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Course Introduction
Law Enforcement and Society explores the dynamic relationship between policing institutions and the communities they serve. The course examines the historical development, organizational structures, and contemporary practices of law enforcement agencies. Students analyze the role of police in maintaining order, enforcing laws, and protecting citizens while considering challenges such as community relations, accountability, discrimination, and use of force. Through case studies, discussions, and research, the course encourages critical reflection on the evolving expectations of law enforcement and its impact on different segments of society.
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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) Iadicola and Shupe define violence as "Any action or structural arrangement that results in physical or nonphysical harm to one or more persons."
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) The NCVS is one of several ongoing self-report surveys in which interviewed persons are asked about the number and characteristics of victimizations they have experienced during the previous year,regardless of whether they reported these victimizations to the police.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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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) Serotonin is a substance that helps relay messages over the gap between the nerve cells and allows them to proceed.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) General theory of crime based on the notion that individual criminality is the result of?
A) social learning
B) low self-control
C) family genetics
D) body composition
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Aiding and Abetting Violence
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Q1) In October 1919,the National Prohibition Act,also known as the Volstead Act,gave federal agencies the power to enforce the Sixteenth Amendment.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) The _____ is perhaps the most powerful lobbying organization in Washington,DC,and claims that any legislation aimed at controlling the possession of guns by citizens infringes upon their rights.
A) NRA
B) IRS
C) Secret Service
D) ATF
Answer: A
Q3) A substance that has been linked to violent behavior is phencyclidine,otherwise known as PCP,angel dust,ozone,whack,or rocket fuel.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Assault and Murder: A Continuum of Violence
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Q1) John Douglas,who has studied the effects of childhood abuse,suggests that violent offending may arise in adolescence and adulthood because those victimized as children learn destructive coping mechanisms,including skills in manipulation and denial as well as violent behavior
A)True
B)False
Q2) Mass murders are likely to take place in ______.
A) an airport
B) a school setting
C) an office building
D) a federal building
E) all of the above
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) 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.
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Chapter 5: Violence in the Home
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Q1) In ______,the National Center for Victims of Crime (NCVC)developed a Stalking Resource Center.The mission of the program is to raise awareness of stalking and to encourage the development and implementation of multidisciplinary responses to stalking in local communities across the United States.
A) 1975
B) 1950
C) 2000
D) 2010
Q2) In ______,Congress passed the Older Americans Act,which was the first piece of national legislation that expressed society's commitment to protect vulnerable older Americans at risk.
A) 1965
B) 1975
C) 1985
D) 2005
Q3) Optional prosecution requires government attorneys to bring criminal charges against batterers,regardless of the wishes of the victim.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Rape and Sexual Assault
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Q1) In 2014 the DOD made ______ Sexual Assault Awareness Month with the theme,"Live Our Values: Step Up to Stop Sexual Assault."
A) April
B) June
C) October
D) July
Q2) 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
Q3) The anger retaliation rapist is someone who feels a tremendous amount of hostility toward women and consequently uses rape as a vehicle of revenge.Often these men were abused as children and/or come from single-parent homes.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Discuss the demographic factors related to victimization from the NISVS.
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Chapter 7: Stranger Danger and Violence in the Streets
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Q1) What kind of impact do times of depression in the United States have on stereotypes of and crimes against immigrant populations?
A) negative
B) positive
C) unaware
D) unknown
Q2) Workplace violence happens mostly in the ______.
A) government sector
B) civilian sector
C) home of worker
D) on the streets
Q3) A hate crime,also known as a ______,is a criminal offense committed against a person,property,or society that is motivated,in whole or in part,by the offender' s bias against a race,religion,disability,sexual orientation,or ethnicity/national origin.
A) intimate
B) violent
C) bias crime
D) emotional
Q4) Discuss the trends related to workplace violence in America.
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Chapter 8: Crowd Violence
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Q1) During the L.A.riots,which of the following businesses were usually spared from arson?
A) African American owned
B) White owned
C) Korean owned
D) liquor stores
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 ______ of 1967 began with the arrest of an African American taxicab driver.
A) Miami riot
B) Detroit riot
C) Newark riot
D) Tampa riot
Q4) Discuss three of the eight typologies of crowds and mobs.
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Chapter 9: Terrorism
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Q1) Terrorism is a continuously evolving phenomenon.
A)True
B)False
Q2) 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
Q3) A lone wolf attacks the perpetrator and is a ______ who is acting on his or her own.
A) group
B) single individual
C) state
D) legal alien
Q4) Violence unleashed by radical environmental groups cannot be equated with terrorism.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Genocide
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Q1) The policy of taking children away from their families and educating them to be "good citizens," thereby stripping them of their native culture is referred to as ______.
A) sterilization
B) integration
C) forced slavery
D) none of the above
Q2) The word utopia comes from Thomas More,the English lawyer who,in his book Utopia,described a rationally organized society in which all property was communally held.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following is a reason why genocide is hard to define?
A) Genocide only includes women.
B) Genocide only includes children.
C) Genocide only happens outside of the United States.
D) all of the above
E) none of the above
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) ______ generally focuses law enforcement efforts on proactively solving "problems" related to crime rather than reactively responding to calls for service after a crime has already occurred.
A) foreward thinking policing
B) problem-solving or problem-oriented policing
C) reactive policing
D) none of the above
Q2) A program called ______ was designed to reduce gang violence,illegal gun possession,and gun violence in communities and was based on deterrence theory,which contends that crimes can be prevented when would-be offenders perceive the costs of crime to be greater than the benefits.
A) proactive policing
B) SARA
C) hot spots
D) Operation Ceasefire
Q3) 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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