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

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

 

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Chapter 6: The Police Image and Policing the Image

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Multiple Choice

 

1. Some studies have also found that ______ overestimate the proportion of crimes solve.
2. newspaper readers
3. online readers
4. television viewers
5. all of these

Ans: A

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Mass Media and Fear of Crime
Difficulty Level: Easy

 

2. The strange case of the ______ crime program Canal Livre provides a particularly outrageous example of how violent crime and hence the fear of crime is packaged as newsworthy commodity.
3. American
4. Spanish
5. Portuguese
6. Brazilian

Ans: D

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Mass Media and Fear of Crime
Difficulty Level: Easy

 

3. Marxist-inspired critical criminologists argue all of the following individuals set the agenda for public debate about crime except:
4. politicians.
5. the media.
6. the public.
7. criminal justice officials.

Ans: C

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: The Mass Media and Fear of Crime
Difficulty Level: Medium

 

4. The readers/viewers of popular ______ have the highest levels of fear of crime may simply reflect their actual risk of victimization.
5. newspapers
6. online blogs
7. television news shows
8. all of these

Ans: A

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Mass Media and Fear of Crime
Difficulty Level: Easy

 

5. Readers of tabloid newspapers may be of ______
6. lower socioeconomic or class standing.
7. a minority race.
8. higher socioeconomic or class standing.
9. an older age.

Ans: A

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Mass Media and Fear of Crime
Difficulty Level: Easy

 

6. ______ males had cause to be especially fearful of interactions with police.
7. Caucasian
8. Asian American
9. Mexican American
10. African American

Ans: D

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Mass Media and Fear of Crime
Difficulty Level: Easy

 

7. Despite making up only 2% of the U.S. population, ______ between the ages of 15 and 34 accounted for more than 15% of all those killed by police.
8. White males
9. Black males
10. White females
11. Black females

Ans: B

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Mass Media and Fear of Crime
Difficulty Level: Easy

 

8. The rate of death for Black males was ______ times higher than for White men of the same age.
9. 3
10. 5
11. 7
12. 9

Ans: B

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Mass Media and Fear of Crime
Difficulty Level: Easy

 

9. One study found that about ______% of people interviewed got their news from television.
10. 24
11. 38
12. 52
13. 66

Ans: D

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Mass Media and Fear of Crime
Difficulty Level: Easy

 

10. As much as ______ of the American public accessing news through social media.
11. 30
12. 40
13. 60
14. 70

Ans: C

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Mass Media and Fear of Crime
Difficulty Level: Easy

 

11. The U.S. homicide rate would show significant growth in the late-______ reaching a peak in the early-1990s.
12. 1940s
13. 1950s
14. 1960s
15. 1970s

Ans: C

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Mass Media and Fear of Crime
Difficulty Level: Easy

 

12. In 2004, ______% of a nationally representative sample of adult Americans voiced a “great deal” of confidence in police.
13. 23
14. 48
15. 64
16. 86

Ans: C

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Mass Media and Fear of Crime
Difficulty Level: Easy

 

13. When forced to choose between employing more police and making broader structural reforms, ______ of the respondents believed that attacking social and economic inequalities associated with crime and increased funding for education and job training programs to be the best approach to the many problems of crime (Gallup, 2010).
14. 32%
15. 49%
16. 51%
17. 64%

Ans: D

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Police Image: Television and Film
Difficulty Level: Easy

 

14. Support for broad social and economic approaches to crime control increase among select demographics with 72% of those with some post-graduate education.
15. high school education
16. some college education
17. a college education
18. post-graduate education

Ans: D

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Police Image: Television and Film
Difficulty Level: Easy

 

15. Dragnet served as a key public relations tool, if not propaganda arm for the Los Angeles Police Department during some of its most controversial years.
16. Dragnet
17. Cops
18. How To Catch a Predator
19. CSI

Ans: A

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Police Image: Television and Film
Difficulty Level: Easy

 

16. ______ declared a “war on drugs.”
17. Lyndon B. Johnson
18. Richard Nixon
19. Bill Clinton
20. Barack Obama

Ans: B

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Police Image: Television and Film
Difficulty Level: Easy

 

17. Cops first appeared on the Fox network in ______.
18. 1980
19. 1989
20. 1991
21. 1994

Ans: B

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Cops and Reality TV
Difficulty Level: Easy

 

18. Cops proved tremendously popular among ______ viewers.
19. young
20. middle-age
21. old
22. all of these

Ans: A

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Cops and Reality TV
Difficulty Level: Easy

 

19. ______ are invaluable in publicizing public safety alerts in real time as well as responsibilizing the public or encouraging them to take up quasi-police work themselves.
20. Facebook/Print media
21. Facebook/Television news
22. Facebook/Twitter
23. Facebook/Snapchat

Ans: C

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Policing and Social Media
Difficulty Level: Easy

 

20. As of 2016, U.S. Customs and Border Protection asks visitors to the United States to voluntarily provide _______.
21. the name of their health insurance provider
22. their social media usernames
23. their cell phones
24. their computers and tablets

Ans: B

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Policing and Social Media
Difficulty Level: Easy

 

21. The most common artifacts of police trophy shots, such as ______, are powerful symbols.
22. weapons
23. drugs
24. money
25. all of these

Ans: D

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Image Management
Difficulty Level: Easy

 

22. The ______’s motivational Monday tweets provided a tremendous example of a social media failure and more broadly how policing fails to control its own image.
23. Los Angeles PD
24. New York PD
25. Chicago PD
26. Miami PD

Ans: B

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Image Management
Difficulty Level: Easy

 

23. The Rodney King jury was composed of mostly:
24. Caucasian jurors.
25. African American jurors.
26. male jurors.
27. female jurors.

Ans: A

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Image Management
Difficulty Level: Easy

 

24. The Obama administration committed approximately ______ million dollars to equip police with body-worn cameras and to study their effectiveness.
25. 25
26. 50
27. 75
28. 100

Ans: C

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Image Management
Difficulty Level: Easy

 

25. In recent years, the police have sought to embrace and exploit the media in pursuit of a positive, pro-police image and an impression of:
26. authority and legitimacy.
27. legitimacy and accountability.
28. authority and accountability.
29. authority, accountability, and legitimacy.

Ans: B

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Image Management
Difficulty Level: Easy

True/False

1. The police image is how police are viewed in particular cultural and historical contexts.

Ans: T

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Police Image and Policing the Image
Difficulty Level: Easy

 

2. Prior to the advent of the internet, police agencies communicated with the public in what has been characterized as a bottom-up fashion.

Ans: F

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Police Image and Policing the Image
Difficulty Level: Easy

 

3. Numerous writers have examined the proposition that the media creates a false picture of crime.

Ans: T

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Mass Media and Fear of Crime
Difficulty Level: Easy

 

4. Interpersonal crimes are consistently underreported in relation to official statistics.

Ans: F

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Mass Media and Fear of Crime
Difficulty Level: Easy

 

5. From this vantage, crime is viewed as an ideological construct that protects the powerful and further marginalizes the powerless.

Ans: T

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Mass Media and Fear of Crime
Difficulty Level: Easy

 

6. Fear of crime is rational and reasonable.

Ans: F

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Mass Media and Fear of Crime
Difficulty Level: Easy

 

7. Media coverage of crime and deviance is rarely grounded in fact.

Ans: T

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Mass Media and Fear of Crime
Difficulty Level: Easy

 

8. Fear of crime shares a causal relationship police force size and strength.

Ans: T

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Mass Media and Fear of Crime
Difficulty Level: Easy

 

9. Studies have shown that deploying more police officers and street patrols is likely to significantly reduce crime.

Ans: F

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Mass Media and Fear of Crime
Difficulty Level: Easy

 

10. The police press release is a powerful tool for communicating the service’s preferred message.

Ans: T

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Image Management
Difficulty Level: Easy

 

11. Photography Is Not a Crime is a group with the expressed purpose of filming the police, provide training, organizational and tactical instruction, legal assistance, and even mobile phone applications to members of the public interested in the same.

Ans: T

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Image Management
Difficulty Level: Easy

 

12. The media are solely to blame for inciting fear of crime.

Ans: F

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Mass Media and Fear of Crime
Difficulty Level: Easy

 

13. “Thin Blue Line” holds that police are all that stands between the law-abiding public and wholesale violence and anarchy.

Ans: T

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Police Image and Policing the Image
Difficulty Level: Easy

 

14. Research on police and media relations has found that the relationship to be a one-way communication channel.

Ans: T

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: The Police Image and Policing the Image
Difficulty Level: Easy

 

15. Members of the news media are thought to release messages to the public, which have been approved by police agencies.

Ans: T

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Police Image and Policing the Image
Difficulty Level: Easy

Essay

 

1. What is the CSI effect?

Ans: The CSI effect is a contested phenomenon in which jury members’ in criminal trials are thought to base their assessment of the strength of the prosecution’s case on the presence/absence of scientific and technical evidence. Not unlike the erroneous belief in the ubiquity of “criminal profilers” who hunt down serial killers, another and perhaps more plausible effect is the rising popularity of degrees in criminology, criminal justice, and the creation of university forensic science programs.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Cops and Reality TV
Difficulty Level: Medium

 

2. Scholars have claimed that in today’s society, we operate in a new visibility. What is new visibility and do you agree with the scholars?

Ans: According to the authors, mobile and social media have subjected policing to an unprecedented degree of exposure to, and scrutiny by, mainstream and alternative media, activists groups, and everyday people. Therefore, rather than siding with either propaganda or preference, manipulation or market, a more dynamic view and one that perhaps better recognizes the public’s agency is to conceive of the public as coproducers equipped with the ability to shape how the police image through active interpretation and interaction. The second portion of the text varies depending on the students’ comprehension of news visibility.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: The Police Image and Policing the Image
Difficulty Level: Hard

 

3. Discuss the relationship between the picture of crime and social media according to Box (1983). Do you agree with Box’s (1983) argument regarding the picture of crime and social media?

Ans: Steven Box (1983) suggests that the picture of crime that the public receive is manipulated by those in power and that there is an overconcentration on the crimes of the young, racial minorities, the working class and the unemployed, and an underawareness of the crimes of the well-educated upper and middle classes, the socially privileged and those in power. He argues that the processes by which the public receive information about crime via the mass media result in perceptions about criminal justice being determined by very narrow legal definitions that tolerate, accept, or even applaud the crimes of the privileged, while criminalizing the disadvantaged.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: The Mass Media and Fear of Crime
Difficulty Level: Hard

 

4. In 2016, U.S. Customs and Border Protection asked visitors to the United States to voluntarily provide each of their social media user names along with other identifying information. Do you believe that this is a violation of ones privacy and/or rights? Why or why not?

Ans: Answers will vary depending on the students’ position on social media and rights.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Policing and Social Media
Difficulty Level: Hard

 

5. What are false images and how can false images impact the way the public views law enforcement officials?

Ans: According to the authors, false images are images that are crafted that misrepresent themselves in order to mask malpractice, deflect responsibility, or insulate themselves from scrutiny. False images can lead to the distrust of a law enforcement agency, and most importantly, the loss of accountability and legitimacy.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Image Management
Difficulty Level: Medium