Deck 13: Crime Control in the Community and in Schools

Question 1

The term social in social ecology refers to

A) physical designs.
B) environmental interaction.
C) human interaction.
D) social mobility.

Answer 1

human interaction.

Question 2

Neighborhoods with a desire among residents to work for a common good, are said to have

A) collective efficacy.
B) structural functionalism.
C) collective disjuncture.
D) community diffusion.

Answer 2

collective efficacy.

Question 3

Economically depressed areas that offer tax credits to encourage business development create

A) concentric zones.
B) enterprise zones.
C) financial zones.
D) commercial vectors.

Answer 3

enterprise zones.

Question 4

Which of the following programs served as a model for the Gang Resistance Education and Training Program?

A) Lighthouse
B) Alcoholics Anonymous
C) PATH
D) DARE

Question 5

Program Development Education (PDE) was designed to

A) improve how schools are managed by principles.
B) obtain tutoring for high risk students.
C) get parents to volunteer for school projects.
D) weed out problem students from the classroom.

Question 6

The underlying principle of an enterprise zone is to reduce

A) traffic congestion in lower income neighborhoods.
B) duplication of businesses.
C) syndicated criminal activity.
D) poverty and unemployment.

Question 7

The Community Development Block Grants were channels to

A) place more officers on the streets doing foot patrol.
B) provide grants to cities to develop housing and economic opportunities.
C) provide funds to remodel old school buildings.
D) establish more social service programs.

Question 8

Who initiated the Weed and Seed program?

A) the CIA
B) the Bureau of Justice Statistics
C) the U.S. Department of Justice
D) the Police Executive Research Forum

Question 9

Shaw and McKay found in their study in Chicago that delinquency was concentrated in ________ urban neighborhoods.

A) homogeneous
B) heterogeneous
C) wealthy
D) commercialized

Question 10

Programs to Advance Teen Health (PATH) programs were developed to sensitize students to the pressures of using

A) crack cocaine.
B) alcohol.
C) marijuana.
D) tobacco.

Question 11

Which of the following was not one of Botvin's methods of instruction to discourage drug usage among juveniles?

A) information dissemination
B) moral appeal
C) recreational appeal
D) affective education

Question 12

Programs like DARE and GREAT are considered

A) instructional interventions.
B) therapy interventions.
C) individual interventions.
D) group therapy.

Question 13

Which of the following is not an effort for improving a community, in order to prevent crime?

A) after-school programs offering recreation
B) providing youth mentoring
C) installing cable television in jails
D) anti-gang initiatives

Question 14

What is a community?

A) a land mass with a political boundary.
B) a city boundary line.
C) a social collectivity that is less populated than a city.
D) a metropolitan city over 100,000 in population.

Question 15

The combination of poverty, family disruption, and racial composition is known as

A) social disorganization.
B) concentrated disadvantage.
C) social capital.
D) collective efficacy.

Question 16

Population density refers to a sparsely populated neighborhood.

Question 17

The term "community" has a very clear and steadfast definition.

Question 18

Restoration is a component of the weed and seed program.

Question 19

Shaw and McKay found racial composition had little to do with crime rates in Chicago.

Question 20

Family and household crime control need not contain a criminal justice component.

Question 21

Enterprise zones provide tax credit incentives to businesses willing to locate in such areas.

Question 22

Mobilization resources are designed to solve local problems like unemployment.

Question 23

Most violent juvenile crime occurs between 6:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m.

Question 24

Schools officials have an important role in controlling crime.

Question 25

School-based crime control can benefit children, even after school hours are over.

Question 26

________ is basically people moving out of a community, while others move in.

Question 27

________ provide business expense deductions and low interest rates for loans.

Question 28

________ programs were developed to sensitize students to the pressures of using tobacco.

Question 29

________ funding for crime control in schools has not kept pace with the growing costs of education.

Question 30

The anti-gang intervention project called Operation Cease Fire was conducted in the city of ________.

Question 31

________ crime control can help reduce crime even after children are out of school for the day.

Question 32

Meta-analysis of DARE studies suggests that the program fails to reduce ________.

Question 33

Programs like DARE and GREAT are categorized as a form of instructional ________.

Question 34

American communities take crime control approaches that are both formal and ________.

Question 35

School Transitional Environment Project (STEP) established a school within a school to improve success for at-risk juveniles in ________.

Question 36

Define the term normative education and provide an example of such a program.

Question 37

Detail at least three components of the DARE curriculum.

Question 38

Describe what is meant by the term youth mentoring.