criminology MOD 12 quiz

__________ are behaviors outlawed because they are a threat to the general well-being of society and challenge accepted moral principles.

Public Order crimes

According to legal scholar, Morris Cohen, why should victimless crimes be criminally prohibited?

Because one of the functions of criminal law is to express the public’s shared sense of morality

According to the theory of social harm, immoral acts can be distinguished from crimes on the basis of the ____they cause.

Injury

People who seek to control or criminalize deviant behaviors in accordance with their own way of thinking are called ______.

moral entrpreneurs

The movement to ban gay marriage in California that led to the passage of Proposition 8 is an example of a/an _____.

Moral Crusade

Which of the following statements is accurate?

The line between behaviors that are immoral and those that are criminal are often blurred.

__________ refers to the rubbing against or touching of a nonconsenting adult in a crowd.

Frotteurism

Of all the commonly practiced paraphilias, which causes the general public the most concern?

Pedophilia

Your neighbor obtains sexual pleasure from spying on strangers while they disrobe. This neighbor is a/an ______.

Voyeur

Attaining sexual pleasure through sexual activity with prepubescent children is referred to as ______.

Pedophilia

_________is a disturbing behavior whereby men travel overseas to places such as Thailand in order to engage in illicit sexual behavior with young girls who have been sold into prostitution.

Sex tourism

Modern commercial sex appears to have its roots in ancient _____ where Solon established licensed brothels in 500 BC.

Greece

Which of the following is not a condition present in a commercial sexual transaction?

Felonious Violence

Which category of prostitute is believed to be responsible for the recent upsurge in prostitution?

Cyberprostituites

International trafficking in prostitution flourishes. Hundreds of thousands of children and women, primarily from _________, are abducted or lured by the promise of good jobs and, instead, end up in the sex trade in industrialized countries including the United States.

Southeast Asia and Eastern Europe

The aristocrats of prostitution are _____ who charge customers thousands of dollars per night and who may net over 200,000 dollars per year.

Call girls

Which category of prostitute is considered the least attractive, lowest paid, and most vulnerable, regardless of whether the prostitute is male or female?

Street walkers

What was the significance of the Mann Act of 1925?

It prohibited bringing women into the country for the purpose of prostituion

After World War I, prostitution became associated with ____, and the desire to protect young servicemen from harm helped to end all experiments with legalization in the United States.

Disease

Prostitution is illegal in all states except Nevada where licensed and highly regulated brothels can operate as business enterprises in ______.

Rural Counties

What does research indicate about the effects of legalizing prostitution?

Legalization leads to massive expansion of the trade, both legal and illegal.

Feminists' sexual equality view considers the prostitute a victim of ______.

Male dominance

Which of the following is a contention of opponents of pornography?

Pornography degrades both the people who are participants and the public who are sometimes forced to see it.

Which of the following is not true about pornography

Legal restrictions have made the prosecution of possession of pornography difficult especially for material involving children

Obscenity is derived from the Latin word caenum that means _____________.

Filth

The __________ Amendment right to free speech makes legal control of pornography quite difficult.

First

Tying drug use to factors such as racial prejudice, low self-esteem, poor socioeconomic status, and the high levels of mistrust, negativism, and defiance found in impoverished areas describes which causal explanation of drug use?

Subcultural view

Problem behavior syndrome contends that ______.

Substance abuse is just one of the many problem behaviors

Border patrols are examples of ________ strategies aimed at stopping drug use.

Interdiction

Which issue presents an obstacle to controlling drugs via source control strategies?

These are all issues that present obstacles to controlling drugs via source control strategies.

Ethan Nadelmann argues that drugs should be legalized because ______.

The use of mood-altering substances is customary in almost all human societies

Gloria is a 22-year-old woman from Florida who is attempting to finish college. She is studying to become a nurse. She began dancing as an exotic dancer at a gentlemen's club when she turned 20 to help pay for her tuition. ANSWER the following questions.
After dancing for roughly a year, Gloria heard several of the other girls talk about prostitution. Gloria believed she could make more money by being both an exotic dancer and as an escort. Her belief most likely fits the view of prostitution called the ___________.

Free Choice view

One of Gloria's regular clients likes to participate in an outlawed paraphilia that involves deriving pleasure from receiving pain from Gloria and inflicting pain on her as well. This is called _______.

Sadomasochism

. Gloria would most likely fit into which category of prostitute?

Call girl

According to the theory of social harm, immoral acts can be distinguished from crimes on the basis of the ______ they cause.

injury

T/F Not all paraphilia behaviors are criminal

True

T/F One victory in the war on drugs is that the price of illegal narcotics, such as crack cocaine and heroin, have drifted upward as supplies have dwindled due to proactive anti-drug strategies

FAlse

T/F The subcultural view of drug abuse causation has an environmental basis

True

If a young lady (Lisa) finds out the details about prostitution through other prostitutes, this process most closely resembles which theory?

Social Learning

Which of the following models most resembles the regulation model of prostitution?

Legalization (licensing, registration, red light districts, brothels, mandatory medical exams)

In the class lecture, there was an interview hosted by John Stossel that clearly depicted a moral crusade pertaining to the legitimacy of outlawing which behavior?

Prostituition

T/F We learn prescription drug use is acceptable by being exposed to RX drugs at different stages in our lives and in various social settings

True

T/F unless you have a legal duty to do so, it is not a crime to ignore a drowning child

True

T/F There is little enforcement of obscenity laws in cases involving adults, almost all enforcement involves child pornography

True

Problem behavior syndrome contends that ______.

substance abuse is just one of many delinquent activities

Which issue presents an obstacle to controlling drugs via source control strategies?

These are all issues that present obstacles to controlling drugs via source control strategies

T/F Today, the act of prostitution includes three elements: activity that has a sexual significance for the prostitute, economic indifference, and emotional attachment

False

T/F Moral crusaders seek to shape the law toward objective, universal standards of right and wrong

False

T/F The two sex workers interviewed employed efforts to normalize their profession by explaining the functions and purposes they serve in society, that they pay taxes and that it is a profession they have freely chosen to enter

True

According to the video on academic doping, there is an epidemic of prescription misuse in academic settings. Which concept below, from the article by Mui, Sales and Murphy, was most prevalent in the video?

Options B and D

The theory that best explains most public order crime is

Labeling

_________ have been argued to constitute legalized prostitution.

massage parlors

___________ is another name for a customer of prostitution.

John

An example of an exhibitionist is:

Flasher

___________ is an example of a public order/victimless crime.

Drug use

T/F Overcriminalization refers to the process of lessening the penalties attached to particular offenses

False

Which public-order crime is most prevalent on college campuses in the U.S.?

Alcohol abuse

All of the following are common characteristics of sex offenders except:

the majority of offenders are older

T/F Mala en se crimes refer to crimes that are wrong in and of themselves.

True

In which of the following countries is prostitution legal and bringing in more than $15 billion per year?

Germany

Which of the following is not a condition present in a commercial sexual transaction

threat of violence