Global Crime Test Bank Chapter 12 5th Edition

Chapter 12

Global Crime

Multiple-Choice

1. Which of the following is NOT an example of why the demand for opium in Europe and America was on the rise?
   1. Advancement in medical practices
   2. Rise of lower-consumption methods
   3. Migration of Chinese people to Europe and America
   4. Growth of global trade

Topic/Concept: The Global Drug Problem

12.2: Compare European and American approaches to dealing with illegal drugs

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. Which of the following countries is NOT included in the Golden Triangle countries?
   1. Thailand
   2. Burma/Myanmar
   3. Laos
   4. Pakistan

Topic/Concept: The Global Drug Problem

12.2: Compare European and American approaches to dealing with illegal drugs

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. The international drug-fighting effort was broadened by the
   1. Hague Convention.
   2. Washington Convention.
   3. Geneva Convention.
   4. Colombian Convention.

Topic/Concept: The Global Drug Problem

12.2: Compare European and American approaches to dealing with illegal drugs

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. The decriminalization of soft drugs and the creation of safe injection rooms were established by
   1. the Hague Convention.
   2. harm-reduction approaches.
   3. Plan Colombia.
   4. Dutch methods.

Topic/Concept: The Global Drug Problem

12.2: Compare European and American approaches to dealing with illegal drugs

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. India’s rapid economic growth has contributed to ____________ by government officials.
   1. global piracy
   2. a war on drugs
   3. harm-reduction approaches
   4. a “season of scams”

Topic/Concept: Case Study

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. Forced prostitution is an example of
   1. modern slavery.
   2. human trafficking.
   3. contemporary slavery.
   4. feminization of slavery.

Topic/Concept: Contemporary Slavery and Human Trafficking

Assess the growing problem of human trafficking with respect to women and children

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. The Maersk Alabama incident was an example of
   1. government corruption.
   2. piracy on the high seas.
   3. trafficking of women from Eastern Europe.
   4. the global drug trade.

Topic/Concept: Cybercrimes and Piracy at Sea

12.8: Evaluate how the rise in internet usage and advances in technology have contributed to cybercrimes

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. Which of the following is NOT a major destination of female trafficking?
   1. United States
   2. Germany
   3. Belgium
   4. Russia

Topic/Concept: Contemporary Slavery and Human Trafficking

12.5: Assess the growing problem of human trafficking with respect to women and children

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. Which of the following is NOT a result of gang violence?
   1. Political instability
   2. Human rights violations
   3. Stronger democratic institutions
   4. Impeded economic development

Topic/Concept: Criminal Gangs and Kidnapping

12.6: Outline the factors that provide fertile grounds for kidnapping and gang violence to flourish

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. Standard crimes perpetrated online are known as
   1. worldwide crimes.
   2. technological crimes.
   3. Internet crimes.
   4. cybercrimes.

Topic/Concept: Cybercrimes and Piracy at Sea

12.8: Evaluate how the rise in internet usage and advances in technology have contributed to cybercrimes

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. The global clearinghouse for police information is commonly known as
   1. the United Nations.
   2. Worldwide Police (WWP).
   3. Interpol.
   4. the UN Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime.

Topic/Concept: Global Responses to Crime

12.9: Analyze why globalization has been far more beneficial to nonstate actors who commit crimes than it has been to nation-states

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. The increased percentage of women in the migrant population is known as
   1. equitable migration.
   2. female migration.
   3. feminization of migration.
   4. gender migration.

Topic/Concept: Contemporary Slavery and Human Trafficking

12.5: Assess the growing problem of human trafficking with respect to women and children

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. Which of the following is NOT an approach in the war on drugs?
   1. Supply-side control
   2. Drug prevention
   3. Soft treatment of drug users
   4. Harm reduction

Topic/Concept: The Global Drug Problem

12.2: Compare European and American approaches to dealing with illegal drugs

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. The _____________ required distributors and prescribers of drugs to be registered and pay taxes.
   1. Ford Act
   2. Harrison Act
   3. Prescription Act
   4. Jackson Act

Topic/Concept: The Global Drug Problem

12.2: Compare European and American approaches to dealing with illegal drugs

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. The League of Nations created the _____________ in order to monitor countries’ compliance with international drug agreements.
   1. Opium Control Board
   2. Substances Control Board
   3. Drug Control Board
   4. UN Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime

Topic/Concept: The Global Drug Problem

12.2: Compare European and American approaches to dealing with illegal drugs

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

True/False

1. The International Criminal Police Organization, commonly known as Interpol, is a global clearinghouse for police information.

Topic/Concept: Global Responses to Crime

12.9: Analyze why globalization has been far more beneficial to nonstate actors who commit crimes than it has been to nation-states

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. Abuse of prescription drugs accounts for by far the largest component of the drug problem in the United States.

Topic/Concept: The Global Drug Problem

12.2: Compare European and American approaches to dealing with illegal drugs

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. The illegal trade in endangered species coexists with legal transactions, thereby making it difficult to ascertain the magnitude of the problem.

Topic/Concept: Illegal Trade in Endangered Animals and Plants

12.7: Examine the global issue of illegal trade in endangered animals and plants

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. The globalization of communications, particularly fast and inexpensive Internet connections, has given rise to virtual trafficking.

Topic/Concept: Contemporary Slavery and Human Trafficking

12.5: Assess the growing problem of human trafficking with respect to women and children

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. There have been several efforts to address the problem of human trafficking, and they have been very successful.

Explanation: They have been largely ineffective.

Topic/Concept: Contemporary Slavery and Human Trafficking

12.5: Assess the growing problem of human trafficking with respect to women and children

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. Slavery does not exist today.

Explanation: It does exist (e.g. human trafficking of women from Eastern and Central Europe).

Topic/Concept: Contemporary Slavery and Human Trafficking

12.5: Assess the growing problem of human trafficking with respect to women and children

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. One of the factors that contributed to the demand for opium in Europe and America was the migration of the Chinese.

Topic/Concept: The Global Drug Problem

12.2: Compare European and American approaches to dealing with illegal drugs

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. Global crime has only existed with legal commerce for a few decades.

Explanation: It has existed for centuries.

Topic/Concept: The Globalization of Crime

12.1: Outline ways in which globalization facilitates the growth of global crime

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. The disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991 was one of the most important developments contributing to the emergence and growth of global crime.

Topic/Concept: The Globalization of Crime

12.1: Outline ways in which globalization facilitates the growth of global crime

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

1. Government corruption is directly affecting India’s development in a negative way.

Topic/Concept: Case Study

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Easy

Fill in the Blank

1. Chinese resistance to the importation and consumption of opium ultimately led to the with Britain in 1839 and 1842.

Topic/Concept: The Global Drug Problem

12.2: Compare European and American approaches to dealing with illegal drugs

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. Nightclub crowds worldwide routinely use , a euphoria-producing psychedelic drug that was initially used in Europe around 1912 as an appetite suppressant.

Topic/Concept: The Global Drug Problem

12.2: Compare European and American approaches to dealing with illegal drugs

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. The first approach to the , stresses supply-side control and harsh treatment of drug users.

Topic/Concept: The Global Drug Problem

12.2: Compare European and American approaches to dealing with illegal drugs

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. The of 1911 broadened the drug-fighting effort by including morphine and cocaine, and committed the signatories to reducing their production and distribution of drugs.

Topic/Concept: The Global Drug Problem

12.2: Compare European and American approaches to dealing with illegal drugs

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. In 2000, the United States and Colombia launched ,, an antidrug program that had the goal of cutting Colombia’s coca crop in half by 2005.

Topic/Concept: The Global Drug Problem

12.2: Compare European and American approaches to dealing with illegal drugs

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. is the transporting of victims under false pretenses from one nation, or province, to another, where they are subjugated to forced labor or prostitution.

Topic/Concept: Contemporary Slavery and Human Trafficking

12.5: Assess the growing problem of human trafficking with respect to women and children

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. Concerned about animal and plant extinction, the global community responded by signing the in 1973.

Topic/Concept: Illegal Trade in Endangered Animals and Plants

12.7: Examine the global issue of illegal trade in endangered animals and plants

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. is intricately intertwined with revolutionary technological, financial, communications, economic, cultural, and political changes that characterize globalization.

Topic/Concept: Introduction

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. The was adopted along with the UN Convention on Transnational Crime in 2000.

Topic/Concept: Contemporary Slavery and Human Trafficking

12.5: Assess the growing problem of human trafficking with respect to women and children

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. The United States, a leading importer of parrots for pets, enacted the , which bans imports of all wild-caught threatened parrots listed in CITES. Consequently, parrot imports dropped sharply.

Topic/Concept: Illegal Trade in Endangered Animals and Plants

12.7: Examine the global issue of illegal trade in endangered animals and plants

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Moderate

Matching

Answers to matching:

1) D) Harrison Act

2) B) intellectual property

3) E) Golden Triangle

4) A) piracy

5) C) harm-reduction approach

Essay

1. Discuss ways in which globalization facilitates the growth of global crime.

Topic/Concept: The Globalization of Crime

12.1: Outline ways in which globalization facilitates the growth of global crime

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. How and to what extent has globalization affected the ability of states to diminish

global criminal activities?

Topic/Concept: Global Responses to Crime

12.9: Analyze why globalization has been far more beneficial to nonstate actors who commit crimes than it has been to nation-states

Skill Level: Analysis

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. Compare European and American approaches to dealing with illegal drugs. Make arguments

for and against legalizing drugs.

Topic/Concept: The Global Drug Problem

12.2: Compare European and American approaches to dealing with illegal drugs

Skill Level: Analysis

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. Discuss the problem of government corruption.

Topic/Concept: Case Study

Skill Level: Understanding

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. Discuss the growth of piracy, the causes, and possible ways to reduce it.

Topic/Concept: Cybercrimes and Piracy at Sea

12.8: Evaluate how the rise in internet usage and advances in technology have contributed to cybercrimes

Skill Level: Analysis

Difficulty Level: Moderate

1. What can individuals do to reduce the growth of cybercrime?

Topic/Concept: Cybercrimes and Piracy at Sea

12.8: Evaluate how the rise in internet usage and advances in technology have contributed to cybercrimes

Skill Level: Evaluation

Difficulty Level: Moderate