Deck 10: New Media, Crime, and Justice

Question 1

Which of the following would be considered an example of a celebrated criminal?

A) Lindsay Lohan
B) OJ Simpson
C) Al Capone
D) None of the above

Answer 1

C

Question 2

The existence of new media, in particular social media, has led to all of the following changes EXCEPT?

A) How the public receives and processes information
B) How face-to-face interactions proceed
C) How the public understands the world
D) How the public interacts with the world

Answer 2

B

Question 3

New media bring new capabilities to the criminal justice system. They have proved helpful in all of the following EXCEPT?

A) Investigations
B) Insanity pleas
C) Crime prevention
D) Case processing

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Which type of media was the first to blanket all of society, meaning that content was available for the first time to every social, economic, and intellectual stratum?

A) Contemporary agencies also post crime prevention and victimization reduction materials on departmental web sites and distribute it through Facebook pages
B) Investigating offender posted online videos has been undertaken by law enforcement agents
C) Information tailored to zip codes or individual streets have begun to be automated and married to social media distribution platforms Internet
D) Digital uncover police investigators have been assuming the online personas of children or pedophiles to proactively identify sexual offenders in new media sting operations

Question 5

The first cyber trial was which of the following?

A) The Casey Anthony murder trial
B) The O.J. Simpson murder trial
C) The Martha Stewart conspiracy case
D) The Watergate scandal

Question 6

The contagion effect is often associated with which relationship between new media and criminality?

A) New media and performance crime
B) New media and new crime
C) Old crimes in new ways
D) New media and copycat crime

Question 7

Terrorism is an example of which new media effect on criminality?

A) New media and performance crime
B) New media and new crime
C) Old crimes in new ways
D) New media and copycat crime

Question 8

The copycat effect related to new media that has generated the greatest debate concerning?

A) Violent crime films
B) Violent digital video games
C) Prime time crime dramas
D) Online video sharing

Question 9

The fate of trial fairness in a new media saturated courtroom currently rests upon the effectiveness of which of the following?

A) Jury selection
B) Jury instructions
C) Jury use of new media
D) None of the above

Question 10

Which of the following is forecast to be the most significant crime problem associated with new media?

A) Terrorism
B) Crime sourcing
C) Cyber-bullying
D) Theft and fraud

Question 11

Social media based "peer-to-peer" bullying more harmful than the older face-to-face schoolyard version.

Question 12

Misuse of social media by jurors has led to all of the following EXCEPT?

A) Mistrials
B) contempt findings against misbehaving jurors
C) Juror dismissals
D) Sequestration

Question 13

Copycat crime is the spectacle of performing acts of crime and deviance in order to record, share, and upload them to the Internet.

Question 14

A particular area of concerns involving an attorney's use of new media during jury selection. Which of the following would be information that an attorney might seek to discover about potential jurors?

A) Socioeconomic status
B) Educational background
C) Political leanings
D) All of the above

Question 15

Video games play the role of catalytic triggers in the formation of crime, not directly causing it but shaping its appearance.

Question 16

All of the following are true statements about new media and privacy EXCEPT?

A) With new media technology it is ambiguous whether your online presence is public or not
B) New media mobile technologies simultaneously make it possible for virtually anything a person does in public (and often in private) to be videotaped, texted, or otherwise made part of a digital record
C) At this time, the levels of privacy afforded to new media are the same for all states
D) in public you can usually be photographed with or without your consent

Question 17

Which of the following is NOT difference between legacy and new media?

A) Access to content
B) Distribution of content
C) Creation of content
D) Quality of content

Question 18

Offenders and predators are the only ones to have tapped the potential of new media.

Question 19

Which of the following is NOT a negative new media impact of the criminal justice system?

A) The conducting of post-conviction motions and hearings are commonly administered through social media platforms
B) Offenders have new ways of committing crime
C) New media distributes false information and extends the reach of false information and rumors
D) People are willing to settle for infamy instead of fame

Question 20

Media generated performance crime can be traced to the early 20th century and the recording of torture and ritual humiliation of prisoners and hostages by governments and terrorist groups.

Question 21

Judicial applications of new media's capabilities revolve around court administration issues.

Question 22

The value of social media based evidence is that it can provide the best evidence of what an individual was thinking and doing at a specific time.

Question 23

Associated with offender provided 'performance crime' material, social media videos have supplied suspect identifications as well as incriminating visual evidence for criminal investigations.

Question 24

Contemporary social media are the first crime news source for many and, thus, are powerful crime and justice social construction engines.

Question 25

The dilemma for lawyers is that failure to explore on-line presence of clients, victims, and witness may result in findings of "ineffective counsel" on appeal.