, CHAPTER 1 TEST BANK
Race, Ethnicity and Crime: America’s Continuing Crisis
Multiple Choice
1.1 In 2009 the incarceration rate for African American males in state and federal prisons
was _____ times the rate for whites.
a. 40.5 c. 20.7
b. 6.7 d. 2.6
ANS: B
REF: 2
LO: 2
1.2 The Innocence Project has found that among prisoners exonerated by DNA evidence, __
percent are people of color.
a. 25 c. 70
b. 50 d. 90
ANS: C
REF: 3
LO: 2
1.3 People of color are victimized by violent and property crimes at a ______ rate than white
Americans.
a. lower c. similar
b. higher d. exact same
ANS: B
REF: 5
LO: 2
1.4 For many white Americans, the crime issue is:
a. an expression of ethnic fears.
b. an expression of racial fears.
c. overstated.
d. understated.
ANS: B
REF: 3
LO: 2
7
,1.5 The Uniform Crime Reports data are __________ with respect to many important issues
related to race, ethnicity, and crime.
a. questionable c. useless
b. comprehensive d. confusing
ANS: C
REF: 19
LO: 5
1.6 Office of Management and Budget racial and ethnic categories are:
a. a socialpolitical construct. c. scientifically based.
b. anthropologically based. d. All of the above.
ANS: A
REF: 13
LO: 4
1.7 _____ are the fastest-growing racial or ethnic group in the US.
a. Hispanic c. African American
b. White d. Asia
ANS: A
REF: 8
LO: 2
1.8 The development of theoretical studies of race, ethnicity, and crime:
a. has expanded dramatically since 1998.
b. was a highlight of Stone’s report to the President’s Initiative on Race.
c. suffers from a pronounced lack of available funding.
d. has been discouraged by the extreme sensitivity of the subject.
ANS: D
REF: 7
LO: 1&2
1.9 The Color of Justice includes material on the following groups:
a. African Americans and whites.
b. All people of color.
c. Hispanics and African Americans.
d. All groups.
ANS: D
REF: 5
LO: 1
8
, 1.10 Experts regard the concept of race as:
a. an essential component of social research.
b. a biological categorization of the human species.
c. an unwanted distraction during human research.
d. primarily a social construct.
ANS: D
REF: 9
LO: 4
1.11 The labels applied to groups are:
a. periodically changed for political expedience.
b. essential for clarity and specificity during discourse.
c. usually applied by the politically and culturally dominant group.
d. All of the above.
ANS: C
REF: 9
LO: 4
1.12 More than half of the Hispanic population in the U.S. lives in:
a. California and Florida. c. Florida and Texas.
b. California and Texas. d. California and New Mexico.
ANS: B
REF: 25
LO: 3
1.13 The proper labeling of a group is __________ in the sense that it often involves a power
struggle between different racial and ethnic groups.
a. controversial c. political
b. difficult d. confrontational
ANS: C
REF: 10
LO: 4
1.14 Discrimination is a difference based on __________ without reference to an individual’s
behavior or qualifications.
a. bias c. differential treatment of groups
b. extralegal factors d. All of the above.
ANS: C
REF: 27
LO: 6
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