC
Page Reference: 162
Skill: Recall
40) According to a recent study published by Swiss researchers, a small protein called
oxytocin, better known as the ________, appears to make people more trusting.
a. labeling hormone
b. trust hormone
c. atavistic hormone
d. criminogenic hormone
e. juke hormone
Answer: b
Diff: 1
Type: MC
Page Reference: 155
Skill: Recall
41) ________ made the claim that sociobiology is a branch of evolutionary biology and
modern population biology.
a. James Q. Wilson
b. Konrad Lorenz
c. Richard J. Herrnstein
d. Edward O. Wilson
e. Cesare Lombroso
Answer: d
Diff: 2
Type: MC
Page Reference: 160
Skill: Applied
42) Ernst Kretschmer identified ________ as a mixed grup of offenders who are highly
emotional and often unable to control themselves, and who primarily committed sexual
offences and other crimes of passion.
Answer: c
Diff: 1
Type: MC
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Skill: Recall
Answer: a
Diff: 1
Type: MC
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Skill: Recall
44) ________ is the concept used by Cesare Lombroso to suggest that criminality is the
result of primitive urges which survived the evolutionary process.
a. Ectomorph
b. Criminaloid
c. Schizoid
d. Cycloid
e. Atavism
Answer: e
Diff: 1
Type: MC
Page Reference: 144
Skill: Recall
45) Aggressive behaviour has been linked to ________, a male sex hormone.
a. Hypoglycemia
b. Phrenology
c. testosterone
d. somatotype
e. serotonin
Answer: c
Diff: 1
Type: MC
Page Reference: 152
Skill: Recall
46) The study of crime and criminals through the application of scientific techniques is
referred to as ________.
a. Positivism
b. Somatotypology
c. Displastics
d. Sociobiology
e. phrenology
Answer: a
Diff: 1
Type: MC
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Skill: Recall
Answer: e
Diff: 2
Type: MC
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Skill: Applied
Answer: d
Diff: 1
Type: MC
Page Reference: 143
49) According to Lombrosso, offenders who commit crimes because of poverty would be
classified as ________.
a. Criminaloids
b. born criminals
c. social offenders
d. Criminalistic
e. insane criminals
Answer: a
Diff: 2
Type: MC
Page Reference: 145
Skill: Applied
50) According to Sheldon's somatotypes, the ________ body type is most likely to be
associated with delinquency.
a. Endomorph
b. Ectomorph
c. Mesomorph
d. Balanced
e. Delinquent
Answer: c
Diff: 1
Type: MC
Page Reference: 148
Skill: Recall
51) In the 1920s and early 1930s the ________ movement resulted in the frequent
sterilization of mentally handicapped women.
a. feeble-mindedness
b. Cycloid
c. Somatotype
d. eugenics
e. Monozygotic
Answer: d
Diff: 1
Type: MC
Page Reference: 156
Skill: Recall
52) Research studies have found in animal studies that a link exists between low levels of
____________ in the brain and aggressive behaviour.
Answer: a
Diff: 2
Type: MC
Page Reference: 154
Skill: Recall
53) According to a large study conducted by Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck, the body type
that William Sheldon identified as the ___________ was confirmed.
a. Endomorph
b. ectomorph
c. mesomorph
d. biological siblings
e. adoptive siblings
Answer: c
Diff: 2
Type: MC
Page Reference: 148
Skill: Recall
54) According to William Sheldon's somatotypes, the ____________ body type exhibited
a temperament that was restrained and introverted.
a. ectomorph
b. endomorph
c. Mesomorph
d. balanced
e. adopted
Answer: a
Diff: 2
Type: MC
Page Reference: 148
Skill: Recall
55) Hormones such as cortisol and the thyroid hormone T3 have been implicated in
delinquency and poor ______________.
a. eating habits
b. impulse control
c. artistic ability
d. study habits
Answer: b
Diff: 2
Type: MC
Page Reference: 154
Skill: Recall
56) The proportion of homicides committed by men versus women has ______________.
a. remained more or less constant for decades
b. increased significantly for decades
c. decreased significantly for decades
d. has increased incrementally over only the last 30 years
e. has decreased continuously over the past 50 years
Answer: a
Diff: 2
Type: MC
Page Reference: 158
Skill: Recall
57) What are the two central principles upon which positivism is built?
Answer:
Positivism believed in two central principles: first, an unflagging acceptance of social
determinism, or the belief that human behaviour is determined not by the exercise of free
choice but by causative factors beyond the control of the individual, and, second, the
application of scientific techniques to the study of crime and criminology.
Diff: 2
Type: ES
Page Reference: 144
Skill: Recall
58) To date, nearly 200 studies exist researching the “supermale” phenomenon or the
XYY supermale. Although not all researchers agree, taken as a group these studies tend
to show that supermales have what five common characteristics?
Answer:
The nearly 200 studies concluded that supermales have the following characteristics: (1)
taller than average height (often 6 feet 1 inch or taller); (2) acne and other skin disorders;
(3) below-average intelligence; (4) over-representation in prisons and mental hospitals,
and; (5) family tree with above-average history of crime or mental illness.
Diff: 2
Type: ES
59) According to the text, criticisms of sociobiology can be grouped into four central
themes. List these four themes.
Answer:
Criticisms included charges that: (a), sociobiology fails to convey the overwhelming
significance of culture, social learning, and individual experiences in shaping the
behaviour of individuals and groups; (b) sociobiology is fundamentally wrong in its
depiction of the basic nature of human beings – there is no credible evidence of
genetically based or determined tendencies to act in certain ways; (c) sociobiology is just
another empirically unsupported rationale for the authoritative labelling and
stigmatization of despised, threatening, and powerless minorities, and; (d) human beings
are so thoroughly different from other animal species, even other primates, that there is
no rational basis for the application to humans of findings from animal studies.
Diff: 2
Type: ES
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Skill: Recall
The child does not at first discriminate colors, but later realizes
distinctions permanently existent. The child does not at first realize
the force of the abstract idea of right; but, when the idea appears, it
is not so much an evolution as a realization in the process of
evolution of the child’s consciousness. In the development of life on
the earth a time came when human beings realized the existence
and obligation of right as a new idea to them, not one “compounded
of many simples.” However produced, we may suppose that when it
appears it is a unique thing, a binding and divine thing, a thing
carrying with it all the implications of the Kantian philosophy—God,
Freedom, and Immortality.
How religion, philosophy, ethics, maxims of experience, dictates of
prudence proclaim to the ear of the youth the necessity of realizing in
idea and practice a progressive, upward tendency of character! Vice
is not a realization, but degeneration. Vice paralyzes the will,
paralyzes the intellect, paralyzes the finer emotions, paralyzes the
body, deadens the conscience to all that is positive and worthy. Men
often regard only the larger duties, but character is often made by
the sum of little duties performed. We are ready to use great
opportunities only when we have trained our powers by diligent
performance of humble work. Carlyle says: “Do the Duty which lies
nearest thee, which thou knowest to be a Duty! Thy second Duty will
already have become clearer.”
It broadens our view of religion to hold that the divine impulse
works in all men, and leads them toward truth; that no age or people
has been left in utter darkness; that there is something common to
all religions; and that in time God’s full revelation will come to all
nations.
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