Final Exam Flashcards
No Western democracy has embraced police surveillance systems more than?
Britain
Advertisements such as Crime Stoppers have been supported by court rulings but they are not viewed as being cost effective due to high operational costs?
False
There is no question as to whether the reduction in crime and protection against terrorist attacks though the use of surveillance programs are enough to warrant the loss of privacy
False
Only camera surveillance which are clearly marked take advantage of the surveillance effect?
False
Mass media developed in the 1970s with the exception of positive social effects. As a result, crime reduction messages were created with all the following messages except?
A law enforcement financing ads
Which of the following is a concern over the usuage of media technology and alteration of the reality of the judicial system?
All the above
The development and widespread acceptance of videotaped evidence and testimony by police personnel began in the?
1970s
A local pol;ice agency publicizes the implementation of an aggressive special anti-DUI enforcement effrot but they do not actually have an anti-DUI unit. The publicity about the phantom unit alone yields a detterence effect for a short period of time. Which term does this best exemplify?
Announcement Effect
The specter of surveillance abuse was noted by Earl Warren and William Brandies in the 1900s. They were referring to which of the following?
Update
There is a greater concern with the use of media technology in the unse of court processing, rather than with law enforcement?
False
The McGruff “Crime Dog” campaigns are an example of which of the following?
Victim Reduction Ads
Which of the following groups is most likely to support the usuage of videotaped interrogations because it ensures that police more strictly follow legal procedures.
Defense Attorneys
Surveillance systems are more effective in reducing planned crimes rather than emotional crimes
True
Closed circuit television was initially used sparingly as a means of apprehending and deterring
Shoplifter
Anit-drug media campaigns have a historical tie to which one of the following?
Reefer madness
Cumulatively, the media’s crime and justice content forwards the all the following claims except
Criminals can be rehabilitated
The media works on copycat crime as a trigger more than a rudder
False
By constructing crime and justice reality the media subtly affect crime and justice policies
True
Which type of media driving force comes into play in a wide scale social acceptance of the media generated predator criminal icon which entertains and comforta us?
Cultural
The “smug Hack” icon is the media’s protrayal of which of the following criminal justice personnel
Corrections
Which of the following is the model of causality that concedes a statistical association between the media and some negative behaviors, but argues that the connection is due not to a casual relationship but to persons predisposed to certain behaviors seeking out particular types of media and concurrently behaving in ways similar to the behavior diaplayed in the media. Therefore, the media can be safely ignored.
Negligigle cause model
All of the following statements are truew regarding media and social construction, Except
All of the above statements
One of the postulates that drive expectations about future media crime and justice interactions is that media more often than not construct the criminal justice system and its people negatively and as ineffective yet cumlative effect is support for more police more prisons and more money for the criminal justice system.
True
Media content lends support to preventive or rehabilitative criminal justice polices over punitice policies
False