Deck 11: Toward Violence Prevention

Question 1

It is possible to cure violence.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

A program called ______ was designed to reduce gang violence,illegal gun possession,and gun violence in communities and was based on deterrence theory,which contends that crimes can be prevented when would-be offenders perceive the costs of crime to be greater than the benefits.

A) proactive policing
B) SARA
C) hot spots
D) Operation Ceasefire

Answer 2

D

Question 3

What are the social costs of violence within a society?

Answer 3

NOT ANSWER

Question 4

The U.S.Department of Justice provides information on the programs that have been evaluated using RCTs and proven to be effective in reducing various types of violence and aggression on a website called CrimeSolutions.gov.

Question 5

Provide three specific examples of criminal justices responses to violence in the United States.

Question 6

PTSD is not only be found in war veterans.

Question 7

The ______ has the highest prison population in the world.

A) United States
B) Great Britian
C) Germany
D) China

Question 8

Prevention methods are aimed at intervening after something has already occurred or is at a high risk of occurring.

Question 9

A number of scholars suggest that a fundamental preventative measure would involve reducing ______ in U.S.society to substantially reduce violence.

A) racial tensions
B) PTSD
C) homicide
D) inequality

Question 10

Intervention efforts are generally aimed at the entire population to reduce the risk factors and enhance protective factors that prevent violence from occurring in the first place.

Question 11

______ generally focuses law enforcement efforts on proactively solving "problems" related to crime rather than reactively responding to calls for service after a crime has already occurred.

A) foreward thinking policing
B) problem-solving or problem-oriented policing
C) reactive policing
D) none of the above

Question 12

Violence can happen ______.

A) in prisons
B) in a home
C) in the workplace
D) within government agencies
E) all of the above

Question 13

Discuss the findings of the Minneapolis domestic violence experiment.