According to Hickey, what is the most likely explanation for serial murder?
a. organic brain pathology
b. childhood traumatization
c. mental illness
d. role modeling
This research suggests that crimes are more likely to occur closer to an offender’s
domicile and that the farther away he/she travels from home base the fewer crimes they
will commit.
a. traveling crime
b. road crime
c. vacation crime
d. journey-to-crime
Melton found that stalking was more likely to occur when the victims were _____, the
abusers had drug or alcohol problems, offenders were controlling in their behavior, and
the victims had been stalked before by the abuser.
a. in relationships with the abuser
b. no longer in relationships with the abuser
c. drug-dependent
d. easily controlled
According to Money and Werlas, what does a paraphilia involve?
a. preference for the use of a non-human object for sexual arousal
b. real or simulated suffering or humiliation
c. an obsessive dependence on an unusual stimulus, either physical or fantasy
d. repetitive sexual activity with non-consenting partners
Women are _____ than men to commit mass murder.
a. more likely
b. just as likely
c. less likely
d. Women never commit mass murder.
What is the essential inquiry involved when the M’Naughten Rule is applied?
a. Was the act the result or the product of a mental defect?
b. Was the person able to distinguish between right and wrong at the time of the
offense?
c. Was the act the result of an “irresistible impulse?”
d. Was the act the result of an addiction?
Which of the following is considered to be a paraphilic serial killer?
a. Aileen Wuornos
b. Charles Albright
c. Kenneth Bianchi
d. Robert Hansen
According to Haggerty, which precondition for serial murder does not have its roots in
modernity?
a. mass media and the rise of celebrity status
b. a society in which everyone knows everyone else
c. a society void of value considerations that encourages extreme rationalization
d. opportunity structures that afford serial killers more access to certain victims such as
females who now often work outside their homes victims such as females who now
often work outside their homes
This offender was known as a reclusive individual who seldom spoke to his neighbors.
His co-workers knew him as a man with a quick temper who sometimes threw medical
charts and slammed his fist on counters or walls when summoned by patients. Patients
were known to refuse meds because of their aversion to him.
a. Wayne Bleyle
b. John Riems
c. Harold Shipman
d. Donald Harvey
Regardless of sex, homicide usually involves an offender and a victim who are _____ to
each other.
a. strangers
b. acquainted or related
c. unknown
d. opposed
At his trial, Ted Kaczynski was found to be _____.
a. paranoid schizophrenic
b. insane
c. suffering from a personality disorder
d. suffering from Asperger’s disorder
Between 1996 and 1997, this offender lived in Yosemite National Park where he
worked as a handyman at several hotels. Those who knew him described him as
likeable loner who never dated and was not inclined to close friendships.
a. Lewis, a 28 year old Gulf War Veteran
b. Edmund Kemper
c. Gerald Brudos
d. Cary Stayner
What does Price & Dodge’s intention-cue detection refer to?
a. attributional bias
b. reformational bias
c. fire-setting behavior
d. conduct disorder
What are the three categories of offenders that Kirby classified?
a. primary juvenile offenders, secondary juvenile offenders, and tertiary juvenile
offenders
b. primary juvenile offenders, maturing juvenile offenders, and secondary juvenile
offenders
c. maturing juvenile offenders, mature juvenile offenders, adult offenders
d. juvenile offenders, adult offenders, and elderly offenders
In the matter of serial killers, it seems that people are overwhelmingly in favor of
_____.
a. execution
b. long term mental health therapy
c. long term prison sentences
d. life without possibility of parole
According to Peck, who are “people of the lie?”
a. thieves
b. murderers
c. evil people
d. liars
This female offender was a nurse who became a compliant assistant in Douglas Clark’s
efforts to actualize his fantasies of having sexual intercourse with the corpses of
murdered girls.
a. Carol Bundy
b. Aileen Wuornos
c. Robin Gecht
d. Charlene Gallego
Today we know that violent criminal activity can be very complicated and well thought
out in which area?
a. fantasy
b. planning
b. execution
d. all of the above
Which of the following is the very essence of the sadistic drive?
a. the wish to inflict pain
b. to end up life-long companions who share a common interest
c. to punish in order to correct passive behavior
d. the pleasure in the complete domination over another person
This offender admitted to having tried to kill two previous husbands in order to collect
insurance. The day after she was sentenced to 20 years in prison, she married again in a
ceremony performed by the same judge who sentenced her.
a. Linda Sue Jones
b. Betty J. Neumar
c. Mary Beth Tinning
d. Aileen Wuornos
Which of the following is NOT one of Raj’s types of mutilation?
a. defensive
b. offensive
c. aggressive
d. torture
According to Hickey, half of all serial killers in the United States have emerged since
what year?
a. 1925
b. 1950
c. 1975
d. 2000
What should parents or guardians do when children are cruel to animals, according to
Margaret Mead and other researchers?
a. never punish or discipline the child as they are already traumatized
b. always hold the child responsible through discipline
c. never hold the child responsible through punishment
d. always report such abuse to local authorities
Both these and vampire cults have links to satanic and/or cult murders.
a. Saturn death cults
b. Jupiter II death cults
c. Mars death cults
d. Terran death cults
This drug was used by Genene Jones in the murder of 15-month-old Chelsea
McClellan.
a. potassium chloride
b. adrenaline
c. cyanide
d. succinylcholine
Which is not considered an attack paraphilia?
a. necrophilia
b. pedophilia
c. scopophilia
d. sadism
What are spree murders sometimes called?
a. cluster killings
b. group killings
c. fun killings
d. flash murders
What does the “Mephisto Syndrome” describe?
a. a combination of dissociation and psychopathy
b. feelings of extreme frustration followed by aggression
c. characteristics of both psychotic and psychopathic persons
d. a combination of dissociation and psychosis
This theory suggests that offenders are more likely to act on their first opportunity in
relation to their buffer zone.
a. routine activity
b. rational choice
c. crime pattern
d. strain
Formerly known as multiple personality disorder, this is the most widely known
dissociative disorder.
a. dissociative identity disorder
b. dissociative fugue
c. depersonalization disorder
d. psychopathy
All mass murderers are motivated by similar circumstances.
Few serial murderers are found to be insane in the eyes of the law.
Asperger’s Disorder is a milder variant of autism.
In some cases, suspicions are aroused because patients suffer multiple _____ and the
resuscitation rate is unusually high.
During the 1800s, the notion of murders by _____ and _____ can be attributed to much
folklore.
Females who have solitary, secluded lifestyles appear to have the highest risk of
becoming victimized by a male serial killer.
The Body Farm is an academic research facility at the University of West Georgia that
studies the decomposition of the human body for forensic purposes.
_____ cases often receive limited press coverage unless they involve high body counts
and the victims died violently.
We run a greater risk of being a victim of _____ and an even greater risk of being a
victim of other violent crimes than we do of dying at the hands of a serial killer.
The percentage of victims killed by local offenders between 1975 and 2004 has
increased noticeably.
One investigator described _____ as “…the dullest serial killer I have ever met.”
The most prolific, documented serial killer ever in all of Europe is Heinrich Gross.
The act of _____ did not become a crime until 1990.
Schneidman describes _____ as “a reconstruction of the motivations, philosophy,
psychodynamics, and existential crises of the decedent.”
What is a witch hunt?
A social structure theorist would not say that criminal behavior is a function of a
socialization process.
Serial killers usually seek out those _____ than themselves.
The orientation of criminological research focuses primarily on _____ criminality.