Chapter 10 Practice Test Questions

Access to Safety
  1. Define the terms “victimization” and “criminal victimization.” What is the difference between the two? What are some examples?
  1. What is “residential instability”? What is its relationship to crime?
  1. Explain why higher rates of criminal victimization are experienced by each of the following groups.
    • homeless people
    • racialized people
    • LGBTQ+ people
    • low-income people
    • Indigenous Peoples
    • young people
    • women
    • people who live in residential institutions
  1. How are higher rates of criminal victimization among certain populations explained by each of the following theories?
    • structural functionalism
    • conflict theory
    • feminist theory
    • symbolic interactionism
  1. How can crime be described as a consequence of inequality, and how does it perpetuate inequality?
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