Deck 16: Putting It All Together and Explaining Crime Trends

Question 1

The most recent and dramatic drop in crime occurred in which decade?

A) 1960s
B) 1970s
C) 1980s
D) 1990s

Answer 1

1990s

Question 2

Which of the following is not an important theme identified by the author in this book?

A) solutions to crime lie beyond the justice system
B) early intervention is most effective in combating crime
C) criminal justice is a young discipline
D) spending more money guarantees better crime control

Answer 2

spending more money guarantees better crime control

Question 3

Why is the criminal justice system so ill suited for implementing early intervention initiatives?

A) there is absolutely no money available
B) because it is basically reactive
C) their is a lack of educational among its leadership
D) because it is too proactive

Answer 3

because it is basically reactive

Question 4

The need for more research in criminal justice research faces difficulty with respect to

A) the need for more funding.
B) getting university professors' interested in research.
C) focusing on the problem of crime.
D) identifying criminal patterns of behavior.

Question 5

Which of the following was not mentioned as a failure with respect to crime control methods?

A) reactive policing
B) random patrol
C) drug courts
D) boot camps

Question 6

Which of the following points is most commonly cited for the decline of crime in the 1990s?

A) more police detectives.
B) less utilization of probation officers.
C) a decline in prison sentencing.
D) strong state of the economy.

Question 7

Why is gun control considered to be an ineffective method of crime control?

A) due to the overflowed national registry
B) more people commit violent crimes with blunt objects
C) because very few violent crimes involve handguns
D) because of black market sales

Question 8

What demographic shift in the 1990s arguably lowered the crime rate?

A) an increase in the birth rate
B) the aging of the baby boom generation
C) a ban on immigrations
D) increased global communications

Question 9

Researchers have attributed the nation's growing prison population to

A) burlars.
B) rapists.
C) drug offenders.
D) robbers.

Question 10

Which of the following was not mentioned as a failure with respect to crime control methods?

A) reactive policing
B) police residency requirements
C) parent training and education
D) gun buybacks

Question 11

Some criminologist would argue that less money should be spent on

A) building prisons.
B) parental education and training.
C) juvenile crime prevention programs.
D) establishing drug courts.

Question 12

Citizen attitudes toward crime have resulted in ________ working with community police to reduce crime.

A) individuals
B) youth
C) liberal organizations
D) neighborhood organizations

Question 13

Which of the following programs has a significant effect on gun violence?

A) handgun bans
B) gun buy backs
C) assault weapons bans
D) directed patrol for gun violence

Question 14

More ________ were added to the law enforcement industry during the 1990s.

A) sanitation workers
B) police officers
C) crack problems
D) marriages

Question 15

Homicide rates have declines to levels last experienced in the

A) 1940s.
B) 1950s.
C) 1960s.
D) 1980s.

Question 16

A decline in the prison population occurred during the 1990s.

Question 17

Gun control is a policy response to a crime problem.

Question 18

Our nation has recently experienced a decline in domesticity.

Question 19

Early intervention is not an effective crime control policy with juveniles.

Question 20

The state of the economy in the 1990s was very poor.

Question 21

Fewer police officers were added to the streets during the 1990s.

Question 22

Roe v. Wade legalized marijuana use in the state of Oregon.

Question 23

Researchers have attributed our nation's soaring prison population to drug offenders.

Question 24

Shall-issue states make it easier for citizens to carry a concealed weapon.

Question 25

Crime control in the United State takes place in many institutions outside the criminal justice system.

Question 26

The ________ is a nonprofit organization that aims to helps people make well- informed decisions about the effects of intervention in the social, behavior, and educational arenas.

Question 27

________ refers to the number marriages, the number of people getting married later in life, and the divorce rate.

Question 28

________ make it easier for citizens to carry a concealed weapon.

Question 29

________ tend to be vehemently opposed to gun control.

Question 30

________ legalized abortion in the United States.

Question 31

________ as an academic discipline is still in its infancy.

Question 32

Assault rates in California actually went down after the release of violent ________.

Question 33

Early intervention is considered an effective crime control policy with ________.

Question 34

Some suggests the crime drop in the 1990s was related to a period of strong ________.

Question 35

The prison population during the 1990s experienced an increasing ________.

Question 36

Detail the three main themes that emerged throughout this book.

Question 37

List any five methods of crime control that appear to be effective.

Question 38

List any five methods of crime control that appear to be failures.