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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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An initial action committed by an individual is called
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These theorist claim that the mesomorphic body types were more likely to___
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A violation of criminal law constitutes a violation of the
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The major branches of criminology are penology, victimology, criminalistic, empiricle research, method of investigation 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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Shaw and Mckay are of the view that___ influence individual behaviour to either commit crime or abstain from crime
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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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High division of labour is a charcteristic of ____ Society
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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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Deviance on the other hand is the violation of folkways and
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Strain theory portrays a deviant as a person torn between___
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Empiricle research is done for analysing with regards to arrest, convictions and sentencing
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Criminology is best seen as a social science which is concerned with the aspects of___
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Stigmatization leaves the deviants with the impression that he is bad, and so he does ______
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Cesare Lombroso argued that criminals are born__
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To study crime, the criminologist tries to identify the individual and the
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The marxist beleives that crimnal behaviour arises from the wider ________ Or social structure of politiccal economy
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Crimes are classified according to the ___ of the offence
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Criminal justice administration involves the courts, police and ________
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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 social reaction to the initial action is called
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Sutherland and Crassey defined criminology as the body of knowledge regarding _________ and _________ as social phenomena
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Differential association theory is refered to as the___
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Living a conventional life involving acceptance of both cultural goals and cultural means depicts___
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Categories of crime are; victimless crimes, property crimes and___
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A violator of folkways undergoes a __Where he viiolates the expected social behaviours of defined roles
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Criminalistics is the methods of investifation and
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The interractionist criminology is based on the basis of Erving___Analysis of crime
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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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The question often asked in criminology is "why do some peole commit crime and ________
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The major player in the Marxist school of thought is___
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It can be deduced from the definition of the functionalism that crime is blamed on the
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Differential association theory was propounded by___
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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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The concept of alienation was used by___
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The attempt to achieve a culturally approved goal by unconventioanl means is called___
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Social norms are concrete behavioural rules or guidelines that specify appropriate and __behaviour
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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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Persons whose actions gave way for the conditions of their victimization are refered to as ___
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The three elemments of social norms are folkways, __and laws
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Three basic body types were distinguished as signs of criminality, these are; mesomorphs, ectomorphs and___
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The term Con-men in crime refers to ___
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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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The theory of human ecology was postulated by___
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A violation of criminal law constitutes a violation of the collective____
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__is always the result of deviant behaviour
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The control theory of crime was propounded by___
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Offences universally accepted everywhere and at all times as crime is called___
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Symbolic interractionism is based on the study of ___ And ___
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