Deck 12: State-Involved Crimes

Question 1

______ years after the Citizen's Commission burglary, some of the members have yet to identify themselves.

A) 12
B) 26
C) 31
D) 43

Answer 1

D

Question 2

State involved crimes are those that involve the government, either as the victim or the offender.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Crimes against the state are crimes that are perpetrated against the state.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Which of the following crimes are considered crimes against the state?

A) Espionage
B) Treason
C) Terrorism
D) All of the above

Question 5

Which of the following lower-level offenses are also considered crimes against the state?

A) Perjury
B) Obstruction of justice
C) Official misconduct
D) All of the above

Question 6

Identify the categories of state-involved crimes.

Question 7

Crimes that involve public officials are usually perpetrated by which of the following?

A) Judges
B) Elected officials
C) Police officers
D) All of the above

Question 8

Sedition is considered a crime against the state.

Question 9

__________ is the betrayal of one's country.

A) Bribery
B) Terrorism
C) Espionage
D) Obstruction of justice

Question 10

Espionage is a federal crime punishable by death.

Question 11

The 1917 Espionage Act was passed during which of the following wars?

A) Civil War
B) Revolutionary War
C) World War I
D) World War II

Question 12

Which of the following presidents passed the Espionage Act in 1917?

A) Franklin Delano Roosevelt
B) Calvin Coolidge
C) Woodrow Wilson
D) Herbert Hoover

Question 13

Disloyalty against the U.S. was once referred to as warfare by propaganda.

Question 14

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were the first U.S. citizens to be put to death under the Espionage Act in _______.

A) 1945
B) 1949
C) 1952
D) 1954

Question 15

It is a federal offense to gather intelligence to advantage a foreign nation or cause injury to the country.

Question 16

Jonathan Pollard received more than ______ million for selling U.S. secrets to Israel.

A) 1.3
B) 2.7
C) 31
D) 4.9

Question 17

A person may be wrongly accused of spying against the state.

Question 18

Edward Snowden was a contractor for which U.S. intelligence agency?

A) CIA
B) FBI
C) NSA
D) DIA

Question 19

Loyalty to the government was considered to be so important to the U.S. to the drafters of the constitution that it is mentioned in which of the following articles?

A) Article I
B) Article II
C) Article III
D) Article IV

Question 20

Identify the two core elements of treason.

Question 21

A person who is convicted of treason can hold political office.

Question 22

A treason conviction requires a confession or the testimony of two witnesses.

Question 23

In which of the following cases did the U.S. Supreme Court overturn a conviction for treason?

A) Dennis v. United States (1951)
B) State v. Boloff (1942)
C) Cramer v. United States (1945)
D) Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project (2010)

Question 24

In 1859, John Brown, an abolitionist, was charged with which of the following?

A) Treason
B) Murder
C) Slave insurrection
D) All of the above

Question 25

John Brown was executed in 1859 via which of the following methods?

A) Firing squad
B) Quartering
C) Hanging
D) Gas chamber

Question 26

Which of the following sedition forms were prosecuted?

A) Libel
B) Words
C) Rumors
D) Conspiracies
E) All of the above

Question 27

What do sedition laws punish?

Question 28

The Alien and Sedition Act was passed in which of the following years?

A) 1765
B) 1773
C) 1784
D) 1798

Question 29

Which of the following court cases imposed stiff sanctions for sedition?

A) Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project (2010)
B) State v. Boloff (1942)
C) Cramer v. United States (1945)
D) Dennis v. United States (1954)

Question 30

Congress passed the Alien Registration Act in which of the following years?

A) 1920
B) 1930
C) 1940
D) 1950

Question 31

The Alien Registration Act of 1940 was also known as the Roosevelt Act

Question 32

The Alien Registration Act of 1940 was signed into law by which of the following presidents?

A) Herbert Hoover
B) Calvin Coolidge
C) Franklin Delano Roosevelt
D) John

Question 33

The maximum punishment for violating the Smith Act was ______ years in prison.

A) 5
B) 10
C) 15
D) 20

Question 34

The Smith Act was initially designed to target and prosecute immigrants.

Question 35

Explain the Red Scare.

Question 36

There is no single definition of terrorism.

Question 37

Which of the following are examples terrorism?

A) Purchasing bomb-making materials
B) A letter threatening a judge
C) Sending a deadly substance through the mail
D) All of the above

Question 38

Terrorism perpetrators intent their actions to wreck

A) havoc.
B) disorder.
C) mayhem.
D) All of the above

Question 39

Approximately _________ people died in the September 11^th terrorist attacks.

A) 2,000
B) 3,000
C) 4,000
D) 5,000

Question 40

The 2001 attacks were designed to strike at the heart of the U.S. international business commerce and foreign relations intelligence.

Question 41

The establishment of the Department of Homeland Security assisted with

A) tightened airport security.
B) enhanced border security.
C) passage of the USA Patriot Act
D) All of the above

Question 42

There is a difference between international and domestic terrorism.

Question 43

The federal code defines international terrorism as acts of violence or life-threatening actions.

Question 44

Congress passed the Patriot Act ______ weeks after the September 11^th terrorist attacks.

A) 1
B) 4
C) 6
D) 9

Question 45

Under the U.S. Code, which of the following are considered weapons of mass destruction?

A) Biological agents
B) Toxins
C) Radiation
D) Explosives
E) All of the above

Question 46

Following the Civil War, ritual killings were used as a terrorist device to control the newly freed slave population.

Question 47

Timothy McVeigh was sentenced to death and was executed in 2001 for the Alfred Murrah Federal building bombings in 1995.

Question 48

Which of the following individuals is known as the Unabomber?

A) Terry Nichols
B) Ted Kaczynski
C) Dylan Klebold
D) John Allen Muhammad

Question 49

In 2014, Elliot Rodger shot and killed seven people in which California city?

A) Isla Vista
B) San Diego
C) San Francisco
D) Monterrey Bay

Question 50

States have passed Crime of Terrorism statutes following the September 11^th terrorist attacks.

Question 51

Perjury is only a state crime.

Question 52

Perjury was once punishable by death.

Question 53

Obstruction of justice was a ___________ at common law.

A) infraction
B) misdemeanor
C) felony
D) all of the above are applicable

Question 54

Bribery is offering to give someone in a position of public authority, such as an elected official, something of value in exchange for an action on their past.