Crim 3323 Gun Violence

The survey referred to in previous question indicates that each year in the United States there are about ___________ defensive uses of guns of all types by civilians against humans

2.2 to 2.5 million

Which of the following procedures are used by scholars to measure the size of civilian gun stock?

A and C

According to Kleck in Targering Guns, advocates of strict controls over assault weapons use which of the following rationales in their claim that these types of guns are especially dangerous or useful for crime:

All of the above

which of the following individual-level characteristics is related to gun ownership?

All of the above

Which of the following patterns of gun ownership are indicated by survey research?

Big cities have lower rates of gun ownership than rural areas and small towns

The ___________ explanation of gun control support states that some people support gun control as a way of expressing their dislike for the group of people they associate with guns

Culture conflict

Marksmanship is unimportant in most defensive gun uses (DGUs). why?

DGUs rarely involve the victim trying to shoot the criminal, but instead rely for their success on threats

According to Armed, in the vast majority cases where victims who used guns to defend themselves were injured, it was the victim's defensive actions that provoked the offender into attacking them

False

According to Kleck in Armed, because modern police departments are so highly effective in controlling crime, citizen self-protective measures have been rendered largely unnecessary.

False

According to Kleck in Targeting Guns, assault weapons as a group are more lethal, shot for shot, than both non-assault weapon semiautomatic pistols and revolvers

False

According to class lecture and Targeting Guns, the more closely experiments examining the "weapons effects" hypothesis have stimulated real-world situations of gun-linked aggression in the U.S. the more likely they were to support the weapons effect hypothesis

False

According to the class reading in Armed, the primary reason defensive gun use appears to be so beneficial is because victims who use guns to defend themselves face easier circumstances (e.g., less attackers) than victims using alternative self-protection methods or not resisting their attackers at all.

False

According to the class reading, gun control supporters are just as likely as anti-controllers to act on their views by doing something proactive such as writing a letter to a public official, joining a pro-control advocacy group or giving money to pro-control advocacy group

False

In Armed, Kleck notes that in the vast majority cases where victims who used guns to defend themselves were injured, it was the victims defensive actions that provoked the offender into attacking them.

False

In Armed,Kleck notes that many people (police or civilian) who attempt to use gun for self-protection have the gun taken from them and used against them

False

In open-ended survey questions about ways to reduce crime and violence, roughly 25% of American's consistently mention gun control as a major social problem

False

Most long-guns in the U.S. are owned primarily for self-protection with hunting being the second most important reason.

False

When it comes to public support for gun control. American's generally consider the well-being of society as a whole, favoring restrictions that might interfere with their own possession, acquisition , or use of guns

False

according to the class reading, prior victimization is a strong predictor of support for gun purchase permit laws

False

According to Kleck in Targeting Gun, what types of people are most likely to support gun control?

Females non-southerners urban dwellers (all of the above)

The policy implication that Kleck draws from large estimates of defensive gun use is

Gun prohibition would have serious costs because it would disarm many people who would have successfully used guns for self-defense

_________ can best be defined as small firearms with a short barrel (usually <8 inches) and no buttstock, designed to be fired with the hands only, not from the shoulder.

Handguns

According to Kleck in Targeting Guns most people do not seem to have a very strong views or think about gun control issues a great deal. This is an example of what type of polling issue

Low salience

According to the class reading, what is the problem with banning bottom end, low quality, cheap guns such as Saturday Night Specials?

Many Criminals would replace them with larger and more lethal guns

According to Kleck in Targeting Guns, which of the following groups of people is more likely to own a gun?

Married people

The ______________ was the first survey ever devoted to the subject of armed self-defense

National Self-Defense Survey

According to Kleck in Targeting Guns, are there certain types of guns which are good only for criminal purposes?

No, the same characteristics that make guns useful for criminals also make them useful for legal purposes, such as self-defense.

According to Kleck in targeting Guns, which crime type is at core of the gun control issue?

Robbery perhaps

Which of the following cultural traits did Kleck suggest were more characteristic of gun owners than those who do not own guns?

Rural hunting culture

According to Kleck in Targeting Guns, what is an "assault weapon"?

The term has no precise definition, but usually refers to semiautomatic guns with "military style" cosmetic features

According to Kleck in Targeting Guns, which of the following modes of transference of guns is significant to the control of guns as it is the primary way in which guns are transferred from less criminal to more criminal segments of the population?

Theft

According to Kleck in Armed, empirical evidence indicates that among the victim protective strategies on which we have data, defensive gun use is clearly the most effective one, from the standpoint of minimizing injury or property loss

True

Based on the class reading, between the periods of 1959-1994 there has been little long-term support for gun control

True

The best available macro-level (i.e. large social aggregates such as cities, counties and so on evidence indicates crime rates have a significant positive effect on) gun ownership rates, i.e. increases in the crime rate lead to increases in the rate of gun ownership.

True

The size of the U.S. gun stock increased dramatically from the 1960s through the 1990s

True

The possible deterrent effects of victims and potential victims owning guns are different from the disruptive effects of guns in that deterrent .effects occur when

a criminal refrains from even attempting a crime due to fear of encountering a victim with a gun

According to Kleck in Armed, which of the following is a reason the NCVS likely contributes to the underestimation of defensive gun use frequency

all of the above

Which of the following would best be described as a facilitative effect of criminal gun

all of the above

The most common crime type that defensive gun use is associated with is:

burglary

Guns use in robberies increases the

chances criminals will complete their crimes (i.e. get away with victim's valuables)

According to Kleck in Targeting Gun, much of the difference in fatality rates between guns and knives is due to

differences in gun and knife attacker motives

According to Armed, one version of the Nonsense Ratio is the ratio of the number ________ over the number of _____

fatal gun accidents in the home; criminals killed by people using guns to defend their homes

According to Kleck in Targeting Guns, a majority of Americans

favor moderate gun control laws but do not believe that gun laws will reduce crime

the majority of criminal homicides in the U.S. are committed with

firearms

According to Prof. Kleck in Targeting Guns, death of the victim is more likely to occur in robberies committed with ________ than with _______

guns; knives

According to the reading in Targeting Guns, prof. Zimring argues that most killers

have ambiguous motives

According to professor Kleck in Targeting Guns, most killers are

individuals with a prior criminal history

Consider the following: An armed criminal points a gun at a victim and demands that the victim hand over his wallet and personal valuables. Despite threatening the victim with a gun, the attacker is unable to coerce the victim into cooperating with his demands. The attacker decides not to attack the victim because doing so would entail inflicting more harm the attacker wanted. it turns out the gun attacker only wanted to frighten the victim without seriously injuring or killing him. which of the following effects f guns in the hands of criminals best explains why the gun attacker decided not to attack the victim?

inhibition effects

The main significance of criminal gun ownership is that

it will make the results of violent attacks more lethal

Which of the following victim action most commonly occurs in defensive gun use? The victim;

points, displays, or verbally refers to the gun in a threatening way

The _______ effect occurs when the presence of a gun makes it unnecessary for an offender to physically attack the victim

redundancy

Which of the following regions has the highest rate of gun ownership?

the South

According to the __________ effects thesis (also referred to as "weapons effects"), the sight of a gun can elicit aggression from angered persons, due to the learned association between guns and aggressive behavior

triggering

According to the data presented in Armed, in robberies, the self-protection strategy associated with the lowest rate of property loss was

victim (v) attacked or threatened the robber with a gun

in Armed, the Police Chief Fallacy is discussed. This error in thinking about the effectiveness of victim resistance is due to the fact that

victims usually do not report to police crime incidents in which they did not get hurt or lose property

What are the two most popular gun control measures?

waiting periods and firearm sentence enhancement laws

which of the following is NOT part of the "hierarchy of violence" discusses in the Kleck reading in Targeting Guns?

weaponry