Practice Quiz Chapter 06

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. Some suggest that the term "social exclusion" is just another word for ________.

a) shaming correct incorrect

b) poverty correct incorrect

c) incarceration correct incorrect

d) surveillance correct incorrect

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. Research has shown that the backgrounds of homeless youth are often characterized by ________.

a) a high social economic status correct incorrect

b) supportive parenting correct incorrect

c) parental social activism correct incorrect

d) None of the above correct incorrect

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. According to sociologist Walter Miller, ________ should be taken into account when defining a youth gang.

a) identifiable leadership within the group correct incorrect

b) music preference correct incorrect

c) individual intelligence correct incorrect

d) All of the above correct incorrect

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. ________ is not a step in the exiting process.

a) Precipitating factors correct incorrect

b) Social exclusion correct incorrect

c) Securing help correct incorrect

d) Change in routine correct incorrect

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. Gordon's research (2000) on wannabe groups, street gangs, and criminal business organizations took place in ________.

a) San Francisco correct incorrect

b) Montreal correct incorrect

c) Miami correct incorrect

d) Vancouver correct incorrect

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. Research carried out in Toronto by Tanner and Wortley (2002) found that ________ was the least prevalent activity reported by high school youth involved in gangs.

a) fighting correct incorrect

b) socializing correct incorrect

c) selling drugs correct incorrect

d) using drugs correct incorrect

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. The social and economic situation of Aboriginal people in Canada is similar to the experiences of Aboriginal people in ________.

a) the USA and Mexico correct incorrect

b) Mexico and Brazil correct incorrect

c) The Netherlands and New Zealand correct incorrect

d) Australia and New Zealand correct incorrect

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. Hate crime is motivated by antagonisms towards ________.

a) race correct incorrect

b) sexual orientation correct incorrect

c) religion correct incorrect

d) All of the above correct incorrect

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. Horley's 1991 study estimated that over 85 per cent of British women in abusive relationships ________.

a) end up in a state of learned helplessness correct incorrect

b) are killed by their partners correct incorrect

c) eventually leave the violent relationships correct incorrect

d) end up in shelters for battered women correct incorrect

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. Research has shown that women are most likely to experience the severest form of violence within the context of ________ relationships.

a) same-sex correct incorrect

b) heterosexual correct incorrect

c) spousal correct incorrect

d) All of the above correct incorrect

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. ________ is related to the concept social exclusion?

a) social cohesion correct incorrect

b) the promotion of a free-market economy with limited state intervention correct incorrect

c) Rational Choice Theory correct incorrect

d) income inequality correct incorrect

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. According to research by Gaetz, O'Grady, Kidd, & Schwan (2016), approximately ________ of homeless youth were bullied while they were in school.

a) 80% correct incorrect

b) 50% correct incorrect

c) 20% correct incorrect

d) 10% correct incorrect

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. In the late 1920s, Thrasher study gangs in ________.

a) New York correct incorrect

b) Chicago correct incorrect

c) Los Angeles correct incorrect

d) Detroit correct incorrect

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. According to Campbell's research on female gangs in the United States, gang life represents aspects of life the young women currently lacked. This included ________.

a) power correct incorrect

b) material possessions correct incorrect

c) control correct incorrect

d) all of the above correct incorrect

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. In 1999 a Supreme Court judgment (R. v. Gladue) which became known as the Gladue principle clarified an earlier provision whereby particular attention needs to be applied to________ when sentencing.

a) young offenders correct incorrect

b) black offenders correct incorrect

c) Indigenous offenders correct incorrect

d) female offenders correct incorrect