NOUN TMA Questions and Solutions – CSS133, Introduction To Criminology I

1 the feminist believes that crime is a result of ……………………………

economic disadvantage

2 sociologists see the breakdown of …………. as the underlying cause of social problems

social norms

3 crime is a violation of ………………………

criminal law

4 Durkhiem identified two types of societies, these are ………… And organic solidarity

mechanical solidarity

5 law is an act or ommission in violation of criminal law committed without defence or justification and sanctioned by the state as a felony or misdemeanor. This definition was given by …………..

Paul Tappan

6 ………………… Are approved ways of behaviour which are passed from one generation to

Folkways

7 the norms that are looked upon by the members of a society or a group within the same society as being extremly important and the violation of which will normally result in severe punishment from the society or group is called ………………..

more s

8 the three elements of social norms are folkways, ……………. And laws

mores

9 high division of labour is a charcteristic of …………………… Society

organic

10 little division of labour is a characteristic of ……………… Society

mechan ical

11 she also claims that social, economic and ……………. Liberation of women will lead to an increase in traditional …………..behaviour

masculin e

12 transgressors of mores face the inposition of shame, ostracism and sometimes ……………….

exile

13 according to Emile Durkhiem (1893), crime is as a result of a neccesssary consequence of the existence of a collecctively supported

moralit y

14 the feminist crime according to her arises out of frustrations sub-service and …………….

dependency

15 in the course of definig crime, emile durkhiem divided law into 2 parts; criminal laws and………….

civil administra tive laws

16 A violator of folkways undergoes a ……………….. Where he viiolates the expected social behaviours of defined roles

culture shock

17 deviance on the other hand is the violation of folkways and…………….

mores

18 social norms are concrete behavioural rules or guidelines that specify appropriate and ……………… behaviour

inappropri ate

19 a violation of criminal law constitutes a violation of the …………………..

collective conscience

20 the feminist school of thought is championed by a briton called …………..

Carol Smart