This offender incurred a head injury that influenced him to believe that he had psychic
powers that caused women to fall in love with him. He and his partner killed about 20
victims before being caught and executed.
a. Clark
b. Coleman
c. Bundy
d. Fernandez
In the Heckert and Ferraiolo study, most respondents imagined this of female serial
killers.
a. They have prior criminal records.
b. They were brutal killers.
c. They used torture techniques.
d. They used guns to dispatch victims.
Less than _____ of all homicides in the United States are committed by juveniles.
a. 59 percent
b. 25 percent
c. 1 percent
d. 10 percent
In the case of the Prostitute Murders in California, (2000- 2001), what was the reason
given for the killer to stab the youngest victim nearly 150 times and mutilate her face?
a. He wanted to make her ugly like all prostitutes he killed.
b. She had cheated him out of drugs.
c. She had cheated him out of money.
d. She laughed at him because he was impotent.
These offenders, who were convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit
murder for financial gain, had been luring homeless men from Hollywood Church in
Los Angeles with promises of food and shelter.
a. Coleman and Brown
b. Corll, Brooks, and Henley
c. Rutterschmidt and Golay
d. Tene Bimbo Clan
This killer may have murdered over 100 victims. He was usually able to lure the
intended victims to his car by asking them for assistance. He was always polite and
friendly and sometimes wore his arm in a sling to appear as a harmless, well-bred
young man simply in need of help. At other times he was known to lurk in dark
shadows and attack women who were alone.
a. The Green River Killer
b. Charles Albright
c. Armin Meiwes
d. Ted Bundy
Which of the following is not part of the MacDonald Triad?
a. fire-setting
b. animal cruelty
c. burglary
d. enuresis
Females who were murdered by someone they knew accounted for _____ percent of
female homicides.
a. 42.7
b. 68.3
c. 12.1
d. 98
Harbort noted that these German serial killers had the longest killing careers.
a. female offenders
b. less intelligent offenders
c. offenders with high IQs
d. immigrants to Germany
According to Bandura, how can aggressive and violent behavior be substantially
reduced?
a. providing appropriate non-violent role models
b. physically punishing children for aggressive behavior
c. allowing children to blow off steam in socially acceptable ways
d. controlling the sale of guns and weapons in our society
This offender, who confessed to killing about 100 victims in several states, teamed up
with Ottis Toole.
a. Elmer Wayne Henley
b. Douglas Clark
c. Charles Ng
d. Henry Lee Lucas
Which of the following statements is not true regarding team offenders and cult-related
killings?
a. Most team offenders were involved in ritualistic torture of victims.
b. Team killers were more likely than other offenders to kill for cult-related reasons.
c. Cult activities involved extensive torturing of victims.
d. Cult activities involved using human blood and body parts for altar offerings.
Which state has had the most team killers?
a. Georgia
b. Florida
c. Nebraska
d. California
What is the “Highway of Tears?”
a. a stretch of two-lane highway from Prince Rupert, B.C., to Prince George, B.C., and
on to Edmonton, Alberta
b. There is no actual highway; it is a metaphor.
c. the stretch of Route 66 from Tucumcari, New Mexico, to Los Angeles, California
d. Clinton Road in West Milford, New Jersey
What does the “coercive cycle” refer to?
a. parents learning abusive parenting techniques from their parents, then carrying them
out with their own children
b. the revolving door of our punitive criminal justice system that perpetuates violent
crime
c. the sexual exploitation of children
d. foster children being moved from one abusive family to the next that often leads
them to become abusers themselves
Heterosexual serial killers target gay men how often?
a. rarely
b. all the time
c. the same as they target heterosexual men
d. sometimes
Since the end of World War II, how many cases of serial murder has Canada
documented?
a. over 50
b. none
c. 10
d. 187
Murders represent less than _____ percent of all violent crimes in the United States.
a. 10
b. 25
c. 35
d. 1
According to Fineman’s typologies of fire-setters, which of the following most closely
resembles the profile of certain types of serial killers?
a. cry for help
b. delinquent
c. anti-social
d. revenge
Which of the following paraphilia involves sexual involvement of a person with dolls or
mannequins?
a. necrophilia
b. anthropophagy
c. pygmalionism
d. pederasty
At the Toronto Hospital for Sick Children in Ontario, Canada, dozens of infants were
believed to have been killed with overdoses of what drug?
a. pavulon
b. succinylcholine chloride
c. morphine
d. digoxin
Rather than groom victims, these offenders are opportunistic and will molest children
both in private and in public places, even when unsuspecting parents are close by.
a. child molesters
b. pedophiles
c. serial killers
d. female sex offenders
This killer managed to avoid punishment and was even awarded prestigious honors for
his research. He became an expert on the pathology of mental illness and, after the war,
lectured and became an expert court witness in thousands of criminal cases.
a. Charles Cullen
b. Wayne Bleyle
c. Efren Saldivar
d. Heinrich Gross
The Brawner Rule intends to exclude _____ from using the insanity defense.
a. defendants under the influence of alcohol at the time of the offense
b. defendants with antisocial personality disorders
c. defendants under the influence of drugs at the time of the offense
d. defendants who refuse to undergo psychiatric evaluation
What does lust killing involve?
a. postmortem acts of mutilation and desecration
b. stabbing which is by far the preferred method of killing
c. voluntary participation by the victim
d. killing with an axe, the preferred method by most killers
What sorts of murders are trademarks of place-specific killers?
a. dutiful, regular, and methodical
b. violent and gory
c. feature well-hidden corpses
d. have victims who are the same sex
Which dissociative disorder involves a person feeling detached from his/her mental
processes or physical body?
a. fugue
b. depersonalization
c. amnesia
d. identity
How many serial murder cases are linked directly to Satanic worship or cult-related
activities?
a. About half
b. 23 percent
c. less than 5 percent
d. None
Who was Josef Mengele?
a. Argentina’s most prolific serial killer
b. a notorious guard in Auschwitz who killed hundreds of people
c. an aspiring geneticist who conducted identical twin research for the
Nazis
d. the only Jew to survive the Nazi attack on the Warsaw Ghetto
In the late 1980s the voodoo cult in Matamoros, Mexico, was heavily involved in
_____.
a. prostitution
b. drug smuggling
c. child pornography
d. collecting body parts to use as spells to change men into animals
Which of the following paraphilia involves sexual arousal through the use of enemas?
a. infibulation
b. klismaphilia
c. autoeroticism
d. coprophilia