Chapter 6 Practice Quiz

Crime and Violence
. What are the two categories that criminologists put criminal behavior into?

. Compared to 25 years ago, crimes are:

. There was a major decrease in crime severity from:

. Which is an example of a conventional crime?

. Which is NOT an example of a non-violent crime?

. What is white-collar crime?

. Which sociologist was one of the first to carry out systematic research on business and especially corporate crime?

. Where is organized crime most common?

. Differential association helps explain why:

. According to Statistics Canada how many people accused of violating the Criminal Code are female?

. It is hard to measure the total number of crimes in Canada because both police reporting and self-reporting are incomplete.

. Conventional crimes are the most frequently reported crimes.

. Homicide can be divided into three categories: murder, manslaughter, and assisted murder.

. Men are more likely than women to be involved in a homicide.

. There are two kinds of business crime: corporate crime and suite crime.

. Organized crime is a departure from social life; it operates in its own vacuum of knowledge.

. In Canada, men commit far more crimes than women.

. The gender gap in who commits crime is not universal. It varies depending on the type of crime that is committed.

. Domestic violence is considered a type of interpersonal violence.

. Within the Canadian Criminal Code there are three levels of assault.

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