Deck 14: Political Crime

Question 1

Which of the following involves the aiding and abetting of a country's enemy by,for example,providing the enemy military secrets or other important information that puts the country at risk?

A) Vigilantism
B) Treason
C) Impeachment
D) Fracking

Answer 1

B

Question 2

A related form of political violence is political _____,or the murder of public figures for political reasons.

A) assassination
B) impeachment
C) indictment
D) aggression

Answer 2

A

Question 3

The FBI took part in a counterintelligence program called _____,begun in 1941 to target the Communist and Socialist Workers parties.

A) COINTELPRO
B) INTERPOL
C) UNGHC
D) WNASA

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Which of the following is a term coined during World War II that refers to the deliberate extermination of a group because of its race,religion,ethnicity,or nationality?

A) Herbicide
B) Fratricide
C) Homicide
D) Genocide

Question 5

Espionage is more commonly known as ______.

A) investigating
B) terrorism
C) treason
D) spying

Question 6

Which of the following is an example of genocide?

A) Darfur
B) Death of MLK
C) Civil War
D) The holocaust

Question 7

Which of the following aims to change the existing order and includes such actions as terrorism,assassination,and other political violence?

A) Crimes against history
B) Crimes against humanity
C) Crimes against government
D) Crimes against institutions

Question 8

Which of the following is an example of vigilante terrorism?

A) Pearl Harbor
B) 9/11
C) Space shuttle Challenger explosion
D) Oklahoma City bombing

Question 9

Which of the following best describes civil disobedience?

A) It is the violation of the law and almost always includes serious violence such as murders.
B) It is a violation of the law by corporations in order to increase profits.
C) It is the violation of law for reasons of conscience and is usually nonviolent and public.
D) It is completely legal as long as all participants are 18 years or older.

Question 10

The story of Rosa Parks is an example of _____.

A) corporate crime
B) civil disobedience
C) state violence
D) vigilante terrorism

Question 11

Crime by government is also called _____.

A) national-crime
B) state-crime
C) county-crime
D) UN-crime

Question 12

Which of the following reflects a misuse of office for political power and influence?

A) Vietnam
B) World War II
C) Watergate
D) The civil rights movement

Question 13

Like white-collar crime,_____ is an ambiguous term.

A) political crime
B) gang crime
C) corporate crime
D) institutional crime

Question 14

Governments often resort to political violence that stops short of genocide.This violence includes torture and beatings; assassination,execution,and mass murder; and related actions,including forced expulsion.This is referred to as _____.

A) UN terror
B) community terror
C) state terror
D) regional terror

Question 15

This type of terrorism is initiated by private groups against other private groups to preserve the status quo.

A) Vigilante terrorism
B) Government terrorism
C) Corporate terrorism
D) Nation-building

Question 16

One cornerstone of democracy is:

A) government surveillance and arrest.
B) freedom of movement and lawful dissent.
C) wealth redistribution.
D) executive fiat.

Question 17

Sometimes,government agencies and corporations cooperate to commit illegal or socially harmful activities.Such _____ represents the intersection of corporate crime and crime by government.

A) military-industry
B) gang-government
C) nation-global
D) state-corporate crime

Question 18

Individuals and groups often commit terrorism and other _____ to change the status quo.

A) secular violence
B) political violence
C) popular violence
D) sectarian violence

Question 19

Which of the following is an example of state-corporate crime?

A) The explosion of the Challenger space shuttle
B) The disaster of Affordable Care Act rollout
C) The 9/11 attacks
D) The bombing of Pearl Harbor

Question 20

Which theory stresses that movements are more likely to arise when changes in the national government promise it will prove receptive or vulnerable to movement challenges?

A) Political passiveness
B) Corporate changing
C) Political opportunity
D) Corporate greed

Question 21

The 9/11 terrorism is an example of the fourth type of terrorism,_____ terrorism (also called global terrorism).

A) tactical
B) transnational
C) transporter
D) totalitarian

Question 22

Genocides have only occurred in Africa.

Question 23

Crime by government is not a type of political corruption.

Question 24

The Challenger disaster an example of state-corporate crime.

Question 25

Political crime may be any illegal or socially harmful act aimed at preserving or changing the existing political and social order.

Question 26

According to Reporters Without Borders,Vietnam has some of the freest press in the world.

Question 27

Under what is called extraordinary _____,the CIA arrested or kidnapped suspected terrorists in several nations and transported them to secret prisons in the Middle East.

A) rendition
B) retention
C) regression
D) repatriating

Question 28

Political corruption is committed either for personal economic gain or for political influence.

Question 29

Victims of state-crime are almost always from the higher socioeconomic strata.

Question 30

From 1946 to 1963,for example,the military subjected up to 300,000 soldiers and civilians to radiation during atomic bomb tests in Nevada and elsewhere.This is an example of:

A) corporate neglect.
B) military crime.
C) vigilante terror.
D) illegal experimentation.

Question 31

Crime by government aims to change the existing order and includes terrorism.

Question 32

A favorite repression strategy in totalitarian nations is to _____ dissidents.

A) deport and reward
B) elect and repatriate
C) arrest and imprison
D) emigrate and export

Question 33

Like white-collar crime,political crime is an ambiguous term.

Question 34

In the concentration camps of World War II,American scientists performed some hideous experiments in the name of science.

Question 35

Crime can only be committed by individuals,not governments.

Question 36

A favorite repression strategy in totalitarian nations is to arrest and imprison dissidents.

Question 37

Understanding political crime as a function of _____ helps us in turn to understand the socio-demographic makeup of the people who commit this crime.Simply put,their race,class,and gender often mirror those of the powerful and powerless in any particular society.

A) efficacy
B) affect
C) intimacy
D) power

Question 38

Crime by government is called also called state-crime.

Question 39

The deliberate extermination of a group because of its race,religion,ethnicity,or nationality is called genocide.

Question 40

When Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus,she committed the crime of espionage.

Question 41

Would you consider the targeting of conservative political groups by the IRS and other agencies to be a form of state terrorism?

Question 42

Explain genocide.

Question 43

Much _____ terrorism takes place in the form of hate crimes.

Question 44

Spying,or,_____,has been called the world's "second oldest profession".

Question 45

If you were a politician,do you think you would engage in political corruption? Which factor would influence you?

Question 46

Explain the social patterning of political crime in the United States.

Question 47

Stalin's reign of terror involved many _____ trials that depicted his opponents as dangerous threats to law and order.

Question 48

Crime by _____ is also called state-crime.

Question 49

The Nazis committed _____ against the Jews when they attempted extermination.

Question 50

Explain treason.

Question 51

Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin committed _____ terrorism during a purge of Communist Party leaders threatened his reign.The result was thousands of executions.

Question 52

Political _____ theory stresses that movements are more likely to arise when changes in the national government promise it will prove receptive or vulnerable to movement challenges.

Question 53

The FBI used a counterintelligence program called _____ to target the Communist and Socialist Workers parties.

Question 54

Crime by government and other established interests is crime by those with _____.

Question 55

Benedict Arnold is an example of a(n)_____.