Ch. 6: The Police Image and Policing the Image
Marxist-inspired critical criminologists argue all of the following individuals set the agenda for public debate about crime except:
the public
All of the following are considered crime film genres except:
a. Gangster films.
b. Heist films.
c. Rom-Com films.
d. Westerns.
C - rom-coms
The “Uniting and Strengthening of America to Provide Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001” was passed after what event?
9/11
Facebook is accessed by (approximately) how many people every day?
1.18 billion
A common practice, especially in the local and regional press, is to publish crime stories often taken from court reports, on what number of pages in order to give the impression of a crime wave?
One page
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.
Black males
What kinds of films tend to feature a decidedly masculine and professional criminality, put to work in pursuit of “one last big score” or the “perfect crime.”
Heist films
Among Snowden’s revelations were that the NSA, together with the British Intelligence Agency, collected the phone records of millions of citizens, accessed and collected data from Google and Facebook accounts via a program called:
Prism
Leading the world table is ______ where 89% of the population are online.
North America
Approximately what percentage of Americans read a print newspaper?
27%
What show served as a key public relations tool, if not propaganda arm for the Los Angeles Police Department during some of its most controversial years?
Dragnet
What genre has a more explicit agenda in bringing to public attention the social contexts of crime and the realities of the experience of imprisonment?
documentaries
What was the first (though now well surpassed) wave of electronic visual surveillance?
CCTV
Which country has become the home of much activity that criminologists usually refer to by the shorthand term “cybercrime.”
China
True or False: Bernard Madoff defrauded investors of nearly 1 billion dollars
False - it was 65 billion in total
As of 2016, U.S. Customs and Border Protection asks visitors to the United States to voluntarily provide _______.
their social media usernames
(Approximately) how many years did the West Memphis 3 spend in prison for their wrongful convictions?
18 years
Surveillance occupies a central role in a broad strategy of social control that has moved from being only activated when rules are violated toward one that is:
Proactive, predictive, and pre-crime
What offense takes place when communications purporting to come from legitimate organizations target Internet users, inducing them to voluntarily surrender sensitive financial information?
Phishing
What are the 4 subparts of the field of media-crime research discussed in the text?
1) examining media within the CJ system
2) ethnographic studies into media organizations
3) media audience studies examining consumers of media
4) media text studies examining the content of the messages
Some studies have also found that ______ overestimate the proportion of crimes solve.
newspaper readers
Detectives or privates eyes are common in which genre of film?
film noirs
What film, set in 2054, depicts a community that uses technology to predict crime?
Minority Report
True or False: All Chinese Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have to register with the police and all Internet users must sign a declaration that they will not visit forbidden sites.
True
What is the major concern with using research tools like LexisNexis that only provide the reader with flat text and no visual components?
this kind of printed news can become decontextualized without visual or graphic imagery, structure and style, and the influence of surrounding stories/details that provide further information about how the media piece might have influenced those who read it.