CRI1103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Malum Prohibitum, Property Crime, Peer Pressure
Revision – Week 12
1) Crime is:
a. Important as it indicates the boundaries of acceptable and unacceptable behaviour
b. Something that can vary from society to society and over the course of human history
c. An inevitable, although regrettable, phenomenon
d. All of the above
2) Crimes that are considered mala prohibita, or wrong by virtue of prohibition are also known as:
a. Public-order offences
b. Morality-based crime
c. Victimless crimes
d. All of the above
3) Decisions in Australia in the past about which drugs are bad have been made:
a. Neutrally
b. Politically
c. Scientifically
d. Medically
4) Beside the fact that production or sale of prohibited drugs is a crime, the relationship between taking drugs
and committing crimes clearly suggests:
a. That people commit crime (e.g., property crime) to support a drug habit
b. That people commit crime (e.g., property or violent crime) because of decreased inhibitions associated with
drug taking
c. That the relationship is mediated by social factors such as peer pressure (e.g., to take drugs before doing a
burglary) or social characteristics (e.g., a history of abuse or neglect)
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