Deck 12: Crimes Without Victims and Victims Without Crimes

Question 1

Powder cocaine and crack cocaine are exactly the same drug, just consumed using different methods (snorting vs. smoking).

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Which of the following states does not require motorcycle riders to wear helmets?

A) Iowa
B) Illinois
C) New Hampshire
D) all of the above

Answer 2

D

Question 3

This 1914 act outlawed opiates:

A) Stamp Act
B) Harrison Act
C) Hochstetler Act
D) Erickson Act

Answer 3

D

Question 4

A major goal of male prostitutes is to form a liaison with an older man that will support them financially and are referred to as"

A) sugar knights
B) sugar bears
C) sugar babies
D) sugar daddies

Question 5

How many states have provisions for physician assisted suicide

A) 3
B) 4
C) 5
D) 2

Question 6

Prostitution is illegal in every state in the United States.

Question 7

Which state was the first state to allow physician-assisted suicide?

A) Washington
B) Oregon
C) California
D) Nevada

Question 8

Matters that seem to involve self-evident social harms that never find their way into criminal laws are known as

A) crimes without victims
B) victims without crimes
C) victimless crimes
D) none of the above

Question 9

What country recently made it legal to engage in prostitution, but illegal to solicit a prostitute?

A) Sweden
B) Italy
C) United States
D) Canada

Question 10

Which substance is said to cause more deaths than any other recognized lethal agent?

A) cigarettes
B) alcohol
C) cocaine
D) heroin

Question 11

Drug sentences often exceed those for which of the following crime

A) manslaughter
B) arson
C) assault
D) all of these

Question 12

Drug sentences cost tax payers more than $_______ annually per inmate.

A) 15,000
B) 25,000
C) 20,000
D) 10,000

Question 13

Victimless crimes involve consensual participation by the parties involved.

Question 14

How many states allow licensed physicians to prescribe marijuana to patients that have a legitimate need to treat a medical condition?

A) 2
B) 6
C) 11
D) 15

Question 15

Which drug is said by the United Nations to be the most widely abused drug on earth?

A) marijuana
B) cocaine
C) methamphetamine
D) heroin

Question 16

What percentage of federal prison inmates are drug offenders?

A) 25%
B) 70%
C) 50%
D) 10%

Question 17

Which theory is most often cited to explain the use of marijuana?

A) social bond theory
B) routine activity theory
C) biosocial criminology
D) differential association

Question 18

Who said, "morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose"?

A) Ernest Hemingway
B) Adolf Hitler
C) Robert Bork
D) Friedrich Nietzsche

Question 19

Prostitution is illegal in all states except _______.

A) Iowa
B) Texas
C) Nevada
D) Alaska

Question 20

In which state is prostitution not illegal?

A) North Carolina
B) New York
C) Nevada
D) North Dakota

Question 21

Opiate abuse now kills as many people as gun in the United States.

Question 22

Physician assisted suicide is legal in the state of Montana.

Question 23

Social bond theory is typically used to explain marijuana use.

Question 24

The effects of methamphetamine last significantly longer than those of cocaine.

Question 25

Differential association theory is often used to explain marijuana use.

Question 26

50% of federal inmate are drug offenders.

Question 27

As of 2015, 23 states had legalized recreational use of marijuana.

Question 28

A major goal of male prostitutes is finding a "sugar daddy" for financial support.

Question 29

One can legally ride a motorcycle without a helmet in Iowa.

Question 30

Social bond theory is typically used to explain marijuana use.