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Crim Final Exam #2

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1.
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People with low self-control tend to be
2.
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According to ____________ theories, crime is a socialized behavior.
3.
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When we interview actual participants and/ or witnesses to a violent event to gather information about violence we are using the __________ paradigm.
4.
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In the ___________ paradigm, we expose two matched groups in a highly controlled setting, to two sets of conditions, one of which is calculated to arouse violence and the other not.
5.
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Individuals with low self-control have ___distinct traits.
6.
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Violent crime in the US has been significantly increasing throughout the past decade.
7.
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Which of the following is NOT one of the primary agents of socialization?
8.
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__________ is the state of mind with which an act is done.
9.
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The experimental approach is probably the best and most productive paradigm for studying violence, especially the more extreme forms.
10.
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Lombroso theorized that people become criminal because of _______.
11.
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Biological explanations for violence are widely accepted by criminologists.
12.
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Strain theories propose that individuals are generally hedonistic seeking their own pleasure.
13.
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Which of the following is NOT characteristic of naturalistic observation?
14.
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Which type of coping in Agnew's strain theory might result in criminal behavior as an attempt to alleviate the source of the strain?
15.
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There was a significant increase in the number of hate groups in the U.S between 2010 and the present.
16.
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The drug least likely to be associated with violence is _________.
17.
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Operationalizing means defining a variable or concept through a measurement.
18.
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Specific definitions are an individual's own beliefs and attitudes toward certain behaviors.
19.
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Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of psychopathy?
20.
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In recent years, the number of terrorists attacks has been decreasing but the number of individual dying in these attack has been increasing.
21.
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Using Fromm's definition of "aggression" and "violence", identify which of the examples below would qualify as violence and not aggression?
22.
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Two hormones that have been the focus of research on aggression are ________ and ____________.
23.
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What percentage of the US population can be diagnosed as psychopaths?
24.
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The compelling flaw with identical twin studies as a method for assessing the genetic impact on behavior is that
25.
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The most harmful substance in terms of yearly deaths is _____________.
26.
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According to psychoanalytic perspective, our personality is comprised of _______ main components.
27.
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According to self-control theory, self control stays relatively stable after the age of
28.
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The drug most commonly linked with violence is __________.
29.
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The evidence rather clearly indicates that people who are mentally ill tend to commit less violent offenses than those who are not mentally ill.
30.
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Strain that produces the emotion of _________ is most likely to lead to crime including violence.
31.
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Which of the following is NOT a necessary component in relation to defining aggression/ violence?
32.
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Using official statistics (archival data) would fall under the ___ paradigms for gathering data about violence.
33.
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Which of the following statements is NOT true of rape?
34.
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Sociological models emphasize the social characteristics or the social environment of a person rather than the individual's biology, personality, or developmental history.
35.
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What was the term the Lombroso used to refer to the less-evolved individuals?
36.
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What was the term that Lombroso used to describe the less-evolved physical characteristics found among criminals?
37.
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Researchers have not been able to establish a link between the nutrition of an expectant mother and the later likelihood of her child's involvement in antisocial behavior including violent behavior.
38.
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Which type of coping in Agnew's strain theory is most commonly characterized by a tendency to reinterpret the strain-producing situation in a positive rather than negative manner?
39.
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Self control theory cannot be used to explain victimization.
40.
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Personality disorders are defined as rigid and maladaptive ways of dealing with the world.
41.
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Psychological theories have always been closely tied to the idea of ________________.
42.
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They psychiatric disorder that has been most commonly associated with criminal behavior in general and violence in particular is ___________.
43.
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The primary cause of crime/violence in Freudian psychology is a dominant id.
44.
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Self-control theory was developed by
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Erich Fromm distinguished between "aggression" and violence" claiming that violence results in destruction while aggression does not.
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