CRJ 308: Advanced Criminological Theories Quiz

Question or Hint Answer or Word
  1. At what age does the age-crime curve peak? 17 (wrong answers: 18, 21, 16)
  2. What scholar(s) argued that children who manifest conduct problems during childhood are the same ones who manifest delinquency during their teens? Gottfredson and Hirschi (wrong answers: Patterson, Moffitt, Sampson and Laub)
  3. Moffitt's Life Course Persistent/Adolescence Limited Theory argues that offending is marked by Continuity or change (wrong answers: gender, race, age)
  4. What does LCP stand for? Life Course Persistent (wrong answers: Loud Children Playing, Life Course Player, Light Cream Please)
  5. What does AL stand for? Adolescence Limited (wrong answers: Antisocial Lifestyle, Affecting Limits, Antisocial Learning)
  6. True or False Sampson and Laub used the Social Bond Theory? True (wrong answers: False, False)
  7. According to the Age-Graded Theory of Informal Social Control, strong ______ ______ underlie change. social bonds (wrong answers: parent connection, family ties, cultural connection)
  8. True or False Maruna was interested in why some offenders had desisted from crime, whereas others had not. True (wrong answers: False, False)
  9. Giordano et al. states that offenders are intentional and _______. reflective (wrong answers: cognitive, destructive, allusive)
  10. True or False Parent training is not an effective way of preventing crime False (wrong answers: True, True)

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