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

Question 1

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

A) police
B) prosecutors
C) defense attorneys
D) correction officers

Answer 1

D

Question 2

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 ________________.

A) Surveillance
B) Interactivity
C) The crime and justice spectacle
D) None of the above

Answer 2

C

Question 3

The social construction perspective prevents us from recognizing claims makers.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

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

A) Anticrime efforts appear to be an effective means of disseminating information and influencing attitudes, but their ability to significantly affect behavior has not been established.
B) Although useful in specific areas, media-based anticrime programs are not likely to significantly reduce the overall crime rate.
C) Media-based anticrime programs can have significant immediate effects.
D) Media-based anticrime programs can have significant long-term effects.

Question 5

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

A) Crime fighters need more training and resources because they are not capable of solving crimes legally.
B) Criminals can be rehabilitated in prison.
C) Crime is a result of individual characteristics and is not related to social structure, racism, or poverty.
D) The courts allow dangerous offenders to avoid guilt.

Question 6

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

Question 7

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

A) Its effect on generating crime
B) Its effect on criminal justice policies
C) Its effect on behaviors
D) None of the above

Question 8

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

A) Media effects motivate terrorists.
B) The media likely have more of a copycat effect on violent crime than property crime.
C) People seeking notoriety imitate crimes.
D) Violence-prone children and individuals who have difficulty distinguishing fact from fantasy are particularly at risk for aping media violence.

Question 9

The forces which drive the media and continue the disparity between media-constructed reality of crime and the real world reality of crime and justice include all of the following EXCEPT ___________________.

A) organizational
B) commercial
C) cultural
D) individual

Question 10

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

Question 11

Media have changed the way people interact with each other. All of the following statements are true EXCEPT ________________________.

A) The media experience is moving farther away from the direct personal experience.
B) The full effects of interactive media will be significant in games that emulate the experiences of crime and violence.
C) There is less direct, face-to-face conversation.
D) There is more face-to-face-like communication via media technology.

Question 12

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 ________________________.

A) Increased the public's tolerance for surveillance
B) Decreased media trial coverage
C) Revealed previously low-visibility criminal justice events
D) Increased the acceptance of media technology and entertainment formatting in crime and justice

Question 13

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

A) America's popular media sets the stage for how we understand crime.
B) We spend more money trying to deal with the problem.
C) Information about crime and justice flows in unabated content looping cycles.
D) All of the above statements are true.

Question 14

The future of crime-and-justice reality provides for differing scenarios. The scenario that portrays the commercial media as operating under heavy restrictions, with tight constraints on their ability to cover, comment on, and portray crime-and-justice issues and cases is known as ___________________.

A) Surveillance
B) Interactivity
C) The crime and justice spectacle
D) None of the above

Question 15

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

A) The internet
B) Television news coverage
C) Radio coverage
D) Video games

Question 16

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?

A) organizational
B) commercial
C) cultural
D) individual

Question 17

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.

A) Negligible cause model
B) Nonlinear cause model
C) Primary cause model
D) Bidirectional cause model

Question 18

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.

Question 19

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.

Question 20

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

A) organizational
B) commercial
C) cultural
D) individual

Question 21

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

Question 22

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

Question 23

The media works on copycat crime as a trigger more than a rudder.

Question 24

The most common media portrait of criminality is that of a violent offender who hunts innocent victims.

Question 25

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