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Cesare Lombroso (1836- 1909) was credited for his develoopment of___
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Penology deals with an aspect of the criminal justice process known as___
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Some criminals are clasified as _______ by the positivist school of thought
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Strain theory portrays a deviant as a person torn between___
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Penology is the study of penal sanctions or ______
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Offences that are pronounced illegal because the laws of a particular society have declared it so, is called___
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The branch of criminology that is concerned with the scientific study of victims is called__
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Psychoanalysis theory opined that Crime is as a result of ____ Factors
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The eighteenth century understanding of crime emphasises the omnipresent temptation to which all human kind was
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A person who has suffered from emotional, psychological, economic and social loss is called__
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According to Emile Durkhiem (1893), crime is as a result of a neccesssary consequence of the existence of a collecctively supported
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The term Con-men in crime refers to ___
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The attempt to achieve a culturally approved goal by unconventioanl means is called___
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Theoretical basis of the school of thought in criminology can be grouped under; psychoanalysis, functionalism,marxism, feminism and ___________
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Victims who are regarded by the larger society as fullfldged members but are discriminated against are called socieconomically__
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In the above definition the emphasis is on the function of law and the efficacy of the administration of justice in the _And control of crime
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Sutherland and Crassey defined criminology as the body of knowledge regarding _________ and _________ as social phenomena
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One of the authors of the psychoanalytic theory is
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Deviance on the other hand is the violation of folkways and
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Criminal justice administration involves the courts, police and ________
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An initial action committed by an individual is called
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The central point of the symbolic interractionist theory is that criminal behaviour should be regarded not so much in terms of what it means to others and society in general but what it means to the _____
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A violation of criminal law constitutes a violation of the
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The theroy of punishment in the 18th century stated that punishment should be __With crime committed
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The labelling approach to crime is first based on the assumption that for someone to be called deviant, that person must have broken a _________
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The interractionist theorists believe that behaviour should be regarded not so much in terms of what it means to others and society in general but what it means to ___
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Instinct gratification represents the _______ of the sub concious mind
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Categories of crime are; victimless crimes, property crimes and___
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If the id or superego over powers the mediating force occurs
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Stigmatization leaves the deviants with the impression that he is bad, and so he does ______
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The three elemments of social norms are folkways, __and laws
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The interractionist criminology is based on the basis of Erving___Analysis of crime
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Social norms are concrete behavioural rules or guidelines that specify appropriate and __behaviour
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Skyes defines criminlogy as the study of the social origins of criminal law, the administration of criminal justice the causes of criminal behaviour and the _and control of crime
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The question often asked in criminology is "why do some peole commit crime and ________
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Differential association theory is refered to as the___
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Persons who have not been known or detected are refered to as criminals___
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Ceasare Lombroso is an___ Physician
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Crime is said to be functional when the society has a characteristics and proper actions of a social organization
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Differential association theory was propounded by___
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Persons whose actions gave way for the conditions of their victimization are refered to as ___
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Living a conventional life involving acceptance of both cultural goals and cultural means depicts___
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Marx claims that crime is the product of inadequate___
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The proponent of labelling theory is
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Little division of labour is a characteristic of Society
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Criminalistics is the methods of investifation and
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The concept of alienation was used by___
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Technically, crime is composed of two elements; the act itself and ___
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To study crime, the criminologist tries to identify the individual and the
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Criminology is best seen as a social science which is concerned with the aspects of___
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__is always the result of deviant behaviour
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Crimes are classified according to the ___ of the offence
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The psychoanalytic school believe that crime and delinquency are a consequence of imbalance between __Factors of the sub conciouse mind
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Another name for "undetected offender infact" is criminals___
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It can be deduced from the definition of the functionalism that crime is blamed on the
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Durkhiem identified two types of societies, these are __and organic solidarity
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Drop -outs, drug adicts and area boys can be likened to ___ according to the mode of individual adaptation
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Shaw and Mckay are of the view that___ influence individual behaviour to either commit crime or abstain from crime
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The feminist crime therefore arises from frustration, sub-service and___
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A violation of criminal law constitutes a violation of the collective____
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The major player in the Marxist school of thought is___
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An active player in the functionnalist school of thought is___
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The theory of human ecology was postulated by___
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The functionalist theory sees society as a___
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Social groups create deviance by making rules which if violated constitutes deviance and by attributing those reules to a particular person and labelling him as an
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Where criminal youths are closely connected with adult criminals, it is said to be a criminal___
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Sociologists see the breakdown of ________ as the underlying cause of social problems
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Stake in conformity' as a cause of crime was propounded by___
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Anomie as a concept was used in relation to the causes of crime by__
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These theorist claim that the mesomorphic body types were more likely to___
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