Criminal Psychology MCQs

What is the fear- victimization paradox?

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A. Those who fear crime the most tend to become the victims of crime
B. There is little, or no relationship between and individual’s risk of victimization and their level of fear of crime
C. It simply refers to the fear of being a victim of crime
D. It refers to the group of people who are least bothered by the risk of being “victimized

Moral panic is:

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A. an overreaction against an event, such as a type of crime, which is seen as a threat to society’s values
B. the view that the world is full of crime and violence
C. a concept applied to mugging
D. a study of youth crime in Britain

As the evidence accumulates, a broad consensus has been reached regarding the characteristics of treatments that impact on offending. But which of the following is actually one of those characteristics?

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A. Indiscriminate targeting of treatment programs helps to reduce recidivism
B. The type of treatment program is important, with stronger evidence for unstructured behavioral and multi- model approaches
C. The most successful studies behavioral in nature, include a cognitive component
D. The most effective programs have low treatment integrity