Chapter 10 Test Bank
Multiple Choice
1. Which of the following is NOT difference between legacy and new media?
a. Access to content
b. Distribution of content
c. Creation of content
d. Quality of content
2. The existence of new media, in particular social media, has led to all of the following
changes EXCEPT?
a. How the public receives and processes information
b. How face-to-face interactions proceed
c. How the public understands the world
d. How the public interacts with the world
3. Which of the following is NOT a negative new media impact of the criminal justice
system?
a. The conducting of post-conviction motions and hearings are commonly
administered through social media platforms
b. Offenders have new ways of committing crime
c. New media distributes false information and extends the reach of false
information and rumors
d. People are willing to settle for infamy instead of fame
4. Terrorism is an example of which new media effect on criminality?
a. New media and performance crime
b. New media and new crime
c. Old crimes in new ways
d. New media and copycat crime
5. Which of the following is forecast to be the most significant crime problem associated
with new media?
a. Terrorism
b. Crime sourcing
c. Cyber-bullying
d. Theft and fraud
6. Which of the following would be considered an example of a celebrated criminal?
a. Lindsay Lohan
b. OJ Simpson
c. Al Capone
d. None of the above
7. The copycat effect related to new media that has generated the greatest debate
concerning?
a. Violent crime films
b. Violent digital video games
c. Prime time crime dramas
d. Online video sharing
8. The contagion effect is often associated with which relationship between new media and
criminality?
a. New media and performance crime
b. New media and new crime
c. Old crimes in new ways
d. New media and copycat crime
9. Which type of media was the first to blanket all of society, meaning that content was
available for the first time to every social, economic, and intellectual stratum?
a. Contemporary agencies also post crime prevention and victimization reduction
materials on departmental web sites and distribute it through Facebook pages
b. Investigating offender posted online videos has been undertaken by law
enforcement agents
c. Information tailored to zip codes or individual streets have begun to be automated
and married to social media distribution platforms Internet
d. Digital uncover police investigators have been assuming the online personas of
children or pedophiles to proactively identify sexual offenders in new media sting
operations
10. The first cyber trial was which of the following?
a. The Casey Anthony murder trial
b. The O.J. Simpson murder trial
c. The Martha Stewart conspiracy case
d. The Watergate scandal
11. A particular area of concerns involving an attorney’s use of new media during jury
selection. Which of the following would be information that an attorney might seek to
discover about potential jurors?
a. Socioeconomic status
b. Educational background
c. Political leanings
d. All of the above
12. All of the following are true statements about new media and privacy EXCEPT?
a. With new media technology it is ambiguous whether your online presence is
public or not
b. New media mobile technologies simultaneously make it possible for virtually
anything a person does in public (and often in private) to be videotaped, texted, or
otherwise made part of a digital record
c. At this time, the levels of privacy afforded to new media are the same for all
states
d. in public you can usually be photographed with or without your consent
13. Misuse of social media by jurors has led to all of the following EXCEPT?
a. Mistrials
b. contempt findings against misbehaving jurors
c. Juror dismissals
d. Sequestration
14. The fate of trial fairness in a new media saturated courtroom currently rests upon the
effectiveness of which of the following?
a. Jury selection
b. Jury instructions
c. Jury use of new media
d. None of the above
15. New media bring new capabilities to the criminal justice system. They have proved
helpful in all of the following EXCEPT?
a. Investigations
b. Insanity pleas
c. Crime prevention
d. Case processing
True/False
1. Social media based “peer–to–peer” bullying more harmful than the older face–to–face
schoolyard version.
2. Copycat crime is the spectacle of performing acts of crime and deviance in order to
record, share, and upload them to the Internet.
3. Media generated performance crime can be traced to the early 20th century and the
recording of torture and ritual humiliation of prisoners and hostages by governments and
terrorist groups.
4. Video games play the role of catalytic triggers in the formation of crime, not directly
causing it but shaping its appearance.
5. Offenders and predators are the only ones to have tapped the potential of new media.
6. Associated with offender provided ‘performance crime’ material, social media videos
have supplied suspect identifications as well as incriminating visual evidence for criminal
investigations.
7. Judicial applications of new media’s capabilities revolve around court administration
issues.
8. The dilemma for lawyers is that failure to explore on-line presence of clients, victims,
and witness may result in findings of “ineffective counsel” on appeal.
9. The value of social media based evidence is that it can provide the best evidence of what
an individual was thinking and doing at a specific time.
10. Contemporary social media are the first crime news source for many and, thus, are
powerful crime and justice social construction engines.