1. Impossibility of performance must be _____, not _____, impossibility.
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Objective; subjective
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2. The targeting of particular racial and ethnic groups by law enforcement and private security agencies is called
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Racial Profiling
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3. Crime, typically nonviolent, committed by business or government professionals; the motivation for such crime is often financial is called
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White-Collar Crime
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4. The advantage that White people have (over Blacks, Native Americans, Asians, Hispanics, and others) as the result of laws, practices, and behaviors that preserve and (re)create societal benefits for them is called
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White Privilege
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5. Norms and institutions that obscure the racial intent of laws, practices, and behaviors that preserve and (re)create societal benefits for White people, creating the illusion that White privilege is natural and normal is called
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White Normative Structures
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6. The illegal use of deception to collect more funds than allowed from state welfare systems is called Welfare Fraud
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True
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7. A theory that links crime to neighborhood ecological patterns is called. Social Disorganization
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True
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8. Organized groups of _______ with police powers who systematically enforced the slave codes in the pre–Civil War South is called Slave Patrols
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White men
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9. The awareness of race shared by members of a racial group and the wider society is called
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Racial Consciousness
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10. The system resulting from policies of aggressive policing targeting specific groups, which have greatly expanded the U.S. inmate population. In this system, government and industry uses of surveillance, policing, and imprisonment have been merged in an effort to solve economic, social and political problems is called. Prison–Industrial Complex
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True
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11. Crime involving groups of people participating in highly centralized criminal enterprises is called
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Organized Crime
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12. Jim Crow Laws are laws designed to preserve Whiteness by criminalizing and sanctioning Blacks, Native Americans, and other racial and ethnic minorities; such laws were widespread across the United States from the 1880s to the ________
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1960s
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13. A theory that proposes that racism produces stressful events and environments, which in turn lead to emotional reactions (such as anger, fear, depression, and rage) that indirectly or directly lead to acts of crime is called
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General Strain Theory
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14. The systematic singling out of individuals for labeling as deviant by virtue of their membership in particular groups is called
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Differential Labeling
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15. A theory that proposes that differences in criminal involvement among groups result from the groups’ different definitions of criminality is called
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Differential Association Theory
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16. Deviance are actions and behaviors that defy social norms, from crimes to failures to meet social expectations
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True
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17. An approach to crime and deviance that associates self-perpetuating cycles of dependency with poor families, specifically poor families of color is called _____Culture of Poverty
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True
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18. Crime is a form of deviance that violates moral and ethical standards and is generally defined as such by law
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True
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19. A theory of crime that asserts that a relationship exists between urban disorder and vandalism, such that if vandalism can be stopped, serious crime will decrease is known as
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Broken Windows Theory
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20. The concept that an individual’s behavior is innately related to components of his or her physiology, such as body type and brain size is known as
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Biological Determinism
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21. Which of the following is true for males of colors?
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They are the most likely to be racially profiled by the police.
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22. Jim Crow laws held sway across the United States from the 1880s into the 1920s.
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False
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23. What are the four central theories derived from the ecological approach to crime?
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Disorganization theory, broken windows theory, culture of poverty theory, and cultural conflict theory.
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24. Which of the following is true of incarceration rates in 2014?
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3% of Black male U.S. residents, regardless of age, were incarcerated.
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25. According to general strain theory, the likelihood of committing a crime can be decreased by certain contingencies, including ______.
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Social support from friends and families
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26. Systemic racism includes the fact that more people of color are ______.
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More likely to be subject to differential criminal sanctioning
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27. Which of the following is a type of white collar crime that is historically linked to women of color?
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Welfare fraud
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28. Our earliest and most systematic attempts to understand deviance are linked to psychology.
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False
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29. The 1790 Naturalization Law ______.
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Limited citizenship to immigrants who were “free white persons of good character”
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30. According to sociologists, ______ may lead to a culture of poverty.
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Differential educational funding
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31. Which of the following was identified as a major gang region in the United States?
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U.S. Military
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32. Which of the following is true regarding gangs in the U.S.?
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Racial and ethnic gangs serve many purposes, such as providing resources like money and drugs.
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33. The United States keeps consistent data that records police killings of civilians across the country.
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False
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34. White females are more than twice as likely as black females to be incarcerated.
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False
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35. The United States is the only industrialized Western democracy that still allows capital punishment.
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True
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