Criminal Justice
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Course Introduction
Criminal Justice is an interdisciplinary course that examines the systems, institutions, and processes established by governments to maintain social order, prevent and control crime, and administer justice. Students will explore the roles and interrelationships of law enforcement, the courts, and corrections, as well as the legal and ethical considerations that shape decision-making within these entities. The course provides a comprehensive overview of theories of crime, the rights of individuals, and contemporary challenges such as justice reform, restorative practices, and the impact of social inequalities on the system. Through case studies and critical analysis, students will gain insight into the complexities of achieving fairness and effectiveness in criminal justice.
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Criminal Violence Patterns Causes and Prevention 3rd Edition by Marc Riedel
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Chapter 1: As American as Apple Pie
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Q1) The video of football player Ray Rice knocking his fiancé out with one punch in an elevator is an example of ______.
A) people engaging in violence in multiple spheres of their lives
B) how violent all football players are
C) provoked and justified violence
D) an outlet to relieve stress
Answer: A
Q2) How is the National Incident Based Reporting System (NIBRS)different from the the Uniform Crime Report (UCR)?
A) Reports are based on voluntary participation of law enforcement agencies.
B) Information about both the victim and the offender are collected for homicides.
C) It includes detailed information on crime incidents, including the characteristics of the victim, such as age, gender, race, ethnicity, and resident status.
D) Only state law enforcement agencies participate in reporting.
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Explaining Violence
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Q1) As the name implies,the ______ hypothesis contends that violence is one possible response for individuals who feel frustrated and thwarted in achieving something.
A) stress
B) economic deprivation
C) social deprivation
D) frustration-aggression
Answer: D
Q2) James Gilligan suggests that the linkage between poverty and violence is caused by one specific factor: social learning.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) The idea that it is easier to remove ethical restrictions against violence when we perceive the victims to be less than us or perhaps even less than human is known as disenagement.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Aiding and Abetting Violence
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Q1) Most studies that measure the relationship between alcohol and violence used the ______ to measure aggression.
A) aggression scale
B) violent scale
C) mental stability scale
D) Taylor paradigm
Answer: D
Q2) Clearly,when cultural values tolerating violence are combined with the _____ effects of alcohol,the likelihood that violence will result-particularly in conflict situations-is higher.
A) habit
B) disinhibiting
C) addiction
D) violence
Answer: B
Q3) The Sixteenth amendment outlawed the manufacture,distribution,and sale of alcohol.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Assault and Murder: A Continuum of Violence
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Q1) John Douglas and Mark Olshaker define a serial murderer as one who kills on at least three occasions,with what can be called an emotional cooling-off period between the incidents.This cooling-off period can last days,weeks,months,or years.
A)True
B)False
Q2) ______ are criminal homicides in which the degree of responsibility is considered much less than murder,not only because premeditation and deliberation are absent but also because the offender did not act with malice.
A) justifiable murder
B) felony murder
C) manslaughters
D) first degree murder
Q3) ______ appears to be the least common of the three types of multicide.
A) mass murder
B) spree murder
C) homicide
D) mission killers
Q4) Discuss the characteristics of serial murderers.
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Chapter 5: Violence in the Home
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Q1) In 1962,the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association published an article in which this term was first coined and which provided a means to publicize the problem.
A) Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act
B) victim empowerment
C) cycle of violence
D) battered-child syndrome
Q2) Virtually all states and the District of Columbia have ______ policies for felony domestic assaults and warrantless arrests for an unwitnessed domestic violence-related misdemeanor assault.
A) optional arrest
B) lawsuits
C) mandatory arrest
D) general deterrence
Q3) Today,35 states offer victims of IPV some form of civil protection or temporary restraining order.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Discuss the risk factors associated with physical child abuse.
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Chapter 6: Rape and Sexual Assault
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Q1) One study of sexual assault in prison conducted by Cindy Struckman-Johnson and her colleagues in Nebraska concluded that ______% of male inmates had been pressured or forced to have sexual contact against their will while incarcerated.
A) 18
B) 100
C) 50
D) 22
Q2) Mary Koss examined the rape victimization experiences of college women,most recent surveys attempting to estimate the magnitude of rape have used very specific question wording.
A) 1999
B) 1989
C) 2009
D) 1979
Q3) Research suggests that men attending college are at greater risk of rape and sexual assault compared with women of the same age in the general population.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Stranger Danger and Violence in the Streets
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Q1) All of us feel the need to be part of a community.Internet chat rooms facilitate this formation of community for their participants.They also provide a type of reinforcement for extremist ideas that would not be tolerated in the larger society,which is known as ______.
A) privacy
B) persuasion
C) anonymity
D) Support
Q2) ______ can occur in a number of different contexts,including the home,a public location,or a commercial establishment.
A) arson
B) white collar crime
C) corporate fraud
D) robbery
Q3) Strangers are anonymous and dangerous while our friends and acquaintances are known to us and therefore seem to be nonthreatening or at least less threatening.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Discuss the characteristics of female robbery offenders.
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Chapter 8: Crowd Violence
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Q1) ______ describes groups whose goal is to keep some population group in their place,usually within the lower levels of class structure.
A) aggressive group-control vigilantism
B) social group-control vigilantism
C) regime-control vigilantism
D) crime-control vigilantism
Q2) It is a mistake to see lynchings as spontaneous eruptions of ______,although they were often portrayed as such-especially by many Southern newspapers.Instead,we must recognize that lynching often served some very real social,political,and economic goals.
A) hand selected individuals
B) communal violence
C) controlled violence
D) none of the above
Q3) Sid Heal suggested that there are eight specific psychological factors that serve to lower or remove our prohibitions against violent behavior and thus facilitate individual participation in mob violence.Provide a brief description of three of the eight.
Q4) Discuss three of the eight typologies of crowds and mobs.
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Chapter 9: Terrorism
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Q1) Boko Haram,is an Islamic terrorist group that is largely based in ______ and has been inspired by ISIS and,in fact,has pledged allegiance to ISIS.
A) Africa
B) Pakistan
C) Iraq
D) Iran
Q2) ______,as the name implies,refers to terrorism committed to achieve some illicit goal or to protect an illegal operation.
A) criminal terrorism
B) pathological terrorism
C) political terrorism
D) regime terrorism
Q3) Guerrilla warfare is also known as ______.
A) big warfare
B) terrorism
C) both A and B
D) none of the above
Q4) What the reasons for the difficulty in defining the term terrorism?
Q5) Discuss the differences between terrorism and guerrilla warfare.
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Chapter 10: Genocide
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Q1) R.J.Rummel calculates that during the Holocaust,the Nazis killed approximately __________________ million people through genocide,forced labors,starvation,experiments,and various other means.
A) 55
B) 28
C) 30
D) 5
E) none of the above
Q2) Why does genocide happen? What are some of the reasons for this type of violence?
Q3) Which of the following is not one of the acts considered to be genocide by the U.N.?
A) killing members of the group
B) causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group
C) deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction
D) imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group
E) all are considered to be genocide according to the U.N.
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Chapter 11: Toward Violence Prevention
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Q1) Intervention efforts are generally aimed at the entire population to reduce the risk factors and enhance protective factors that prevent violence from occurring in the first place.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A number of scholars suggest that a fundamental preventative measure would involve reducing ______ in U.S.society to substantially reduce violence.
A) racial tensions
B) PTSD
C) homicide
D) inequality
Q3) The U.S.Department of Justice provides information on the programs that have been evaluated using RCTs and proven to be effective in reducing various types of violence and aggression on a website called CrimeSolutions.gov.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Discuss the findings of the Minneapolis domestic violence experiment.
Q5) What are the social costs of violence within a society?
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