Chapter 11: Victimization of Special Populations

Test Bank

Multiple Choice

1. Which type of disability suggests that an individual suffers from an intellectual impairment?

A. physical disability

B. developmental disability

C. structural disability

D. neural disability

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Defining Persons With Disabilities

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. The ______ required that the National Crime Victimization Survey collect information on victimization of persons with disabilities.

A. Crime Victims with Disabilities Awareness Act of 1998

B. Victims of Crime Act

C. Violent Crime Act

D. Justice for All Act

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Extent of Victimization of Persons With Disabilities

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. The general population has a victimization rate of 20 per 1,000. People with disabilities have a crime rate of ______.

A. 20 per 1,000

B. 32 per 1,000

C. 75 per 1,000

D. 100 per 1,000

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Extent of Victimization of Persons With Disabilities

Difficulty Level: Easy

4. Individuals with cognitive disabilities are especially vulnerable to which crimes?

A. burglary and simple assault

B. rape and aggravated assault

C. identity theft and robbery

D. simple assault

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Extent of Victimization of Persons With Disabilities

Difficulty Level: Easy

5. What percentage of women with disabilities is estimated to be raped or sexually assaulted in their lifetimes?

A. 25%

B. 35%

C. 60%

D. 80%

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Violence Against Women With Disabilities

Difficulty Level: Easy

6. People with disabilities are most likely to be victimized by ______.

A. personal assistants/health-care providers

B. institutions

C. acquaintances

D. strangers

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Patterns of Victimization

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. If caretakers are overwhelmed by caring for a person with disabilities, they may maltreat them. This behavior is explained by what model?

A. caretaker syndrome model

B. dependency-stress model

C. stress imbalance model

D. dynamic relationship model

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Risk Factors for Victimization for Persons With Disabilities

Difficulty Level: Easy

8. Some research suggests that police are unwilling to investigate crimes against people with disabilities because ______.

A. it should be reported to a different agency

B. it is a family matter

C. there is a perception that victims may be unreliable due to diminished capacities

D. they lack the training in how to interview victims with disabilities

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Responses to Victims With Disabilities

Difficulty Level: Medium

9. People with mental illnesses are how many times more likely to be victims of violent crime?

A. 4×

B. 10×

C. 2.5×

D. no greater than the general public

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Extent and Type of Victimization of Persons With Mental Illness

Difficulty Level: Easy

10. When mental health institutions are unable to retain patients for longer periods of time or at all, this is called ______.

A. reintegration

B. hard rehabilitation

C. independence therapy

D. deinstitutionalization

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Why Are Persons With Mental Illness at Risk for Victimization?

Difficulty Level: Easy

11. When a person with a mental illness acts out, which could in turn illicit negative responses from others, he or she may be manifesting effects of the mental illness itself, which is called ______.

A. epistemology

B. symptomology

C. etiology

D. psychobiology

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Why Are Persons With Mental Illness at Risk for Victimization?

Difficulty Level: Easy

12. What is the main reason that people with mental illness may choose not to report a crime?

A. afraid they will not be believed

B. unaware that a crime has occurred

C. do not want to be mistreated by criminal justice personnel

D. do not feel the crime is worthy of reporting

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Responses to Victims With Mental Illness

Difficulty Level: Easy

13. When inmates perceive correctional officers as ______, their risk of victimization is higher.

A. polite

B. generous

C. fair

D. unfair

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Institutional Factors

Difficulty Level: Easy

14. Young, White, male inmates are most likely to be victimized by ______.

A. other inmates

B. visitors

C. administrators

D. correctional officers

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Who Is Victimized?

Difficulty Level: Medium

15. Non-White inmates are more likely to be victimized by ______.

A. other inmates

B. visitors

C. administrators

D. staff members

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Who Is Victimized?

Difficulty Level: Medium

16. Inmates with higher educations are more likely to be victims of what type of crime?

A. simple assault

B. theft

C. sexual assault

D. intimidation

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Who Is Victimized?

Difficulty Level: Easy

17. Inmates in the beginning of their sentences are most likely to experience what type of victimization?

A. physical victimization

B. property victimization

C. sexual victimization

D. financial victimization

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Institutional Factors

Difficulty Level: Easy

18. Which of the following is NOT an institutional risk factor for inmate victimizations?

A. more time spent in educational programs

B. more time spent in recreation hours

C. more distant from other inmates

D. more time spent in visitations

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Institutional Factors

Difficulty Level: Easy

19. The ______ required that statistics be kept on incidents and effects of rape in prison.

A. Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003

B. Offender Statistical Information Act

C. Inmates Victimization Act of 2001

D. Justice for All Act

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Special Case: Sexual Victimization of Incarcerated Persons

Difficulty Level: Easy

20. What general percentage of inmates has experienced a sexual victimization in prison?

A. 10–12%

B. 25–29%

C. 3–5%

D. 39–42%

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Special Case: Sexual Victimization of Incarcerated Persons

Difficulty Level: Easy

21. Individuals who are especially vulnerable to victimization are people who have ______.

A. high income

B. disabilities

C. tattoos

D. high levels of education

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Victimization of Persons With Disabilities

Difficulty Level: Easy

22. A developmental disability manifests before the age of ______.

A. 22

B.14

C. 7

D. 4

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Defining Persons With Disabilities

Difficulty Level: Easy

23. Men are more likely than women to be violently victimized for all types of victimization except ______.

A. rape

B. intimate partner violence

C. sexual assault

D. rape and sexual assault

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Who Is Victimized?

Difficulty Level: Easy

24. Women with disabilities are at risk of being violently victimized by ______.

A. intimate partners

B. strangers

C. coworkers

D. family members

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Violence Against Women With Disabilities

Difficulty Level: Medium

25. Children with disabilities may be around ______ who become frustrated with them and are less emotionally invested in them than their parents.

A. counselors

B. nurses

C. caretakers

D. teachers

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Victimization of Youth With Disabilities

Difficulty Level: Easy

True/False

1. The lifestyles and routine activities perspective has been used to explain victimization in prison.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Lifestyle and Routine Activities

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. For some people, their personal characteristics will place them at particular risk of being victimized while incarcerated.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Victimization of Persons With Disabilities

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. A physical disability is present when a person is unable to perform daily activities.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Defining Persons With Disabilities

Difficulty Level: Easy

4. Women with disabilities are no more likely to experience sexual victimizations than women in the general public.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Violence Against Women With Disabilities

Difficulty Level: Easy

5. Children with disabilities are 4–10 times more likely to be victims of sexual abuse.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Victimization of Youth With Disabilities

Difficulty Level: Easy

6. Victims with disabilities are less likely to utilize victim advocacy agencies.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Patterns of Victimization

Difficulty Level: Easy

7. Substance abuse is not considered a mental illness.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Defining Mental Illness

Difficulty Level: Easy

8. People with mental illness have higher rates of homelessness and substance abuse issues, which may make them at greater risk for victimizations.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Why Are Persons With Mental Illness at Risk for Victimization?

Difficulty Level: Easy

9. Victimization in prison is NOT greater than that which we see in the general public.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Extent of Victimization of People in Jail and Prison

Difficulty Level: Easy

10. Inmates with prior histories of sexual and/or physical victimizations are no more likely to be targeted for victimization in prison than those without prior histories.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Previous History of Victimization

Difficulty Level: Easy

11. Violent victimizations against persons with disabilities most commonly do not involve a weapon.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Patterns of Victimization

Difficulty Level: Easy

12. Those with severe impairment had significantly lower rates of neglect, injury, being yelled at, suspected theft, threats by their providers, physical abuse, and sexual advances.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Patterns of Victimization

Difficulty Level: Easy

13. Reporting may be unlikely if the offender is a family member or someone else who is caring for them.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Risk Factors for Victimization for Persons With Disabilities

Difficulty Level: Easy

14. At least one in every three adults with disabilities lives in households with an income totaling less than $30,000 per year.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Risk Factors for Victimization for Persons With Disabilities

Difficulty Level: Easy

15. The Federal Crime Victims With Disabilities Awareness Act of 1998 required the collection of statistics on the victimization of persons with disabilities.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Responses to Victims With Disabilities

Difficulty Level: Easy

Essay

1. Name at least two risk factors for victimization for persons with disabilities?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Risk Factors for Victimization for Persons With Disabilities

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. Why wouldn’t a prison inmate report a victimization?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Victimization of the Incarcerated

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. How do prisons suggest dealing with prisoner victimization?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Responses to Victimization in Prison

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. What is development disability?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Defining Persons With Disabilities

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. What are some risk factors for victimization for persons with disabilities?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Risk Factors for Victimization for Persons With Disabilities

Difficulty Level: Medium