CJBS 300 Quiz 3 - Chapter 6 – Deter the Criminals
TRUE/FALSE
1. Liberals typically favor deterrence-oriented policies because they favor prevention.
2. Scared Straight programs are designed to deter by provoking fear in order to make crime seem more costly than beneficial to juveniles.
3. The...
1. Liberals typically favor deterrence-oriented policies because they favor prevention. False
2. Scared Straight programs are designed to deter by provoking fear in order to make crime
seem more costly than beneficial to juveniles. True
3. The “pulling levers” strategy has been shown to be effective in deterring crime because it
is focused on select targets. True
4. The fatalistic offender assumes that they will escape arrest and reap the rewards that
crime has to offer. False
5. An analysis of Rand Inmate Survey data revealed that the inmates acted rationally in
calculating the costs and benefits of crime. False
6. To this date, Ehrlich’s is the only high-quality death penalty research that proves the
death penalty deters murder. False
7. Walker proposes that the death penalty does not deter homicides. False
8. The typical victim in an alcohol-related crash is the drunk driver who has no criminal
justice record of drunk driving. False
9. Crackdowns are an effective strategy that deters drunk driving for a long period of time.
False
10. Walker credits much of the decline in the motor vehicle death rate to social policies
rather than criminal justice policies. True
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. The theory of deterrence
a. is the oldest criminal justice theory on record
b. is one of the youngest criminal justice theories on record
c. is simple but its application to actual practice is complex
d. is complex in its requirements but simple to practice
2. It is important to distinguish between
a. the costs and benefits of deterrence based policies in the criminal justice system
b. the deterrent effect of the criminal law and the effect of other social institutions
c. ineffective traditional forms of deterrence and effective modern forms of
, 2
deterrence
d. the deterrent effect and the effects of prevention-based criminal justice policies
3. The theory of deterrence rests on a number of assumptions including
a. severity of punishment is more important than its certainty
b. the notion that the CJS is the only institution able to promote deterrence
c. the use of UCR data to communicate risk of apprehension to potential offenders
d. people have to perceive consequences as unpleasant and act rationally
4. _____(1)_____ deterrence is directed at individual offenders while _____(2)_____
deterrence is directed at society as a whole
a. (1) specific (2) general c. (1) absolute (2) marginal
b. (1) general (2) specific d. (1) marginal (2) absolute
5. This deterrence type refers to a relative improvement over what we are currently
achieving
a. perceptual
b. structural
c. marginal
d. general
6. One of the reasons for being skeptical about how effectively deterrence-oriented policies
are translated into practice is that
a. these policies are interpreted differently by police than they are by the courts
b. they are typically avoided by liberal courtroom work groups
c. we haven’t had the funding to implement these policies as intended
d. the social stigma attached to crime commission is lost given frequent arrests of
African American males
7. Evaluations of Scared Straight programs revealed that
a. they were not implemented as intended
b. none of them reduced crime and some had adverse outcomes
c. they were not cost-effective
d. they deterred more chronic offenders than first-time offenders
8. Programs known as __________ exposed juveniles to prison conditions in order to
provide direct evidence of the unpleasant consequences of criminal behavior.
a. Brutalization Experience c. Scared Straight
b. Magic Bullet d. Diversion
9. Liberal policy makers favor
a. Eliminating all deterrence-based c. Explaining the results of crime to teens
policies
b. Crackdowns, for their deterrent effect d. Investing in social policies
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