AOJ Test 2 Complete Study Guide and Administration of Justice Practice
Questions Revision Notes
TRUE - correct answer ✔✔One of the few accepted facts of criminology is that crime peaks in
late adolescence and declines through adulthood
TRUE - correct answer ✔✔Career criminals present a distinct crime pattern that features
continued lawbreaking well into adulthood
TRUE - correct answer ✔✔Desistence occurs when adults social bonds, such as parenthood, are
formed.
TRUE - correct answer ✔✔Edwin Sutherland's The Professional Thief followed the career of one
professional criminal.
TRUE - correct answer ✔✔The first Philadelphia cohort study uncovered a small group of
offenders who were responsible for most of the crimes committed by the entire cohort.
FALSE - correct answer ✔✔The Second (1958) Philadelphia cohort included fewer chronic
offenders than the first.
TRUE - correct answer ✔✔All of the cohort studies discussed in the text revealed that a small
group of chronic offenders was responsible for the bulk of crime committed.
FALSE - correct answer ✔✔The federal inmates interviewed b the ATF were convinced of the
deterrent effect of the mandatory sentence for possessing firearm.
FALSE - correct answer ✔✔Research on California's "three strikes" law shows that it has
achieved its goal of reducing the crime rate through selective incarceration of chronic offenders.
, FALSE - correct answer ✔✔According to the 1958 Philadelphia birth cohort study, the pattern of
crime among female chronic offenders is virtually identical to male chronic offenders.
the effects of life events of the development of criminal career. - correct answer ✔✔What does
the life-course criminology perspective seek to understand?
The roll of parenting and parental skills - correct answer ✔✔Which of the following is a focus in
rehabilitation for life-course theories such as Moffitt's dual taxonomy and Sampson and Laub's
age-graded theory of informal control?
All of the choices are correct - correct answer ✔✔Why is age the centerpiece of career criminal
research?
Social bonds - correct answer ✔✔According to Sampson and Laub, what accounts for criminality
over the life span?
Case study - correct answer ✔✔What type of study is Sutherland's classic work, The
Professional Thief?
Share a set of norms that govern their behavior - correct answer ✔✔According to Sutherland,
professional thieves:
Someone who buys and sells stolen good - correct answer ✔✔What is a fence?
all of the choices are correct - correct answer ✔✔Which of the following is a positive effect of
home visiting programs?
Questions Revision Notes
TRUE - correct answer ✔✔One of the few accepted facts of criminology is that crime peaks in
late adolescence and declines through adulthood
TRUE - correct answer ✔✔Career criminals present a distinct crime pattern that features
continued lawbreaking well into adulthood
TRUE - correct answer ✔✔Desistence occurs when adults social bonds, such as parenthood, are
formed.
TRUE - correct answer ✔✔Edwin Sutherland's The Professional Thief followed the career of one
professional criminal.
TRUE - correct answer ✔✔The first Philadelphia cohort study uncovered a small group of
offenders who were responsible for most of the crimes committed by the entire cohort.
FALSE - correct answer ✔✔The Second (1958) Philadelphia cohort included fewer chronic
offenders than the first.
TRUE - correct answer ✔✔All of the cohort studies discussed in the text revealed that a small
group of chronic offenders was responsible for the bulk of crime committed.
FALSE - correct answer ✔✔The federal inmates interviewed b the ATF were convinced of the
deterrent effect of the mandatory sentence for possessing firearm.
FALSE - correct answer ✔✔Research on California's "three strikes" law shows that it has
achieved its goal of reducing the crime rate through selective incarceration of chronic offenders.
, FALSE - correct answer ✔✔According to the 1958 Philadelphia birth cohort study, the pattern of
crime among female chronic offenders is virtually identical to male chronic offenders.
the effects of life events of the development of criminal career. - correct answer ✔✔What does
the life-course criminology perspective seek to understand?
The roll of parenting and parental skills - correct answer ✔✔Which of the following is a focus in
rehabilitation for life-course theories such as Moffitt's dual taxonomy and Sampson and Laub's
age-graded theory of informal control?
All of the choices are correct - correct answer ✔✔Why is age the centerpiece of career criminal
research?
Social bonds - correct answer ✔✔According to Sampson and Laub, what accounts for criminality
over the life span?
Case study - correct answer ✔✔What type of study is Sutherland's classic work, The
Professional Thief?
Share a set of norms that govern their behavior - correct answer ✔✔According to Sutherland,
professional thieves:
Someone who buys and sells stolen good - correct answer ✔✔What is a fence?
all of the choices are correct - correct answer ✔✔Which of the following is a positive effect of
home visiting programs?
