Deck 1: Theorizing Media and Crime

Question 1

The academic study of media effects developed from which of the following sources?

A) mass society and behaviorism
B) mass society and anomie
C) behaviorism and anomie
D) behaviorism and effects research

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Positivism emereged from the:

A) natural sciences.
B) humanties.
C) arts.
D) social sciences.

Answer 2

A

Question 3

The Bobo doll experiment took place at which of the following universities in the 1950s and 1960s.

A) Harvard
B) Yale
C) Stanford
D) Princeton

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Anxieties about media effects have traditionally taken all of the following forms except:

A) exposure encourages lewd behavior.
B) the mass media undermines the civilizing influence of high culture.
C) the mass media represents all individuals, including the elite.
D) the mass media represents the elite.

Question 5

H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds, which aired on the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) on Halloween Night in October:

A) 1930.
B) 1932.
C) 1938.
D) 1940.

Question 6

One in ______ listeners were said to have been very frightened by the War of the Worlds broadcast, a fear that was exacerbated by the stature of the narrator.

A) 3
B) 6
C) 9
D) 12

Question 7

Which of the following theories proposes that the media is owned by the ruling bourgeois elite and operate in the interests of that class?

A) anomie
B) marxism
C) pluralism
D) behaviorism

Question 8

Environmental harm was referred to by scholars in 1998 as:

A) green crime.
B) environmental justice.
C) environmental crime.
D) green justice.

Question 9

According to the authors, pluralists argue that which of the following processes have succeeded in removing the media from state regulation and censorship.

A) deregulation
B) privatization
C) technological advancement
D) all of these

Question 10

Reception analysis was pionereed by:

A) Cesare Lombroso.
B) David Morley.
C) Jock Young.
D) Jay Blumler.

Question 11

According to the Uniform Crime Reports, there was a peak in crime in:

A) 1990.
B) 1991.
C) 1992.
D) 1993.

Question 12

The theory of "mass society" emerged in which of the following centuries?

A) late 17th and early 18th
B) late18th and early 19th
C) late 19th and early 20th
D) late 20th and early 21st

Question 13

The physiologist, Ivan Pavlov, who famously conducting experiments with dogs, identified as:

A) American.
B) Russian.
C) German.
D) Chinese.

Question 14

According to the authors, the endeavor to observe and measure the relationship between "cause and effect" led to a belief that criminality is not a matter of free will but is caused by which of the following?

A) biological
B) psychological
C) social disposition
D) all of these

Question 15

In 2012, the crime rate was ______ per 100,000.

A) 200.1
B) 312.5
C) 386.9
D) 747.1

Question 16

According to mass society theorists, all of the following events made individuals feel vulnerable except:

A) industrialization.
B) urbanization.
C) the Great War.
D) the Civil War.

Question 17

Which of the following was seen as a powerful force for controlling people's thoughts and diverting them from political action?

A) the government
B) the media
C) the people
D) all of these

Question 18

Cesare Lombroso studied the bodies of which of the following?

A) former athletes
B) children
C) executed criminals
D) the elderly

Question 19

The originator of the cultural criminology approach is:

A) Russian.
B) Italian.
C) American.
D) English.

Question 20

According to the authors, cultural criminology celebrates postmodern notions of:

A) difference.
B) diversity.
C) discontinuity.
D) all of these.

Question 21

In Crimes of Style (1996), Ferrell explores the meaning and practice of:

A) tattoos.
B) graffitti.
C) painting.
D) none of these.

Question 22

According to the authors, the most compelling example to date of a postmodern media "performance" occurred on which of the following events?

A) 9/11
B) Benghazi
C) Boston marathon
D) Paris attacks

Question 23

Which of the following were regarded as examples of pressure groups?

A) Greenpeace
B) Animal Liberation Front
C) "Fathers 4 Justice"
D) all of these

Question 24

All of the following were identified as characteristics associated with modern society except:

A) capitalism.
B) militarism.
C) nation-state.
D) socialism.

Question 25

The academic study of media effects is also known as effects research.

Question 26

According to the UCR, a small segment of the U.S. public consistently reports that crime is getting worse, not better.

Question 27

Behaviorism was pioneered by American psychologist J.B. Watson.

Question 28

The most famous name in positivist criminology is Cesare Lombroso.

Question 29

Effects research is sometimes called the hypodermic syringe model.

Question 30

The radio transmission of H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds was a metaphor for what the mass media could do.

Question 31

Criminzalition posits that crime and deviance are the product of sick individuals and sick societies.

Question 32

Primary definers are people with views and ideas which conflict with those of official commentators.

Question 33

Intraclass refers to perpetuations on members of one's own class and community.

Question 34

According to the authors, society has become less violent.

Question 35

A large majority of American's belive that violent crime is declining.

Question 36

Models of media effects have been strongly influenced by pluralism.

Question 37

Behaviorism represented a major challenge to the more dominant perspective of psychoanalysis.

Question 38

According to the authors, citizens turned to solutions at the macro-level.

Question 39

Positivism regards the world as unfixable and unquantifiable.

Question 40

According to the authors, what has contributed to the increase in public anxiety?

Question 41

Why does the term "mass society" carry negative connotations?

Question 42

What were hidden persuaders?

Question 43

What is the concept of hegemony?

Question 44

What is the political economy approach?