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True or false: Crime waves are best characterized as a result of new public awareness of a given crime and don’t necessarily have to be based on growing arrests or victimizations.

According to your reading “Politics of Fear”, which of the following is TRUE about Chicago’s youth carjacking crime wave?

Which of the following is NOT a contributing factor to popular fear about contaminated, poisoned, or drugged Halloween candy?

What is one of the main explanations for the harsh treatment of methamphetamine users compared to the less punitive response to opioid users?

Who is considered an expert in court for the purpose of establishing or challenging a defendant’s gang membership?

True or false: “Groomer” conspiracy theories have been linked to multiple acts of violence against transgender people.

What sorts of harm or violence are not adequately captured by our cultural emphasis on “crime”?

Why did eugenic-era criminologists think that “morons” were the most dangerous group of biologically ‘unfit’ people?

Which of the following is FALSE about the media coverage of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina?

True or false: UCR data shows that violence climbed from 1970 onwards until the ‘great crime decline’ in the 1990s, but NCVS data shows that violence was highest in the 1970s and stayed the same or declined until the ‘great crime decline’.