CRI1103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Police Misconduct, Indigenous Rights, Moral Panic
Revision – Week 13
1) Critical and reflective criminologies that challenged correctionalism and the conservative nature of
so-called mainstream criminology emerged in the 1970s, in response to political struggles about issues
such as:
a. Prison abolition and police misconduct
b. Indigenous rights, racism and women’s liberation
c. Both a and b
d. Neither a nor b
2) In criminology, the realist approach adopts the view that crimes that are undetected and unreported
need to be uncovered. By contrast, the critical realist approach focuses on:
a. Supplementing official statistics
b. The idea that crime is a ‘social process’
c. The problem of bias, in that some people are designated ‘criminals’ while others are not
d. Uncovering the process whereby crimes against the most vulnerable are ignored or under-
represented
3) One of the key elements of a moral panic is:
a. An abundance of example instances of the crime presented by media
b. Benign threats treated as real threats
c. Containment of the crime in a particular local area
d. Disproportionality of public concern over the behaviour
4) The way crime is reported by the media is said to be influenced by three (3) constraints. These are:
a. Financial constraints; technical constraints; ideological constraints
b. Technical constraints; practical constraints; ideological constraints
c. Technological constraints; practical constraints; philosophical constraints
d. Type of media; type of crime; type of journalist
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5) Classical theory views criminality as:
a. The responsibility of the society as a whole
b. Enacted by an individual but the responsibility of society
c. A choice made by a rational, reasoning individual
d. A choice made by society in defining certain behaviours as criminal
6) In terms of response to crime, positivist approaches tend to focus on:
a. Punishment to fit the crime
b. Punishment to keep the community safe
c. Individual treatment and rehabilitation
d. None of the above
7) Labelling perspectives:
a. Are closely associated with interactionist theories
b. Argue that crime only really exists when society labels an activity as criminal
c. Attempt to give a processual account of crime to account for how crime and deviancy are created
d. All of the above
8) The term ‘secondary victims’ refers to people who:
a. Were the victim of a crime against property rather than a crime against the person
b. Suffered loss or harm (e.g., trauma) as a result of a crime that they witnessed or that a friend or
family member experienced
c. Suffered as a result of a friend or family member of theirs committing a crime
d. None of the above
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