Deck 2: Comparative and Transnational Crime

Question 1

What is the definition of the following word:
-Apartheid.

Answer 1

A policy or system of segregation or discrimination enforced on the basis of skin color.

Question 2

What is the definition of the following word:
-Black market.

Answer 2

An underground economy in which illegal goods and services are bartered and sold.

Question 3

What is the definition of the following word:

-Comparative crime.

Answer 3

The consideration of how a country's domestic crime compares with that of other countries.

Question 4

What is the definition of the following word:

-Demographics.

Question 5

What is the definition of the following word:

-Homicide.

Question 6

What is the definition of the following word:

-Human trafficking.

Question 7

What is the definition of the following word:
-Money laundering.

Question 8

What is the definition of the following word:
-patriarchy.

Question 9

What types of taxes are applied to items purchased on the black market?

A) City Taxes
B) State/Province Taxes
C) National Taxes
D) All of the above
E) There are no taxes on the black market

Question 10

What factor makes a country's crime statistics unclear?

A) Politics
B) Demographics
C) Cultural
D) Organizational
E) All of the Above

Question 11

Countries with level of unemployed young males will be expected to demonstrate a greater level of crime than countries whose populations contain older employed males.

A) higher
B) lower
C) moderate
D) any

Question 12

is a social system in which men have power in all areas of life and women have little or none.

A) Matriarchy
B) Patriarchy
C) Pantribal sodalities
D) Tribe

Question 13

What factor(s) can obscure the accurate reporting of crime in a country?

A) Few resources to devote to recording and reporting of crime
B) Law enforcement agencies stretched thin where measuring crime is not a priority
C) Agencies develop rivalries
D) All of the Above
E) Only A and C

Question 14

The killing of a human being by another human being is commonly known as what?

A) Sexual assault
B) Homicide
C) Terrorism
D) Human Trafficking

Question 15

What is a factor that researchers would like to have data on for international comparisons?

A) Socio-economic status
B) Patriarchy
C) Quality of criminal justice institutions
D) All of the above

Question 16

In patriarchal societies...

A) women are less likely to have access to firearms.
B) women are less likely to be free of the control of parents, male siblings, and chaperones.
C) women have a reduced likelihood of being victims of street violence.
D) All of these are true

Question 17

What nation does the textbook mention struggle with political legitimacy?

A) United States
B) Canada
C) Pakistan
D) France

Question 18

What percentage of women worldwide have experienced physical and/or sexual intimate-partner or non-partner violence?

A) 5%
B) 20%
C) 35%
D) 80%

Question 19

What percentage of all murders of women are committed by intimate partners?

A) 5%
B) 30%
C) 60%
D) 80%

Question 20

What is included in transnational crime?

A) Black markets
B) Human trafficking
C) Money laundering
D) All of the above

Question 21

Why are black markets problematic?

A) Quality of products
B) No taxes
C) They are not problematic
D) Both A and B

Question 22

An underground economy in which illegal goods and services are bartered and sold are known as what?

A) Black markets
B) Grey markets
C) White markets
D) Yellow Markets

Question 23

Which country does organ smuggling NOT exist commonly?

A) Bangladesh
B) China
C) Czech Republic
D) India

Question 24

What exacerbates the problems of fraud?

A) Working in different languages
B) Working with different cultures
C) Working in different currencies
D) All of the above

Question 25

Theft of physical assets within fraud is normally…

A) an internal process.
B) an external process.
C) an ongoing process.
D) committed by random people.

Question 26

What percentage of information theft in the companies surveyed in the textbook were the result of employee malfeasance?

A) 11%
B) 39%
C) 67%
D) 29%

Question 27

Fraud can be committed by…

A) high officials.
B) middle management.
C) junior employees.
D) any person within a corporation.

Question 28

How can companies combat fraud?

A) Internal Audits
B) External Audits
C) Safe locks
D) Both A and B
E) None of the above

Question 29

What is the process by which an individual takes assets gained by illegal activity and somehow disguise it and inject it into the legitimate economy?

A) Human trafficking
B) Money laundering
C) Organ trafficking
D) All of the above

Question 30

Women who have been physically or sexually abused by their parents report higher rates of what health problems?

A) Low birth rates
B) Depression
C) Less likely to have an abortion
D) Both A and B
E) Both A and C

Question 31

Money laundering is the engine that drives transnational crime.

Question 32

Money can be laundered only through banks directly owned by criminals.

Question 33

Owning a bank allows criminals to have another layer of secrecy in their money laundering.

Question 34

Banks are in the business not only of moving money from one place to another but also of charging fees to move some of that money to their own coffers.

Question 35

Information theft is very difficult to protect against.

Question 36

Fraud can only be committed in either the black market or within legitimate businesses.

Question 37

Sexual assault differs around the world.

Question 38

Comparative crime considers how a country's domestic crime compares with other countries.

Question 39

Companies are not vulnerable to fraudulent practices as they enter new and emerging markets.

Question 40

A high crime rate could not make a leader of a nation look poor.

Question 41

High crime rates could deter potential tourists.

Question 42

The traditional role of the parents in choosing a husband for their daughters is not challenged when that daughter lives or studies in a country with a more liberal attitude toward the institution of marriage.

Question 43

Government intervention is a potential solution to poverty and unemployment.

Question 44

People are more likely to take matters in their own hands when they feel that the criminal justice system is ineffective.

Question 45

Theft of physical assets happens internally when unscrupulous employees divert physical assets from the normal pipeline and sell them on the black market.

Question 46

Almost one-third of all women who have been in a relationship have experienced physical and/or sexual violence by their intimate partner.

Question 47

All major banks and bankers always adhere to accounting and banking principles.

Question 48

All countries define relationships the same.

Question 49

What items can be bought on the black market?

Question 50

What are some of the problems that are faced by younger individuals within patriarchal societies?

Question 51

What affect did apartheid have on the citizens of South Africa?

Question 52

What are the countries that human organ traffickers primarily work out of?

Question 53

How can money laundering be a good thing?