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Criminology The Core Study Set 1
Quiz 11: Political Crime and Terrorism
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Question 61
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In regard to election fraud, ______________ occurs when a bomb threat is called into a polling place or outright sabotage of polling places results in loss of votes or voter turnout.
Question 62
Short Answer
Famed social commentator Alan Dershowitz proposed the creation of a ________________ that can only be issued by a judge in cases where there is absolute need to obtain immediate information in order to save lives.
Question 63
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__________________ crime refers to any illegal acts that are designed to undermine an existing government and threaten its survival.
Question 64
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Of all of the state political crimes, the use of __________ to gain information from suspected political criminals is perhaps the most notorious.
Question 65
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In 2014, five Chinese men were indicted for stealing thousands of sensitive internal communications between U.S. Steel Corporations in a crime referred to as ___________________ espionage.
Question 66
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An act of disloyalty to one's nation or state is defined as __________________.
Question 67
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Political criminals who fall under the goal of _______________ are motivated by altruism; they truly believe their crimes will benefit society.
Question 68
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The illegal use of force against innocent people to achieve a political objective is called ____________________.
Question 69
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The U.S. Criminal Code codifies ________ as whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere.
Question 70
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The typical goal of an ____________ is to confront the existing government for control of all or a portion of its territory, or force political concessions in sharing political power.
Question 71
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The origin of the word terrorism comes from the French Revolution's ___________________.
Question 72
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Armed military bands known as _______________, typically are located in rural areas and use hit-and-run terror tactics to destabilize the existing government.
Question 73
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When political operatives try to shape the outcome of an election by busing in ineligible voters from other districts, this process is known as_______________.
Question 74
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David wins the election. As a result, he part of a group of councilmen who vote to log an area of town to create green space to entice potential businesses to move to town. In doing so, the habitat of a local endangered turtle population has had to be relocated. The relocation has caught the eye of a radical group of ____________ who are determined to protect the environment and animals at any cost.
Question 75
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This group, ____________, began as an insurgency, raiding Iraq and Syria and occupying major cities with the primary goal of creating a caliphate, based on a very conservative Islamic religious code.
Question 76
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While some political crimes are committed by people who oppose the state, others are perpetrated by state authorities against the people they are supposed to serve; this is referred to as ________________________.