Law Enforcement and Society Exam Bank
Course Introduction
This course explores the complex relationship between law enforcement agencies and the societies they serve. It examines the history, structure, and function of police and other law enforcement bodies, considering their roles in maintaining order, enforcing laws, and protecting citizens rights. Students analyze contemporary issues such as community policing, racial profiling, use of force, and the impact of technology on law enforcement practices. The course also addresses public perceptions of law enforcement, accountability mechanisms, legal constraints, and efforts to reform policing for increased trust and effectiveness within diverse communities.
Recommended Textbook 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) Explain why defining violence is so difficult.
Answer: -Our understanding of its nature is so subjective and varied
-People perceive and understand violence in their own way,based on their individual history,and the context of their life
-Violence encompasses many different kinds of behaviors in many different kinds of situations.
-Many people only use the term in reference to physical acts of aggression and harm,while others include emotional or psychological acts as well.
-It is important to consider that an action may not be violent in and of itself,but the consequences of the action may be violent.
-For some,violence refers solely to human-perpetrated acts,while others include destructive natural forces.
-Perceived accidental acts versus intentional acts of harm affect whether actions are defined as violence.
-Perceived legitimacy of aggressive acts also affects whether they are defined as violence.
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Chapter 2: Explaining Violence
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Q1) ______ seek to understand violent behavior in terms of personality,character,and mental disorder.
A) sociological perspectives
B) psychological perspectives
C) physical perspecitve
D) brain dysfunction perspectives
Answer: B
Q2) Deindividuation,a phenomenon that facilitates violence in a group setting,is actually based on the classic work of ______.
A) Gustave Le Bon
B) Edwin Sutherland
C) Solomon Asch
D) Robert Sampson
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 ______ females are victims of a violent crime by an armed offender.
A) one in three
B) one in seven
C) one in two
D) one in five
Answer: D
Q2) In ______,Congress again passed another gun control measure,the Assault Weapons Ban (AWB).
A) 1984
B) 1974
C) 2004
D) 1994
Answer: D
Q3) The country with the highest number of guns per capita is ______.
A) Mexico
B) Iraq
C) South Africa
D) United States
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Assault and Murder: A Continuum of Violence
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Q1) Holmes and Holmes classify serial killers into six typologies,based on the explicit or implicit motives of the killer.List and provide a brief overview of each typology.
Q2) ______ generally include two categories-murder and manslaughter-with various types subsumed under each.
A) justifiable homicides
B) excusable homicides
C) criminal homicides
D) felony homicides
Q3) Most of us use the terms murder and homicide interchangeably,but they are really distinct categories of killing.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Other factors that frequently appear in the histories of serial killers include what has been termed the homicidal triad: bed-wetting past an appropriate age,cruelty to animals,and fire setting.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Discuss the characteristics of serial murderers.
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Chapter 5: Violence in the Home
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Q1) In 2010,Congress passed the ______,which was the first comprehensive federal legislation to address elder abuse.
A) adult protective services
B) Elder Justice Act (EJA)
C) Vulnerable Elder Rights Protection Act
D) Older Americans Act
Q2) Family violence is an umbrella term that includes a wide range of behaviors,including physical,sexual,financial,and verbal or other emotional abuse between a number of dyadic relationships: intimates (e.g.,spouses and ex-spouses,boy/girl-friends and exes); parents and children; siblings; and the elderly and their caregivers,including their children.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Research conducted by Cupach and Spitzberg identified eight specific tactics commonly employed by stalkers.List all eights specific tactics along with a brief description of each.
Q4) Discuss elder abuse and the United States and why these crimes go unreported to law enforcement authorities.
Q5) Discuss the risk factors associated with physical child abuse.
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Chapter 6: Rape and Sexual Assault
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Q1) ______,an assistant football coach at Penn State,was convicted in June of 2012 of sexually assaulting 10 boys,all of whom were part of his local charity dedicated to mentoring young boys from disadvantaged homes,and he will likely spend the rest of his life in prison.
A) Dennis Hastert
B) Altoona-Johnstown Diocese in Pennsylvania
C) O. J. Simpson
D) Jerry Sandusky
Q2) Prison rape typically remains a much talked about discussion in our society.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The multiple personality disorder is generally considered to be the most common type of sexual predator and is someone who suffers from low self-esteem and feelings of being inadequate.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Discuss the demographic factors related to victimization from the NISVS.
Q5) Discuss and analyze rape in the U.S.military.
Q6) Discuss and explain the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act.
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Chapter 7: Stranger Danger and Violence in the Streets
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Q1) Research with offenders suggests that victim resistance increases the likelihood that the robber will use physical force against the intended target.
A)True
B)False
Q2) According to the ______,robbery is defined as follows: "Completed or attempted theft,directly from a person,of property or cash by force or threat of force,with or without a weapon,and with or without injury."
A) FBI
B) NCVS
C) DHS
D) UCR
Q3) The first major hate crime legislation passed at the federal level was called the Hate Crime Statistics Act of ______.
A)1975
B) 1950
C) 1990
D) none of the above
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) The ______ of 1967 began with the arrest of an African American taxicab driver.
A) Miami riot
B) Detroit riot
C) Newark riot
D) Tampa riot
Q2) While the vast majority of lynching victims were African Americans,other victims were those from the North who came down South to assist the Black population during ______ and White Southerners who sympathized with Reconstruction and efforts to integrate Blacks into Southern society.
A) civil rights era
B) civil war
C) Reconstruction
D) 1700s
Q3) The 1980 Liberty City riot in ______ was started by the police killing of an unarmed African American who ran a red light.
A) Florida
B) Alabama
C) Mississippi
D) Texas
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Chapter 9: Terrorism
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Q1) The term guerrilla literally means ______ and originated in the Napoleonic wars after the French army invaded Spain as part of Napoleon' s attempt to conquer Europe.
A) fear war
B) unwarranted war
C) little war
D) big war
Q2) In hindsight,pre 9/11 Al-Qaeda terrorist attacks-terrible as they were-were only the prelude to far worse violence.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which President stated these words: "is a different war from any our nation has ever faced,a war on many fronts,against terrorists who operate in more than 60 different countries.And this is a war that must be fought not only overseas but also here at home."
A) President Carter
B) President Bush
C) President Clinton
D) none of the above
Q4) Discuss the differences between terrorism and guerrilla warfare.
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Chapter 10: Genocide
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Q1) The first person to use the term genocide was ______.
A) Israel Charny
B) Helen Fein
C) Chalk and Jonassohn
D) none of the above
Q2) 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
Q3) Why does genocide happen? What are some of the reasons for this type of violence?
Q4) Irving Louis Horowitz,a scholar of genocide,identified four kinds of societies in terms of their ability or willingness to perpetrate genocide.
A)True
B)False
Q5) 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) What are the social costs of violence within a society?
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) PTSD is not only be found in war veterans.
A)True
B)False
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) Prevention methods are aimed at intervening after something has already occurred or is at a high risk of occurring.
A)True
B)False
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