Technology and the Criminal Justice System: Midterm Exam ...



Answer Key to Exam 1: Technology and the Criminal Justice System

1. Notorious sex offender Phillip Garrido was located and captured by police in California due to the use of electronic monitoring technology.

A. True

B. False

2. According to Schlegel and Cohen, the single largest category of “crime at work” was____________ with estimated yearly losses of ___________

A. Occupational fraud: 5 million

B. Internet gambling;500 million

C. Telemarketing fraud;1 billion

D, Occupational Fraud; 500 billion

3. Both CCTV and street lighting were found to be more effective in the UK than in the United States.

A. True

B. false

4. Trojan Horse is a malicious program disguised as legitimate software that, when transmitted to an unsuspecting recipient, may impede the functioning of the target computer system and may even facilitate unauthorized access to, and control over, that computer.

A. True

B. False

5.__________is a remote controlled robot used for a range of activities from sending spam to stealing data

A. Auto track XP

B. Bot

C. Radient Trust

D. Voyager remote access control unit

6. Ponzi or pyramid schemes are investment scams in which investors are promised abnormally high profits on their investments. No investment is actually made. Early investors are paid returns with the investment money received from the later investors.

A .true

B. false

7. The effectiveness of crime prevention strategies deploying a combination of street lighting improvements and CCTV appears to be greatest in________

A. Parks

B. Central Business Districts

C. Parking lots/ car parks

D. Bars/ Restaurants

8.____________ is often used to trick a business into disclosing customer information, and is used by private investigators to obtain telephone records, utility records, banking records and other information directly from junior company service representatives ( e.g. the recent HewlittPackert scandal).

A. thermal imaging

B. phishing

C. Pretexting

D. All of the above

9. It is estimated that that identity theft is expensive to investigate; cost to law enforcement is estimated at 15-25 thousand per case.

A. True

B. False

10. According to Gary Marx, products that self-destruct and access codes for computers are two examples of________________________________

A target removal

B. target insulation

C target devaluation

D All of the above

11. The FBI is currently warning the public on their website about a new online scam involving jury service.

a. True

b. False

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12. The use of a car can be blocked by installing an anti-drunk- driving interlock system featuring a breath analyzer attached to the automobile ignition system. Marx calls this strategy__________________

A .Offender exclusion

B. Offender Incapacitation

C. Target insulation

D. All of the above

13. The reason people steal your identity is to______________.

A. cover up past crimes

B. hide terrorist activity

C. obtain financial gain

D. A and C only

E. All of the above(A, B, C)

14.__________________, is the exploitation of Bluetooth-enabled devices in order to steal data and images. It was made famous because it happened to Paris Hilton.

A. Telemarketing

B. Phishing

C. Bluesnarfing

D. all of the above

15. It is legal to buy tasers for personal protection in most states in this country. Massachusetts is one of only a handful of states that prohibit sales.

A. True

B. False

16.. According to Marx, The move toward a cashless society is one example of ____________

A. Target removal.

B. Target Devaluation

C. Offender exclusion

D. Target insulation

17. According to one recent study, only one in four incidents of check and card fraud were reported to the police.

A. True

B. False

18. A recent study concluded that the number of people who abuse prescription drugs each year roughly equals the number who abuse cocaine—about 2 to 4 percent of the population.

A. True

B. False

19. According to a recent study, interviews with offenders involved in telemarketing scams said that they got into and persisted at telemarketing for “the money.” Only one reported earning less than $l, 000 weekly, and most said their annual earnings were in the range of $l00, 000 to $250,000. Five said that their annual earnings exceeded $1 million.

A. True

B. False

20. Nigerian letter fraud combines the threat of impersonation fraud with a variation of an advance fee scheme in which a letter offers the recipient the "opportunity" to share in a percentage of millions of dollars that the author, a self-proclaimed government official, is trying to transfer illegally out of his/her country.

A. True

B. False

21. The Mother Jones Article , The Department of Pre-crime, focused on the aggressive use of Material Support Laws to prevent terrorists acts. Based on these laws, A taxi driver hired for a short drive by a Hezbollah politician—a driver who had no intention of engaging in terrorist activity—would, so long as he knew the politician was with Hezbollah, be guilty of providing material support.

A. True

B. False

22. A team of neuroscientists has developed technology that allows them to look deep inside a person's brain and read their intentions before they act. During tests, researchers were able to successfully predict the intentions of multiple subjects with 70% accuracy by scanning their brains using a technique called functional magnetic imaging resonance.

A. True

B False

23. Debt elimination schemes generally involve websites advertising a legal way to dispose of mortgage loans and credit card debts. Most often, all that is required of the participant is to send $1,500 to $2,000 to the subject, along with all the particulars of the participant's loan information and a special power of attorney authorizing the subject to enter into transactions regarding the title of the participant's homes on their behalf.

A. True

B. False

24. Since 2006 over 200,000 cameras have been installed in the Chinese city

of Hong Kong.

A. True

B. False

25. According to the article, China’s All-Seeing Eye, new facial recognition software, which should be out within a year, will have to be able to match a face in a 10 million person database in one hour.

A. True

B. False

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