Which of the following sources provide information about crime in society?

Related Mcqs:

1. Which of the following sources provide information about crime in society?

   A. The media
   B. Personal expenses
   C. Crime statistics, research data such as that found on the internet
   D. All of the above

2. According to French and Raven’s (1959) five sources of power, which of the following combinations of types and sources of power are correct?

   A. Legitimate power is weeded by someone whose persuasiveness, popularity or charisma lead others to accede to his/her wishes or suggestions
   B. Expert power results from access to knowledge and information, so the computer wizard often gains considerable power in an organization
   C. Reward power is the power to force others into action or inaction by the threat of punishment such as delaying the payment of expenses claims
   D. Referent power comes from position in the hierarchy and is imposed by authority

3. In the British Crime survey, who had high levels of worry about burglary and violent crime?

   A. Professionals
   B. Women
   C. Men
   D. Those over 75 years- of age

4. The process by which members of a society are taught how behave and feel by influential members of that society is referred to as:

   A. Role ambiguity
   B. Socialization
   C. Hawthorne effect
   D. Social roles
   E. normative influence

5. A theory that children develop a cognitive framework reflecting the beliefs of their society concerning characteristics and roles of males and females, and affecting the processing of new social information is known as:

   A. Gender identity theory
   B. Gender schema theory
   C. Gender constancy
   D. sex role theory

6. All of the following are some of the major sources of work stress EXCEPT ___________?

   A. Little control
   B. Shift work
   C. High decision latitude
   D. Discrimination

7. The percentage of people who report being a victim of particular sort of crime in the previous year is known as the_____rate, as it opposed to the frequency of crimes being committed in one year which is known as______rates.

   A. prevalence; prevalence
   B. victim; criminal
   C. incidence; prevalence
   D. prevalence; incidence

8. Crime is a____product.

   A. legislative
   B. individual
   C. criminal
   D. social

9. The efficiency of memory can be increased if we organize information so that the amount of information in each unit increases while the number of separate units decreases. This process is called _________________?

   A. chunking
   B. rehearsal
   C. encoding
   D. retrieval

10. ______ receive information from other neurons; _________ transmit information other neurons.

    A. synapses, cell bodies
    B. Dendrites, axon buttons
    C. Axon buttons dendrites
    D. Axon; cell bodies