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Higher Education

Crime in Canadian Context, Third Edition: Chapter 1: Crime, Fear, and Risk

Instructions: For each question, click on the radio button beside your answer. When you have completed the entire quiz, click the “Submit my answers” button at the bottom of the page to receive your results.

Question 1:


a) the objectivist-legalistic approach
b) the social-reaction perspective
c) the moral-panic perspective
d) feminist criminology

Question 2:


a) objective-legalistic
b) classical school
c) biological
d) social-reaction

Question 3:


a) Criminal
b) Corporate
c) Administrative
d) Civil

Question 4:


a) remaining static over time
b) an objective social fact
c) increasing as societies become more economically developed
d) a continuous variable

Question 5:


a) 1867
b) 1908
c) 1945
d) 1960

Question 6:


a) the ”war on drugs” in the USA (1980s)
b) the political unrest in several north African countries (2011)
c) the 9/11 terrorist attack in the USA (2001)
d) the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan (2011)

Question 7:


a) lobbyist
b) social activist
c) politician
d) moral entrepreneur

Question 8:


a) low-consensus crime and non-criminal deviance
b) high-consensus crime and criminal deviance
c) crimes committed by women
d) crimes committed by men

Question 9:


a) 2 years of house arrest
b) 25 years in prison
c) capital punishment
d) 5 years in prison

Question 10:


a) violent, sexual, and drug-related crime
b) terrorism
c) human trafficking
d) cyber crime