Deck 4: Hispanic Americans

Question 1

Which of the following are Hispanics more likely than Whites to be involved in the criminal justice process for the same offense

A) arrest
B) prosecution
C) sentencing
D) incarcerated
E) all the above.

Answer 1

E

Question 2

Which of the following explains why Hispanics are overrepresented in crime statistics

A) mandatory minimum sentences
B) the war on drugs
C) the perception that Hispanics are behind the drug problem
D) all the above

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Which of the following groups has not been considered in the discussion of police treatment of minorities, such as arrest rates, abusive practices, and the use of deadly force

A) Whites
B) African Americans
C) Hispanics
D) Asian Americans

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Of the many crimes for which Hispanics can be charged, which is the one for which they are most likely charged?

A) homicide
B) drug offenses
C) rape
D) motor vehicle theft

Question 5

Chicanos, for example, are found primarily in the __________region of the U.S.

A) Southwest
B) the New England area
C) Florida.
D) none of the above

Question 6

The Chicano people trace their ancestry to

A) Mexico
B) the merging of Spanish settlers with Native Americans of Central America.
C) Mayan and Aztec civilizations.
D) B and C

Question 7

Repatriation as a strategy consisted of

A) sending Chicanos back to Mexico
B) making Chicanos naturalized citizens
C) forcing them to enlist in the U.S. armed forces
D) allowing them to remain in the U.S. as documented workers

Question 8

Marielitos are

A) teenage migrant workers from Cuba
B) Cuban women who work in the agricultural industry
C) refugees from Cuba who were historically stigmatized as social deviants
D) Cuban tobacco workers

Question 9

The characteristics of political life in Puerto Rico are

A) residents are U.S. citizens
B) they elect their own governor
C) Puerto Ricans cannot vote in presidential
elections
D) they have no representation in Congress
E) all the above

Question 10

Which of the following groups are considered from Central America

A) Chicanos
B) Puerto Ricans
C) Cubans
D) Costa Ricans

Question 11

Sanctuary laws

A) prohibits police officers from initiating police action where the objective is to discover the alien status of a person
B) prohibits the police from arresting someone for immigration violations
C) prohibits police officers from checking a suspect's immigration status prior to arrest
D) prohibits police officers from notifying The Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) about
an illegal alien picked up for minor violations
E) All the above

Question 12

Gang life in the 1980s for Hispanics was dramatically different than in the past in
That

A) Members had begun to commit crimes in their own neighborhoods
B) non-gang members, particularly undocumented immigrants, had become a new class of victim for Hispanic street gangs.
C) the role of older gang members who served as mentors to younger ones
D) A and B

Question 13

The group label Hispanic Americans includes a population of people who share a common language heritage but have many significant differences.

Question 14

Many Whites felt justified in taking Chicano land because of the land grabbing that some Mexican governors perpetrated against American Indians.

Question 15

Given their diversity both in background and regionalism, groups in the West tend to use the term Latino whereas the term Hispanic is more often used in the East.

Question 16

Repatriation refers to the process by which Chicanos were naturalized as American citizens.

Question 17

Los Braceros were groups of bandits who roamed the American Southwest, victimizing people migrating to California.

Question 18

Two of the most significant areas that demonstrate the current status of Mexican Americans in this country relate to education and healthcare.

Question 19

Marielitos were Hispanic women who worked in the agricultural industry after the Great Depression.

Question 20

Virtually all of the unauthorized are either visa overstayers, persons admitted on temporary visas who either stay beyond the expiration of their visas or otherwise violate their terms of admission.

Question 21

By the mid to late 1980s, the traditional ways of the Hispanic continue to be used in the operation of street gangs.

Question 22

By the mid-1990s, law enforcement agencies began to document a change in the gang culture. Respect no longer seemed to be based on age, experience, or knowledge. In the street code, respect was increasingly based on fear due to the loss of older gang leaders and the rapid increases in the size of individual street gangs.

Question 23

Data indicates that more Hispanic federal prison inmates had no previous criminal history, than Blacks or Whites.

Question 24

Hispanics were least likely of all federal inmates to receive some type of substance abuse treatment.

Question 25

As part of the recent immigration strategy, President Trump has proposed a ___________that stretches across the Southwestern portion of the U.S. border

Question 26

The Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors is also known as _________ .

Question 27

The process by which immigrants from Mexico and Central America are being targeted by U.S. immigration officials is known as _______________

Question 28

Data indicates that more _______federal prison inmates had no previous criminal history, than Blacks or Whites.

Question 29

Of all federal inmates, which group is least likely to receive some type of substance abuse treatment __________

Question 30

Two of the most significant areas that demonstrate the current status of Mexican Americans in this country relate to _________

Question 31

The process by which Chicanos were naturalized as American citizens is called ________

Question 32

Given their diversity both in background and regionalism, groups in the West tend to use the term _______ whereas the term _______ is more often used in the East.

Question 33

_________ were refugees from Cuba who were historically stigmatized
as social deviants.

Question 34

With regard to arresting and detaining illegal or undocumented immigrants, the vast majority are those who have expired legal visas. These people are known as _______