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The norms that are looked upon by the members of a society or a group within the same society as being extremly important and the violation of which will normally result in severe punishment from the society or group is called
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To study crime, the criminologist tries to identify the individual and the
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Strain theory portrays a deviant as a person torn between___
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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 initial action committed by an individual is called
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A violation of criminal law constitutes a violation of the collective____
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The attempt to achieve a culturally approved goal by unconventioanl means is called___
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One of the authors of the psychoanalytic theory is
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The labelling approach to crime is also based on the assumption of _______
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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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Corrupt practices like bribery and extortion are criminal___
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It can be deduced from the definition of the functionalism that crime is blamed on the
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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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Deviance on the other hand is the violation of folkways and
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The three elemments of social norms are folkways, __and laws
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The componenet of the sub concious mind that represents morality and conscience is
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An example of victimless crime is___
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Persons who have been tried and convicted for particular offences by law courts whether or not the offenders have committed the offences alleged are called criminal by___
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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 differential association theorists beleive that criminal behaviour is a___
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The proponent of the feminist perspective is__
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___ criminology is the basis of Sigmund Freud's analysis of crime.
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Some criminals are clasified as _______ by the positivist school of thought
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Vulnerable group of the victim of crime refers to___
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Three basic body types were distinguished as signs of criminality, these are; mesomorphs, ectomorphs and___
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Instinct gratification represents the _______ of the sub concious mind
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Another name for "undetected offender infact" is criminals___
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The study that refers to how organisms of different species can live together to their mutual benefit is called___
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Cesare Lombroso (1836- 1909) was credited for his develoopment of___
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Criminality is used for behaviour that violates laws, while Perversion is assigned to behaviour that does not conform to
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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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The cultural transmission theory was postulated by___
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The proponent of labelling theory is
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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 functionalist theory sees society as a___
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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 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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Cesare Lombroso argued that criminals are born__
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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 psychoanalytic school believe that crime and delinquency are a consequence of imbalance between __Factors of the sub conciouse mind
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are approved ways of behaviour which are passed from one generation to another
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Persons whose actions gave way for the conditions of their victimization are refered to as ___
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Symbolic interractionism is based on the study of ___ And ___
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The control theory of crime was propounded by___
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These theorist claim that the mesomorphic body types were more likely to___
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A person who has suffered from emotional, psychological, economic and social loss is called__
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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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Living a conventional life involving acceptance of both cultural goals and cultural means depicts___
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The marxist beleives that crimnal behaviour arises from the wider ________ Or social structure of politiccal economy
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__is always the result of deviant behaviour
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