Deck 12: Victimization at School and Work

Question 1

By what date do colleges and universities have to have an annual report on the previous school year's crime statistics and security policies?

A) August 1
B) September 1
C) October 1
D) November 1

Answer 1

C

Question 2

What is the name of the act that required that colleges to better inform their students about crime?

A) National College Victimization Act
B) Higher Education Safety Act
C) Student Right-to-Know and Campus Security Act
D) Public Safety Act

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Which type of bullying is experienced when one uses modern technological devices, such as cell phones and the Internet, to bully another student?

A) technobullying
B) digital bullying
C) cyberbullying
D) electronic bullying

Answer 3

C

Question 4

What type of teacher is more likely to be victimized than other teachers?

A) English teachers
B) physical education teachers
C) special education teachers
D) music teachers

Question 5

Between July 1, 2014, and June 30, 2015, ______ students were victims of homicide.

A) 15
B) 20
C) 30
D) 5

Question 6

Which of the following is NOT an occupation with a high rate of victimization?

A) cosmetologists
B) law enforcement officers
C) retail sales
D) transportation services

Question 7

What accounts for the greatest amount of homicides that occur at the workplace?

A) intimate partner violence brought to the workplace
B) disgruntled workers
C) robberies
D) unsatisfied patrons of the business

Question 8

Which type of workplace violence occurs when the perpetrator is a current or former employee who returns to victimize another employee?

A) Criminal intent incidents
B) Customer/Client incidents
C) Worker-on-worker incidents
D) Personal relationship incidents

Question 9

What percentage of students reported that their schools required visitors to sign in at the front office?

A) 17%
B) 32%
C) 65%
D) 94%

Question 10

Isolation and exclusion are examples of what type of bullying behavior?

A) secondary bullying
B) indirect bullying
C) direct bullying
D) reactionary bullying

Question 11

A criminal act is considered school victimization when it occurs in all of the following EXCEPT ______.

A) on school grounds
B) within the school
C) on a school bus
D) in one's neighborhood, but perpetrated from another student from school

Question 12

When college students are victimized, they are most likely to experience ______.

A) rape
B) theft
C) burglary
D) robbery

Question 13

According to what act will students be expelled from school for 1 year if they bring a firearm to school?

A) Firearm Safety Act
B) Zero Tolerance Act
C) Gun-Free Schools Act
D) National School Safety Act

Question 14

Which type of workplace violence occurs when the perpetrator has legitimate business at the establishment and becomes violent while receiving those services?

A) criminal intent incidents
B) customer/client incidents
C) worker-on-worker incidents
D) personal relationship incidents

Question 15

The most common type of victimization to occur in K-12 schools is ______.

A) theft
B) robbery
C) aggravated assault
D) sexual assault

Question 16

Victimization rates are highest for those children who reside in households with annual incomes less than ______ at the highest rate.

A) $30,000
B) $25,000
C) $20,000
D) $15,000

Question 17

Which group of teachers is most likely to be attacked?

A) elementary school teachers
B) middle school/junior high school teachers
C) high school teachers
D) all of these are equally likely

Question 18

What percentage of children admitted skipping school because they did not feel safe?

A) 2%
B) 5%
C) 10
D) 15%

Question 19

Many colleges and universities have these devices posted across campus that will connect students directly with a law enforcement agency.

A) Blue-light emergency campus phones
B) Computer portals
C) Camera phones that allow student and law enforcement agency to speak in real time (similar to Skype)
D) Red emergency alarm boxes

Question 20

The most common act of bullying students experienced was ______.

A) being threatened
B) having a personal item taken from them
C) physical bullying
D) being made fun of

Question 21

List three higher risk activities that may make a college student more likely to be a victim of crime.

Question 22

Students in ninth grade had higher likelihoods of getting into fights than students in grades above them.

Question 23

Taxi cab drivers and chauffeurs are 36 times more likely to be victims of homicide than other professions.

Question 24

It is also possible that the factors that place youth at risk for victimization outside school are similar to the ones that place them at risk of being victimized in school--such as ______.

A) low self-control
B) lack of capable guardianship
C) having deviant or delinquent peers
D) all of these

Question 25

______ includes direct name calling and threatening.

A) Verbal bullying
B) Physical bullying
C) Indirect bullying
D) Bullying

Question 26

Most violent victimizations of college students occur at night off campus.

Question 27

Not only are students at risk of being victimized at school, but ______ may also become victims.

A) teachers
B) administrators
C) staff
D) all of these

Question 28

The majority of nonfatal violent crimes against 12- to 18-year-olds took place off campus.

Question 29

A larger percentage of elementary school teachers are physically attacked as compared to secondary school teachers.

Question 30

College students have lower rates of victimization than their nonstudent counterparts.

Question 31

Bullying during adolescence has been linked to anxiety and depression.

Question 32

Colleges that have 2,500 students or more tend to have their own law enforcement officers.

Question 33

Schools located in ______ are often likely to have high levels of violence and other types of victimization.

A) the inner city
B) crime-ridden neighborhoods
C) rural areas
D) none of these

Question 34

The Federal Trade Commission is the federal agency responsible for oversight of workplace issues.

Question 35

List some of the ways secondary schools have enhanced their safety measures.

Question 36

Cyberbullying is bullying behavior that takes place via mobile phones, the Internet, and/or digital technologies.

Question 37

If a person is victimized while "on duty" but not at the office, this is NOT considered workplace violence.

Question 38

Results from the 2015 School Crime Supplement to the NCVS show that ______ of students were afraid of being attacked or harmed at school.

A) 3%
B) 6%
C) 9%
D) 15%

Question 39

Youth who have learning disabilities, those who have attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, those with physical disabilities, obese children, and those who stutter experience higher rates of bullying victimization.

Question 40

Research shows that males are more likely to be the targets of verbal and indirect bullying whereas females are more likely to experience physical bullying.

Question 41

What are some psychological effects of bullying victimization?

Question 42

List three risk factors that make one more likely to be a victim of workplace violence.

Question 43

What are the different forms of bullying?