Part of the expanding PassProfessor catalog: This program is built — 983 original practice questions covering the full scope of a criminology course, organized chapter by chapter — and it opens soon. Join the notify list and we will email you the day it launches.
This program is part of the expanding PassProfessor catalog — join the notify list and we’ll email you when enrollment opens.
PassProfessor’s Criminology program is a chapter-simulation program for students taking a criminology course. You pick the course, then pick the textbook and edition your class uses, and the program builds chapter-based simulation exams optimized for that book’s chapter order — so the practice you do this week matches the chapter your instructor is teaching this week. The bank holds 983 original questions across 10 chapters plus three Criminology in Depth sets spanning the course’s theories and crime patterns, plus applied and synthesis sets, covering the foundations of criminology and the legal definition of crime, measuring crime and criminal behavior, victims and victimization, choice and trait theories, social structure theories, social process theories, critical, conflict, and feminist criminology, developmental and life-course theories, violent and property crime patterns, and enterprise, public-order, and cyber crime together with prevention and response. There is no licensing exam at the end of a criminology course — there is your instructor’s exam, chapter by chapter — and this program is built to rehearse exactly that.
PassProfessor’s Criminology program is a chapter-simulation program for the undergraduate criminology course: 983 original practice questions across 10 chapters plus three Criminology in Depth sets, an applied set, and a synthesis set, organized by textbook and edition so chapter drills and timed simulation exams match the chapter your instructor is teaching. It rehearses your instructor’s chapter tests and finals — there is no licensing exam for a college course — with results reported by chapter.
What this program is — and what it is not
It is a simulation of your course, not a licensing product. Licensing-exam prep rehearses one fixed, official exam. A college course works differently: your instructor chooses the textbook, sets the chapter order, and writes the exams. This program is designed around that reality. The textbook-and-edition selector aligns the simulations to the chapter sequence of the book your course actually uses, and chapter drills let you practice one chapter at a time, at the point in the semester when you need it.
It is not published, sponsored, or endorsed by any textbook publisher or author. PassProfessor is an independent study provider. The program is never branded or titled under a textbook’s name, and nothing in it reproduces textbook text, textbook figures, or a publisher’s test bank. Selecting your textbook only tells the program which chapter order to organize your practice around.
Every question is original. The bank was built from the published structure of a criminology course — the standard chapter sequence and topic scope the discipline itself uses — and every stem, scenario, and answer option was written from scratch and checked against verified disciplinary facts. Sources supplied facts and course structure only; the questions are ours.
What’s included
983 questions, organized the way your course is organized. The bank follows a 10-chapter structure that mirrors the standard criminology course, from foundations of criminology — crime, law, and the discipline through enterprise, public-order, and cyber crime, with prevention and response, plus three Criminology in Depth sets spanning the course’s theories and crime patterns, plus applied and synthesis sets. The full chapter-by-chapter breakdown is in the coverage table below.
Chapter drills. Practice a single chapter — only that chapter — until the misses stop repeating. Finished the social structure lectures? Drill that chapter until each theory’s prediction about neighborhoods and strain feels automatic. Victimization test in ten days? Work the victims chapter in sequence, the way your course presents it.
Chapter-based simulation exams. When a chapter test or a unit exam approaches, sit a timed simulation built from the chapters it covers, in the proportions your selected textbook’s organization suggests. Simulations draw questions you have not seen first, so a second or third run at the same chapter is a fresh test, not a memory exercise.
A textbook-and-edition selector. Different textbooks divide the same material into chapters differently — one book’s single chapter is another book’s two. When you select the textbook and edition your course uses, the program maps its bank onto that book’s chapter organization, so the chapter number in your practice means the same chapter in your syllabus.
Results broken down by chapter and topic. Your practice results report by chapter, so a weak area — say, measuring crime, or social process theory — shows up in your data while there is still time to fix it, not for the first time on a graded exam.
A note on editions and course versions. Instructors adopt different textbooks and different editions of the same textbook, and departments periodically revise the course itself. The bank’s organization follows the discipline’s standard chapter structure — the sequence the field itself teaches — and the selector maps that structure onto your edition’s numbering, so a chapter that your book splits in two, or merges into one, still lines up with the practice built for it. Where an instructor reorders chapters, chapter drills can be assembled in your course’s order; the practice follows the syllabus, not the other way around.
The course at a glance
Criminology has no single official exam, so there is no official exam-facts table to publish — your instructor’s syllabus is the authority for your course’s test dates, formats, and grading. What is standard is the scope of the discipline itself, summarized here as course background. For the full picture of what a criminology course covers and how to study it, see our Criminology study guide.
| Undergraduate criminology — the course this program simulates | |
|---|---|
| Course type | Undergraduate college course (the standard introductory criminology course in sociology and criminal justice programs; commonly taken by criminal justice, sociology, and pre-law students, often in the sophomore or junior year) |
| Standard scope | Foundations of criminology — crime, law, and the discipline; measuring crime and criminal behavior; victims and victimization; choice and trait theories of crime; social structure theories; social process theories; critical, conflict, and feminist criminology; developmental and life-course theories; violent and property crime patterns; enterprise, public-order, and cyber crime, with prevention and response |
| How the course is assessed | Instructor-set chapter tests, unit exams, and a final — formats and weights vary by instructor and institution |
| This program’s bank | 983 original questions across 10 chapters + Criminology in Depth, applied, and synthesis sets |
| Program format | Chapter drills and chapter-based simulation exams, organized by your selected textbook/edition |
How the practice maps to the course
Every question in the bank carries the chapter it belongs to. Counts below are the bank itself, counted question by question from the delivered file — they sum to 983.
| Chapter | Practice questions |
|---|---|
| 1. Foundations of Criminology: Crime, Law, and the Discipline | 51 |
| 2. Measuring Crime and Criminal Behavior | 50 |
| 3. Victims and Victimization | 51 |
| 4. Choice and Trait Theories of Crime | 50 |
| 5. Social Structure Theories | 51 |
| 6. Social Process Theories | 51 |
| 7. Critical, Conflict, and Feminist Criminology | 51 |
| 8. Developmental and Life-Course Theories | 51 |
| 9. Violent and Property Crime Patterns | 51 |
| 10. Enterprise, Public-Order, and Cyber Crime; Prevention and Response | 50 |
| Criminology in Depth I | 102 |
| Criminology in Depth II | 97 |
| Criminology in Depth III | 84 |
| Applied Analysis | 102 |
| Synthesis and Integration | 91 |
| Total | 983 |
Depth follows the bank’s own structure: the Criminology in Depth I set and the Applied Analysis set (102 questions each) are the bank’s largest single sets, and the five layer sets together carry nearly half the bank’s weight — criminology is graded on applying theories to described cases and data, and the bank’s weight sits where the course’s finals sit.
How to use it
- Join the notify list today. When the program opens, set up your course first: select Criminology, then select the textbook and edition your syllabus names.
- Drill the chapter you are in. After each lecture block, drill that chapter while the material is current. Short, chapter-matched practice beats a single long session the night before the test.
- Watch your chapter breakdown. Your results show which chapters are costing you. Return to the weakest chapter’s drill before moving on — criminology builds theory on measurement — the data chapters define what counts as crime before the theory chapters try to explain it, and the crime-pattern chapters spend both, so an early gap about sources or definitions resurfaces wherever the course turns.
- Simulate before each graded test. In the days before a chapter test or unit exam, sit a timed simulation over exactly the chapters it covers. Practice the pacing and the question style, not just the facts.
- Use the integrated set before midterms and finals. The cross-chapter questions combine chapters the way cumulative exams do. They are the closest rehearsal for a final that reaches back to the start of the term.
Frequently asked questions
Is this a licensing exam prep program? No. Criminology is a college course, not a licensed credential, and there is no official criminology exam at the end of it. This is a chapter-simulation program: it rehearses the tests your own instructor gives, chapter by chapter, using original questions built to the standard scope of the undergraduate course.
How many practice questions are in the program? The bank holds 983 original questions: the 10 chapters of the standard course, three Criminology in Depth sets, an applied-analysis set, and a synthesis set. Every question is tagged to its chapter, so drills and simulations can be built over exactly the chapters your test covers.
Which textbook does the program follow? The program is organized around the standard chapter structure of the criminology course, and the textbook-and-edition selector maps the bank onto your book’s chapter order when you set up your course. No textbook is named, branded, or reproduced — the selector only aligns chapter numbering.
How is criminology different from criminal justice? Criminal justice studies the system — police, courts, corrections — and how it operates. Criminology studies the crime itself: what counts as crime, how much of it there is, who is victimized, and why offending happens. Programs require both, and this program serves the criminology side.
Does the program cover the major theories? Yes — the theory chapters and depth sets carry choice and trait accounts, social structure and social process theories, critical, conflict, and feminist criminology, and developmental and life-course theories, each drilled through described cases, the form your course’s exams use.
What are the Criminology in Depth, applied, and synthesis sets? Second-pass material. The Criminology in Depth sets revisit the course’s theories, measurement, and crime patterns in three layered sets at finer distinction; the applied set presents compact scenarios; the synthesis set combines chapters the way cumulative finals do — measurement limits inside theory testing, victimization inside prevention design.
Can I practice just one chapter? Yes — that is the core of the design. Chapter drills draw only from the chapter you select, and simulation exams can be built over any set of chapters, so your practice can match a single chapter test, a unit exam, or a cumulative final.
My course is called crime and society, or deviance. Is it the same course? Often closely related — titles vary by department, and emphasis varies by instructor: some sections weight theory more heavily, others patterns and policy. The bank’s chapter structure covers the shared core the introductory criminology course teaches under any of these names.
Does the program take a position on contested policy questions? No. The program teaches the discipline’s theories, measures, and patterns as course content — what each framework claims, what evidence it rests on, and where scholars disagree. Your instructor’s lectures govern the emphases and debates your own exams expect.
When can I start using the Criminology program? Soon — the 983-question bank is complete and quality-checked, and the program is in final preparation. Join the notify list on this page and we will email you the day it opens.
Disclaimer
PassProfessor is an independent exam-preparation and study provider, based in Salt Lake City, UT and operating entirely online. This program is study preparation only: it is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any textbook publisher, textbook author, college, university, or instructor, and it reproduces no textbook content. Practice questions are original, written to the published structure and standard scope of a criminology course; they are not questions from any instructor’s exam or any publisher’s test bank. Your course syllabus is the authority for your course’s schedule, formats, and grading.