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The eighteenth century understanding of crime emphasises the omnipresent temptation to which all human kind was
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The three elemments of social norms are folkways, __and laws
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In the course of defining crime, Emile Durkhiem divided law into 2 parts; criminal laws and
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An example of victimless crime is___
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Three basic body types were distinguished as signs of criminality, these are; mesomorphs, ectomorphs and___
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Stigmatization leaves the deviants with the impression that he is bad, and so he does ______
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Another name for "undetected offender infact" is criminals___
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Persons who have not been known or detected are refered to as criminals___
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To study crime, the criminologist tries to identify the individual and the
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__is always the result of deviant behaviour
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A person who has suffered from emotional, psychological, economic and social loss is called__
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Offences universally accepted everywhere and at all times as crime is called___
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Criminology means the scientific understanding of ___and ___
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An initial action committed by an individual is called
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Strain theory portrays a deviant as a person torn between___
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The proponent of the feminist perspective is__
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The question often asked in criminology is "why do some peole commit crime and ________
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The feminists are of the view that crime arises from___
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A student who knows that he/she has an examination but goes to night parties instead of reading and decided to cheat in order to pass is refered to as a___
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Some criminals are clasified as _______ by the positivist school of thought
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Persons who have violated the criminal law by engaing in muder etc are called__
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The major player in the Marxist school of thought is___
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Anomie as a concept was used in relation to the causes of crime by__
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are approved ways of behaviour which are passed from one generation to another
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The major branches of criminology are penology, victimology, criminalistic, empiricle research, method of investigation and ________
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Criminology is best seen as a social science which is concerned with the aspects of___
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Sociologists see the breakdown of ________ as the underlying cause of social problems
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Cesare Lombroso (1836- 1909) was credited for his develoopment of___
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Technically, crime is composed of two elements; the act itself and ___
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Instinct gratification represents the _______ of the sub concious mind
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Victimology is the study and ______ of victims of crime
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Penology is the study of penal sanctions or ______
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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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Criminologists usually focus more on 'how, and why' Crimes are committed rather than __And providing proof of guilt
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Where criminal youths are closely connected with adult criminals, it is said to be a criminal___
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The term Con-men in crime refers to ___
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The labelling approach to crime is also based on the assumption of _______
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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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Transgressors of mores face the inposition of shame, ostracism and sometimes
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Vulnerable group of the victim of crime refers to___
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Criminal justice administration involves the courts, police and ________
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Physiological, psychological social as well as _factors are important in determing why an individual comits crime
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Symbolic interractionism is based on the study of ___ And ___
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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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Theoretical basis of the school of thought in criminology can be grouped under; psychoanalysis, functionalism,marxism, feminism and ___________
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Categories of crime are; victimless crimes, property crimes and___
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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 most significant of the classical school of thought was the idea of _____
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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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It can be deduced from the definition of the functionalism that crime is blamed on the
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