List The 4 Functions Of Crime Myth

Front 1

Who Benefits the most from the collective ideology that results from crime myths?

Back 1

the believers, the public/society

Front 2

What % of Americans have committed a crime for which they could have been incarcerated?

Back 2

90%

Front 3

Where do Americans get their information about crime and criminals?

Back 3

mass media

Front 4

Describe the reality of crime and reporting of crime by the news media.

Back 4

News media uses the worst case to characterize a social problem encourages us to view that case as typical and to think about the problem in extreme terms

Front 5

What was the primary problem with stories written during the media frenzy over workplace violence in the 1990s?

Back 5

the media simply repeated the suspect statistic without investigating its validity

Front 6

Why have members of the Police Executive Research Forum violated concerns about programs like COPS?

Back 6

the presence of cameras encourage more violent behavior from police officers

Front 7

Which group is most often presented as a “criminal by television news?

Back 7

hispanics

Front 8

List the characters necessary for a crime myth to reach its full potential.

Back 8

targeting a distinct deviant population
“innocent” or “helpless” victim population
brave and virtuous heroes
threat to establishes norms values or lifestyles

Front 9

Crime myths are most often constructed around which types of groups in society?

Back 9

unpopular

Front 10

Define “information management” as a technique of myth construction.

Back 10

the editorial process by which a particular news story is shaped and selected for presentation to the exclusion of other stories

Front 11

Define “value loaded terminology” as a technique of myth construction

Back 11

biased language used to characterize and label crime

Front 12

Define “selective presentation of fact” as a technique of myth construction.

Back 12

presenting certain facts to the exclusion of others strengthens a biased argument

Front 13

Public opinion polls indicate that Americans are most worried about what issue?

Back 13

home buglary

Front 14

Describe the “typical criminal” feared by Americans.

Back 14

poor, young, urban, black males

Front 15

What is the LEAST common relationship between victims and offenders?

Back 15

psychopathic predatory strangers lurking in urban shadows

Front 16

What is necessary for an offense to be recorded in the UCR as a “crime known to the police”?

Back 16

all reports of crime received by victims, officers who discover the infractions,other sources regardless of whether anyone is arrested for the crime, stolenproperty is recovered, or prosecution is undertaken

Front 17

What crime is responsible for a majority of violent crime victimization according to the National Crime Victimization Survey?

Back 17

assualt

Front 18

What is the percentage of Americans that are victimized every year?

Back 18

2.3%

Front 19

What is the least common crime of violence?

Back 19

murder

Front 20

What is the most common relationship between homicide victims and offenders?

Back 20

the victim and offender closely know each other

Front 21

Define “child stealing”.

Back 21

children abducted by a parent that does not have legal custody

Front 22

Most missing children are found within __ hours.

Back 22

24

Front 23

Define and give an example of a “thrownaway child”

Back 23

children whose parents force them out of their homes

Front 24

According to government data, what % of runaway children return home?

Back 24

99%

Front 25

How many children are abducted, possibly sexually assaulted and killed by strangers each year?

Back 25

at most 40

Front 26

Which retailer implemented the “Code Adam” safety procedure to lock and search a store when the is a lost child incident?

Back 26

wallmart

Front 27

In the case of a parental abduction when the abducting parent is arrested by the FBI, what usually happens to the child?

Back 27

they are kept in foster homes or community shelters

Front 28

How many laws were passes in an 18 month period to memorialize dead children?

Back 28

more than 50

Front 29

Define xenophobia.

Back 29

fear of people significantly different from oneself

Front 30

In what year did the serial killer panic begin to garner media attention?

Back 30

1984

Front 31

Between 1983 and 1985, the Justice Department, along with several other writers, estimated that serial killers accounted for about __% homicide victims each year.

Back 31

20

Front 32

Describe “linkage blindness”

Back 32

murders occurring in several different jurisdictions

Front 33

It is rare for a serial murderer to kill more than _ victims in any particular year.

Back 33

6

Front 34

In reality, serial murder accounts for __ % of all American homicides.

Back 34

.01

Front 35

By the late ____s many scholars had rejected the idea that rehabilitation was the appropriate response to deviancy and criminal behavior.

Back 35

1980

Front 36

The _____ has been responsible for the apprehension of most serial killers.

Back 36

VIACP

Front 37

In any given year, serial murder will account for approximately _ out of every 10,000 deaths that occur in the United states

Back 37

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