Exam 11: New Media, Crime, and Justice in the Twenty-First Century

Which type of media-driving force must show a profit regardless of the social effects, while encouraging redundancy and boundary pushing?

The media's role in terrorism is evolving primarily in reaction to __________.

All of the following statements regarding media-based anticrime efforts are true EXCEPT __________________.

Media content lends support to preventive or rehabilitative criminal justice policies over punitive policies.

All of the following statements are true regarding media and social construction, EXCEPT __________________.

The media portrays the most successful crime fighters as armed civilians and elite rogue law enforcement officers.

One of the postulates that drive expectations about future media, crime, and justice interactions is that the media, more often than not, construct the criminal justice system and its people negatively and as ineffective; yet the cumulative effect is support for more police, more prisons, and more money for the criminal justice system.

There are conflicting arguments regarding the media's effects on unwanted behaviors and public policies. Which of the following is the model of causality that concedes a statistical association between the media and some negative behaviors, but argues that the connection is due not to a causal relationship but to persons predisposed to certain behaviors seeking out particular types of media and concurrently behaving in ways similar to the behavior displayed in the media. Therefore, media can be safely ignored.

The social construction perspective prevents us from recognizing claims makers.

Future media scenarios must be considered due to the fact that the technologies and capabilities are already available.

The media has the capacity to influence criminal behavior with a widespread criminalizing effect.

The dominant crime-and-justice portrait shows that the most effective crime fighters are those who work within the criminal justice system, adhering to due process considerations.

By constructing crime-and-justice reality, the media subtly affect crime-and-justice policies.

The single most significant social effect of media crime-and-justice content is on which of the following?

Which type of media-driving force comes into play in a wide-scale social acceptance of the media-generated predator criminal icon, which entertains and comforts us?

Research suggests that the media's influence on criminality is an immediate concern due to all of the following considerations EXCEPT _________________.

The "smug hack" icon is the media's portrayal of which of the following criminal justice personnel?

Cumulatively, the media's crime-and-justice content forwards the all of the following claims EXCEPT __________________.

Media-driven social trends have moved us toward more open public institutions and enhanced scrutiny of public trends. As a result, new media have done all of the following EXCEPT ________________________.

The future of crime-and-justice reality provides for differing scenarios. The scenario that frames a free-wheeling infotainment media which dominates the culture in a technologically resplendent journalism driven by an intrusive, near sadistic voyeurism is known as ________________.