Seminar MCQs

Question 1

Which of the following is NOT an example of radical feminists’ attitudes towards prostitution?
a. Women’s bodies should not be commodified because serves to reaffirm male dominance over women
b. Using the term ‘sex work’ is obsuring the highlighting the violence, rapes etc that sex workers experience
c. Prostitution cannot be entirely consensual
d. Tend to be pro-aboiltion

Answer 1

b. Using the term ‘sex work’ is obsuring the highlighting the violence, rapes etc that sex workers experience

Question 2

Which of the following is NOT claimed to be a prostitution myth?
a. Prostitution is a victimless crime
b. Prostitution is a response to male sexual needs
c. Prostitution is the oldest profession
d. Prostitution is not a job like any other

Answer 2

d. Prostitution is not a job like any other

Question 3

Which of the following is NOT associated with Liberal and some feminist thinking?
a. Women have a right to choose what they do with their bodies, and it is not for the state to decide on that for them
b. Sex work is work, much like any other form of employment
c. Sex workers should have the same rights and protections as people in other jobs
d. Tend to be abolitionists

Answer 3

d. Tend to be abolitionists

Question 4

Which of the following is NOT illegal?
a. Kerb crawling
b. Owning or managing a brothel
c. Pimping
d. Exchange of sex for money

Answer 4

d. Exchange of sex for money

Question 5

Germany’s approach can be best understood as:
a. Harm reduction
b. Legislation
c. De-criminalisation
d. Nordic/sex buyer law

Answer 5

b. Legislation

Question 6

Coaffee (2004) identified 3 ‘rings’ to describe attempts to protect cities from terrorism. What does the ring of steel refer to?

Answer 6

The security and surveillance cordon consisting of road barriers, checkpoints and several hundred CCTV cameras surrounding the City of London

Question 7

How many theories of urban terrorism are there?

Answer 7

0

Question 8

The discussion of why cities are targeted as wickedness …

Answer 8

Henry Mayhew

Question 9

What estimated percentage of the global population will be living in urban areas by 2050?

Answer 9

70%

Question 10

Basic presumption of module:

Answer 10

Processes of urbanisation have been central to the history of criminological thought and continue to be so

Question 11

What, according to Henry Mayhew (1851-1862) distinguished ‘nomadic’ denizens of Victorian slum neighbourhoods from ‘the civilised man’?
a. Their passion for stupefying herbs and roots and for intoxicating liquors
b. Their search for regular and continuous labour
c. Their keen sense of propriety
d. Their commitment to learning and instruction

Answer 11

a. Their passion for stupefying herbs and roots and for intoxicating liquors

Question 12

What conditions of the working class in England did Frederick Engels (1845/1935) think were causes of crime in the ‘Great Towns’?
a. The absence of routine police patrols
b. The demoralising influences of poverty, dirt and low environment
c. Recruitment into street gangs
d. Lenient sentences for convicted offenders

Answer 12

b. The demoralising influences of poverty, dirt and low environment

Question 13

Why did the Chicago School think the ecology of the city would result in juvenile delinquency becoming a marginal, deviant, aspect of life in cities?
a. As cities grow there are more opportunities for the upward mobility of citizens out of socially disorganised neighbourhoods
b. As cities grow there are more resources available for intensive street policing
c. As cities grow citizens can afford greater private security
d. As cities grow there is greater wealth for investment in the punishment of juvenile delinquents

Answer 13

a. As cities grow there are more opportunities for the upward mobility of citizens out of socially disorganised neighbourhoods

Question 14

What, according to Mike Davis (1992), characterises the ‘ecology of fear’ in late-modern cities like Los Angeles?
a. Less use of imprisonment to control economically marginal populations
b. Increasing optimism about upward social mobility and crime control
c. A fortress mentality including the growing use of private security
d. Greater education, training, and employment opportunities for disadvantaged youth

Answer 14

c. A fortress mentality including the growing use of private security

Question 15

Given the advent of hyperconnected, ‘smart’, cities:
a. Criminology needs to appreciate the interplay of online and offline victimisation
b. High crime neighbourhoods are no longer a priority for criminology
c. Emergent technologies have no bearing on offline crime and control in cities
d. Street crime becomes the only focus of policing

Answer 15

a. Criminology needs to appreciate the interplay of online and offline victimisation

Question 16

What according to Bannister and Flint (2017), characterises the relationship between crime, civility and security in contemporary European cities?
a. Crime is falling but urban populations feel more insecure because of their limited interaction with people who are not already like themselves
b. Crime is increasing even though urban populations are becoming more civil to one another
c. Crime is increasing as incivility is increasing amongst populations
d. It is citizens’ direct experience of crime that determines their sense of security rather than the civility of their relationships with others

Answer 16

a. Crime is falling but urban populations feel more insecure because of their limited interaction with people who are not already like themselves