Download Problemset Title Chapter Quiz Introductory Text Question 1 Type

Problemset
Title
Chapter Quiz
Introductory
Text
Question 1
Why should you be wary about drawing conclusions from crime statistics and your own
conception of what crime is?
Type:
Hint:
Multiple Choice
Feedback for all
incorrect
answers:
Question 2
Answer
Graded
As
Crime is a social construct and crime statistics tend to be biased in
the groups and types of crime sampled.
Correct
Crime is a personal construct and differs from class to class.
Incorrect
People miss the fact that white-collar crime exists and it, in part, is
what causes the socioeconomic conditions for all other crimes.
Incorrect
The FBI and the police are arbitrary in what is and is not a crime.
Incorrect
Feedback
What affects the perception of a high crime rate?
Hint:
Type:
Multiple Choice
Feedback for all
incorrect
answers:
Answer
Graded As Feedback
the racial makeup of a neighborhood, not the actual crime rate
Correct
redlining and blacklisting of neighborhoods by real estate agencies Incorrect
when Whites are continually portrayed as victims
Incorrect
neighborhoods with a high incident of Black-on-Black crime
Incorrect
Question 3
Although Blacks don't commit crimes for reasons different from Whites, there is a difference
in social context. What is it?
Type:
Hint:
Multiple Choice
Feedback for all
incorrect
answers:
Question 4
Answer
Graded
As
Blacks engage in criminal behavior because of more inequality
factors (poverty, social isolation, unemployment, etc.).
Correct
Blacks suffer extremes in cultural differences.
Incorrect
Blacks are perceived to commit more crimes, and so they do as a
result.
Incorrect
The loss of manufacturing and deindustrialization is more
pronounced in the inner city.
Incorrect
Feedback
Studies and statistics gathering tend to ignore which relationship in the commission of a
crime?
Hint:
Type:
Multiple Choice
Feedback for all
incorrect
answers:
Answer
Graded As
differences in power between races, classes, and genders
Correct
white-collar criminals vis-�-vis the more freedom they enjoy
Incorrect
White neighborhoods and Black neighborhoods
Incorrect
Marxian measures of class
Incorrect
Feedback
Question 5
The Blau theory of violent crime cites which qualities in intensifying and driving feelings of
relative deprivation?
Type:
Hint:
Multiple Choice
Feedback for all
incorrect
answers:
Question 6
Answer
Graded As
race, vis-�-vis a meritocratic society
Correct
economic differences
Incorrect
police brutality and lack of police protection
Incorrect
the impetus of revenge and "getting paid"
Incorrect
Feedback
Type:
Immediate poverty as well as the surrounding context that causes it contributes to violent
and other crime rates. What has research suggested as remediation of this cause and
effect?
Multiple Choice
Hint:
Feedback for all
incorrect
answers:
Answer
Graded
As
A change in the structure of inequality could reduce crime rates.
Correct
Criminal activity is reduced by a one percent improvement in the
economy.
Incorrect
A one percent increase in wages can reduce crime in segregated
neighborhoods.
Incorrect
A program of income redistribution can have a disproportionate
effect on reducing crime.
Incorrect
Feedback
Question 7
Evaluate the following: White criminals are less likely to be sentenced to the same degree
than Blacks and Hispanics.
Type:
Hint:
Multiple Choice
Feedback for all
incorrect
answers:
Answer
Graded
As
This is true, given the many studies conducted from 1980 into the
Correct
Feedback
new century.
This is true, except for statistics measuring White-on-minority
crimes.
Incorrect
This is false, given the many Appalachian Whites who are
sentenced much like other ethnic and racial groups.
Incorrect
Statistics show that Whites are now being sentenced as harshly (or Incorrect
leniently) as Blacks.
Question 8
How does serving multiple prison terms compound the financial fragility of lower
socioeconomic individuals?
Type:
Hint:
Multiple Choice
Feedback for all
incorrect
answers:
Answer
Graded
As
Prison terms erode marketable skills and mean lost income and
lower earnings upon release.
Correct
Multiple prison terms result in career criminal lifestyles to replace
lost income.
Incorrect
Multiple prison terms result in an inability to pass on wealth to the
next generation.
Incorrect
The loss of voting rights, income, and other privileges results in
anomie and disempowerment, and makes a person virtually
unhireable.
Incorrect
Feedback
Question 9
What does the statistical evidence reveal about the dollar loss that white-collar crimes costs
society when compared to street crimes?
Type:
Hint:
Multiple Choice
Feedback for all
incorrect
answers:
Question 10
Answer
Graded
As
The estimated dollar value of white-collar crimes ($250 billions) far
exceeds that of street crime ($18 billion).
Correct
The monetary losses of caused by street crimes are more
immediately felt than losses from white-collar crimes.
Incorrect
The money spent to convict street criminals exceeds what it costs
to investigate and convict white-collar criminals, even though the
latter cost society more in dollars.
Incorrect
Street crimes have a disproportionate effect on the U.S. economy.
Incorrect
Feedback
Type:
Street crimes are feared for their violence, yet we have no like fear of white-collar crimes.
On one level such a perception indicates our bias. On another level it is inaccurate. How
so?
Multiple Choice
Hint:
Feedback for all
incorrect
answers:
Answer
Graded
As
White-collar crimes cause collateral death and injury, too, often
where the profit is derived from intentional negligence.
Correct
The loss of trust is a form of psychological violence.
Incorrect
The damage inflicted by white-collar crime can result in spousal
abuse, "mob hits," witness intimidation, indeed, all forms of
violence.
Incorrect
We should fear nonviolent crimes for the damage they inflict on
society.
Incorrect
Feedback
Question 11
How is status defined in what we read about or how we discuss street and white-collar
crimes?
Type:
Hint:
Multiple Choice
Feedback for all
incorrect
answers:
Answer
Graded
As
The terms used to describe white-collar crimes are often
ambiguous, softer, and not as straightforward as those for street
crimes.
Correct
White-collar criminals are increasingly being given the "perp walk."
Incorrect
Typically, white-collar crimes begin with the prefix mis-.
Incorrect
Words such as stealing, theft, lying, and the like, just don't seem
believable when discussing white-collar crime. It is actually more
indicting to speak in euphemisms.
Incorrect
Feedback
Question 12
What aspect of capitalism, especially in regard to corporations, causes many to violate the
law because it is this aspect that trumps even so-called "best practices"?
Type:
Hint:
Multiple Choice
Feedback for all
incorrect
answers:
Question 13
Answer
Graded
As
The need to compete in order to survive.
Correct
The ability to lobby for laws that are tilted in favor of one company
over another.
Incorrect
Letting a few "bad apples" make the kind of profits shareholders
want.
Incorrect
Having the power to redefine these "crimes" so they are no longer
crimes.
Incorrect
Feedback
Hate crimes are unique in what way?
Hint:
Type:
Multiple Choice
Feedback for all
incorrect
answers:
Answer
Graded
Feedback
As
Question 14
The perpetrators seek to hurt or threaten a group, not just a single
member of that group.
Correct
Hate crimes do not take place when the perpetrators are of low
status and the victim is of a higher status.
Incorrect
Hate crimes only involve minorities, women, and homosexuals.
Incorrect
Some laws, up until 2003, can be considered hate crimes.
Incorrect
What effect does environmental inequality have as a form of social inequality?
Hint:
Type:
Multiple Choice
Question 15
Feedback for all
incorrect
answers:
Answer
Graded
As
It has a negative effect on the chances that lower socioeconomic
groups can have for a healthy life.
Correct
Because it falls unevenly on all existing divisions of society, only a
few truly benefit from environmental legislation.
Incorrect
Environmental racism is the effect given the differentials in
environmental quality that exist.
Incorrect
One effect is that rich developers can gentrify a neighborhood to
such an extent that the poor can no longer afford to pay rent.
Incorrect
Feedback
How is inequality systemic?
Hint:
Type:
Multiple Choice
Feedback for all
incorrect
answers:
Answer
Graded
As
The negative effects of inequality spread throughout society and
weakens the unifying aspects needed for its survival.
Correct
Inequality leads to a social structure of discontent.
Incorrect
Inequality is systemic in the sense that populations cease to trust
each other.
Incorrect
Mechanisms are established that serve to perpetuate class and
racial inequalities exponentially.
Incorrect
Feedback