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What is the act or fantasy of engaging in sexual activity with prepubescent children as a
preferred means of achieving sexual gratification and/or arousal?
a. fetishism
b. pedophilia
c. sexual masochism
d. zoophilia
Stereotypes of serial murderers that have formed in the minds of American society
include:
a. the murderer is ruthless.
b. the murderer is blood-thirsty.
c. the murderer lives a Jekyll-and-Hyde existence.
d. all of the above
Which of the following is most likely to occur to male serial killers once they have been
apprehended?
a. confined to a mental institution
b. suicide
c. death sentences
d. prison sentences
What are offenders who kill family or relatives called?
a. angels of death
b. black widows
c. demons of death
d. brown recluses
Lombroso considered the female offender to be _____.
a. insane
b. physically fairly similar to the male offender in facial appearance
c. psychologically similar to the male offender
d. psychologically more cruel and vicious than the male offender
A man of low self-esteem, this offender killed children and young women in and around
train stations. A paraphilic killer with a history of scopophilia and pedophilia, he
routinely stabbed out the eyes of his victims to avoid their stare and frequently
practiced anthropophagy.
a. Jeffery Dahmer
b. Andrei Chikatilo
c. Charles Albright
d. Douglas Clark
Which of the following serial killers was convicted of the most murders in the history
of the United States?
a. Ted Bundy
b. Gary Ridgway
c. John Wayne Gacy
d. Edmund Kemper
According to Yorker, et al., where do most healthcare-related murders occur?
a. in hospital settings
b. in patients' homes
c. in local clinics
d. in ambulances
How does Becker describe "moral entrepreneurs?"
a. people who create rules
b. religious zealots
c. persons who exploit those with moral values
d. persons who punish others for not sharing their same values
Females represent what percentage of all serial killers in Hickey's study?
a. 8
b. 15
c. 26
d. 34
Which of the following types of victims are more likely to be killed by male serial
killers?
a. children
b. the elderly
c. teenagers
d. young women
Compared to a mass murderer, a serial murderer _____.
a. kills groups of people
b. individualizes his or her murders
c. makes his or her "final statement" in or about life through violence
d. is the product of a stressful environment
This offender had committed a long list of violent crimes and sex offenses by the age of
28. His accomplice was Debra Brown whom he found easy to influence and dominate.
a. Ted Bundy
b. Leonard Lake
c. Alton Coleman
d. Henry Lucas
What was the real problem facing profilers in attempting to effectively profile the D.C.
Snipers?
a. the variety of rifles used in the killings
b. their mobility
c. their race and the number of offenders
d. ineffective eye witnesses
Who are the "quiet killers"?
a. female serial killers
b. persons who kill with poisons
c. persons who kill family members
d. male hospital orderlies
Since 1975, among male offenders, which of the following mobility types killed the
greatest number of victims per offender?
a. place-specific
b. local
c. traveling
d. global
What is the term for sociological theories that focus primarily upon an individual's
socioeconomic standing to explain crime?
a. social process theories
b. social structure theories
c. social control theories
d. labeling theories
Who perpetrates the most mass murders in grammar schools, junior high, and high
schools?
a. pre-pubescent juveniles
b. teenagers
c. adults
d. teachers
Nearly 75 percent of child abduction murder victims are killed within _____ hours.
a. 2-3 hours
b. 6-12 hours
c. 24-48 hours
d. 3 days
e. 1 week
A serious problem with the dichotomous model of organized and disorganized crime
scenes is _____.
a. that it is used primarily by the FBI and not other law enforcement agencies
b. interagency co-operation
c. that it applies only to crime scenes involving violence
d. the lack of rigorous reliability and validity testing
Since 1975, the number of _____ female offenders has appeared to have dropped
considerably, while their male counterparts have remained about the same.
a. traveling
b. local
c. place-specific
d. gender-specific
Which is not a red flag that may signal suspicious activity in hospitals, hospices, and
nursing homes?
a. The family was at the patient's bedside at the time of death.
b. Fellow employees often report allegations to investigators, not management.
c. There are no eyewitness to the crime.
d. The weapon of choice is usually a sudden death chemical readily available on the
ward and often considered non-detectable or not checked at autopsy.
Which of the following classifications describe children who are murdered by their
parent(s) or legal guardians?
a. murdered children
b. disposable children
c. unwanted children
d. discarded children
This is another name for golem.
a. zombie
b. vampire
c. robot
d. mental defect
Hickey has indicated that the degree of victim facilitation in being targeted/killed by
male offenders since 1975 has _____.
a. stayed the same
b. decreased slightly
c. increased slightly
d. increased significantly
Which of the following mobility groups was least common but was responsible for the
greatest average number of victims per offender and the greatest average number of
victims per case?
a. traveling
b. place-specific
c. local
d. semi-local
Homicide offenders are mostly _____.
a. male
b. female
c. each sex equally
d. The sex of homicide offenders is not recorded.
He preyed upon young, attractive African-American women with whom he was close
friends or an acquaintance. He charmed his way into their homes and killed them using
double-ligature strangulation. They died slowly while he sexually assaulted them and
engaged in necrophilia. He did not seem to investigators to fit serial-murder profiles
because he exhibited both organized and disorganized characteristics.
a. Henry Wallace
b. Alton Coleman
c. Wayne Williams
d. Eddie Moseley
What was most often the primary catalyst in Underwood's study of siblicide?
a. sexual advances
b. alcohol
c. an argument
d. betrayal
We can safely acknowledge that serial murderers' disposition toward serial murder is
developed through _____.
a. abuse
b. divine inspiration
c. a learning process
d. the media
Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE regarding John Jamelske?
a. His killing career lasted just under two years.
b. He viewed himself as unorthodox and a Casanova.
c. He hunted young women for nearly 16 years.
d. He constructed an underground, concrete bunker where he would keep sex slaves.
Which of the following is NOT a myth surrounding serial killers?
a. One in five U.S. serial killers is black.
b. They are all male.
c. They are all insane.
d. They are all lust killers.
Some underlying issues in understanding gender-based psychopathy regarding females
may include a firm grasp on reality.
In 1980, _____ created a diagnostic tool referred to as the "Psychopathy Checklist."
