Skip to main content
United States
Jump To
Support
Register or Log In
Support
Register or Log In
Instructors
Browse Products
Getting Started
Students
Browse Products
Getting Started
Multiple choice questions: Chapter 09
Return to Criminology student resources
Multiple choice questions: Chapter 09
Quiz Content
*
not completed
.
Before the notion of 'childhood' was socially constructed, how were children viewed in pre-Industrial Revolution society?
As innocent and dependent children
correct
incorrect
As little adults working and socializing with older adults
correct
incorrect
As teenagers and youths who were more developed than children but less developed for adults
correct
incorrect
As older versions of the child
correct
incorrect
*
not completed
.
Which historian is credited with the claim that childhood is a modern invention?
Peter King
correct
incorrect
Howard Becker
correct
incorrect
Roger Smith
correct
incorrect
Philippe Aries
correct
incorrect
*
not completed
.
What is the current minimum age of criminal responsibility in England and Wales?
10 years old
correct
incorrect
12 years old
correct
incorrect
14 years old
correct
incorrect
17 years old
correct
incorrect
*
not completed
.
How did G. Stanley Hall famously describe the developmental stage of adolescence?
Fight and flight
correct
incorrect
Nature and nurture
correct
incorrect
Storm and stress
correct
incorrect
Age and rage
correct
incorrect
*
not completed
.
How could strategy theories of youth offending be categorized?
Individual attributes
correct
incorrect
Psychodynamic factors
correct
incorrect
Social and structural influences
correct
incorrect
They cannot be categorized
correct
incorrect
*
not completed
.
Which of these terms are associated with developmental life course explanations of youth offending?
Transitions
correct
incorrect
Turning points
correct
incorrect
Pathways
correct
incorrect
Rational choice
correct
incorrect
*
not completed
.
What is the dominant category of explanatory theory in the field of youth offending/youth justice?
Positivism
correct
incorrect
Reductionism
correct
incorrect
Classicism
correct
incorrect
Constructivism
correct
incorrect
*
not completed
.
What is the nature of influence that a risk factor has on later offending, according to developmental theorists?
Causal
correct
incorrect
None
correct
incorrect
Predictive
correct
incorrect
Symptomatic
correct
incorrect
*
not completed
.
The concept of responsibilisation places excessive responsibility on which group for the causes of youth offending and the success of responses to it?
Police
correct
incorrect
The general public
correct
incorrect
The government
correct
incorrect
Young people and their families
correct
incorrect
*
not completed
.
What is the legal term for the presumption that children below a certain age are not necessarily capable of discerning between right and wrong?
Carpe diem
correct
incorrect
Caveat emptor
correct
incorrect
Doli incapax
correct
incorrect
Habeas corpus
correct
incorrect
Previous Question
Submit Quiz
Next Question
Reset
Exit Quiz
Review & Submit
Submit Quiz
Are you sure?
You have some unanswered questions. Do you really want to submit?
Back to top
Printed from , all rights reserved. © Oxford University Press, 2024
Select your Country