Media and Crime in the U S 1st Edition By Jewkes - Test Bank

Media and Crime in the U S 1st Edition By Jewkes – Test Bank

 

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Chapter 5: Media Misogyny: Monstrous Women

Test Bank

 

Multiple Choice

 

1. All of the following are notions of feminine except:
2. passive.
3. paternal.
4. married.
5. monogamous.

Ans: B

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Difficulty Level: Medium

 

2. According to the authors, women rarely ______
3. stalk.
4. kill strangers.
5. commit serial murder.
6. all of these.

Ans: D

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Difficulty Level: Easy

 

3. In 2014, women were offenders in less than ______% of the murder cases where the offender was known.
4. 7
5. 12
6. 19
7. 26

Ans: B

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Difficulty Level: Easy

 

4. “______” involves the denial of large parts of ourselves, or the projection of those parts of ourselves, which make us feel vulnerable to others.
5. Deviance
6. Difference
7. Essentialism
8. Feminism

Ans: B

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Difficulty Level: Easy

 

5. All of the following are considered symbolic cultural representations that marginalize women and other minorities except:
6. repress.
7. praise.
8. humiliate.
9. objectify.

Ans: B

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Difficulty Level: Medium

 

6. In brief, feminist criminological perspectives emerged in the ______.
7. 1950s
8. 1960s
9. 1970s
10. 1980s

Ans: C

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Difficulty Level: Easy

 

7. Lizzie Borden was tried and acquitted of murdering her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts, in ______.
8. 1891
9. 1893
10. 1895
11. 1897

Ans: B

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Difficulty Level: Easy

 

8. Susan Smith was convicted of murdering her two young children, after strapping them into their car seats and rolling the vehicle into a lake in ______ in 1994.
9. Texas
10. South Carolina
11. Alabama
12. Florida

Ans: B

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Difficulty Level: Easy

 

9. Which of the following is considered to be a standard narratives used by the media to construct women who commit very serious crimes?
10. good mothers
11. good wives
12. mythical monsters
13. lack of physical attractiveness

Ans: C

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Difficulty Level: Medium

 

10. All of the following are considered to be standard narratives used by the media to construct women who commit very serious crimes except:
11. sexuality and sexual deviance.
12. beauty.
13. bad wives.
14. bad mothers.

Ans: B

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Difficulty Level: Medium

 

11. Which of the following is not considered to be a standard narratives used by the media to construct women who commit very serious crimes?
12. good wives
13. evil manipulators
14. non-agents
15. mad cows

Ans: A

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Difficulty Level: Medium

 

12. Which of the following is not considered to be a standard narratives used by the media to construct women who commit very serious crimes?
13. evil manipulators
14. happy cows
15. sexuality and sexual deviance
16. non-agents

Ans: B

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Difficulty Level: Medium

 

13. ______ are frequently punished by the media.
14. Men
15. Children
16. Women
17. The elderly

Ans: C

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Sexuality and Sexual Deviance
Difficulty Level: Easy

 

14. Which of the following are considered non-criminal or status offenses?
15. skipping school
16. perceived sexual misconduct
17. drinking alcohol
18. all of these

Ans: D

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Sexuality and Sexual Deviance
Difficulty Level: Easy

 

15. The courts are excessively punitive toward adult women who deviate from which of the following norms?
16. heterosexual
17. monogamous
18. maternal
19. none of these

Ans: D

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Sexuality and Sexual Deviance
Difficulty Level: Medium

 

16. Ted Bundy’s victims were mostly ______ and middle class professional
17. elderly individuals
18. children
19. college students
20. adolescents

Ans: C

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Sexuality and Sexual Deviance
Difficulty Level: Easy

 

17. An anomalous category for women is that of:
18. bad mother.
19. rapist.
20. thief.
21. truant.

Ans: B

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Sexuality and Sexual Deviance
Difficulty Level: Easy

 

18. The “first female serial killer”, Aileen Wuornos was convicted by the state of ______.
19. California
20. Florida
21. Texas
22. Alabama

Ans: B

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Sexuality and Sexual Deviance
Difficulty Level: Easy

 

19. Which of the following actors portrayed Aileen Wuornos in a film?
20. Kate Winslet
21. Charlize Theron
22. Sandra Bullock
23. Julia Roberts

Ans: B

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Physical Attractiveness
Difficulty Level: Easy

 

20. In 2014, the state of ______ amended its criminal code to recognize the “viable fetus of a human being.”
21. Nevada
22. Texas
23. Tennessee
24. Illinois

Ans: C

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Bad Mothers
Difficulty Level: Easy

 

21. The ______ is another figure of monstrosity invoked in narratives about female killers.
22. vampire
23. muse
24. zombie
25. minotaur

Ans: A

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Mythical Monsters
Difficulty Level: Easy

 

22. Infanticide is a crime that applies to women only, referring to the killing of a child under the age of ______ by its mother when the balance of her mind was disturbed as a result of childbirth.
23. 12 months
24. 24 months
25. 36 months
26. 48 months

Ans: A

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Mad Cows
Difficulty Level: Easy

 

23. The word “hysteria” comes from the ______ husterikos, meaning “of the womb.”
24. Spanish
25. Latin
26. Greek
27. Norse

Ans: C

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Mad Cows
Difficulty Level: Easy

 

24. “Familicide”—or “Family annihilation” as it has been dubbed by the media—is usually carried out by:
25. young White women.
26. middle-aged White women.
27. young White men.
28. middle-age White men.

Ans: D

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Honorable Fathers Versus Monstrous Mothers: Some Concluding Thoughts
Difficulty Level: Easy

 

25. In the ______, some researchers claimed that violent crime was associated with a male chromosome abnormality, dubbed “supermale syndrome.”
26. 1940s/1950s
27. 1950s/1960s
28. 1960s/1970s
29. 1970s/1980s

Ans: C

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Mad Cows
Difficulty Level: Easy

True/False

1. The modern media are highly selective in their constructions of offenses, offenders, and victims.

Ans: T

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Media Misogyny: Monstrous Women
Difficulty Level: Easy

 

2. Difference is readily constructed as deviance by causal association with crime.

Ans: T

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Difficulty Level: Easy

 

3. In short, men who commit serious offenses are judged to have transgressed two sets of laws: criminal laws and the laws of nature.

Ans: F

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Difficulty Level: Easy

 

4. There is no single “feminist criminology.”

Ans: T

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Difficulty Level: Easy

 

5. Feminist perspectives centered largely on criminological theories.

Ans: F

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Difficulty Level: Easy

 

6. Male offenders attract more media and public attention than female offenders.

Ans: F

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Difficulty Level: Easy

 

7. Bad wives are identified as one of the standard narratives used by the media to construct women who commit very serious crimes.

Ans: T

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Difficulty Level: Easy

 

8. Good mothers were identified as a standard narratives used by the media to construct women who commit very serious crimes.

Ans: F

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Difficulty Level: Easy

 

9. The supposed “first female serial killer” was Rose West.

Ans: F

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Sexuality and Sexual Deviance
Difficulty Level: Easy

 

10. Women who kill or who commit other very serious offenses are subjected to intense scrutiny regarding their physical appearance and attractiveness.

Ans: T

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Physical Attractiveness
Difficulty Level: Easy

 

11. Youth, figure, and sexuality are aspects of femininity that are valued by the male gaze.

Ans: T

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Physical Attractiveness
Difficulty Level: Easy

 

12. Femme fatales ensnare their victims with their good looks but are also warm and friendly.

Ans: F

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Physical Attractiveness
Difficulty Level: Easy

 

13. Women, on the other hand, tend to resort to “spousal homicide” as a response to initial violence from their male partner.

Ans: T

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Bad Wives
Difficulty Level: Easy

 

14. Two favored figures from Greek mythology who can be viewed as anomalous are Medea and the Minotaur.

Ans: F

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Mythical Monsters
Difficulty Level: Easy

 

15. In general, women are viewed either as big children or as men.

Ans: T

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Non-agents
Difficulty Level: Easy

Essay

 

1. How does the Oedipal conflict arise?

Ans: Conceptualized by Freud’s. The Oedipal conflict arises when an infant begins to have sexual feelings and desires toward the opposite-sex parent and at the same time has accompanying feelings of resentment and jealousy toward the same-sex parent, this perspective helps to explain the persecution of the “other” throughout history.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Difficulty Level: Medium

 

2. What is the chivalry hypothesis? Do you believe that this is tried in the modern-day criminal justice system? Why or why not?

Ans: According to the authors, the “chivalry hypothesis” presupposes that women “get off lightly” in criminal cases because judges and juries extend to them the same kind of gallantry that they would to their female relatives. The second portion of the answer will vary depending on the students’ analysis of the hypothesis.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Difficulty Level: Hard

 

3. What are the standard narratives used by the media to construct women who commit very serious crimes?

Ans: According to the authors, there are various narratives that are used by the media, such as sexuality and sexual deviance, physical attractiveness (absence of), bad wives, bad mothers, mythical monsters, mad cows, evil manipulators, and non-agents.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Difficulty Level: Medium

 

4. What are the provisions of Senate Bill 1391?

Ans: Senate Bill 1391 was passed in July, 2014 and assigned the crime of misdemeanor assault to mothers who used drugs during their pregnancy. Importantly, SB 1391 does not recognize alcohol as an illegal drug nor does it apply to the laws governing abortion. Supporters called it a “velvet hammer,” arguing the law would convince needy mothers to accept the state’s help with the promise of treatment rather than incarceration. In no short time however, this proved not to be the case. Fearing arrest or further legal entanglement, some expectant mothers avoided neonatal care.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Bad Mothers
Difficulty Level: Medium

 

5. What is Munchausen’s Syndrome?

Ans: Munchausen’s syndrome by proxy (MSBP) is an illness that few had heard of prior to the trial of English nurse, Beverley Allitt who was subsequently convicted of murdering four children under her care. In simple terms, MSBP—the “caring disease”—is a condition that affects parents or caregivers, mostly women, who are driven by a psychological need to gain attention by being involved in the medical care of an infant.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Bad Mothers
Difficulty Level: Medium