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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A Provided inaccurate information, to the detriment of the organization
B Lost their jobs
C Resigned before losing their positions
D Had a positive effect in corrections
Question #2
A The media construction of crime will define what are thought to be the causes of crime
B The media construction of crime will define what acts are regarded as criminal
C The media construction of crime will identify what policies of crime control should be adopted
D The media construction of crime will reduce the seriousness of the crime
Question #3
A Additional treatment and re-entry programs
B A decrease in treatment programs
C The imposition of additional behavioral controls
D Increase in recidivism
Question #4
A Any intentional and successful influence of a person by noncoercively altering the actual choices available to the person or by non-persuasively altering the perceptions by others of those choices.
B When a journalist makes an attempt in hard news to persuade using emotional rhetoric rather than fact
C Using persuasive interviewing techniques to influence others to disclose material they would normally not disclose
D When a journalist relies on an unsubstantiated argument without noting its weaknesses to produce a desired conclusion
Question #5
A Theft of new televisions from the prison loading dock
B Soliciting a fee from an inmate for finding him a job
C Accepting gratuities to protect illicit activity
D Extortion through mistreatment or harassment
Question #6
A Do not rat (inform on other guards)
B Assist inmates in getting rehabilitated
C Do not lug (smuggle) drugs in to inmates
D Always support fellow officers against inmate claims/allegations
Question #7
A Prisons have cultures where guards are corrupted and prisoners are denied their humanity
B Guards are increasingly using more excessive force
C Officer training emphasizes emotional detachment and degrading treatment
D A humane correctional system is impossible given the dominant theory and practice of retribution
Question #8
A Rape is the most likely crime to be reported
B Victims who are perpetrated against by a stranger are considered more newsworthy than a victim who knows the perpetrator
C Homicides are considered more newsworthy when the victim is white
D Crimes against children are considered more newsworthy than crimes against the adults
Question #9
A All of the other answers
B Assassination violates U.S. values and principles because it is done in secret and is a display of the exercise of overbearing state power against individuals.
C Targeted killing calls into question the morality of U.S. foreign policy, which stresses human rights and democracy.
D Assassination is an immoral act and a form of politically motivated murder outside the bounds of the conventions of war and morality.
Question #10
A It enables the executive branch of government to exercise wide powers under the authority of the president as commander-in-chief
B It permits the employment of warlike measures concurrently with law enforcement measures
C All of the other answers
D It gives the executive the leverage to demand almost any resources in the furtherance of winning the war
Question #11
A Australia
B United Kingdom
C Canada
D United States
Question #12
A Sympathetic
B Callous
C Empathetic
D Retributive
Question #13
A An irrational and exaggerated response by the public to a perceived problem
B When a small group of legislators panic and force through unethical legislation
C When an individual legislator or policy maker over-reacts to a problem
D A public over-reaction caused by outdated public morals
Question #14
A A criminal conviction
B The prosecution process
C A life sentence
D The court
Question #15
A Legalistic
B Personal
C Rewards
D Compliance
Question #16
A Morality
B Reasonable standard of care
C Moral blame
D Do no harm
Question #17
A Whites never have been engaged in drugs as much as blacks, a fact often reported in the media
B Whites comprise almost 1/3 of illegal drug users and blacks almost 2/3, a fact often reported in the media
C Whites comprise almost 3/4 of illegal drug users and blacks 13%, a fact not usually incorporated in media accounts
D The War on Drugs focused on heroin, a drug often used by blacks, a fact not usually in the media
Question #18
A Torture during interrogation
B Restricting rights during criminal processing of terrorist defendants
C Accidental killing of civilian non-terrorists
D Invading foreign countries
Question #19
A Setting a zero-tolerance standard for prison rape
B Prisons who want to receive federal funding must eliminate prison rape by 85%
C Prioritization of the prevention of rape in each prison system
D Devising and implementation of national standards to detect, prevent, reduce, and punish rape
Question #20
A Maximum security
B Medium security
C Minimum security
D Supermax
Question #21
A Focusing attention only on victims who meet that standard of victimhood
B Focusing only on the very young and the very old victims
C Reporting, on the visual media, pictures of victims
D Reporting sympathetic stories of victims who have also been charged with crimes
Question #22
A Few accused actually go to trial and unexciting plea bargains are the norm
B The legal system makes it easier to fight crime because prosecutors know how to talk with the media
C Crime fighting is the complex part of the process
D The legal system is far more complex
Question #23
A Empathy
B Violence
C Sympathy
D Coercion
Question #24
A Homicides
B Sex offenses
C Kidnappings
D Drug crimes
Question #25
A Negative racial stereotypes and collective racial resentment are negatively correlated with policies favoring punitiveness
B Racial and ethnic minorities are responsible for a substantial amount of property and drug crime therefore creating policies favoring punitiveness
C Negative racial stereotypes and collective racial resentment are positively correlated with polices favoring punitiveness
D Racial and ethnic minorities are responsible for a substantial amount of violent crime therefore creating policies favoring punitiveness
Question #26
A It is not a realistic scenario
B It is a slippery slope, which could expand its use in other circumstances
C It negates the autonomy and dignity of the individual
D It is not likely to happen as its proponents claim
Question #27
A The activities are morally permissible if they produce two effects, so long as one is morally permissible.
B An unintended but unforeseen morally bad effect of an action can be excused if both the action and the intended effect are morally impermissible
C The activities are only morally impermissible if they produce two effects, both of which are morally impermissible
D An unintended but unforeseen morally bad effect of an action can be excused if both the action and the intended effect are morally permissible
Question #28
A Treatment
B Community-oriented corrections
C Punitiveness
D Rehabilitation
Question #29
A Sex offenders
B Murderers
C Drug offenders
D Prostitutes
Question #30
A There is widespread approval of them
B There is widespread approval of them
C The public is evenly divided on them
D While they approve of it, they do not believe it should be applied indiscriminately to specific offenders under specific circumstances
Question #31
A Governmental control
B Social control
C Informal control
D Formal control
Question #32
A Ideological grounds
B Cost-benefit grounds
C Due process grounds
D Political grounds
Question #33
A Consequentialists
B Absolutists
C Relativists
D Deontologists
Question #34
A A key profit maker for the media
B Assistance to law enforcement to make an arrest
C Advocacy for greater levels of social control
D A warning to the public
Question #35
A Their control function
B Their treatment and control functions
C Their treatment function
D Their heavy caseloads
Question #36
A By the military against a civilian government.
B Against a state in the United States.
C Committed by government, sometimes against its own people.
D By one part of government against another part of the same government.
Question #37
A Have no incapacitate effect
B Are not applied to all offenders convicted under such statutes
C Result in disproportionately severe sentences
D Do not reflect the will of the majority
Question #38
A A monopoly so that news is consistent
B A responsible path for discussion of moral issues
C A site for the construction of a moral order
D The primary source of news
Question #39
A Sentencing guidelines
B Treatment programs to reduce jail and prison populations
C Three-strikes laws
D Work release programs to reduce jail and prison populations
Question #40
A The marketing of edited, highly formatted information about the world in entertainment media vehicles
B The placement of crime stories on television late at night hoping a viewer will be able identify the offender
C Using entertainment to reenact criminal events
D Using the media to report fictitious events so law enforcement can catch the real criminal
Question #41
A Graham v. Florida
B United States v. Shallet
C Kenny v. Indiana Youth Center
D Reynolds v. Florida
Question #42
A Maintain power
B Gain respect of inmates
C Treat inmates ethically
D Retain their discretion
Question #43
A Become members of prison gangs.
B Begun directly disobeying orders from superiors.
C Begun taking monetary bribes from prisoners.
D Refrained from enforcing certain prison rules and regulations.
Question #44
A Violent
B Vice
C Property
D Debtors
Question #45
A War paradigm
B Terrorism paradigm
C Drone paradigm
D Enemy paradigm
Question #46
A Inmate
B Judicial
C Prosecutorial
D Celebrity
Question #47
A Asking whether there will be any consequences to our anti-terrorism policies
B Asking whether our policies will render citizens more secure in the long term
C Not worrying about the consequences
D Accepting the unavoidable consequences of our policies