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Criminology Test 2 Spring 2011: Crime Statistics and Sociopolitical Issues, Exams of Criminology

Questions from a criminology test covering various crime statistics and sociopolitical issues. Topics include the prevalence of sexual assault against young girls, corporate crimes, drug-related crimes, and the effectiveness of different theories in explaining criminal behavior. The document also touches upon historical events and their impact on crime rates.

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2010/2011

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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 When laws against the manufacture, sale, and consumption of alcohol were repealed the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
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  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,
  19. about how many die from unnecessary surgeries every year in the US? 15,
  1. about how much money is stolen or lost due to UCR crimes every year in the US? 17 Billion
  2. about how much money is lost or stolen due to fraudulent practices paid for by Medicare and Medicaid every year in the US? 100 billion
  3. according to or best evidence, how much of the trading mergers on the stock market is probably the result of insider trading? 50%
  4. between 1965 and 1972, the years of CIA involvement in Laos, apparent production, processing and smuggling in the area increased so much that heroin addiction in this country more than tripled, the CIA’s operation phoenix under the direction of William Colby murdered 40,000 civilians in the area and tortured thousands more, drug money was laundered at an Australian bank where William Colby was council
  5. how much of the toxic waste produced in the country is illegally disposed of? 90%
  6. when Dow Chemical Plant realized that the citizens of Morrisonville, an adjacent neighborhood, were likely to start dropping dead from the toxins in their environment that Dow had produced, what was their response? To buy the town, destroy all evidence of its existence so as to make prosecutions and suits more difficult.
  7. according to the evidence of Hoffman, Silvers, the house subcommittee on human resources, Foster Albert Sheriff, Barbara Honegger, bonnie Sovern, Marshall et al, the senate subcommittee on terrorism, narcotics and international operations, lawyers and others Regan-bush staff traded arms with Iran on the condition that American hostages not be released until after Regan inauguration outbidding carters efforts to get them released as soon as possible and the Regan-bush staff financed the contras with money their associates obtained by importing so much cocaine that during those years, cocaine use in this country doubled in addition to the monies obtained by the illegal arms sales to Iran
  8. In Iran, Guatemala, and Chile, the US has in fact destroyed immerging democracies by deposing democratically elected leaders in those countries and installing military dictators and other repressive regimes which as a group has the worst human rights records in the world AND the CIA launched and supported programs to kill and torture hundreds of thousands of civilian peasants for their alleged opposition of their dictatorial governments in their countries and their desire for freedom and democracy.
  9. What so called western democracies have and use the death penalty? Only the US
  10. who has the highest rates of incarceration? The US
  11. elements of the strategy of the civil disobedience as per Gandhi include that one must act in such as way as to cause no harm but to provoke a repressive reaction by the government, that one must be willing to die but willing to kill, when the injustice of a system becomes plain to all the members of the majority group themselves will rally to the side of the oppressed
  12. The FBIs investigation of Reverend Martin Luther King Jr was a typical example of the Hoover-FBIs paranoid racism, failed to uncover anything that might cast suspicion on King but nonetheless continued to his death, harassed King with vicious letters and video tapes supposedly showing King in a compromising position
  13. The Contra Army was characterized by our president at the time as composed of men who compared favorably to our revolutionary war heroes, was supported by drug money, arbitrarily killed civilian men, women, children, priests, raped and tortured their victims AND was entirely a creation of the CIA