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

1. Critical criminology is consistent with a consensus worldview.
2. In mainstream criminology, the emphasis had been on the criminal rather than on the social control machinery.
3. Critical criminology focuses more on the criminal behavior than on the criminalization of behavior.
4. Critical criminology consists of a variety of perspectives that challenge basic assumptions of mainstream criminology.
5. Critical criminologists see themselves as champions of the underdog and sometimes as prophets of a new social order.


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

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Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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

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