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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