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Level: Basic
6. Which of the following are overrepresented in television and news reports regarding crime?
a. Whites and Latinos
b. Women and youths
c. African-Americans and the elderly
d. African-Americans and Latinos
Answer: d
Objective: List the effects of news media coverage of crime.
Page Number: 21
Level: Intermediate
8. are those who might be considered innocent, or having been “in the wrong place at the
wrong time”.
a. Tentative targets
b. Virtuous victims
c. Fatal targets
d. Tactical victims
Answer: b
Objective: Describe the different kinds of crime myths generated by the news media.
Page Number: 22
Level: Intermediate
9. In regards to media coverage, which of the following has been identified as contributing to
providing the public with a misleading picture of the crime problem?
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a. Reporters failing to provide the social and/or historical context for the information
presented in the crime story
b. Reporters adequately presenting both sides of the story
c. Reporters accounting for changes in the population
d. Reporters tending to utilize expert opinion for background presented in the crime
story
Answer: a
Objective: Explain how the news media overdramatize crime.
Page Number: 23
Level: Intermediate
11. While its use was actually declining in the 1980s, news stories about gave the public
the impression that it had become an epidemic.
a. Marijuana use
b. Crack cocaine use
c. Gun-related crime
d. Juvenile DUI
Answer: b
Objective: Explain how the news media overdramatize crime.
Page Number: 24
Level: Intermediate
12. In general, which of the following gets the least amount of media coverage?
a. Homicide
b. Sexual assault
c. White-collar crime
d. Armed robbery
Answer: c
Objective: List the effects of news media coverage of crime.
Page Number: 24
Level: Basic
13. Which of the following is a structural factor that contributes to fear of crime?
a. Higher income levels
b. Low levels of social integration
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Account of Mr. Davidson’s Death, extracted from the Journal of the Royal
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