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Course Introduction
This course offers an in-depth analysis of contemporary social problems confronting society, exploring their origins, scope, and impact on individuals and communities. Through the examination of issues such as poverty, racial inequality, crime, substance abuse, environmental concerns, and healthcare, students will gain critical insights into the social structures and cultural factors that perpetuate these problems. The course emphasizes sociological theories, research methods, and policy approaches designed to address and resolve social issues, equipping students with the analytical skills necessary to understand and engage with the complexities of modern 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 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
Q2) Instrumental violence is motivated by emotions such as rage and jealousy.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) The NCVS distinguishes the number of victimizations as ______.
A) the same as the number of incidents.
B) the number of crimes reported to the police.
C) the number of acts committed against respondents and others present during an incident
D) how many victimization acts were experienced by survey respondents
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Explaining Violence
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Q1) According to the frustration-aggression hypothesis,which of the following factors increases the likelihood of a violent reaction?
A) the frustration was unintentionally caused
B) the hindrance was perceived as being fair
C) the presence of aggressive stimuli such as aggressive music
D) the presence of an audience
Answer: C
Q2) Merton believed that a state of "anomie" would result when individuals lived under conditions where legitimate means were not available to achieve societal goals.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Genetically,humans are most closely related to ______.
A) buffalo
B) pigs
C) monkeys
D) chimpanzees
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Aiding and Abetting Violence
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Q1) When asked why they own gun,Americans are least likely to cite which of the following reasons?
A) U.S. Constitutional right to bear arms
B) military experience/veteran
C) sportsmenship
D) personal and family protection
Answer: B
Q2) In the wake of urban rioting and the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr.and Robert Kennedy,Congress once again turned its attention to gun control by passing the Gun Control Act of 1968.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) The Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 called for mandatory minimum sentences for the possession and distribution of drugs by their type and weight.Many scholars have termed the era we are now in as the War on Drugs.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Assault and Murder: A Continuum of Violence
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Q1) ______ 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
Q2) ______ killers are rare because they suffer from some form of psychosis: They frequently perceive voices or images that command them to kill.
A) power/control
B) mission
C) visionary
D) thrill
Q3) Most of us use the terms murder and homicide interchangeably,but they are really distinct categories of killing.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Discuss the characteristics of serial murderers.
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Chapter 5: Violence in the Home
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Q1) Today,35 states offer victims of IPV some form of civil protection or temporary restraining order.
A)True
B)False
Q2) 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
Q3) 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
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) Prison rape typically remains a much talked about discussion in our society.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The _____,also known as the anger excitation rapist,is someone who displays extreme violence and cruelty in his attacks.
A) power reassurance rapist
B) power assertive rapist
C) anger retaliation rapist
D) sadistic rapist
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
Q4) 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
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Chapter 7: Stranger Danger and Violence in the Streets
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Q1) 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
Q2) A ______,in which an offender(s)breaks into a residence and steals a homeowner' s belongings,is a property crime because there is no force or threat of force to a person.
A) arson
B) robbery
C) burglary
D) theft
Q3) Bank robberies rarely capture much media attention unless they result in multiple deaths or a shootout with police that happens to be captured by video.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Discuss the trends related to workplace violence in America.
Q5) Discuss the characteristics of female robbery offenders.
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Chapter 8: Crowd Violence
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Q1) In contemporary America,the Guardian Angels,a group founded in 1979 in the Bronx,is still active in a number of communities.Identified by their red berets,its members patrol the subways,streets,and neighborhoods in order to prevent crime and have sometimes been labeled vigilantes by police.
A)True
B)False
Q2) African Americans were the only victims of lynch mobs in the United States.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Vigilantes believe that the government does a good job of protecting traditional rights.
A)True
B)False
Q4) 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.
Q5) Discuss three of the eight typologies of crowds and mobs.
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Chapter 9: Terrorism
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Q1) The Romans often used state terrorism to protect their interests and maintain their empire.One of the more well-known examples concerns the slave revolt led by the gladiator ______.
A) Zisa
B) Conan
C) Spartacus
D) Zeus
Q2) Simply put,the purpose of all terrorism is to ______.
A) repress political opposition
B) overthrow a government
C) change a government around a policy or law
D) change ideas
E) none of the above
Q3) ______ 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
Q4) What the reasons for the difficulty in defining the term terrorism?
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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) It is sometimes hard to distinguish between genocide and related types of crimes,such as human rights violations and other war crimes.
A)True
B)False
Q3) It is clear that genocide has exacted a terrible cost in human life and suffering during the twentieth century and has continued to do so in the twenty-first century,as illustrated by the genocide in the Darfur region of Rwanda.
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) Prevention methods are aimed at intervening after something has already occurred or is at a high risk of occurring.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What are the social costs of violence within a society?
Q3) The ______ has the highest prison population in the world.
A) United States
B) Great Britian
C) Germany
D) China
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.
Q6) It is possible to cure violence.
A)True
B)False
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