Question 1

A developmental focus on early childhood risk factors that will help reduce delinquency and adult crime would include:

Accepted Answer

A)  The expansion of school choice in minority neighborhoods 
B)  The increased hiring of minority and female police officers 
C)  Reduction in police brutality and racial profiling 
D)  The expansion of prenatal and postnatal nutrition and other health services

Question 2

The classical school stresses the need to identify the social and other causes of disease so that efforts can be launched to target these causes.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

Primary prevention tries to prevent disease or injury from occurring at all by focusing on aspects of the social or physical environment that contribute to the disease or injury.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

Neighborhood dilapidation increases the odds that children will come to respect the need to obey laws and other social norms.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

Which of the following would not only help protect these women from additional abuse,but would also reduce the likelihood that any children they might have will grow up in violent households?

Accepted Answer

A)  Expansion of the network of battered women's shelters and rape crisis centers 
B)  Building additional prisons and half-way houses 
C)  Expanding mandatory minimums for drug cases 
D)  The reduction of prevention programs such as D.A.R.E.

Question 6

Building even more prisons will cost the nation billions of dollars:

Accepted Answer

A)  And will reduce crime significantly 
B)  But will not reduce crime significantly 
C)  And will strengthen the economy significantly 
D)  But will reduce the more expensive use of probation

Question 7

The criminal justice system operates like a funnel.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

Any measures to strengthen the urban neighborhoods via social integration and strengthening the social institutions of urban neighborhoods should focus on:

Accepted Answer

A)  Children and adolescents 
B)  The elderly and infirm 
C)  The middle-class and wealthy 
D)  The working-poor

Question 9

Racial segregation in housing remains extensive and has serious consequences for African-Americans.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

What effect does the funnel effect have on reducing crime?

Accepted Answer

The answer of What effect does the funnel effect have...

Question 11

Providing prenatal and postnatal nutrition and other health related services is a quandary prevention approach.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

Which of the following tries to prevent disease or injury from occurring at all by focusing on aspects of the social or physical environment that contribute to the disease or injury?

Accepted Answer

A)  Quaternary prevention 
B)  Tertiary prevention 
C)  Secondary prevention 
D)  Primary prevention

Question 13

_____ prevention tries to prevent disease or injury from occurring at all by focusing on aspects of the social or physical environment that contribute to the disease or injury.

Accepted Answer

The answer of _____ prevention tries to prevent disease or...

Question 14

The _____ penalty has no general deterrent effect and costs at least twice as much as life imprisonment.

Accepted Answer

The answer of The _____ penalty has no general deterrent...

Question 15

The huge drop throughout all stages of the funnel underscores the _____ of reliance on the criminal justice system to reduce crime.

Accepted Answer

A)  Cost savings 
B)  Overwhelming benefits 
C)  Tertiary benefits 
D)  Cost-ineffectiveness

Question 16

Which of the following has no general deterrent effect and costs at least twice as much as life imprisonment?

Accepted Answer

A)  Intensive probation 
B)  Corporal punishment 
C)  Boot camps 
D)  Death penalty

Question 17

Although we are not about to change masculinity overnight,it is possible for parents to begin to raise their _____ according to a different value system.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Although we are not about to change...

Question 18

Which of the following aims to identify practices and situations that put certain individuals at risk for illness or injury?

Accepted Answer

A)  Primary prevention 
B)  Quaternary prevention 
C)  Tertiary prevention 
D)  Secondary prevention

Question 19

Which of the following is an example of primary prevention?

Accepted Answer

A)  Provide affordable, high-quality child day care for all parents who need it to work outside the home and flexible work schedules to allow parents to spend more time with children 
B)  Establish well-funded early childhood intervention programs for high-risk children and their families 
C)  Provide government economic aid for people who cannot find work or who find work but still cannot lift themselves out of poverty 
D)  Expand "three strikes and you're out" and mandatory imprisonment policies

Question 20

Greater income inequality should reduce crime.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Exam 18: Conclusion: How Can We Reduce Crime

A developmental focus on early childhood risk factors that will help reduce delinquency and adult crime would include:

The classical school stresses the need to identify the social and other causes of disease so that efforts can be launched to target these causes.

Primary prevention tries to prevent disease or injury from occurring at all by focusing on aspects of the social or physical environment that contribute to the disease or injury.

Neighborhood dilapidation increases the odds that children will come to respect the need to obey laws and other social norms.

Which of the following would not only help protect these women from additional abuse,but would also reduce the likelihood that any children they might have will grow up in violent households?

Building even more prisons will cost the nation billions of dollars:

The criminal justice system operates like a funnel.

Any measures to strengthen the urban neighborhoods via social integration and strengthening the social institutions of urban neighborhoods should focus on:

Racial segregation in housing remains extensive and has serious consequences for African-Americans.

What effect does the funnel effect have on reducing crime?

Providing prenatal and postnatal nutrition and other health related services is a quandary prevention approach.

Which of the following tries to prevent disease or injury from occurring at all by focusing on aspects of the social or physical environment that contribute to the disease or injury?

_____ prevention tries to prevent disease or injury from occurring at all by focusing on aspects of the social or physical environment that contribute to the disease or injury.

The _____ penalty has no general deterrent effect and costs at least twice as much as life imprisonment.

The huge drop throughout all stages of the funnel underscores the _____ of reliance on the criminal justice system to reduce crime.

Which of the following has no general deterrent effect and costs at least twice as much as life imprisonment?

Although we are not about to change masculinity overnight,it is possible for parents to begin to raise their _____ according to a different value system.

Which of the following aims to identify practices and situations that put certain individuals at risk for illness or injury?

Which of the following is an example of primary prevention?

Greater income inequality should reduce crime.