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Violence : The Enduring Problem 3rd Edition (Test Bank) Chapter 8: Crowd Violence, Exams of Criminology

Ryerson UniversityCriminology

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Chapter 8: Crowd Violence
Test Bank
Multiple Choice
1. The civil unrest provoked by the shooting forced our nation to confront head on the issue of race and
______.
a. policing
b. education
c. employment
d. living conditions
Ans: A
Cognitive Domain: knowledge
Difficulty Level: easy
2. Mob violence has been a relatively ______ occurrence within most societies throughout history.
a. objective
b. subjective
c. common
d. conforming
Ans: C
Cognitive Domain: knowledge
Difficulty Level: easy
3. Many riots throughout history have mostly been responses to ______.
a. current social conditions
b. prison release
c. injustice and oppression
d. conformity
Ans: C
Cognitive Domain: knowledge
Difficulty Level: easy
4. During the L.A. riots, which of the following businesses were usually spared from arson?
a. African American owned
b. White owned
c. Korean owned
d. liquor stores
Ans: A
Cognitive Domain: knowledge
Difficulty Level: easy
5. Which is the most common type of riot in this country?
a. race
b. prison
c. sports
d. political
Ans: A
Cognitive Domain: knowledge
Difficulty Level: easy
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Alvarez & Bachman, Violence: The Enduring Problem, 3rd Edition
SAGE Publishing, 2017
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Chapter 8: Crowd Violence

Test Bank

Multiple Choice

  1. The civil unrest provoked by the shooting forced our nation to confront head on the issue of race and ______. a. policing b. education c. employment d. living conditions Ans: A Cognitive Domain: knowledge Difficulty Level: easy
  2. Mob violence has been a relatively ______ occurrence within most societies throughout history. a. objective b. subjective c. common d. conforming Ans: C Cognitive Domain: knowledge Difficulty Level: easy
  3. Many riots throughout history have mostly been responses to ______. a. current social conditions b. prison release c. injustice and oppression d. conformity Ans: C Cognitive Domain: knowledge Difficulty Level: easy
  4. During the L.A. riots, which of the following businesses were usually spared from arson? a. African American owned b. White owned c. Korean owned d. liquor stores Ans: A Cognitive Domain: knowledge Difficulty Level: easy
  5. Which is the most common type of riot in this country? a. race b. prison c. sports d. political Ans: A Cognitive Domain: knowledge Difficulty Level: easy

Alvarez & Bachman, Violence: The Enduring Problem, 3 rd^ Edition SAGE Publishing, 2017

  1. The 2015 rioting in Baltimore, Maryland was the result of the death of an African American who died while in ______. a. a nightclub b. the battle of Gettysburg c. the draft d. police custody Ans: D Cognitive Domain: knowledge Difficulty Level: easy
  2. The 1980 Liberty City riot in ______ was started by the police killing of an unarmed African American who ran a red light. a. Florida b. Alabama c. Mississippi d. Texas Ans: A Cognitive Domain: knowledge Difficulty Level: easy
  3. The ______ of 1967 began with the arrest of an African American taxicab driver. a. Miami riot b. Detroit riot c. Newark riot d. Tampa riot Ans: C Cognitive Domain: knowledge Difficulty Level: easy
  4. ______ is defined as an extralegal execution by a mob. a. economic violence b. racial violence c. a firing squad d. lynching Ans: D Cognitive Domain: knowledge Difficulty Level: easy
  5. During slavery, lynchings were not used against the slaves because ______. a. Lynchings hadn't been invented yet. b. Slavery was legal and had the protection of the law. c. The slaves would rebel. d. Police punished lynchers. Ans: B Cognitive Domain: knowledge Difficulty Level: easy
  6. On April 9, 1865, General ______ surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox courthouse and, for all intents and purposes, ended the American Civil War. a. Robert E. Lee b. George Washington c. Thomas Jefferson d. Frederick Douglas Ans: A Cognitive Domain: knowledge Difficulty Level: easy

Alvarez & Bachman, Violence: The Enduring Problem, 3 rd^ Edition SAGE Publishing, 2017

b. popular c. legal d. act of of civil obedience Ans: B Cognitive Domain: knowledge Difficulty Level: easy

  1. ______, refers to groups that engage in violence in an effort to control the government if it strays from an acceptable course of action and policy. a. innate control vigilantism b. crime-control vigilantism c. social group-control vigilantism d. regime-control vigilantism Ans: D Cognitive Domain: knowledge Difficulty Level: easy
  2. ______ describes groups whose goal is to keep some population group in their place, usually within the lower levels of class structure. a. aggressive group-control vigilantism b. social group-control vigilantism c. regime-control vigilantism d. crime-control vigilantism Ans: B Cognitive Domain: knowledge Difficulty Level: easy
  3. ______ is the type of vigilantism most often associated with collective violence—targeted as it is with the elimination of crime. a. innate control vigilantism b. regime-control vigilantism c. social group-control vigilantism d. crime-control vigilantism Ans: D Cognitive Domain: knowledge Difficulty Level: easy

True/False

  1. Mob violence—as exemplified by lynchings, vigilantes, and riots—has a short history in this country. Ans: F Cognitive Domain: knowledge Difficulty Level: easy
  2. Sex offender registries, which all states have available in some form, make convicted sex offenders particularly easy targets for individuals bent on delivering their own brand of justice. Ans: T Cognitive Domain: knowledge Difficulty Level: easy
  3. All vigilante groups are the same. Ans: F Cognitive Domain: knowledge Difficulty Level: easy

Alvarez & Bachman, Violence: The Enduring Problem, 3 rd^ Edition SAGE Publishing, 2017

  1. Each type of vigilante group is a liberal organization in the sense that it doesn’t try to subvert law and order; rather all types of vigilante groups try to enforce it, though each has a different goal in mind as it engages in violence. Ans: F Cognitive Domain: knowledge Difficulty Level: easy
  2. African Americans were the only victims of lynch mobs in the United States. Ans: F Cognitive Domain: knowledge Difficulty Level: easy
  3. Vigilantism can be defined as an organized internal legal movement in which the participants take the law into their own hands. Ans: F Cognitive Domain: knowledge Difficulty Level: easy
  4. Vigilantes believe that the government does a good job of protecting traditional rights. Ans: F Cognitive Domain: knowledge Difficulty Level: easy
  5. In contemporary America, the Guardian Angels, a group founded in 1979 in the Bronx, is still active in a number of communities. Identified by their red berets, its members patrol the subways, streets, and neighborhoods in order to prevent crime and have sometimes been labeled vigilantes by police. Ans: T Cognitive Domain: knowledge Difficulty Level: easy

Short Answer/Essay

  1. Discuss the reasoning for race riots increasing across the United States over the last few years. Cognitive Domain: comprehension Difficulty Level: medium
  2. Discuss three of the eight typologies of crowds and mobs. Cognitive Domain: comprehension Difficulty Level: medium
  3. Sid Heal suggested that there are eight specific psychological factors that serve to lower or remove our prohibitions against violent behavior and thus facilitate individual participation in mob violence. Provide a brief description of three of the eight. Cognitive Domain: comprehension Difficulty Level: hard

Alvarez & Bachman, Violence: The Enduring Problem, 3 rd^ Edition SAGE Publishing, 2017