Exam 3: General Characteristics of Crime and Criminals

The "age/crime" debate refers to the debate surrounding ______.

Explain what we can learn from international comparisons of crime rates, as well as some of the challenges in making these comparisons.

List the two leading rival hypotheses regarding the relationship between media and crime.

Briefly describe the relationship between gender and crime.

The trend that poverty increasingly takes place within female-headed households is referred to as feminization of poverty.

Juvenile delinquency tends to decrease in times of war.

Crime rates are difficult to compare cross-nationally due to all of the following except ______.

This type of crime tends to increase in periods of prosperity and to decrease during periods of depression.

During war, domestic crime rates tend to decline.

Which of the following variables is related to an increase in crime rates?

Statistics regarding crime and delinquency are easily measured.

Crime has in the past been primarily intraracial in nature.

Race is as crucial an explanatory variable in traditional crime commission as social class.

Explain what is presently known about the relationship between age and crime rates. Be sure to discuss possible explanations for this relationship.

According to the text, rates for ______ were the highest in the South.

The proposal that racial discrimination in sentencing is most prevalent among the least serious crimes, in cases where the judge has more discretion, is known as the liberation hypothesis.

Age is the best predictor of criminality across time and place.

Urban recorded crime rates are generally lower than rural crime rates.

The age-crime debate is a disagreement among criminologists whether all "mature out of crime" or whether some remain career criminals.

What is presently known regarding the relationship between exposure to media violence and crime rates?