Verified Test Bank Chapter 4 Hispanic Americans McNamara

Chapter 4 Hispanic Americans

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following are Hispanics more likely than Whites to be involved in the criminal justice process for the same offense A) arrest B) prosecution C) sentencing D)incarcerated E) all the above.

2. Which of the following explains why Hispanics are overrepresented in crime statistics A) mandatory minimum sentences B) the war on drugs C) the perception that Hispanics are behind the drug problem D) all the above

3. Which of the following groups has not been considered in the discussion of police treatment of minorities, such as arrest rates, abusive practices, and the use of deadly force A) Whites B) African Americans C) Hispanics D) Asian Americans

4. Of the many crimes for which Hispanics can be charged, which is the one for which they are most likely charged? A) homicide B) drug offenses C) rape D) motor vehicle theft

5. Chicanos, for example, are found primarily in the __________region of the U.S. A) Southwest B) the New England area C) Florida. D) none of the above

6. The Chicano people trace their ancestry to A) Mexico B) the merging of Spanish settlers with Native Americans of Central America. C) Mayan and Aztec civilizations. D) B and C

7. Repatriation as a strategy consisted of A) sending Chicanos back to Mexico B)

making Chicanos naturalized citizens C) forcing them to enlist in the U.S. armed

forces D) allowing them to remain in the U.S. as documented workers

8. Marielitos are A) teenage migrant workers from Cuba B) Cuban women who work

in the agricultural industry C) refugees from Cuba who were historically stigmatized

as social deviants D) Cuban tobacco workers

9. The characteristics of political life in Puerto Rico are A) residents are U.S. citizens

B) they elect their own governor C) Puerto Ricans cannot vote in presidential

elections D) they have no representation in Congress E) all the above

10. Which of the following groups are considered from Central America A) Chicanos

B) Puerto Ricans C) Cubans D) Costa Ricans

11. Sanctuary laws A) prohibits police officers from initiating police action where the objective is to discover the alien status of a person B) prohibits the police from

arresting someone for immigration violations C) prohibits police officers from

checking a suspect’s immigration status prior to arrest D) prohibits police officers

from notifying The Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) about

an illegal alien picked up for minor violations E) All the above

1. Gang life in the 1980s for Hispanics was dramatically different than in the past in

that A) Members had begun to commit crimes in their own neighborhoods B) non-gang members, particularly undocumented immigrants, had become a new class of victim for Hispanic street gangs. C) the role of older gang members who served as mentors to younger ones D) A and B

True/False Questions

1. T/F The group label Hispanic Americans includes a population of people who share a common language heritage but have many significant differences.
2. T/F Many Whites felt justified in taking Chicano land because of the land grabbing that some Mexican governors perpetrated against American Indians.

1. T/F Given their diversity both in background and regionalism, groups in the West tend to use the term Latino whereas the term Hispanic is more often used in the East.
2. T/F Repatriation refers to the process by which Chicanos were naturalized as American citizens.
3. T/F Los Braceros were groups of bandits who roamed the American Southwest, victimizing people migrating to California.
4. T/F Two of the most significant areas that demonstrate the current status of Mexican Americans in this country relate to education and healthcare.
5. T/F Marielitos were Hispanic women who worked in the agricultural industry after the Great Depression.
6. T/F Virtually all of the unauthorized are either visa overstayers, persons admitted on temporary visas who either stay beyond the expiration of their visas or otherwise violate their terms of admission.
7. T/F By the mid to late 1980s, the traditional ways of the Hispanic continue to be used in the operation of street gangs.
8. T/F By the mid-1990s, law enforcement agencies began to document a change in the gang culture. Respect no longer seemed to be based on age, experience, or knowledge. In the street code, respect was increasingly based on fear due to the loss of older gang leaders and the rapid increases in the size of individual street gangs.
9. T/F Data indicates that more Hispanic federal prison inmates had no previous criminal history, than Blacks or Whites.
10. T/F Hispanics were least likely of all federal inmates to receive some type of substance abuse treatment.

Fill in the Blank Questions

1. As part of the recent immigration strategy, President Trump has proposed a ___________that stretches across the Southwestern portion of the U.S. border

4. Data indicates that more _______federal prison inmates had no previous criminal history, than Blacks or Whites.

5. Of all federal inmates, which group is least likely to receive some type of substance abuse treatment __________

6. Two of the most significant areas that demonstrate the current status of Mexican Americans in this country relate to _________

7. The process by which Chicanos were naturalized as American citizens is called ________

8. Given their diversity both in background and regionalism, groups in the West tend to use the term _______ whereas the term _______ is more often used in the East.

9. _________ were refugees from Cuba who were historically stigmatized

as social deviants.

10. With regard to arresting and detaining illegal or undocumented immigrants, the vast majority are those who have expired legal visas. These people are known as ________Answer: overstayers.