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Criminology Test
Test Your Knowledge
The following questions have been compiled using material from several of the criminology courses taught at Douglas College. The subject matter covers many areas including policing, courts and corrections, as well as prevailing theories of human behavior and interdynamics, and criminal justice policies and statistics.
True or False
- Most young people who commit a crime will continue committing crimes until they are caught and punished.
- Raising maximum penalties for offenses will deter people from committing crimes.
- Most crime victims have been harmed by acts of violence.
- Most victims of violent crimes tell the police about the incidents.
- Women are more likely than men to be victims of crime.
- Violent crime almost always involves strangers.
- A low visibility offence has a high dark figure.
- There is a universal definition of crime.
- The majority of murder cases go unsolved in Canada.
- Most psychopaths have superior language ability.
- Criminal psychopaths manifest an abnormal balance between the two cerebral hemispheres.
- All psychopaths are left-handed.
- The owner of a car who is a passenger with a drunk driver is liable for impaired driving along with the driver
- The Charter of Rights and Freedoms represents a shift in power from the courts to Parliament.
- Crime rates increase as one moves east to west.
- Most young offenders commit violent crimes.
- Violent and property crimes are higher in urban areas.
- Canada currently has one of the highest rates of incarceration in the western world.
- Most offenders who are incarcerated have read and know all of the relevant legislation as it applies to them.
- The most common sentencing option used by Canadian judges is probation.
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