Media and Crime in the U S 1st Edition By Jewkes - Test Bank

Chapter 1: Theorizing Media and Crime

Test Bank

Multiple Choice

1. The academic study of media effects developed from which of the following sources?

a. mass society and behaviorism

b. mass society and anomie

c. behaviorism and anomie

d. behaviorism and effects research

Ans: A

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Media “Effects”
Difficulty Level: Easy

2. Positivism emereged from the:

a. natural sciences.

b. humanties.

c. arts.

d. social sciences.

Ans: A

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Behaviorism and Positivism
Difficulty Level: Easy

3. The Bobo doll experiment took place at which of the following universities in the 1950s and 1960s.

a. Harvard

b. Yale

c. Stanford

d. Princeton

Ans: C

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Behaviorism and Positivism
Difficulty Level: Easy

4. Anxieties about media effects have traditionally taken all of the following forms except:

a. exposure encourages lewd behavior.

b. the mass media undermines the civilizing influence of high culture.

c. the mass media represents all individuals, including the elite.

d. the mass media represents the elite.

Ans: C

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Behaviorism and Positivism
Difficulty Level: Medium

5. H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds, which aired on the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) on Halloween Night in October:

a. 1930.

b. 1932.

c. 1938.

d. 1940.

Ans: C

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Behaviorism and Positivism
Difficulty Level: Easy

6. One in ______ listeners were said to have been very frightened by the War of the Worlds broadcast, a fear that was exacerbated by the stature of the narrator.

a. 3

b. 6

c. 9

d. 12

Ans: B

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Behaviorism and Positivism
Difficulty Level: Easy

7. Which of the following theories proposes that the media is owned by the ruling bourgeois elite and operate in the interests of that class?

a. anomie

b. marxism

c. pluralism

d. behaviorism

Ans: B

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Marxism, Critical Criminology, and the “Dominant Ideology” Approach
Difficulty Level: Easy

8. Environmental harm was referred to by scholars in 1998 as:

a. green crime.

b. environmental justice.

c. environmental crime.

d. green justice.

Ans: A

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Legacy of Marxism: Critical Criminology and Corporate Crime
Difficulty Level: Easy

9. According to the authors, pluralists argue that which of the following processes have succeeded in removing the media from state regulation and censorship.