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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A Had a positive effect in corrections
B Resigned before losing their positions
C Lost their jobs
D Provided inaccurate information, to the detriment of the organization
Question #2
A The media construction of crime will identify what policies of crime control should be adopted
B The media construction of crime will define what are thought to be the causes of crime
C The media construction of crime will define what acts are regarded as criminal
D The media construction of crime will reduce the seriousness of the crime
Question #3
A A decrease in treatment programs
B Additional treatment and re-entry programs
C Increase in recidivism
D The imposition of additional behavioral controls
Question #4
A Using persuasive interviewing techniques to influence others to disclose material they would normally not disclose
B When a journalist relies on an unsubstantiated argument without noting its weaknesses to produce a desired conclusion
C Any intentional and successful influence of a person by noncoercively altering the actual choices available to the person or by non-persuasively altering the perceptions by others of those choices.
D When a journalist makes an attempt in hard news to persuade using emotional rhetoric rather than fact
Question #5
A Soliciting a fee from an inmate for finding him a job
B Accepting gratuities to protect illicit activity
C Extortion through mistreatment or harassment
D Theft of new televisions from the prison loading dock
Question #6
A Assist inmates in getting rehabilitated
B Do not lug (smuggle) drugs in to inmates
C Always support fellow officers against inmate claims/allegations
D Do not rat (inform on other guards)
Question #7
A A humane correctional system is impossible given the dominant theory and practice of retribution
B Prisons have cultures where guards are corrupted and prisoners are denied their humanity
C Officer training emphasizes emotional detachment and degrading treatment
D Guards are increasingly using more excessive force
Question #8
A Crimes against children are considered more newsworthy than crimes against the adults
B Victims who are perpetrated against by a stranger are considered more newsworthy than a victim who knows the perpetrator
C Homicides are considered more newsworthy when the victim is white
D Rape is the most likely crime to be reported
Question #9
A Assassination violates U.S. values and principles because it is done in secret and is a display of the exercise of overbearing state power against individuals.
B Assassination is an immoral act and a form of politically motivated murder outside the bounds of the conventions of war and morality.
C Targeted killing calls into question the morality of U.S. foreign policy, which stresses human rights and democracy.
D All of the other answers
Question #10
A It gives the executive the leverage to demand almost any resources in the furtherance of winning the war
B It permits the employment of warlike measures concurrently with law enforcement measures
C It enables the executive branch of government to exercise wide powers under the authority of the president as commander-in-chief
D All of the other answers
Question #11
A United Kingdom
B United States
C Canada
D Australia
Question #12
A Retributive
B Callous
C Sympathetic
D Empathetic
Question #13
A A public over-reaction caused by outdated public morals
B When a small group of legislators panic and force through unethical legislation
C An irrational and exaggerated response by the public to a perceived problem
D When an individual legislator or policy maker over-reacts to a problem
Question #14
A A criminal conviction
B The prosecution process
C The court
D A life sentence
Question #15
A Personal
B Rewards
C Compliance
D Legalistic
Question #16
A Do no harm
B Morality
C Reasonable standard of care
D Moral blame
Question #17
A Whites never have been engaged in drugs as much as blacks, a fact often reported in the media
B The War on Drugs focused on heroin, a drug often used by blacks, a fact not usually in the media
C Whites comprise almost 3/4 of illegal drug users and blacks 13%, a fact not usually incorporated in media accounts
D Whites comprise almost 1/3 of illegal drug users and blacks almost 2/3, a fact often reported in the media
Question #18
A Restricting rights during criminal processing of terrorist defendants
B Accidental killing of civilian non-terrorists
C Torture during interrogation
D Invading foreign countries
Question #19
A Prisons who want to receive federal funding must eliminate prison rape by 85%
B Devising and implementation of national standards to detect, prevent, reduce, and punish rape
C Prioritization of the prevention of rape in each prison system
D Setting a zero-tolerance standard for prison rape
Question #20
A Medium security
B Supermax
C Minimum security
D Maximum security
Question #21
A Focusing attention only on victims who meet that standard of victimhood
B Focusing only on the very young and the very old victims
C Reporting, on the visual media, pictures of victims
D Reporting sympathetic stories of victims who have also been charged with crimes
Question #22
A Few accused actually go to trial and unexciting plea bargains are the norm
B The legal system is far more complex
C Crime fighting is the complex part of the process
D The legal system makes it easier to fight crime because prosecutors know how to talk with the media
Question #23
A Empathy
B Violence
C Coercion
D Sympathy
Question #24
A Sex offenses
B Drug crimes
C Homicides
D Kidnappings
Question #25
A Racial and ethnic minorities are responsible for a substantial amount of property and drug crime therefore creating policies favoring punitiveness
B Negative racial stereotypes and collective racial resentment are negatively correlated with policies favoring punitiveness
C Racial and ethnic minorities are responsible for a substantial amount of violent crime therefore creating policies favoring punitiveness
D Negative racial stereotypes and collective racial resentment are positively correlated with polices favoring punitiveness
Question #26
A It is a slippery slope, which could expand its use in other circumstances
B It is not a realistic scenario
C It is not likely to happen as its proponents claim
D It negates the autonomy and dignity of the individual
Question #27
A An unintended but unforeseen morally bad effect of an action can be excused if both the action and the intended effect are morally impermissible
B The activities are only morally impermissible if they produce two effects, both of which are morally impermissible
C The activities are morally permissible if they produce two effects, so long as one is morally permissible.
D An unintended but unforeseen morally bad effect of an action can be excused if both the action and the intended effect are morally permissible
Question #28
A Treatment
B Punitiveness
C Rehabilitation
D Community-oriented corrections
Question #29
A Drug offenders
B Prostitutes
C Murderers
D Sex offenders
Question #30
A There is widespread approval of them
B There is widespread approval of them
C While they approve of it, they do not believe it should be applied indiscriminately to specific offenders under specific circumstances
D The public is evenly divided on them
Question #31
A Formal control
B Social control
C Informal control
D Governmental control
Question #32
A Cost-benefit grounds
B Political grounds
C Due process grounds
D Ideological grounds
Question #33
A Absolutists
B Deontologists
C Relativists
D Consequentialists
Question #34
A Assistance to law enforcement to make an arrest
B Advocacy for greater levels of social control
C A key profit maker for the media
D A warning to the public
Question #35
A Their control function
B Their treatment and control functions
C Their treatment function
D Their heavy caseloads
Question #36
A By one part of government against another part of the same government.
B Committed by government, sometimes against its own people.
C By the military against a civilian government.
D Against a state in the United States.
Question #37
A Result in disproportionately severe sentences
B Have no incapacitate effect
C Do not reflect the will of the majority
D Are not applied to all offenders convicted under such statutes
Question #38
A A responsible path for discussion of moral issues
B A site for the construction of a moral order
C A monopoly so that news is consistent
D The primary source of news
Question #39
A Treatment programs to reduce jail and prison populations
B Three-strikes laws
C Work release programs to reduce jail and prison populations
D Sentencing guidelines
Question #40
A The placement of crime stories on television late at night hoping a viewer will be able identify the offender
B Using the media to report fictitious events so law enforcement can catch the real criminal
C Using entertainment to reenact criminal events
D The marketing of edited, highly formatted information about the world in entertainment media vehicles
Question #41
A Reynolds v. Florida
B United States v. Shallet
C Kenny v. Indiana Youth Center
D Graham v. Florida
Question #42
A Gain respect of inmates
B Maintain power
C Retain their discretion
D Treat inmates ethically
Question #43
A Refrained from enforcing certain prison rules and regulations.
B Become members of prison gangs.
C Begun directly disobeying orders from superiors.
D Begun taking monetary bribes from prisoners.
Question #44
A Property
B Vice
C Debtors
D Violent
Question #45
A War paradigm
B Drone paradigm
C Terrorism paradigm
D Enemy paradigm
Question #46
A Prosecutorial
B Judicial
C Inmate
D Celebrity
Question #47
A Accepting the unavoidable consequences of our policies
B Not worrying about the consequences
C Asking whether our policies will render citizens more secure in the long term
D Asking whether there will be any consequences to our anti-terrorism policies