1. Which of the following was not one of the three types of crimes outlined by Beccaria.

Crimes that involved no victims other than society

Crimes that ran contrary to the social order

—>> Crimes that injured citizens or their property

Crimes that threatened the security of the state

Mens rea, or criminal intent, is required to establish ……

—>> innocence

Culpability

rationality

liability

Which criminal justice perspective emphasizes the efficient arrest and conviction of criminal offenders …..

—>> Crime-control model

Due process model

Interactionist model

Administrative model

The text focuses on the ……and their interactions with criminal law in its attempts to explain criminal behavior

legal mechanisms of society

—>> social sciences

country’s interest in crime

scientific reports

Which of the following are functions of law..

defining parameters of private and public property

regulating social relationship such as marriage

maintaining the status quo and power relationships

—>> all of the above

6. Research by ….. found that a small number of chronic recidivists were responsible for a large majority of serious violent crime

Marvin Wolfgang

—>> Marcus Felson

Jack Katz

Ronald V. Clarke

If a person commits arson and the death of another results from it, even though s/he had no intent to cause the death of anyone, s/he may be charged with murder under the

irresistible impulse doctrine

—>> felony-murder doctrine

the Durham rule

direct responsibility rule

Which of the following categories of punishment might include the loss of the right to vote.

chronic

compulsive

—>> indelible

restrictive

A crime must be proven

by a preponderance of the evidence

by clear and convincing evidence

—>> beyond a reasonable doubt

beyond all doubt

The argument that crime is not a result of poverty or social conditions and therefore cannot be affected by social programs was made by.

—>> Lawrence Cohen

David Fogel.

Ronald V. Clarke

James Q. Wilson

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