Sociology of Law Test Bank
Course Introduction
Sociology of Law explores the complex interplay between legal systems and society, examining how laws both shape and are shaped by cultural, economic, political, and social forces. This course investigates the social origins of legal norms, the role of law in maintaining or challenging social order, and the impact of legal institutions on diverse populations. Key topics include the functions of law, legal pluralism, the effect of social inequality on legal outcomes, and the influence of law on social change. Through theoretical frameworks and case studies, students gain a deeper understanding of the dynamic relationship between law, social values, and power structures within various communities.
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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) Violent crimes in the United States ________ in the early 1990s and have _______ since that time.
A) peaked; have generally declined
B) peaked; continued to climb
C) dropped; risen sharply
D) dropped; risen at a slow rate
Answer: A
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) An argument made by a number of criminologists but popularized by John DiIulio suggests that our society was home to a new breed of violent offender known as ______?
A) pathological lier
B) sadism
C) violent offenders
D) superpredators
Answer: D
Q2) Some biologists/criminologists suggest that violence can be linked with ______.
A) mesomorphic
B) endomorphic
C) brain injuries from combat or a violent experience
D) metamorphic
Answer: C
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) The Armed Career Criminal Act of ______ imposed a mandatory minimum 15-year prison term on a convicted felon who had three previous convictions for robbery or burglary and who possessed or received a firearm.
A) 1984
B) 1974
C) 1985
D) 1994
Answer: A
Q2) Currently ______ states allow citizens to concealed firearms if state requirements are met.
A) 35
B) 20
C) 50
D) 13
Answer: C
Q3) The Sixteenth amendment outlawed the manufacture,distribution,and sale of alcohol.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Assault and Murder: A Continuum of Violence
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Q1) ______ appears to be the least common of the three types of multicide.
A) mass murder
B) spree murder
C) homicide
D) mission killers
Q2) 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
Q3) Generally,involuntary manslaughter makes up the majority of nonlethal violent crime victimizations.
A)True
B)False
Q4) 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
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Chapter 5: Violence in the Home
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Q1) ______ 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
Q2) 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.
Q3) 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
Q4) Discuss the risk factors associated with physical child abuse.
Q5) Discuss elder abuse and the United States and why these crimes go unreported to law enforcement authorities.
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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) 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
Q3) One study of sexual assault in prison conducted by Cindy Struckman-Johnson and her colleagues in Nebraska concluded that ______% of male inmates had been pressured or forced to have sexual contact against their will while incarcerated.
A) 18
B) 100
C) 50
D) 22
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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) 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
Q3) 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
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 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
Q2) 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
Q3) Discuss three of the eight typologies of crowds and mobs.
Q4) Mob violence has been a relatively ______ occurrence within most societies throughout history.
A) objective
B) subjective
C) common
D) conforming
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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) In The United States of Jihad,terrorism expert Peter Bergen writes that since 9/11,"______ people in the United States have been charged with some kind of Jihadist terrorist crime ranging in seriousness from murder to sending small sums of money to a terrorist group."
A) 330
B) 3000
C) 3300
D) 30
Q3) Government is not capable of committing terrorist acts.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Guerrilla warfare is also known as ______.
A) big warfare
B) terrorism
C) both A and B
D) none of the above
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Chapter 10: Genocide
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Q1) Which of the following is not one of the acts considered to be genocide by the U.N.?
A) killing members of the group
B) causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group
C) deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction
D) imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group
E) all are considered to be genocide according to the U.N.
Q2) The successful attempt by a dominant group,vested with formal authority and/or with preponderant access to the overall resources of power,to reduce by coercion or lethal violence the number of a minority group whose ultimate extermination is held desirable and useful and whose respective vulnerability is a major factor contributing to the decision of genocide was a definition of genocide presented by ______.
A) Israel Charny
B) Helen Fein
C) Robert Melson
D) Vahakn Dadrian
Q3) Discuss genocide in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.Provide examples to support your work.
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Chapter 11: Toward Violence Prevention
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Q1) Discuss the findings of the Minneapolis domestic violence experiment.
Q2) It is possible to cure violence.
A)True
B)False
Q3) 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
Q4) PTSD is not only be found in war veterans.
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
Q6) What are the social costs of violence within a society?
Q7) Provide three specific examples of criminal justices responses to violence in the United States.
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