serial killers
JUST 323-Serial Killers-Fall 2020
All submissions must be through Canvas. No late papers will be accepted. Should there be a late paper, I will deduct one whole grade per day. But no late papers.
Your essay should be at least 5 pages. Nothing shorter is acceptable. You can, of course, write more. In your paper, you are to do two things:
First: Write a thorough review of the book, which means you have to tell the reader what the book is about and what the author is writing about. Do not write what the person Jeffrey Dahmer is about. Focus on the book.
Second: answer the question listed below. These are not separate parts. You need to integrate these two parts into one unified whole.
Please also consult the Writing Guidelines document. This will tell you how to structure your paper and what mistakes to avoid. Plagiarism is strictly forbidden. Consult the plagiarism document on Canvas. You will fail the entire course if I find an incidence of plagiarism on this paper.
Put your name, class, and if you have a title on a separate page.
Be sure your essay is specific, clearly written, and focused on answering the questions. Do not lose sight of your specific goal of a book review and answering the question.
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Question: What motivated Dahmer to kill? When he was first arrested for indecent exposure, the judge said Dahmer would re-offend because he was biologically so inclined. Is this true? What other factors played a role? Discuss. Is the fact that he killed certain people and not others significant? Also, is it significant that his murders got more gruesome as they increased? Explain.
JUST 323-Serial Killers-Spring 2020
Your essay should be at least 5 pages. Nothing shorter is acceptable. You can, of course, write more. In your paper, you are to do two things:
First: Write a thorough review of the book, which means you have to tell the reader what the book is about and what the author is writing about. Do not write what the person Jeffrey Dahmer is about. Focus on the book.
Second: answer the question listed below. These are not separate parts. You need to integrate these two parts into one unified whole.
Please also consult the Writing Guidelines document. This will tell you how to structure your paper and what mistakes to avoid. Plagiarism is strictly forbidden. Consult the plagiarism document on Canvas. You will fail the entire course if I find an incidence of plagiarism on this paper.
I will not accept email submissions. All submissions must be in class. No late papers. Should there be a late paper, I will deduct one whole grade per day. But no late papers.
Put your name, class, and if you have a title on a separate page.
Be sure your essay is specific, clearly written, and focused on answering the questions. Do not lose sight of your specific goal of a book review and answering the question.
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Question: What motivated Dahmer to kill? When he was first arrested for indecent exposure, the judge said Dahmer would re-offend because he was biologically so inclined. Is this true? What other factors played a role? Is the fact that he killed certain people and not others significant? Also, is it significant that his murders got more gruesome as they developed? Explain.
Montclair State University
Perspectives I
Spring 2020 - First Exam
Below are 33 questions. You are to answer all for full credit. Your total score will be converted into a letter grade (A, B, C, D, F). The value of each assigned letter will be A=95; B=85; C=75; D=65; F=55.
No one is allowed to leave the room during the exam. Shut off all electronic devices.
1. Which one of the following is not a social science:
0. Political Science
0. Sociology
0. Anthropology
0. Biological medicine
2. According to Karl Marx and Marxist theory, ____ is the defining characteristic of all societies
0. Capitalism
0. peace and harmony
0. marxism
0. class conflict
3. Medicare is a health-care program for the elderly.
0. True
0. false
4. Medicaid is a health-care program for the poor.
0. True
0. false
5. Symbolic interactionism is most closely associated with which one of the following ideas:
0. Labeling
0. Retributive justice
0. Marxism
0. social control model
6. Because of the Affordable Care Act, all Americans now have health coverage.
A. true
B. false
7. According to structural functionalists, health care is a _____ that functions to maintain the well-being of societal members.
0. Conflict
0. Societal institution
0. Product of patriarchy
0. Deficit in human relations
8. The Defense of Marriage Act prevented the federal government from acknowledging the legality of same sex marriages in the states.
A.true
B.false
9. TANF replaced a system of welfare called what?
0. Food Stamps
0. Aid to Families with Dependent Children
0. Aid to All Families
0. Aid to Women and Children
10. The origins of the social security act can be found in which interest-group movement:
a.The Association for the Taxation of the Elderly
b.Women and Pensioners movement
c.The Free Speech Movement
d.The Anti-war movement
11. Race in the 19th century was understood as a social construction, while race in the 20th century was understood as a biological conception.
0. True
0. False
12. From 1935 to about 1970, the distribution of income in the US became more equal.
0. True
0. false
13. One of the most important differences between TANF and AFDC is that TANF:
0. Imposes time limits on receiving benefits
0. imposes no time limits on benefits
0. Forces mothers to use child care services
0. Forces recipients go to college or university to continue to receive payments
14. Under the US welfare system, known as TANF, recipients can receive benefits for the entirety of their lives because the US Constitution requires lifetime payments.
A. True
B. False
15. One purpose of Social Security is to:
a. protect against poverty and reductions in standards of living among the elderly
b. to force people to retire at 65
c. to protect the elderly against elder abuse
d. to redistribute income from high wage earners to the poor
16. According to Trevino, the increase in inequality in the US began in what decade and continued on after:
0. The 1930s
0. The 1940s
0. The 1950s
0. The 1970s
17. According to Obergefell v. Hodges, the basis for the right of gay people to marry comes from what idea in the Constitution?
0. the right to privacy
0. due process
0. the commerce clause
0. the separation of powers
18. According to Durkheim, crime performs a function in society by:
1. reinforcing social solidarity
1. increasing the prison population
1. making drugs illegal
1. creating conflict within society by increasing policing.
19. According to Robert Merton, those who do not succeed in American society tend to do what?
3. resort to violence
3. resort to crime and drug abuse
3. rebel or retreat
3. join a civic group, like a bowling league
20. A crime is a violation of:
0. A folkway
0. a norm
0. a folkway
0. a law
21. The period of Jim Crow began during what era in American politics?
1. The end of Reconstruction
1. The ante-bellum period
1. World War I
1. None of the above
22. Pluralism refers to:
1. the process by which a minority group integrates with the majority
1. the adoption of the dominant culture by a minority
1. the separation of two groups
1. a state in which racial and ethnic groups maintain their distinctiveness but maintain equal status and access to social resources.
23. Trevino defines wealth as
3. the absence of poverty
3. a family’s or household’s assets or possessions
3. the rate of tax increases
3. the money that flows into a household
24. Which one of the following is not correlated with poverty
1. Race
1. Education
1. Social status
1. Age
25 The idea that women with children earn less than women without children is called:
0. Social class
0. Motherhood penalty
0. Gender discrimination
0. None of the above
26. In most of the developed nations of the world, health care is provided by government:
0. True
0. False
27. Conflict theory is most usually associated with what thinker?
3. Robert Merton
3. Emile Durkheim
3. Karl Marx
3. Herbert Spencer
3. Under the culture of poverty thesis, the poor are poor not just because they lack income and wealth, but
0. Because of laziness
0. Because they hold a unique set of values that makes it difficult to escape poverty
0. Because of racism
0. Because of institutional constraints in the makeup of state formation
3. Capitalism is an economic system that favors:
0. The redistribution of wealth
0. Socialized medicine
0. Private property and profit
0. Social justice
30. Obamacare was the attempt by the Obama Administration to:
3. Socialize medicine
3. Create Medicare for all
3. Insure those previously excluded from insurance through taxes and other incentives
3. Privatize all health insurance plans
31. The idea of race in the nineteenth century was deeply influenced by what:
0. Developments in science and genetics
0. War
0. The civil rights movement
0. The culture of criminality
32. Compared to other age groups in the US, those over 65 years have the lowest poverty rate:
A. true
B. false
33. A civil union is defined as:
a. status equal to marriage but without all the legal rights and privileges of married couples
1. the right to divorce without cause
1. the right of homosexual couples to get divorced
1. polyandry
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Note: this is a truncated exam of exam 2 and final, from Fall 2019.
Montclair State University
Perspectives JUST 205
Fall 2020 - Final Exam
Below are 33 questions. You are to answer all for full credit. Your total score will be converted into a letter grade (A, B, C, D, F). The value of each assigned letter will be A=95; B=85; C=75; D=65; F=55.
1-According to Trevino, the purpose of the family under structural functionalism is to:
a. Meet the need to socialize children and reproduce new members.
b.Reinforce power relationships in society
c. Reflect gender hierarchies in society
d. Meet the basic needs of loving relationships
2. Durkheim’s structural functional theory of crime allowed him to regard crime as a source of:
a. Social differentiation
b. class conflict
c. social cohesion
d. pluralism
3. According to research following the Moynihan report, out of wedlock births for African-Americans are higher now than in the 1960s:
a. true
b. false
4. The release of a prisoner temporarily (for a special purpose) or permanently before the completion of a sentence, on the promise of good behavior, is known as:
a. Bail
b. Parole
c. Civil commitment
d. Probation
5. According to Robert Merton, those who do not succeed in American society tend to do what?
a. resort to violence
b. resort to crime and drug abuse
c. rebel or retreat
d. join a civic group, like a bowling league
6. The governmental emphasis on drug prohibition, criminalization, and incarceration is known as:
a. drug rehabilitation policy
b. the war on drugs
c. the legalization of drugs
d. deterrence
7. Which one of the following is not part of the basic concepts of the McDonaldization of capitalism:
a. Redistribution of wealth
b. efficiency
c. calculability
d. predictability
8- Broken Windows is:
a. A theory about neighborhood beautification
b. A theory about reducing crime in neighborhoods with high crime and poverty rates
c. A theory that seeks to reduce recidivism
d. A theory that stresses the role of family in reducing crime
9. Durkheim thought that crime produces positive effects on society.
a. True
b. False
10. Trevino defines addiction to drugs as:
a-a resource for drug treatment
b-norm shaping behavior
c-compulsive behavior with neurological and environmental causes that have negative consequences for individuals and society
d-addiction to heroin
11. Scientists prefer the word global warming to climate change because it is a more accurate description of what is happening to the earth.
a-true
b-false
12. According to Obergefell v. Hodges, the basis for the right of gay people to marry comes from what idea in the Constitution?
a. the right to privacy
b. due process
c. the first amendment
d. the commerce clause
13. Social Security provides:
a. welfare to the poor who qualify
b. social insurance to the elderly and sick
c. food stamps to the elderly
d. a means for the federal government to assess the number of elderly in the population
14. Which one of the following does not belong in the criteria used to define terrorism:
a. Political violence against civilians
b. An act that has psychological repercussions on civilian populations
c. the claim of responsibility by a subnational group dedicated to violence/terror
d. a state’s violation of a peace treaty which causes war
15. The US has the lowest crime and homicide rates of any industrial nation.
A.true
B.false
16. Which one of the following ideas does not apply to broken windows doctrine:
a. Community policing
b. Order and maintenance of urban life
c. Stop and frisk
d. The swift execution of murderers
17. The nationalism that exists in the US is usually considered to be what form?
a. ethnic nationalism
b. racial nationalism
c. civic nationalism
d. progressive nationalism
18. Which one of the following is true about drug legalization:
a. The prison population might go down
b. It could increase drug use among minors
c. Drug deaths could increase
d. All of the above
19. The Cold War refers to:
a. the use of political violence against civilians
b. a period of tension, economic competition, and military rivalry between the US and the Soviet Union.
c. The Korean conflict
d. The economic competition between western and eastern Europe.
20.Public fear and anxiety about particular social problems that are disproportionate to the actual danger posed is called:
a. Symbolic interactionism
b. Moral panic
c. Future dangerousness
d. Cultural resonant themes
21. Because of globalization, there are now more ___ than before:
a. sweatshops in less developed countries
b. children working in factories
c. cheaper products for consumers to buy
d. all of the above
22. The purpose of Obamacare is to:
a.allow the federal government to take over private health insurance
b. redistribute health care costs to the wealthy
c. provide government subsidized private health insurance to the previously uninsured
d. link health care costs to social security
23. The warming that occurs when certain gases in the earth’s atmosphere get trapped is known as:
a.the wealth tax
b.the greenhouse effect
c. carbon dioxide poisoning
d. glacial melting
24 Trevino suggests that one way to protect social security payments is to do what?
a. Increase payroll taxes on social security.
b. Lower the age of retirement
c. Make social security private
d. Eliminate the program entirely
25. Nationalism is:
a. a shared feeling among groups about a nation that holds the groups together
b. an action designed to cause terror
c. the social conditioning of behavior
d. the idea that nations should exist without borders
26. Which of the following best exemplifies the idea of civic nationalism:
a. A focus on the racial characteristics of the majority
b. A focus on the class status characteristics of the majority
c. A focus on shared political rights and equality
d. The rejection of a common cultural background
27. The Authorization for the Use of Military Force Against Terrorists allows the president to do which one of the following:
a. to use all necessary and appropriate force against nations, organizations, and persons, involved in the terrorist attacks of 9/11.
b. To use all necessary force against terrorists, but only for 60 days
c. To call up the armed forces, for the purpose of starting a war against terror
d. To force the president to call upon Congress to declare war against terror
28. Which one of the following regarding industrialization and post-industrialization is not true:
a. There was an increase in automation
b. There was an increase in mechanization
c. There was an increase in cybernation
d. There was a decrease in the standard of living for most Americans
29. Idealists in international affairs promote human rights while realists favor
a. war strategies
b. the balance of power
c. the separation of powers
d. just war theories
30. In 1996, TANF replaced AFDC to do what to welfare recipients:
a. To impose time limits and work requirements
b. To increase welfare payments by enforcing work requirements
c. To decrease welfare payments but impose no other obligations
d. To replace welfare with tax subsidies to the poor.
31. Which group of thinkers on international relations would oppose the US joining an international organization dedicated to human rights?
a. realists
b. idealists
c. structural functionalists
d. evolutionary psychologists
32. The first point in the scientific method is to do what:
a. Formulate hypotheses
b. Make observations
c. Refine one’s thesis
d. Develop testable predictions
33. The purpose of ____ is to ensure war is morally justifiable through a series of moral criteria.
a. Geneva conventions
b. Just war theory
c. Nuclear deterrence
d. None of the above