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When a person kills people in two or more locations with no time between each killing, this is known as...?

Question 1 options:

	Serial murder
	Spree murder
	Continuous murder
	Mass murder

Question 2 (1 point)

Which of the following is not a category in the typology of violent offenders?

Question 2 options:

	Structurally violent offenders
	Culturally violent offenders
	Situationally violent offenders
	Criminally violent offenders

Question 3 (1 point)

Why are women traditionally reluctant to report incidents of sexual assault?

Question 3 options:

	There is stigma attached to these incidents and society treats women as personally responsible for inviting attacks.
	The criminal justice system is sexist and forces women to relive the experience twice.
	The legal process permits defense attorneys to probe into sexual histories beyond the criminal incident which can be humiliating.
	Victims are often treated as needing to prove that they tried to stop the assault from occurring in order to be treated fairly
	All of the above

Question 4 (1 point)

Entire societies that have a predisposition to using violence to resolve grievances is known as a culture of violence.

Question 4 options:

	True
	False

Question 5 (1 point)

The United States has the lowest homicide rate among economically developed countries.

Question 5 options:

	True
	False

Question 6 (1 point)

According to "The Code of the Streets" what is the first lesson that children have to learn as they are socialized into their surrounding urban environment?

Question 6 options:

	That respect is more important than any other resource available in the inner city.
	That survival and respect can't be taken for granted, and must be fought for in order to make it in the world.
	That they are hopelessly trapped in a cycle of dependence.
	That you can't count on anybody in the world except yourself.

Question 7 (1 point)

What is the main reason Anderson identifies as perpetuating a cycle of violence for inner-city black men, women and youth?

Question 7 options:

	Confusion stemming from underfunded education systems about the way to fit into society.
	Anomie stemming from a lack of familial role models.
	Isolation stemming from poor access to food and housing.
	Alienation stemming from endemic joblessness and racism.

Question 8 (1 point)

According to Sanchez-Jankowski, what is the main drawback of many traditional criminological theories of gangs?

Question 8 options:

	They rely too much on statistics rather than on qualitative studies of the people in the gangs.
	They are too focused on creating typologies of gangs which obscure the similarities between gangs.
	They focus on individual-level factors as opposed to structural-level factors that influence the rise of gangs and push people into gang life.
	They are racist and focus only on ethnic minorities.

Question 9 (1 point)

According to Dubner, the Ku Klux Klan and real-estate brokers similarly manipulate _______ to their advantage.

Question 9 options:

	Minorities
	Police
	Financial Derivatives
	Information

Question 10 (1 point)

Arson is considered a conventional property crime.

Question 10 options:

	True
	False

Question 11 (1 point)

Which of the following is the best description of a professional criminal.

Question 11 options:

	They engage primarily in non-destructive types of criminal behavior in order to remain stealth.
	They are someone who holds a white-collar job in addition to pursuing occasional crime which allows them to blend in.
	They are able to employ other criminals underneath them to do low-level jobs.
	They earn a considerable portion of their livelihood from their criminal pursuits.

Question 12 (1 point)

Which of the following is not a category of from Edelhertz's typology of white-collar crime?

Question 12 options:

	Carjacking
	Fraud against the government
	Home improvement schemes
	Mortgage milking

Question 13 (1 point)

Professional property crime is distinct from occasional and conventional property crime because?

Question 13 options:

	it is typically performed by people with a college degree.
	it is classified based on the types of skills needed rather by actual acts of property crime.
	it has a much larger base of people that can participate due to its clandestine nature.
	it primarily focuses on types of crimes that are non-economic in nature.

Question 14 (1 point)

Larceny-theft makes up over half of the index offense total included in the Uniform Crime Report.

Question 14 options:

	True
	False

Question 15 (1 point)

Which of the following is not a type of public-order crime?

Question 15 options:

	Prostitution
	Paraphilia
	Drug Abuse
	Burglary

Question 16 (1 point)

Broken-windows theory assumes that visible instances of crime will lead to greater and more problematic instances of crime over time in a given community.

Question 16 options:

	True
	False

Question 17 (1 point)

Overall rates of drug use in the United States have increased since the late 1970s.

Question 17 options:

	True
	False

Question 18 (1 point)

The process of lessening penalties attached to particular offenses through the legislative process is known as decriminalization.

Question 18 options:

	True
	False

Question 19 (1 point)

According to Michelle Alexander, what is the system in the United States that represents the "New Jim Crow."

Question 19 options:

	Mass Incarceration
	Poverty and Homicide
	Unobtainable Hearings
	Narcotics Addiction

Question 20 (1 point)

According to Drug Offenses, Not Violent Crime Filling Up Federal Prisons, which of the following is not one of the reasons that the per capita incarceration rate has exploded in the United States?

Question 20 options:

	A focus on incarcerating drug offenders as opposed to violent and other non-violent criminal populations.
	The inadequacy of formal record keeping systems that have created a backlog in appeals for drug offenders with contested cases.
	Mandatory minimum sentencing practices spearheaded by the states.
	A lack of opportunity for parole for federal prisoners that are keeping people behind bars.