Practice Test Two

Directions: Below are 15 multiple-choice questions to give you an idea of what the questions are going to look like on the second test.  The questions are based upon your lectures, but are not meant to be comprehensive.  Click here for the answers.

1. Positivism refers to uncovering underlying rules and regulations that create and maintain _________ phenomena. 
a. uniform patterns of
b. scientific
c. socialized

2. According to __________ witches can raise storms, cause sterility, bring down lightening, effect court decisions, transport themselves at will and cause death in general.  They can have sex with demons and produce demon children. 
a. Harry Potter and Yellow Toilet
b. Red Storm Sinking
c. the Malleus Maleficarum

3. _______ referred to a mark of identification made by the devil to seal a compact.  The mark is not always the same shape or in the same place.  Often it is located in a hidden part of the body such as under the eye lid or armpit.
a. Devil’s mark
b. Satan’s seed
c. Toe corns

4. The _________ suggests that the effects of consuming bad mushrooms, herbs like deadly nightshade or henbane, or bufotenine from the skin of some toads could have affected people’s minds and contributed to the “witch craze” phenomena of Europe.
a. disease theory
b. drug theory
c. mass hysteria theory

5. __________ advocates manipulating the authority and resources of the criminal justice system to achieve cultural or social goals.
a. social justice
b. cumulative justice
c. representative justice

6. According to ____________, criminals are organically inferior to non-criminals. He explained criminal behavior as the result of environmental pressures imposed upon a low-grade human organism.
A. Earnest T. Bass
B. Earnest Hooton
C. Yu Bee Hooton
D. Thomas Lydian

7. _________ holds that criminals go through some rational process in determining whether to commit a crime or not.
a. rational choice
b. existentialism
c. conflict

8. ___________ a relative preponderance of mesoderm tissue: they are bulky and often commit physically oriented crimes.
A. Ectomorphs
B. Endomorphs
C. Mesomorphs

9. __________ killers are thrill seeking murders who get excitement and
sometimes sexual pleasure from their acts.
a. visionary
b. mission-oriented
c. hedonistic

10. _______ formulated a body type/criminal correlation theory in his book "Varieties of Delinquent Youth" in 1949. His approach expanded on the work of Kretschmer who identified three distinct body types common among criminals.
A. Idi Amimean
B. Clark Kent
C. William Sheldon
D. Tyrone Powers

11. ________ are individuals which extensive development of the digestive viscera. They have a tendency to put on weight easily.
A. Ectomorphs
B. Endomorphs
C. Mesomorphs

12. In its most simplistic terms, ___________ is the doctrine that human decisions should promote good consequences for the largest amount of the population.
A. utilitarianism
B. Existentialism
C. Conflict

13. ______________ cues refers to the extent to which the burglar could be observed in the target home by neighbors or passersby during the commission of the crime.
a. surveillability
b. accessibility
c. occupancy

14. People determine their actions based upon evaluations made from ascertainable facts that could predict levels of pain and pleasure which vary from individual to individual. This variance required what Bentham called a ____________.
A. Modem of individuality
B. Base line level of prediction
C. Interpersonal comparison of utility

15. __________ were those people who had inferior biological characteristics that, when combined with the social rigors of modern society, increased their probability to violate the law. These people were considered evolutionary throwbacks which were designed for a more simple and brutal world.
A. Yuppies
B. ciminaloids
C. born criminals