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37 Cards in this Set
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Who Benefits the most from the collective ideology that results from crime myths?
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the believers, the public/society
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What % of Americans have committed a crime for which they could have been incarcerated?
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90%
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Where do Americans get their information about crime and criminals?
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mass media
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Describe the reality of crime and reporting of crime by the news media.
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News media uses the worst case to characterize a social problem encourages us to view that case as typical and to think about the problem in extreme terms
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What was the primary problem with stories written during the media frenzy over workplace violence in the 1990s?
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the media simply repeated the suspect statistic without investigating its validity
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Why have members of the Police Executive Research Forum violated concerns about programs like COPS?
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the presence of cameras encourage more violent behavior from police officers
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Which group is most often presented as a “criminal by television news?
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hispanics
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List the characters necessary for a crime myth to reach its full potential.
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targeting a distinct deviant population
“innocent” or “helpless” victim population brave and virtuous heroes threat to establishes norms values or lifestyles |
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Crime myths are most often constructed around which types of groups in society?
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unpopular
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Define “information management” as a technique of myth construction.
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the editorial process by which a particular news story is shaped and selected for presentation to the exclusion of other stories
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Define “value loaded terminology” as a technique of myth construction
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biased language used to characterize and label crime
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Define “selective presentation of fact” as a technique of myth construction.
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presenting certain facts to the exclusion of others strengthens a biased argument
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Public opinion polls indicate that Americans are most worried about what issue?
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home buglary
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Describe the “typical criminal” feared by Americans.
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poor, young, urban, black males
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What is the LEAST common relationship between victims and offenders?
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psychopathic predatory strangers lurking in urban shadows
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What is necessary for an offense to be recorded in the UCR as a “crime known to the police”?
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all reports of crime received by victims, officers who discover the infractions,other sources regardless of whether anyone is arrested for the crime, stolenproperty is recovered, or prosecution is undertaken
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What crime is responsible for a majority of violent crime victimization according to the National Crime Victimization Survey?
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assualt
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What is the percentage of Americans that are victimized every year?
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2.3%
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What is the least common crime of violence?
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murder
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What is the most common relationship between homicide victims and offenders?
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the victim and offender closely know each other
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Define “child stealing”.
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children abducted by a parent that does not have legal custody
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Most missing children are found within __ hours.
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24
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Define and give an example of a “thrownaway child”
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children whose parents force them out of their homes
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According to government data, what % of runaway children return home?
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99%
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How many children are abducted, possibly sexually assaulted and killed by strangers each year?
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at most 40
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Which retailer implemented the “Code Adam” safety procedure to lock and search a store when the is a lost child incident?
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wallmart
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In the case of a parental abduction when the abducting parent is arrested by the FBI, what usually happens to the child?
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they are kept in foster homes or community shelters
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How many laws were passes in an 18 month period to memorialize dead children?
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more than 50
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Define xenophobia.
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fear of people significantly different from oneself
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In what year did the serial killer panic begin to garner media attention?
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1984
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Between 1983 and 1985, the Justice Department, along with several other writers, estimated that serial killers accounted for about __% homicide victims each year.
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20
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Describe “linkage blindness”
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murders occurring in several different jurisdictions
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It is rare for a serial murderer to kill more than _ victims in any particular year.
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6
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In reality, serial murder accounts for __ % of all American homicides.
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.01
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By the late ____s many scholars had rejected the idea that rehabilitation was the appropriate response to deviancy and criminal behavior.
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1980
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The _____ has been responsible for the apprehension of most serial killers.
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VIACP
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In any given year, serial murder will account for approximately _ out of every 10,000 deaths that occur in the United states
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1
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