Deck 14: Globalization and Terrorism

Question 1

What may be the biggest problem in reporting crime across nations and cultures?

A)misleading information
B)inaccurate record-keeping
C)overt refusal to participate
D)definitional differences

Answer 1

D

Question 2

In general,the countries that are likely to report their crime statistics are

A)large and socialist
B)small and socialist
C)small and nonsocialist
D)large and nonsocialist

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Why do people tend to prefer their own culture's native behavioral patterns,values,beliefs,and customs?

A)because a sense of superiority is built into cultural teaching
B)because of cultural indoctrination,which teaches them that
C)because they are socialized from birth into their own culture
D)because ethnocentricity is a key component of all cultures

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Which of these is a state-sponsored terrorist group?

A)Baader-Meinhof Gang
B)Japanese Red Army
C)Kurdistan Workers' Party
D)Abu Nidal

Question 5

Unlawful activity that is undertaken and supported by organized criminal groups operating across national boundaries is called

A)polynational crime.
B)multinational crime.
C)transnational crime.
D)international crime.

Question 6

Violence that is premeditated,politically motivated,and perpetrated against noncombatants by subnational or clandestine agents who are usually trying to influence an audience is called

A)terrorism
B)ideological violence
C)anarchism
D)guerilla warfare

Question 7

INTERPOL and ________ are the only international organizations that regularly collect crime statistics from a large number of countries.

A)the United Nations (UN)
B)the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
C)the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
D)the State Department

Question 8

Which types of crimes does it seem that communist countries loathe to report?

A)crimes committed by children younger than 18 years old
B)crimes that bespeak inequities in the communist system
C)crimes against women,like rape and sexual abuse
D)crimes that are not recognized as such by democratic countries

Question 9

What is the name given by the U.S.State Department to illegal immigration in which an agent is paid to assist with clandestine crossing?

A)human smuggling
B)human trafficking
C)international smuggling
D)international trafficking

Question 10

Why is it sometimes difficult to distinguish smuggling and trafficking?

A)All smuggling involves trafficking as a matter of course.
B)Trafficking may include an element of smuggling.
C)Many prominent traffickers also engage in smuggling.
D)May prominent smugglers have been wrongly identified as traffickers.

Question 11

Trafficking in persons (TIP)has been compared to

A)penal servitude
B)indentured servitude
C)medieval serfdom.
D)modern-day slavery.

Question 12

Sex trafficking involves trafficking in persons for the purposes of having people

A)commit commercial sex acts.
B)forced into marriage against their will.
C)become sexual slaves to private individuals.
D)agree to use sex acts as payment for smuggling.

Question 13

Which of these was a key addition of the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA)of 2003 to the requirements of previous legislation?

A)severer penalties for traffickers
B)additional protections for victims of trafficking
C)collection of foreign data on trafficking
D)new initiatives to identify traffickers

Question 14

What is the main challenge for comparative criminologists?

A)to identify crimes that deserve comparative analysis
B)to develop theories that can be applied to multiple cultures
C)to envision a unified theory of criminology
D)to create policies that take other cultures into account

Question 15

Which is the best characterization of the relationship between ethnocentrism and comparative criminology?

A)Ethnocentrism contributes to the success of comparative criminology on multiple levels.
B)Ethnocentrism interferes with comparative criminology in a number of ways.
C)Ethnocentrism and comparative criminology take fundamentally the same view.
D)Ethnocentrism is an outgrowth of investigations in comparative criminology.

Question 16

Which of these is a religious terrorist group?

A)Al-Qaeda
B)Japanese Red Army
C)Irish Republican Army
D)white supremacists

Question 17

Which of these is a right-wing terrorist group?

A)Hezbollah
B)Neo-Nazis
C)HAMAS
D)Baroque Fatherland and Liberty

Question 18

Which of the countries listed has the highest murder rate?

A)the United States
B)Colombia
C)Russia
D)Mexico

Question 19

The process of social homogenization by which the experiences of everyday life can foster a standardization of cultural expressions around the world is

A)enculturation.
B)globalization.
C)culture-spread.
D)world blending.

Question 20

Which of the following is a characteristic of terrorism?

A)initiated by rage
B)perpetrated for criminal gain
C)motivated by a desire to change the political order
D)lasts less than 24 hours

Question 21

What concern did the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)have with the USA PATRIOT Act?

A)insufficient attention to the support needed to counter terrorism
B)stereotyping of Muslim Americans and other minority groups
C)increase of power in the executive branch of the federal government
D)loss of constitutional rights of individuals in the criminal justice system

Question 22

The Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA)refers to adult male victims,as well as adult females and children.

Question 23

Which of these is a unique feature of GovNet?

A)its separation from commercial and public networks
B)its reduplication of essential data
C)its close connections to the Internet via routers
D)its ability to handle only data,not voice

Question 24

The four countries currently designated as state sponsors of international terrorism by the State Department are

A)Iran,Iraq,Palestine,and Libya.
B)Iran,Cuba,Sudan,and Syria.
C)Libya,Syria,Afghanistan,and Pakistan.
D)Colombia,Palestine,Cuba,and Uzbekistan.

Question 25

The study of crime is taboo in some societies.

Question 26

What was the USA PATRIOT Act a response to?

A)the bombing of the Albert P.Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995
B)the Ayatollah Khomeini's death threat against British author Salman Rushdie
C)the September 11,2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon
D)the 2002-2003 outbreak of SARS,beginning in Hong Kong and becoming a pandemic

Question 27

A series of terrorist attacks from late 2001 to early 2002 involved

A)letter bombs sent to scientists
B)car bombs aimed at politicians
C)letters with weapons-grade anthrax
D)various incendiary devices

Question 28

The majority of people who are assisted in illegally entering the United States are smuggled rather than trafficked.

Question 29

Counts of victims of trafficking in persons (TIP)refer only to those who are trafficked across international borders,not those trafficked within their own countries.

Question 30

The U.S.is largely immune to the effects of transnational crime.

Question 31

When did the Homeland Security act become law?

A)2000
B)2001
C)2002
D)2003

Question 32

What is bioterrorism?

A)an act of terrorism that kills at least one living being through any method whatsoever
B)an act of terrorism that uses or threatens to use living organisms to cause death or disease
C)any poisoning of over 500 people by fungi or other toxic plant matter
D)any creation of a biological weapon for any purpose whatsoever

Question 33

Legitimate businesses have profited more from globalization than transnational crime groups.

Question 34

Human smuggling routes are kept well-concealed and few know of them.

Question 35

The principal adviser to the president,the National Security Council,and the Homeland Security Council for intelligence matters related to national security is

A)the national intelligence director (NID).
B)the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC).
C)the Washington office of RAND.
D)the U.S.Department of State.

Question 36

Which group was identified with about half the terrorist attacks that occurred worldwide in 2009?

A)skinheads
B)fascists
C)Sunni extremists
D)anarchists

Question 37

Cyberterrorism is defined as

A)terrorism that aims to spread access to high technology.
B)terrorism that targets data on high technology.
C)terrorism that destroys high technology.
D)terrorism that makes use of high technology.

Question 38

Following the September 11,2001 attacks on the United States,the United States declared a worldwide war on international terrorism.

Question 39

The decline in crime in the United States in the 1990s was unique in the western hemisphere.

Question 40

The progressive erosion of the influence of nation-states is a feature of globalization.

Question 41

Terrorists who pursue their own vision of the divine will are called ________.

Question 42

The comparison of statistics between countries for a crime like auto theft can only be properly done with attention to the demographic and ________ context.

Question 43

Terrorists who aim to destroy free enterprise economies and replace them with socialist or communist systems are called ________.

Question 44

International terrorism and foreign terrorism are two terms for the same phenomenon.

Question 45

Inclusion on the Terrorist Exclusion List (TEL)has implications for immigration.

Question 46

Opium growth in Afghanistan is largely controlled by the ________.

Question 47

The shift of America's essential processes in manufacturing,utilities,banking,and communications to networked computers was undertaken only after a great deal of study and thought.

Question 48

Terrorists who are motivated by fascist ideals and work to dissolve democratic governments are called ________.

Question 49

Osama Bin Laden's al-Qaeda Islamic terrorist organization used commandeered jetliners to launch a terrorist attack on American soil on the date ________.

Question 50

Any group external to the United States may be designated an FTO by Congress.

Question 51

The USA PATRIOT Act was strictly addressed at provisions that applied to fighting terrorism.

Question 52

Terrorist who seek to form a separate state are called ________.

Question 53

Terrorist acts are terrible,but not inherently criminal.

Question 54

The President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection (PCCIP)identified a total of three critical infrastructure components: telecommunications,banking and finance,and transportation.

Question 55

The increase in understanding that results from the sharing of information between cultures is called ________.

Question 56

The 9/11 Commission concluded that the September 11 attacks should not have come as a surprise because the U.S.government had received clear warnings that Islamic terrorists planned to strike targets within the United States.

Question 57

The term cyberterrorism was coined by a senior researcher at RAND after a study completed in the 1990s on illegal use of the World Wide Web.

Question 58

Terrorists who seek to overthrow any and all established forms of government are called ________.

Question 59

Most of the Muslims who were victims of extremist attacks in 2009 were victims of Sunni extremist attacks in Iraq,Pakistan,and Afghanistan.

Question 60

Terrorists who are used as a foreign policy tool by radical states are called ________.

Question 61

The abbreviation WMD stands for something highly desirable to terrorist organizations: ________.

Question 62

What are the three trends that the Congressional Research Service identified in modern terrorism?

Question 63

Summarize the situation that has developed in Mexico as a result of transnational crime.

Question 64

The terrorist bombing of the Alfred P.Murrah building in downtown Oklahoma City occurred in the year ________.

Question 65

Name and briefly describe the critical agencies besides the directorates that were either moved to the DHS when it was formed or formed and placed within the purview of the DHS.

Question 66

• Mexican drug cartels have wrested the Central American drug-trafficking operation away from the Colombians.
• The country is not actually ruled by the elected president,but by the drug cartels and warlords.
• Drug traffickers wear uniforms that look like the Mexican military and attack the United States.
• Those who speak out against drug-related corruption (both journalists and politicians)have been beheaded or assassinated.
• The future of the Mexican political system is in question.

Question 67

Weapons made with plastic polymers and ceramics are impossible to discern with ________.

Question 68

Experts have said that the most significant transformation of the U.S.government since 1947 was the creation of the ________.

Question 69

The name for the basic facilities,services,and installations needed for a country to function is ________.

Question 70

Summarize the conclusions of the follow-up Hart-Rudman report.