Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. Durkheim’s theory of the functional necessity of crime proposes that wrongdoing or crime serves to force societal members to react, condemn, and thus establish the borders of society and reconfirm its values.
2. Status offenses generally refer to offenses punishable by a year or more in a state or federal prison.
3. A purist legal view of crime would define it as violation of criminal law
4. The law contains penal sanctions enforced by punishments administered by the state.


1. True
2. False
3. True
4. True

Criminal Justice

You might also like to view...

When inmates “seek positions of power, influence and sources of information” to obtain goods and services they have been denied, they have adopted the ______.

a. convict code b. mature coping strategy c. convict subculture d. status of double deviant

Criminal Justice

During an investigation, police officers seize evidence after forcible entry into a suspects home without first obtaining a warrant. When the case went to trial, the judge did not admit this evidence. Which of the following does this exemplify?

A. exclusionary rule B. Terry doctrine C. search and seizure D. probable cause

Criminal Justice

In SPSS, the range, variance, and standard deviation functions are located under the ______ formula tab.

A. range B. compute C. analyze D. execute

Criminal Justice

The Oklahoma Department of Corrections is testing a GPS-based monitoring system that uses GIS (geographic information system) to better assess an offender's location known as:

A) ?GeoShadow. B) ?Geocaching. C) ?Graphic Inmate Reception. D) ?Oklahoma Geographic Inmate Location (OGIL). E) ?Geospatial Monitoring.

Criminal Justice