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Political Crime and Terrorism MCQ

1. _____ is the burglary of the Democratic National Headquarters in the Watergate complex by Nixon’s “plumbers group.”

The American Revolution

Watergate

Social disorganization theory

None of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Watergate

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2. Is universal Declaration of Human Rights a United Nations declaration that calls for the respect of human rights?

False

True

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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3. _____ is known as the purposeful targeting of innocents for political purposes in order to spread fear and intimidation.

Drug

Career

None of these

Terrorism

Answer

Correct Answer: Terrorism

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4. _____ is defined as another name for espionage (literally, “under the rose”).

Sub rosa crime

Social reform

Family counseling

All of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Sub rosa crime

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5. _____ is an acronym for the method of recruiting spies: sex, motivation, ideology, commitment, and ego.

All of these

Cannon

Con artists

SMICE

Answer

Correct Answer: SMICE

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6. Is secret police domestic security police whose purpose it is to protect the existing regime from violent overthrow?

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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7. _____ is known as a U.S. social movement in the 1980s that attempted to provide refuge for illegal political refugees from Latin America.

Legalization of abortion

None of these

Sanctuary movement

Marijuana legalization

Answer

Correct Answer: Sanctuary movement

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8. _____ is defined as machiavelli’s notion that any means are necessary in order to protect the state.

Raison d’état (reason of state)

Life course theory

Social disorganization

All of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Raison d’état (reason of state)

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9. _____ is crime committed for ideological reasons.

All of these

Pyramid

Churning

Political crime

Answer

Correct Answer: Political crime

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10. Is patriarchal crime crime committed in the name of male dominance?

False

True

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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11. _____ is known as a secret CIA program to investigate activities of domestic groups.

The New Orleans incident

Colonial pirates

None of these

Operation chaos

Answer

Correct Answer: Operation chaos

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12. _____ is defined as the precedent established at the Nuremberg trials after World War II that says that, if a person has a conflict between morality and immoral orders, one is to obey morality.

Nuremberg principle

Ectomorphs

All of these

Hamas

Answer

Correct Answer: Nuremberg principle

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13. _____ is a distinctive belief system.

None of these

Parens patria

Ideology

Hezbollah

Answer

Correct Answer: Ideology

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14. Is human rights basic human activities that are guaranteed in democratic societies such as the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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15. _____ is known as an Islamic, Iranian-backed terrorist group whose name means “party of God.”

Hezbollah

Right to compensation

Notification of rights

None of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Hezbollah

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16. _____ is defined as in Arabic, “fervor” or “zeal”; a Middle Eastern, Islamic resistance movement.

Ectomorphs

All of these

Hamas

Endomorphs

Answer

Correct Answer: Hamas

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17. _____ is the eradication of a group.

All of these

Feminist criminology

Punks

Genocide

Answer

Correct Answer: Genocide

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18. Is espionage spying; the stealing of secrets?

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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19. _____ is known as the secret organization within the Reagan White House that was responsible for the Iran–Contra affair.

Enterprise

All of these

Triangulation

Operationalization

Answer

Correct Answer: Enterprise

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20. _____ is defined as political crimes by the government, from human rights violations to genocide.

Criminal justice

Crime by government

All of these

Victimology

Answer

Correct Answer: Crime by government

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21. _____ is political crimes against the government, from protests to terrorism.

None of these

Gemeinschaft

Crime against government

Answer

Correct Answer: Crime against government

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22. Is cOINTELPRO a secret FBI program, the Counter Intelligence Program, to discredit legitimate social movements?

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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23. _____ is known as a form of drastic resocialization of personality.

All of these

Victim precipitation

Brainwashing

Victim provocation

Answer

Correct Answer: Brainwashing

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24. The mass destruction or annihilation of populations, such as the Jewish Holocaust is called ______.

Patriarchal crime

Political murder

Political atrocity

Genocide

Answer

Correct Answer: Genocide

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25. Which of the following refers to crime committed against women and children in the name of traditional male dominance?

Political espionage

Genocide

Patriarchal crime

Political prisoners

Answer

Correct Answer: Patriarchal crime

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26. Laqueur identified the myth that terrorism is a weapon of the poor.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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27. Sub rosa criminals are spies who steal secrets.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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28. Which of the following terms is the clandestine theft of information?

Espionage

Assassination

Terrorism

Whistle blowing

Answer

Correct Answer: Espionage

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29. Which of the following countries uses waterboarding as an interrogation tactic?

France

Germany

Canada

United States

Answer

Correct Answer: United States

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30. What theory best explains political crimes?

Strain

Social disorganization

Differential association

Labeling

Answer

Correct Answer: Differential association

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31. Hacker’s typology of terrorists include crusaders, crazies, and criminals.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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32. ______ release classified information to the public.

Quasi agents

Escapee spies

Deceived spies

Compromised spies

Answer

Correct Answer: Quasi agents

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33. An ideology is a distinctive belief system, idea, or an abstract ideal.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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34. A spy who betrays for personal benefit unrelated to monetary or ideological considerations is called a ______.

Political

Professional

Buccaneer

Egocentric

Answer

Correct Answer: Egocentric

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35. ______ crimes are violations of law or customs of war.

War

Political

Nuremburg

Government

Answer

Correct Answer: War

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36. Terrorism and terrorist acts are considered political crimes.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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37. Criminal acts committed for an ideological purpose are ______.

Political

Ideological

Philosophical

Governmental

Answer

Correct Answer: Political

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38. What doctrine suggests that some violations of common law are necessary to serve public utility?

Hezbollah

Parens patria

Raison d’état

Dialectic

Answer

Correct Answer: Raison d’état

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