How does the media play a role in influencing the public’s fear of victimization?

What will be an ideal response?


Answer should indicate that the media acts as a crime multiplier. Watching local news especially intensifies the fear of crime. Viewers do not realize that the news does not present a balanced presentation of crime, victims, or offenders because their objective is to increase viewership.

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The two main camps in the UNIX world are the ________ and the ________

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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Laws that impose criminal punishment without a trial are called ______.

A. void for vagueness B. ex post facto C. bills of attainder D. proximal laws

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If a virus cannot find a non-immunized host in which to work its damage, what will happen?

a. It will mutate into something stronger. b. The virus will go into hibernation. c. The virus will die out. d. Viruses remain alive until they can find someone.

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______________ holds that street criminals prey on the poor and disenfranchised, thus making the poor doubly abused, first by the capitalist system and then by members of their own class

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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