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Higher Education

Crime in Canadian Context, second edition: Chapter 8: Responding to Crime

Instructions: Select the correct answer. When you have answered all the questions, click the 'Submit my answers' button for your grade.

Question 1:

Which of the following perspectives maintains that more police, stricter sentences, and harsher prison conditions are the three key ingredients for reducing crime?
a) The police perspective
b) The politician's perspective
c) The rational choice perspective
d) The law and order perspective

Question 2:

What was the name of the style of policing that was made popular in New York City in the 1990s that was argued to have reduced crime in the city?
a) Zero tolerance
b) Community policing
c) Hot spot policing
d) None of the above

Question 3:

From their survey of Toronto high school youth, Wortley and Tanner (2005a) suggest that ________.
a) racial profiling does not occur in Toronto
b) racial profiling does occur in Toronto
c) racial profiling only happens to Aboriginal youth
d) racial profiling only occurs when youth are involved in crime

Question 4:

Which of the following is one of the fundamental philosophies of sentencing in Canada?
a) Deterrence
b) Vengeance
c) Indoctrination
d) Revenge

Question 5:

In Canada, those who are sentenced to a prison term of two years or more are incarcerated in ________.
a) federal facilities
b) provincial facilities
c) municipal facilities
d) regional facilities

Question 6:

Remand custody refers to ________.
a) house arrest
b) holding those who await further court appearances in custody in a correctional facility
c) putting people in custody for short periods (e.g., for 24 hours) for public intoxication
d) putting people in custody until their lawyer arrives

Question 7:

Which of the following is the most recent youth justice act in Canada?
a) Youth Criminal Justice Act
b) Young Offenders Act
c) Juvenile Delinquents Act
d) Youth Penal Act

Question 8:

Under normal circumstances, the maximum amount of time that a youth can be placed in a closed custody facility is _________.
a) six months
b) one year
c) two years
d) None of the above

Question 9:

Offenders who are given conditional sentences by the courts ________.
a) are free to return to the community
b) serve time in the community, not in a prison
c) only spend time in jail on weekends
d) are always first-time offenders

Question 10:

Sentencing circles are associated with which of the following perspectives?
a) Restorative justice
b) Law and order
c) Harm reduction
d) Zero tolerance