Violence and Society Test Preparation
Course Introduction
Violence and Society examines the complex relationships between violence and social structures, exploring its causes, manifestations, and consequences in different cultural and historical contexts. The course analyzes various forms of violence including interpersonal, structural, symbolic, and state-sanctioned violence while considering factors such as power, inequality, gender, race, and media representation. Through interdisciplinary readings and critical discussions, students develop a nuanced understanding of how violence shapes individual lives, social institutions, and collective identities, as well as strategies for prevention and social change.
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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 suggestion that legitimate forms of violence influence illegitimate forms of violence is known as the ______.
A) multiple spheres theory
B) influence theory
C) legitimation theory
D) spillover theory
Answer: D
Q2) The Uniform Crime Reporting Program features official arrest data from state and local law enforcement agencies.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) All violence is connected by a web of actions and behaviors,ideas,perceptions,and justifications.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Explaining Violence
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Q1) 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
Q2) Edwin Sutherland articulated the general theory of crime based on the notion that individual criminality is the result of low self-control.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Which of the following tends to have the highest levels of testosterone?
A) high level violent inmates
B) high level nonviolent inmates
C) winning athletes
D) losing athletes
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Aiding and Abetting Violence
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Q1) During Prohibition,Congress passed two more bills,the National Firearms Act of 1934 and the Federal Firearms Act of 1938,which were both intended to decrease gang-related violence and also to control the illegal distribution of alcohol.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) In 1939,Congress passed the Marijuana Tax Act,which levied a tax on anyone who sold marijuana.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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) _____ 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
Q2) ______ in 1958 coined the term victim precipitation,which simply means that victims sometimes start the conflict that ends in their own death.
A) Edwin Sutherland
B) Marvin Wolfgang
C) Karl Marx
D) John Locke
Q3) ______ killers murder to obtain a sense of domination and total control over their victims.
A) power/control
B) comfort
C) mission
D) visionary
Q4) Discuss the characteristics of serial murderers.
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Chapter 5: Violence in the Home
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Q1) In what year did the CDC conduct the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS)?
A) 1975
B) 1995
C) 2010
D) 2020
Q2) ______ generally means that victims' rights and wishes are factored into the process of administering justice.
A) victimless crimes
B) victim empowerment
C) victim advocate
D) victim's rights
Q3) Discuss elder abuse and the United States and why these crimes go unreported to law enforcement authorities.
Q4) Intimate partner violence has been around forever,but it has only been in the past 60 years or so that it has finally been acknowledged as a social problem and a crime.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Rape and Sexual Assault
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Q1) Few rape victims on college campuses make reports of their victimizations to police (the rate is less than ______ %).
A) 10
B) 5
C) 15
D) 62
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) 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
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Chapter 7: Stranger Danger and Violence in the Streets
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Q1) While most robberies do result in death,they all involve the use of force or the threat of force.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Marital status and geographical location are also related to robbery victimization.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The U.S.gang demographic age bracket is between what ages?
A) 13-23
B) 10-20
C) 16-24
D) 12-24
Q4) In his classic study of homicide in Philadelphia,Marvin Wolfgang divided homicide into primary homicides,which involved intimates,friends,and acquaintances and secondary homicides,which involved strangers.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Discuss the trends related to workplace violence in America.
Q6) Discuss the characteristics of female robbery offenders.
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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) Sex offender registries,which all states have available in some form,make convicted sex offenders particularly easy targets for individuals bent on delivering their own brand of justice.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which is the most common type of riot in this country?
A) race
B) prison
C) sports
D) political
Q4) Vigilantes believe that the government does a good job of protecting traditional rights.
A)True
B)False
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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) Guerrilla war is also sometimes called low-intensity warfare or insurgency warfare.
A)True
B)False
Q3) ISIS is a terrorist group that emerged out of Al Qaeda in ______ and expanded into Syria in 2011 after the start of the Syrian civil war.
A) Pakistan
B) UAE
C) Iran
D) Iraq
Q4) ISIS stands for Islamic State in Syria sometimes referred to as ISIL.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Genocide
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Q1) Discuss genocide in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.Provide examples to support your work.
Q2) In ______,the Fourth International Russell Tribunal of 1979 found that the government was perpetrating genocide against the indigenous peoples of the Amazon headwaters.The violence included navy riverboats machine-gunning the banks of the rivers and massacres perpetrated by government forces and private citizens alike.
A) Colombia
B) Sudan
C) Brazil
D) none of the above
Q3) ______ genocides involve situations in which a government uses genocide as a weapon against rivals for political power.
A) developmental
B) rationale
C) despotic
D) deological
Q4) The United States has not had experience with genocide.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Toward Violence Prevention
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Q1) 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
Q2) What are the social costs of violence within a society?
Q3) Provide three specific examples of criminal justices responses to violence in the United States.
Q4) The ______ has the highest prison population in the world.
A) United States
B) Great Britian
C) Germany
D) China
Q5) 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
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