Criminal Behavior
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Course Introduction
This course provides an in-depth examination of the patterns, theories, and factors that contribute to criminal behavior. Students will explore the biological, psychological, and sociological perspectives that help explain why individuals commit crimes, as well as the social and environmental influences that shape criminal actions. Attention is given to topics such as the development of antisocial behavior, the role of mental health, substance abuse, and the impact of family and community. Through case studies, current research, and discussion, students will gain a comprehensive understanding of criminality and its implications for law enforcement, policy, and society as a whole.
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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) Research suggesting that children who are spanked are more likely to be aggressive as adults compared with children who were not spanked is an example of the spillover hypothesis.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) The study done by Leslie Kennedy and David Forde illustrates that Canadians do not judge acts of violence as selectively as Americans.
A)True
B)False Answer: False
Q3) U.S.murder rates are about three times higher than all other countries.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) Instrumental violence is motivated by emotions such as rage and jealousy.
A)True
B)False Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Explaining Violence
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Q1) The intergenerational transmission of violence theory is also known as the cycle of violence theory.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Robert Merton's theory is often referred to as the theory of differential ______.
A) opportunity
B) ambition
C) poverty
D) association
Answer: A
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) According to the National Crime Victimization Survey,approximately ______ male violent crime victims face an armed offender.
A) one in five
B) one in two
C) one in three
D) one in ten
Answer: C
Q2) The term ______ in the Second Amendment creates some confusion since it isn't clear if it means that only a select group of citizens who serve as soldiers have the right to bear arms or if it is an individual right.
A) extremist group
B) parolees
C) mentally impaired
D) militia
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Assault and Murder: A Continuum of Violence
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Q1) Although there are many different factors that influence violent assaults,the majority of homicides appear to be sparked by relatively minor conflicts and disagreements.
A)True
B)False
Q2) _____ is the most extreme form of punishment that states and the federal government can hand down as a sanction for murder.
A) capital punishment
B) incarceration
C) probation
D) parole
Q3) A(n)______ assault is defined as "an attack or attempted attack with a weapon,regardless of whether or not an injury occurred and attack without a weapon when serious injury results."
A) Uniform Crime Report
B) violent crime
C) simple
D) aggravated
Q4) Discuss the characteristics of serial murderers.
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Chapter 5: Violence in the Home
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Q1) Discuss the risk factors associated with physical child abuse.
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) The ______ mandated to expansion of the services available to strengthen families as well as to provide additional supports for children who must be placed outside the home.
A) Family Preservation and Support Services Act of 1993
B) Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act
C) Child and Family Services Improvement and Innovation Act of 2011
D) The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act
Q4) Stalking first entered our society's consciousness after the murder of Rebecca Schaeffer in 1989.Rebecca was a 21-year-old actress starring in a popular sitcom,My Sister Sam.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Rape and Sexual Assault
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Q1) The U.S.Justice Department realized the problems inherent to official reports of rape and sexual assault victimization on campus and funded a survey called the
A) National College Women Sexual Assault Victimization Study (NCWSV)
B) NCVS
C) Uniform Crime Report
D) National Incident-Based Reporting System
Q2) Susan Brownmiller explains that women are raped in war by ordinary youths as casually,or as frenetically,as a village is looted or gratuitously destroyed.Sexual trespass on the enemy' s women is one of the satisfactions of conquest.This is referred to as ______.
A) spoils of war
B) rape
C) sexual assault
D) prisoner of war
Q3) Discuss and analyze rape in the U.S.military.
Q4) Rape is more than an act of violence; it is also a violation of the most intimate sort and strikes at our identities as women and men.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Stranger Danger and Violence in the Streets
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Q1) ______ 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
Q2) Robbery is ______.
A) an act of violence
B) most often committed by a stranger
C) a felony crime
D) all of the above
Q3) An ordinary crime becomes a ______ when an offender selects a victim because of some characteristic,such as his or her race or religion.
A) violent
B) hate crime
C) demographic
D) white collar
Q4) Discuss the characteristics of female robbery offenders.
Q5) Discuss the trends related to workplace violence in America.
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Chapter 8: Crowd Violence
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Q1) Vigilantes believe that the government does a good job of protecting traditional rights.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Discuss the reasoning for race riots increasing across the United States over the last few years.
Q3) On April 9,1865,General ______ surrendered to Ulysses S.Grant at Appomattox courthouse and,for all intents and purposes,ended the American Civil War.
A) Robert E. Lee
B) George Washington
C) Thomas Jefferson
D) Frederick Douglas
Q4) The civil unrest provoked by the shooting forced our nation to confront head on the issue of race and ______.
A) policing
B) education
C) employment
D) living conditions
Q5) Discuss three of the eight typologies of crowds and mobs.
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Chapter 9: Terrorism
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Q1) Violence unleashed by radical environmental groups cannot be equated with terrorism.
A)True
B)False
Q2) ______ concerns acts that are perpetrated because of some sort of mental illness.
A) criminal terrorism
B) pathological terrorism
C) political terrorism
D) none of the above
Q3) Mujahideen means _____ who fight a Holy War for the people.
A) holy warriors
B) pathway to enlightenment
C) political allies
D) violent call to
Q4) Government is not capable of committing terrorist acts.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Discuss the differences between terrorism and guerrilla warfare.
Q6) Discuss the difference between hard targets and soft targets.
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Chapter 10: Genocide
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Q1) ______ societies describes those places where individuals are tortured and returned to the society as a warning about the dangers of opposition to the government.In these communities,human bodies are the medium upon which the state communicates its ideas about conformity
A) torture
B) harassment
C) genocidal
D) retributive
Q2) The United States has not had experience with genocide.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The practice of sending American Indian children to boarding schools where they were forbidden to speak their language,practice their religion,or otherwise engage in aspects of their traditional culture can also be defined as genocide.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Discuss three of genocide scholar Irving Louis Horowitz's kinds of societies in terms of their ability or willingness to perpetrate genocide.
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Chapter 11: Toward Violence Prevention
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Q1) 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
Q2) Violence can happen ______.
A) in prisons
B) in a home
C) in the workplace
D) within government agencies
E) all of the above
Q3) What are the social costs of violence within a society?
Q4) 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
Q5) Provide three specific examples of criminal justices responses to violence in the United States.
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