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The major player in the Marxist school of thought is___
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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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Sociologists see the breakdown of ________ as the underlying cause of social problems
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Technically, crime is composed of two elements; the act itself and ___
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Criminal justice administration involves the courts, police and ________
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The attempt to achieve a culturally approved goal by unconventioanl means is called___
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A violation of criminal law constitutes a violation of the
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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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Victimology is the study and ______ of victims of crime
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Penology deals with an aspect of the criminal justice process known as___
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Where criminal youths are closely connected with adult criminals, it is said to be a criminal___
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Crime is said to be dysfunctional when the society its capacity to provide for the well being of its memebrs
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The branch of criminology that is concerned with the scientific study of victims is called__
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High division of labour is a charcteristic of ____ Society
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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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are approved ways of behaviour which are passed from one generation to another
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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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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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Shaw and Mckay are of the view that___ influence individual behaviour to either commit crime or abstain from crime
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The major branches of criminology are penology, victimology, criminalistic, empiricle research, method of investigation and ________
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Stake in conformity' as a cause of crime was propounded by___
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The marxists believe that criminal behaviour arises from the wider social conditions or social structure of___economy
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Cesare Lombroso argued that criminals are born__
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The functionalists beleive that it is the abnormal functioning of the components of the society that leads to criminal behaviour
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Cesare Lombroso (1836- 1909) was credited for his develoopment of___
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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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The concept of alienation was used by___
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Living a conventional life involving acceptance of both cultural goals and cultural means depicts___
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Symbolic interractionism is based on the study of ___ And ___
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Deviance on the other hand is the violation of folkways and
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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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Criminology means the scientific understanding of ___and ___
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One of the authors of the psychoanalytic theory is
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Criminology is best seen as a social science which is concerned with the aspects of___
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The marxist beleives that crimnal behaviour arises from the wider ________ Or social structure of politiccal economy
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Persons whose actions gave way for the conditions of their victimization are refered to as ___
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Penology is the study of penal sanctions or ______
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The control theory of crime was propounded by___
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The component of the sub concious mind that mediates between the contrasting needs of the id and superego is
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The three elemments of social norms are folkways, __and laws
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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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Anomie as a concept was used in relation to the causes of crime by__
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Three basic body types were distinguished as signs of criminality, these are; mesomorphs, ectomorphs and___
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The main focus of the feminist criminologist is on the___
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The feminist crime therefore arises from frustration, sub-service and___
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Ceasare Lombroso is an___ Physician
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Crimes are classified according to the ___ of the offence
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_Is the process of tagging, defining, identifying, segregating, describing, emphasising and evoking the traits that are complained of
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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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The question often asked in criminology is "why do some peole commit crime and ________
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