Exam 14: Political Crime

Espionage is more commonly known as ______.

Crime by government is not a type of political corruption.

The Nazis committed _____ against the Jews when they attempted extermination.

In the concentration camps of World War II,American scientists performed some hideous experiments in the name of science.

Explain genocide.

Stalin's reign of terror involved many _____ trials that depicted his opponents as dangerous threats to law and order.

Crime can only be committed by individuals,not governments.

Crime by _____ is also called state-crime.

Which of the following best describes civil disobedience?

The FBI took part in a counterintelligence program called _____,begun in 1941 to target the Communist and Socialist Workers parties.

Crime by government is also called _____.

Political crime may be any illegal or socially harmful act aimed at preserving or changing the existing political and social order.

A favorite repression strategy in totalitarian nations is to arrest and imprison dissidents.

The FBI used a counterintelligence program called _____ to target the Communist and Socialist Workers parties.

The 9/11 terrorism is an example of the fourth type of terrorism,_____ terrorism (also called global terrorism).

Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin committed _____ terrorism during a purge of Communist Party leaders threatened his reign.The result was thousands of executions.

Understanding political crime as a function of _____ helps us in turn to understand the socio-demographic makeup of the people who commit this crime.Simply put,their race,class,and gender often mirror those of the powerful and powerless in any particular society.

From 1946 to 1963,for example,the military subjected up to 300,000 soldiers and civilians to radiation during atomic bomb tests in Nevada and elsewhere.This is an example of:

Sometimes,government agencies and corporations cooperate to commit illegal or socially harmful activities.Such _____ represents the intersection of corporate crime and crime by government.

Governments often resort to political violence that stops short of genocide. This violence includes torture and beatings; assassination, execution, and mass murder; and related actions, including forced expulsion. This is referred to as _____.