Chapter 10: Multiple Murder, School, and Workplace
Violence
Q1) The modus operandi:
A) is an unusual pattern that is not necessary to commit the offense.
B) refers to the procedures an offender engages in to successfully commit a crime.
C) is a consistent, unchanging behavior the offender uses across all crimes.
D) is a crucial link investigators must focus on when linking crimes.
E) all of the above.
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Q2) The modus operandi:
A) is an unusual pattern that is not necessary to commit the offense.
B) refers to the procedures an offender engages in to successfully commit a crime.
C) is a consistent, unchanging behavior the offender uses across all crimes.
D) is a crucial link investigators must focus on when linking crimes.
E) all of the above.
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Q3) Kraemer, Lord, and Heilbrun (2004) found that serial offenders often prefer guns,
while single victim offenders prefer hands on killing.
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Chapter 12: Sexual Assault
Q1) How did Groth classify child molesters? Describe all of his classifications.
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Q2) The terms sexually violent predator and sexual psychopath are synonymous.
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Q3) How do some rapists justify their crime? Define just world hypothesis and include
how this term plays a role in the justification of rape.
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Chapter 11: Psychology of Terrorism
Q1) Bandura believes that terrorists justify their horrific acts in what way?
A) Through a process of cognitive restructuring
B) By associating themselves with religious zeal
C) By accepting responsibility for their actions
D) By denying that their actions are truly harmful
E) Through a process of learned helplessness
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Q2) According to research by Borum and Gelles (2005), which of the following is not a
characteristic of al-Qaeda today?
A) Strategically adaptive
B) Far reaching
C) Evolving
D) Fanatical
E) Organized
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Q3) Describe the reasons why a terrorist might volunteer for a suicide mission.
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Chapter 5: Human Aggression and Violence
Q1) During early stages of frustration or general arousal, cognitive processes appear to
have little influence beyond the immediate appraisal that the situation is aversive. This
description outlines a stage of what model of aggression and violence?
A) Cognitive expectancy theory
B) The neo-frustration-aggression model
C) The cognitive neoassociation model
D) The weapons effect model
E) The cognitive scripts model
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Q2) During early stages of frustration or general arousal, cognitive processes appear to
have little influence beyond the immediate appraisal that the situation is aversive. This
description outlines a stage of what model of aggression and violence?
A) Cognitive expectancy theory
B) The neo-frustration-aggression model
C) The cognitive neoassociation model
D) The weapons effect model
E) The cognitive scripts model
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Q3) Extremely high levels of arousal seem to mitigate aggressive behavior in certain
situations.
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Chapter 4: Origins of Criminal Behavior: Learning and
Situational Factors
Q1) According to the text, in order to fully understand criminal behavior, it is important to
regard all individuals as passive participants in their environment.
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Q2) Berkowitz's two criminal personality classifications are:
A) psychopathic/nonpsychopathic.
B) violent/nonviolent.
C) greedy/altruistic.
D) socialized/individual.
E) pyschopathic/sociopathic.
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Q3) According to Akers' theory, groups tend to adopt certain rules of conduct concerning
what is bad, right or wrong, justified or unjustified. These group attitudes are called:
A) discriminative stimuli.
B) ecological norms.
C) normative definitions.
D) neutralizing stimuli.
E) group dynamics.
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Chapter 7: Criminal Psychopathy
Q1) Primary psychopaths who engage in repetitive antisocial behavior are called ___
psychopaths.
A) heinous
B) criminal
C) secondary
D) callous
E) typical
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Q2) Which of the following statements about juvenile psychopathy is correct?
A) There are no instruments available for measuring juvenile psychopathy.
B) Juvenile psychopathy as a construct clearly does not exist.
C) Some researchers are concerned about the negative implications of labeling
juveniles as psychopaths.
D) Juvenile psychopaths display behavior identical to that of adult psychopaths.
E) Juvenile psychopathy is correlated with sexual aggression.
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Q3) What behavioral differences have been found between male and female
psychopaths?
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Chapter 14: Property and Public Order Crime
Q1) How does dehumanization make victimization easier for the offender? Provide two
examples.
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Q2) How does larceny-theft differ from burglary?
A) It doesn't involve unlawful entry.
B) It doesn't involve violent crime.
C) It is committed by professionals.
D) It is almost always carefully planned.
E) All of the above
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Q3) White-collar crime can be explained by neutralization techniques.
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Chapter 6: Juvenile Delinquency
Q1) A boy who hits at age three, shoplifts at age ten, commits burglary at age 19 and
rapes at 26 would be considered a(n):
A) life-course persistent offender.
B) ADHD offender.
C) adolescent-limited offender.
D) antisocial offender.
E) incorrigible delinquent.
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Q2) Under federal law, juveniles may be prosecuted under the criminal law at age 15.
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Q3) _____ prevention consists of working with children and adolescents who
demonstrate some early signs of aggressive, antisocial, conduct disorder, or delinquent
behavior but have not yet been formally classified as delinquent.
A) Primary
B) Multisystemic
C) Tertiary
D) Indicated
E) Secondary
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Chapter 15: Violent Economic Crime and Crimes of
Initimidation
Q1) Describe the differences between instrumental and expressive hostage taking.
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Q2) Research suggests hostage-taking incidents are rarely perpetrated by mentally
disordered individuals.
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Q3) Describe the psychological characteristics of repetitive fire setters and bombers.
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Chapter 8: Crime and Mental Disorders
Q1) Statistics show that more than half of all prison and jail inmates might benefit from
mental health treatment.
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Q2) The use of amnesia as a defense has been largely unsuccessful in the United States.
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Q3) In Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California (1974), the Supreme Court of
California held that a psychotherapist has an obligation to use reasonable care to
protect potential victims of a patient.
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Criminal Behavior
Q1) Social control theory is an example of:
A) the conformity perspective.
B) the confirmation perspective.
C) Merton's strain perspective.
D) the nonconformist perspective.
E) the learning perspective.
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Q2) Official crime statistics, such as those produced by the FBI:
A) normally overestimate the true incidence of crime.
B) have been found to be highly accurate.
C) report approximately the same amount of crime as victimization surveys.
D) normally underestimate the true incidence of crime.
E) overestimate the number of sexual offenses.
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Q3) Self-report studies of criminal behavior:
A) usually have been found to be more accurate with female subjects.
B) are typically inaccurate in most areas studied.
C) usually attempt to measure only prior involvement in felonies.
D) suggest that crime is committed by all socioeconomic classes.
E) are
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