Criminology Test 2 Spring 2011
1. The number of girls under the age of 14 who are sexually assaulted often by a family
member is about 20 %
2. Ford, Firestone, General Motors, Dow, and Bard have all knowingly manufactured and
sold hazardous products or illegally dumped poisons killing thousands.
3. In general the western democracy that have many vice in drug crimes on the books and
enforce them have the largest most organized and most violent crime syndicates.
4. Narcotics enforcement has produced some of the worst police corruption in America.
5. The most common scenario of the following for murder in America is husband shoot
wife.
6. Rape is more often committed by a man who is unarmed and known to the victim
7. sexual harassment is a crime, involves and illegitimate mixture of sexual consideration
and work field considerations such that ones choices about sex would have consequences
for the work environment, occurs when a boss asks the employee for a sexual favor or
pets the employee in an inappropriate way
8. When laws against the manufacture, sale and consumption of alcohol were in place the
number of people involved in criminal activity such as bootlegging, smuggling, and the
sale, distribution, and drinking of alcohol not to mention gang land killings over the
control of the illegal market of alcohol rose tremendously.
9. When laws against the manufacture, sale, and consumption of alcohol were repealed the
amount of organized crime in this country decreased tremendously as did their profit
from criminal activity, gang land killings declined, tremendous tax revenues were
generated because now that booze was legal it could be taxed.
10. if as the law provides, corporations are persons and the 500 richest corporations are the
500 richest people, then judging from the conviction rate what must be concluded about
the relative criminality of the economic classes in the US? Rich people are more prone
to do crime
11. In general, though the crimes of the poor seem to fall into diverse categories of behavior,
the crimes of the rich are concentrated in the category which most nearly conforms to the
assumptions of the deterrence theorists.
12. Of the following, recidivism is highest among child molesters
13. the UCR (uniform crime reports) are probably much more accurate for murder than for
burglary
14. the UCR focuses our attention, like the media on the crime of the poor
15. Robbery occurs when Joe slaps and old lady and takes her money
16. the assumptions of which category of theorists are the most in evidence as the guiding
philosophy of our current justice system? The deterrence theorists
17. all would agree that we might do a better job if we abolish laws which are more costly
than the crime which they prohibit but in addition to this and a few other common sense
measures which of the following would deterrence theorists suggest as a way to deal with
the crimes of the rich? Give longer sentences to the criminal rich
18. about how many die from criminally unsafe working condition every year in the US??
35,000
19. about how many die from unnecessary surgeries every year in the US? 15,000
