Definition of crime Exam Questions and
Answers
1. What is crime? correct answer: Behaviour that is against the criminal law.
2. Can you name two constitutes to crime? correct answer: Time and culture bound.
3. Crime as a social construction? correct answer: There is no act that is, in itself, criminal - it
largely depends on how
others members of society see and define it.
4. What is deviance? correct answer: Refers to the rule breaking behaviour of some kind, which
tasks to conform to the norms and expectations of a particular society or social groups.
5. Can you name an example where an act could be both criminal and
deviant?-
correct answer: Battering an old lady to death. This would include punishment, such as imprisonment.
6. Can you name an example where an act can be criminal but not
deviant? correct answer: Male
manager wearing a dress to the oflce
Someone talking loudly in the middle of a concert
7. Can you name an example when an act can be criminal but not deviant?
correct answer: Break- ing the speed limit is a criminal ottence, but the majority of drivers do it
at some time or another
8. Deviance as a social construction? correct answer: What counts as deviance varies from
time to time, place to place and culture to culture
9. What are the two explanations for crime and deviance? correct answer:
Biological and psychological explanation
10. What do both of these approaches have in common? correct answer: All
have the view that people who engage in criminal activity are somewhat ditterent from the rest
of us.
11. Who argue that biological explanation were the reason why
people commit crime? correct answer: Cesare Lombroso
12. What did Cesare Lombroso believe that there was a biological
reason why people committed crime? correct answer: That criminal represented a primitive
or subhuman type of main characterized
by physical features
13. Can you name the features that Cesare Lombroso believe were
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Answers
1. What is crime? correct answer: Behaviour that is against the criminal law.
2. Can you name two constitutes to crime? correct answer: Time and culture bound.
3. Crime as a social construction? correct answer: There is no act that is, in itself, criminal - it
largely depends on how
others members of society see and define it.
4. What is deviance? correct answer: Refers to the rule breaking behaviour of some kind, which
tasks to conform to the norms and expectations of a particular society or social groups.
5. Can you name an example where an act could be both criminal and
deviant?-
correct answer: Battering an old lady to death. This would include punishment, such as imprisonment.
6. Can you name an example where an act can be criminal but not
deviant? correct answer: Male
manager wearing a dress to the oflce
Someone talking loudly in the middle of a concert
7. Can you name an example when an act can be criminal but not deviant?
correct answer: Break- ing the speed limit is a criminal ottence, but the majority of drivers do it
at some time or another
8. Deviance as a social construction? correct answer: What counts as deviance varies from
time to time, place to place and culture to culture
9. What are the two explanations for crime and deviance? correct answer:
Biological and psychological explanation
10. What do both of these approaches have in common? correct answer: All
have the view that people who engage in criminal activity are somewhat ditterent from the rest
of us.
11. Who argue that biological explanation were the reason why
people commit crime? correct answer: Cesare Lombroso
12. What did Cesare Lombroso believe that there was a biological
reason why people committed crime? correct answer: That criminal represented a primitive
or subhuman type of main characterized
by physical features
13. Can you name the features that Cesare Lombroso believe were
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