Chapter 12: Victimization at School and Work

Test Bank

Multiple Choice

1. A criminal act is considered school victimization when it occurs in all of the following EXCEPT ______.

A. on school grounds

B. within the school

C. on a school bus

D. in one’s neighborhood, but perpetrated from another student from school

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Victimization at School

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. The most common type of victimization to occur in K–12 schools is ______.

A. theft

B. robbery

C. aggravated assault

D. sexual assault

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Victimization at School: Grades K–12

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. Between July 1, 2014, and June 30, 2015, ______ students were victims of homicide.

A. 15

B. 20

C. 30

D. 5

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Victimization at School: Grades K–12

Difficulty Level: Easy

4. What type of teacher is more likely to be victimized than other teachers?

A. English teachers

B. physical education teachers

C. special education teachers

D. music teachers

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Who Is Victimized?

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. Which group of teachers is most likely to be attacked?

A. elementary school teachers

B. middle school/junior high school teachers

C. high school teachers

D. all of these are equally likely

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Who Is Victimized?

Difficulty Level: Easy

6. Victimization rates are highest for those children who reside in households with annual incomes less than ______ at the highest rate.

A. $30,000

B. $25,000

C. $20,000

D. $15,000

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Who Is Victimized?

Difficulty Level: Easy

7. Isolation and exclusion are examples of what type of bullying behavior?

A. secondary bullying

B. indirect bullying

C. direct bullying

D. reactionary bullying

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Bullying

Difficulty Level: Easy

8. What percentage of children admitted skipping school because they did not feel safe?

A. 2%

B. 5%

C. 10

D. 15%

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Consequences

Difficulty Level: Easy

9. Which type of bullying is experienced when one uses modern technological devices, such as cell phones and the Internet, to bully another student?

A. technobullying

B. digital bullying

C. cyberbullying

D. electronic bullying

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Violent Effects of Bullying Victimization

Difficulty Level: Easy

10. The most common act of bullying students experienced was ______.

A. being threatened

B. having a personal item taken from them

C. physical bullying

D. being made fun of

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Bullying

Difficulty Level: Easy

11. According to what act will students be expelled from school for 1 year if they bring a firearm to school?

A. Firearm Safety Act

B. Zero Tolerance Act

C. Gun-Free Schools Act

D. National School Safety Act

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Responses to School Victimization

Difficulty Level: Easy

12. What percentage of students reported that their schools required visitors to sign in at the front office?

A. 17%

B. 32%

C. 65%

D. 94%

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Responses to School Victimization

Difficulty Level: Easy

13. When college students are victimized, they are most likely to experience ______.

A. rape

B. theft

C. burglary

D. robbery

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Who Is Victimized?

Difficulty Level: Easy

14. What is the name of the act that required that colleges to better inform their students about crime?

A. National College Victimization Act

B. Higher Education Safety Act

C. Student Right-to-Know and Campus Security Act

D. Public Safety Act

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Legislation

Difficulty Level: Easy

15. By what date do colleges and universities have to have an annual report on the previous school year’s crime statistics and security policies?

A. August 1

B. September 1

C. October 1

D. November 1

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Legislation

Difficulty Level: Easy

16. Many colleges and universities have these devices posted across campus that will connect students directly with a law enforcement agency.

A. Blue-light emergency campus phones

B. Computer portals

C. Camera phones that allow student and law enforcement agency to speak in real time (similar to Skype)

D. Red emergency alarm boxes

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Campus Police and Security Measures

Difficulty Level: Easy

17. Which type of workplace violence occurs when the perpetrator is a current or former employee who returns to victimize another employee?

A. Criminal intent incidents

B. Customer/Client incidents

C. Worker-on-worker incidents

D. Personal relationship incidents

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Definition of Workplace Victimization

Difficulty Level: Easy

18. Which type of workplace violence occurs when the perpetrator has legitimate business at the establishment and becomes violent while receiving those services?

A. criminal intent incidents

B. customer/client incidents

C. worker-on-worker incidents

D. personal relationship incidents

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Definition of Workplace Victimization

Difficulty Level: Easy

19. Which of the following is NOT an occupation with a high rate of victimization?

A. cosmetologists

B. law enforcement officers

C. retail sales

D. transportation services

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Occupations With Greatest Risk

Difficulty Level: Easy

20. What accounts for the greatest amount of homicides that occur at the workplace?

A. intimate partner violence brought to the workplace

B. disgruntled workers

C. robberies

D. unsatisfied patrons of the business

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Special Case: Fatal Workplace Victimization

Difficulty Level: Easy

21. Not only are students at risk of being victimized at school, but ______ may also become victims.

A. teachers

B. administrators

C. staff

D. all of these

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Who Is Victimized?

Difficulty Level: Easy

22. Schools located in ______ are often likely to have high levels of violence and other types of victimization.

A. the inner city

B. crime-ridden neighborhoods

C. rural areas

D. none of these

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Risk Factors for School Victimization

Difficulty Level: Easy

23. It is also possible that the factors that place youth at risk for victimization outside school are similar to the ones that place them at risk of being victimized in school--such as ______.

A. low self-control

B. lack of capable guardianship

C. having deviant or delinquent peers

D. all of these

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Risk Factors for School Victimization

Difficulty Level: Medium

24. Results from the 2015 School Crime Supplement to the NCVS show that ______ of students were afraid of being attacked or harmed at school.

A. 3%

B. 6%

C. 9%

D. 15%

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Consequences

Difficulty Level: Easy

25. ______ includes direct name calling and threatening.

A. Verbal bullying

B. Physical bullying

C. Indirect bullying

D. Bullying

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Bullying

Difficulty Level: Easy

True/False

1. The majority of nonfatal violent crimes against 12- to 18-year-olds took place off campus.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Victimization at School: Grades K–12

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. Students in ninth grade had higher likelihoods of getting into fights than students in grades above them.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Who Is Victimized?

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. A larger percentage of elementary school teachers are physically attacked as compared to secondary school teachers.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Who Is Victimized?

Difficulty Level: Easy

4 .Kids are either bullies or victims, not both.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Bullying

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. College students have lower rates of victimization than their nonstudent counterparts.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Who Is Victimized?

Difficulty Level: Easy

6. Most violent victimizations of college students occur at night off campus.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Who Is Victimized?

Difficulty Level: Easy

7. Colleges that have 2,500 students or more tend to have their own law enforcement officers.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Campus Police and Security Measures

Difficulty Level: Easy

8. If a person is victimized while “on duty” but not at the office, this is NOT considered workplace violence.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Definition of Workplace Victimization

Difficulty Level: Easy

9. Taxi cab drivers and chauffeurs are 36 times more likely to be victims of homicide than other professions.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Demographic Characteristics of Victims

Difficulty Level: Medium

10. The Federal Trade Commission is the federal agency responsible for oversight of workplace issues.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Special Case: Fatal Workplace Victimization

Difficulty Level: Easy

11. Research shows that males are more likely to be the targets of verbal and indirect bullying whereas females are more likely to experience physical bullying.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Bullying

Difficulty Level: Medium

12. Youth who have learning disabilities, those who have attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, those with physical disabilities, obese children, and those who stutter experience higher rates of bullying victimization.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Bullying

Difficulty Level: Easy

13. Bullying during adolescence has been linked to anxiety and depression.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Psychosocial Effects of Bullying Victimization

Difficulty Level: Easy

14. Cyberbullying is bullying behavior that takes place via mobile phones, the Internet, and/or digital technologies.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Violent Effects of Bullying Victimization

Difficulty Level: Easy

Essay

1. List some of the ways secondary schools have enhanced their safety measures.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Responses to School Victimization

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. List three higher risk activities that may make a college student more likely to be a victim of crime.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Risk Factors for Victimization at College

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. List three risk factors that make one more likely to be a victim of workplace violence.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Victimization at Work

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. What are the different forms of bullying?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Bullying

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. What are some psychological effects of bullying victimization?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Psychosocial Effects of Bullying Victimization

Difficulty Level: Medium