Criminal Justice 1)What term refers to the means the absence or weakness of rule

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Criminal Justice

1)What term refers to the means the absence or weakness of rules and social norms in any person or group, which without these rules or norms, an individual may lose the ability to distinguish between right and wrong?

a)early onset

b)strain

c)state dependence

d)anomie

2)The cornerstone of the American criminal justice system is the idea that people make the willful decision to commit a crime. This is the underpinning of which theory of crime?

a)social conflict theory

b)differential association theory

c)life course theory

d)choice theory

3)Frank is arrested for vandalizing a car for the third time. His defense attorney claims that Frank saw his older brother and friends vandalizes cars from a very young age. Which theory of crime is the attorney relying on to explain Frank's behavior?

a)choice theory

b)latent trait theory

c)differential association theory

d)social control theory

4)Jared decides not to engage in the frequent gang fights in his neighborhood because his parents would be disappointed in him. Which theory of crime best explains his behavior?

a)latent trait theory

b)choice theory

c)social learning theory

d)social control theory

Explanation / Answer

Ans 1 . d) Anomie

The term Anomie was used by Emile Durkheim. Dukheim was a sociologist according to whom crime was an essential part of the society which was resulted as an outcome of the internal conflict. he described anomie as an derangement and an unsatiable will.

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