Quiz Two
Part 1 of 1 - 30.0 Points
Question 1 of 30 1.0 Points
Researchers have concluded that surveys on deviant and criminal behavior are impossible because everyone lies about their participation in illegal, unethical, and shameful acts.
True
False -Correct
Question 2 of 30 1.0 Points
Between the 1990s and the early 2000s the crime rate in the United States declined.
True -Correct
False
Question 3 of 30 1.0 Points
In the research technique known as participant observation, all researchers must engage in the behavior they study--including murder.
True
False -Correct
Question 4 of 30 1.0 Points
The methodology of choice among positivist or explanatory sociologists is:
A.participant observation
B.the study of autobiographies
C.survey research -Correct
D.the study of personal accounts
Question 5 of 30 1.0 Points
Perhaps the major difference between the Chicago sex survey and the Kinsey study—the one that influenced the difference between the findings of these two studies—is that the:
A.sample of the Chicago survey was representative of the American population as a whole; the sample of the Kinsey study was not. -Correct
B.sample of the Kinsey study was representative of the American population as a whole; the sample of the Chicago survey was not.
C.sample size of the Kinsey study was much larger.
D.sample size of the Chicago survey was much larger.
Question 6 of 30 1.0 Points
The data on crimes “known to the police” which are collected by the FBI and published in its annual report, the Uniform Crime Report, is useful to the criminologist:
A.in no way; it is so seriously flawed in every respect that, as a reflection of crime in the United States, it is all but worthless.
B.for certain purposes but not others; criminologists have to be careful in drawing conclusions from its findings, but in limited ways, they can be relied
on. -Correct
C.in every way; it is 100 percent valid, accurate, and complete.
D.The validity of the data reported in the Uniform Crime Report is unknown and unknowable.
Question 7 of 30 1.0 Points
Most IRBs (Institutional Review Boards) or human subjects committees:
A.encourage sociologists working at the universities to engage in deviance,crime, and drug use when studying them to ensure the validity of their studies.
B.had they been in place at the time would have forbidden many of the classic participant observation studies on deviance, including Laud Humphreys’
study of tearoom sex and the Adlers’ study of drug dealing. -Correct
C.take no position whatsoever on the participation of sociologists working at their universities in deviance, crime, and drug use.
D.none of the above
Question 8 of 30 1.0 Points
The research technique most sociologists of deviance who publish in the journal Deviant Behavior use is:
A.survey research
B.field experiments
C.participant observation -Correct
D.the use of personal narratives
Question 9 of 30 1.0 Points
There are many acts that are deviant but not criminal.
True -Correct
False
Question 10 of 30 1.0 Points
Violations of the drug laws are examples of violations of the common law.
True
False -Correct
Question 11 of 30 1.0 Points
The positivist criminologist tends to focus on “high consensus” deviance—those acts that are highly likely to result, if detected by the police, in arrest.
True -Correct
False
Question 12 of 30 1.0 Points
According to criminological research:
A.Very few of us steal, ever.
B.Most of steal a lot and very frequently—“we are all thieves.”
C.Most of us steal, though very little and infrequently—few of us “make a habit of stealing -Correct
D.Criminological research has never studied the stealing proclivities of the population at large.
Question 13 of 30 1.0 Points
Researchers have studied the relationship between fear and risk, including the fear and risk of street crime. What they’ve found is that the public’s fear of street crime is:
A.unknown as to risk; the methodological difficulties in conducting such studies were insurmountable.
B.socially patterned as to risk, that is, certain kinds of risks were more feared than others. -Correct
C.proportional to risk—the greater the risk, the greater the fear.
D.random as far as risk is concerned; researchers could find no relationship between the two.
Question 14 of 30 1.0 Points
The least common of the following crimes is:
A.murder -Correct
B.forcible rape
C.burglary
D.aggravated assault
Question 15 of 30 1.0 Points
With respect to criminal homicide, when:
A.African Americans kill, they tend to kill an African American; when whites kill, they tend to kill a white person. -Correct
B.African Americans kill, they tend to kill a white person; when whites kill, they tend to kill a white person.
C.African Americans kill, they tend to kill an African American; when whites kill, they tend to kill an African American.
D.African Americans kill, they tend to kill a white person; when whites kill, they tend to kill an African American.
Question 16 of 30 1.0 Points
Rape is:
A.only “about” sex; it isn’t “about” violence at all.
B.only “about” violence”; it isn’t “about” sex at all.
C.“about” neither sex nor violence, but something else altogether.
D.always “about” violence--it is by definition a violent act--but it may be “about” sex as well. -Correct
Question 17 of 30 1.0 Points
As a general rule, the higher the social class or SES (socioeconomic status), the greater the likelihood of drinking.
True -Correct
False
Question 18 of 30 1.0 Points
The more that someone drinks, the greater the likelihood that he or she will be a victim of violence.
True -Correct
False
Question 19 of 30 1.0 Points
Over the past three decades, the number of alcohol-related automobile fatalities has decreased.
True -Correct
False
Question 20 of 30 1.0 Points
More than half the countries that have among the highest rates of alcohol consumption in the world are located in:
A.Western Europe -Correct
B.South America
C.Eastern Europe
D.Africa
Question 21 of 30 1.0 Points
A study that asked respondents to be part of a “mock” trial judging a defendant responsible for raping a woman indicated that jurors:
A.held drunk complainants less responsible for the crime committed against them, and the sober defendants as more responsible.
B.held drunk complainants more responsible for the crime committed against them, and sober defendants as less responsible. -Correct
C.held both drunk complainants and sober defendants equally responsible.
D.none of the above
Question 22 of 30 1.0 Points
Of all illegal drugs, the one that users are more likely to use on a continued basis, or tend to “stick with” the longest, is heroin.
True
False -Correct
Question 23 of 30 1.0 Points
A burst of public concern, fear, and media hysteria--a moral panic--erupted in the 1930s over
the use of marijuana.
True -Correct
False
Question 24 of 30 1.0 Points
Evidence now suggests that public fear and concern over the “crack babies” issue that erupted in the late 1980s was exaggerated, an example of a “moral panic.”
True -Correct
False
Question 25 of 30 1.0 Points
Research indicates that illegal drug use kills more Americans than legal drug use.
True
False -Correct
Question 26 of 30 1.0 Points
In the early years of the 2000s, a majority of Americans:
A.opposes allowing legal marijuana for medical purposes.
B.favors outright legalization of marijuana.
C.has not expressed its opinion about legal medical marijuana, since polls have not asked this question.
D.favors not imprisoning persons caught with small quantities of marijuana, but imposing a small fine without them having to serve jail or prison time. -Correct
Question 27 of 30 1.0 Points
The drug that is most likely to lead to a lethal overdose on a dose-by-dose, user-by-user basis
is:
A.alcohol
B.crack cocaine
C.heroin -Correct
D.powder cocaine
Question 28 of 30 1.0 Points
___________ is society’s most popular recreational drug.
A.alcohol -Correct
B.cocaine
C.methamphetamine
D.marijuana
Question 29 of 30 1.0 Points
Since the 1970s, the use of nearly all illegal drugs has:
A.increased
B.decreased -Correct
C.remained stable
D.fluctuated erratically and randomly from year to year
Question 30 of 30 1.0 Points
Which of the following drugs is used most irregularly, sporadically, occasionally, or on a once-in-a-while basis?
A.alcohol
B.marijuana
C.LSD -Correct
D.cocaine
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