Our society's use of due process, involving police, courts, and punishment, to enforce the law. is called
a. the criminal justice system.
b. rational-legal authority.
c. the normative structure.
d. bureaucratic control system.
Moving police officers from automobiles to bicycles and foot patrol is part of a policy called
a. discretionary enforcement.
b. community policing.
c. due process.
d. zero tolerance policy.
The presence of so much violence in the mass media
a. has resulted in effective government action to eliminate it.
b. appears to have little effect on the people who view violence.
c. may have the effect of desensitizing us all to violence.
d. was a major issue debated during the 2012 presidential election.
In experimental research, who is the control group?
They are the researchers who conduct the study.
B) They are subjects who are exposed to the independent variable.
C) They are subjects not exposed to the independent variable.
D) They are subjects who are aware of the experimental manipulation.
If you believe that a solution to the problem of guns and violence is enacting laws that make guns harder to get, you are probably
a. liberal.
b. conservative.
c. not very political.
d. on the far-right politically.
Researchers who use __________ collect information about the same persons over many years.
A) longitudinal surveys
B) experiments
C) participant observation
D) public opinion polls
Conclusions made from __________ will be reliable about the entire population.
A) participant observation
B) a control group
C) a probability sample
D) an experiment
The analysis of social problems relies on __________.
A) politicians
B) reliable data
C) public opinion
D) media representations
The killing of twenty-six people at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012 is an example of
a. mass murder.
b. serial murder.
c. a hate crime.
d. institutional violence.
Child abuse was defined as a social problem
a. in colonial times by the church.
b. about 1960, largely based on the activism of Dr. C. Henry Kempe.
c. as part of the civil rights movement of the 1950s.
d. in the 1990s as an example of sexual violence.
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