Exam 1: Theorizing Media and Crime

Positivism regards the world as unfixable and unquantifiable.

H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds, which aired on the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) on Halloween Night in October:

According to the authors, society has become less violent.

Cesare Lombroso studied the bodies of which of the following?

According to the authors, the most compelling example to date of a postmodern media "performance" occurred on which of the following events?

The Bobo doll experiment took place at which of the following universities in the 1950s and 1960s.

In 2012, the crime rate was ______ per 100,000.

The originator of the cultural criminology approach is:

According to the authors, citizens turned to solutions at the macro-level.

Environmental harm was referred to by scholars in 1998 as:

All of the following were identified as characteristics associated with modern society except:

Criminzalition posits that crime and deviance are the product of sick individuals and sick societies.

What is the political economy approach?

Behaviorism represented a major challenge to the more dominant perspective of psychoanalysis.

According to mass society theorists, all of the following events made individuals feel vulnerable except:

A large majority of American's belive that violent crime is declining.

In Crimes of Style (1996), Ferrell explores the meaning and practice of:

What were hidden persuaders?

According to the authors, pluralists argue that which of the following processes have succeeded in removing the media from state regulation and censorship.

Which of the following were regarded as examples of pressure groups?