Deck 1: As American as Apple Pie

Question 1

Iadicola and Shupe define violence as "Any action or structural arrangement that results in physical or nonphysical harm to one or more persons."

Answer 1

True

Question 2

U.S.murder rates are about three times higher than all other countries.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

The video of football player Ray Rice knocking his fiancé out with one punch in an elevator is an example of ______.

A) people engaging in violence in multiple spheres of their lives
B) how violent all football players are
C) provoked and justified violence
D) an outlet to relieve stress

Answer 3

A

Question 4

The sociologist Jack Katz argues that many perpetrators see their violence as a form of ______.

A) self help
B) righteous slaughter
C) divine vengeance
D) homicidal rage

Question 5

The Uniform Crime Reporting Program features official arrest data from state and local law enforcement agencies.

Question 6

The NCVS is one of several ongoing self-report surveys in which interviewed persons are asked about the number and characteristics of victimizations they have experienced during the previous year,regardless of whether they reported these victimizations to the police.

Question 7

How is the National Incident Based Reporting System (NIBRS)different from the the Uniform Crime Report (UCR)?

A) Reports are based on voluntary participation of law enforcement agencies.
B) Information about both the victim and the offender are collected for homicides.
C) It includes detailed information on crime incidents, including the characteristics of the victim, such as age, gender, race, ethnicity, and resident status.
D) Only state law enforcement agencies participate in reporting.

Question 8

A recent study of juvenile offenders examined whether males and females of different races/ethnicities differentially recalled incidents of self-reported offending compared to official records and concluded that,"the SRO [self-reported offending] measure produces a reasonably good indicator of illegal activities."

Question 9

All violence is connected by a web of actions and behaviors,ideas,perceptions,and justifications.

Question 10

Researchers interested in offending behavior will extract the most accurate information from which data collection methodology?

A) focus groups
B) survey methodology
C) official crime reports
D) courtroom observations

Question 11

The study done by Leslie Kennedy and David Forde illustrates that Canadians do not judge acts of violence as selectively as Americans.

Question 12

Enjoying violent video and computer games or watching violent sporting events ______.

A) leads to psychopathic tendencies
B) is an example of experiencing victimization vicariously
C) is becoming less common
D) makes one more vulnerable to direct victimization

Question 13

Structural violence is all about inequality and discriminatory social arrangements in society.

Question 14

The suggestion that legitimate forms of violence influence illegitimate forms of violence is known as the ______.

A) multiple spheres theory
B) influence theory
C) legitimation theory
D) spillover theory

Question 15

The NCVS distinguishes the number of victimizations as ______.

A) the same as the number of incidents.
B) the number of crimes reported to the police.
C) the number of acts committed against respondents and others present during an incident
D) how many victimization acts were experienced by survey respondents

Question 16

Violent crimes in the United States ________ in the early 1990s and have _______ since that time.

A) peaked; have generally declined
B) peaked; continued to climb
C) dropped; risen sharply
D) dropped; risen at a slow rate

Question 17

Our understanding of violence is highly situational and contingent,meaning the context is extremely important in helping shape our understanding of and reaction to violent acts and actors.Which of the following is not one of the factors that helps shape our context of violence?

A) the victim
B) the offender
C) the location of the violence
D) the timing of the violence (time of day, season, etc.)

Question 18

Research suggesting that children who are spanked are more likely to be aggressive as adults compared with children who were not spanked is an example of the spillover hypothesis.

Question 19

Instrumental violence is motivated by emotions such as rage and jealousy.

Question 20

Which of the following is not a necessary element that needs to be considered when formulating a definition of violence?

A) the intent of the participants
B) the causes of and motivations and justifications for the behavior
C) the legality of the act
D) the degree and type of injury

Question 21

Discuss Wolfgang and Ferracuti's "subcultures of violence" theory,and apply their conceptual framework to discussion of the emergence of the Ku Klux Klan in the Southern states.

Question 22

Provide two different scenarios and explain the circumstances where the actions could be perceived as violent behavior versus nonviolent behavior.Explain what contributes to the difference in the violent versus nonviolent perception of the scenario.

Question 23

What are the strengths and weaknesses of the Uniform Crime Report and the National Crime Victimization Survey?

Question 24

Explain why defining violence is so difficult.

Question 25

Explain how all violence is bound into what is called the "unity of human aggression."