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This test bank with solution provides a structured collection of practice questions designed to support learning from Criminal Behavior: A Psychological Approach (Updated Edition) throughout the 2025/ 2026 academic cycle. It covers essential forensic psychology topics including theories of criminal behavior, personality disorders, cognitive influences, antisocial behavior, psychological profiling, and criminal decision-making using clear, exam-focused explanations. Learners can strengthen understanding of criminal psychology and behavioral analysis through targeted practice questions aligned with coursework and exam expectations. The resource supports improved performance in psychology programs, forensic studies, and examinations by reinforcing key concepts in the psychological study of criminal behavior.

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Criminal Behavior: A Psychological Approach
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CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION TO CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR




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Criminal Behavior: A Psychological Approach
11th Edition

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CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION TO CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR




Multiple Choice
1. Criminal behavior is best defined as:
a) antisocial behavior.
b) deviant behavior
behavior.
c) an intentional act in violation of a criminal code.
d) behavior that impedes the criminal process.
e) forbidden behavior.
Answer: c

2. Psychological criminology focuses on how individual criminal behavior is:
a) acquired.
b) evoked.
c) maintained.
d) a and c only.
e) all of the above.
Answer: e

3. The narrow range of offenses that do not require criminal intent are called:
a) non-index crimes.
b) unintentional offenses.
c) Part II crimes.
d) status offenses.
e) strict liability offenses.
Answer: a

4. Which of the following is least consistent with the developmental approach in the study of
crime?
a) Searching for factors that place a child at risk of engaging in serious delinquency
b) Identifying the age of onset of antisocial behavior



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CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION TO CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR


c) Searching for protective factors in a child’s life
d) Obtaining a child’s IQ score as he or she enters adolescence
e) Examining a child’s pre-school experiences.
Answer: d

5. According to the author, our inability to prevent crime is largely due to:
a) a declining interest in the field of criminology.
b) the difficulty in defining the term “crime”.




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INTRODUCTION TO CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR


c) the complexity of the issue.
d) the paucity of experts studying crime.
e) the lack of funding available for research.
Answer: c

6. The belief that most people deserve the misfortune that happens to them is known as the:
a) fairness doctrine.
b) equal justice doctrine.
c) rationalizing attitudes.
d) just-world hypothesis.
e) self-fulfilling prophecy.
Answer: d

7. Which one of the following would psychological criminology be most concerned with?
a) Demographic features of offenders who participate in burglary.
b) How violent individuals learn their aggressive behavior.
c) The gender of murder victims.
d) The time of day when burglary most often occurs.
e) The unequal power distribution between various members of society.
Answer: b

8. 3. Serious criminal offenders often present with cognitions.
a) contracted
b) distorted
c) dominant
d) erotic
e) subversive
Answer: b

9. is to positivist theory as is to classical theory.
a) Determinism; free will
b) Jurisprudence; behavior
c) Cognition; biology
d) Biology; environment
e) Predictability; prevention


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