Deck 5: Crime Fighters

Question 1

Which of the following is true of Police Procedurals portrayals?

A) Only civilians should not get involved
B) Only other law enforcement should not get involved
C) Civilians and other law enforcement personnel should not get involved
D) Civilians should not get involved, but involvement by other law enforcement is not only accepted, but expected

Answer 1

C

Question 2

In media representations, the "good cop" frame is presented more than the "bad cop" frame.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Which of the following statements BEST represents one of the media-constructed claims about crime fighting?

A) Crime control and due process work together equally to control crime
B) Crime control is applauded while due process is disparaged
C) Due process is applauded while crime control is disparaged
D) Neither crime control or due process is important because crime remains an issue

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Robin Hood is a classic example of which of the following types of crime fighters?

A) Lampooned Police
B) G-men
C) Private Investigator
D) Private Citizen

Question 5

Within the Cops construction, criminals were citizens who had broken the law and deserving of rehabilitation, as opposed to evil individuals who needed to be defeated.

Question 6

Police infotainment draws from which of the following criminal justice frames?

A) Faulty Criminal Justice System frame
B) Blocked Opportunities Frame
C) Social Breakdown Frame
D) Racist System Frame

Question 7

Which of the following is NOT one of the differences between the "good cop" and "bad cop" narratives?

A) the "good cop" is more self-reliant
B) the "bad cop" is more of a gunfighter
C) the "bad cop" is more adventurous
D) the "good cop" is more law-abiding

Question 8

Which of the following is true in regards to media crime fighters?

A) They are effective at solving crimes
B) They are effective at preventing crimes
C) They are better at deterrence than punishment
D) Both A and B

Question 9

Which of the following adjectives is NOT used to describe police in police reality shows?

A) sensitive
B) knowledgeable
C) competent
D) overwhelmed

Question 10

Which of the following BEST describes characteristics of the CSI effect?

A) Jurors' expectations of evidence during trials are not influenced
B) Jurors' expectations of evidence during trials clearly influence their verdicts
C) Attorneys and judges may prepare or conduct their cases differently because of anticipated juror expectations
D) Both B and C

Question 11

Which of the following is one of the three media stereotypes of professional law enforcement?

A) Lampooned Police
B) G-men
C) Cops
D) All of the above

Question 12

The implied meaning behind the necessity of bringing in G-men to solve crimes is that local police officers are incompetent and unable to handle crime fighting.

Question 13

Which of the following is NOT an example of a citizen crime fighter?

A) Angela Lansbury in Murder She Wrote
B) Scooby Doo
C) Hardy Boys
D) Dick Tracy

Question 14

Jack, a 35-year-old government agent fights crime on a regular basis. Which of the following types of crime fighters BEST characterizes Jack?

A) Lampooned police officer
B) Citizen Crime Fighter
C) Professional Crime Fighter
D) None of the above

Question 15

Which of the following BEST describes violence in contemporary media?

A) Both the criminal and the crime fighter have become increasingly violent
B) The criminal, but not the crime fighter, has become increasingly violent
C) The crime fighter, but not the criminal, has become increasingly violent
D) Neither the crime fighter nor the criminal has increased in violence

Question 16

The "G-men" portrait arose during the Great Depression in response to criticism from the Hays Commission on pre-Depression portraits of crime.

Question 17

Which of the following is NOT a traditional cop narrative?

A) the "rogue" officer
B) the "educated" cop
C) the "buddy" cop
D) the "honest" cop

Question 18

Which of the following statistics is true in regards to reality police show demographics?

A) Whites account for more than half of all suspects shown
B) Two-thirds of the victims shown are nonwhites
C) Two-thirds of the police are white
D) None of the above

Question 19

Which of the following is NOT one of the characteristics of the citizen soldier portrait?

A) The police and the criminal justice system are downplayed and often disparaged
B) Traditional criminal justice components become part of the crime problem either through corruption or ineptitude
C) The civilian is successful where law enforcers are not
D) All of the above are characteristics of the citizen soldier portrait

Question 20

Most individual crime-fighter portraits come not from traditional news but from either pure entertainment content or infotainment products.

Question 21

In addition to influencing juror, attorney, and judge expectations, the CSI effect also influences the actions of offenders.

Question 22

Reality police shows accurately represent police work.

Question 23

Although guns are present in contemporary media, most crime fighting shows do not depict them as problem-solvers or necessary crime-fighting tools.

Question 24

Public dissatisfaction of police results when the real police do not act like their media portraits.

Question 25

In police reality shows, violent crime is overrepresented, as well as the proportion of crime that is solved by the police.