According to _____, the mind is constantly engaged in balancing the three-part
personality structure of id, ego, and superego.
a. Freud
b. Hickey
c. Fuller
d. Hare
Harold Shipman was convicted of killing how many victims?
a. Between 200 and 300.
b. 23
c. 15
d. Less than 10
Five elderly men died in San Francisco from being overdosed with digitalis.
Investigators found that in each case, young women married and/or seduced these men,
poisoned them and left with the victim’s assets. What group did the women belong to?
a. Tene Bimbo Clan
b. Ku Klux Klan
c. Mafia
d. Black Hand
Of all weapons used by team serial murderers _____ was the most common.
a. knives
b. firearms
c. poisons
d. blunt instruments
What is the killing of a newborn within the first 24 hours of life called?
a. infanticide
b. prolicide
c. parricide
d. neonaticide
Holmes and Holmes, in their mass murderer classifications, would place Mark Barton
in which category?
a. murderer for profit
b. murderer for sex
c. family slayer or annihilator
d. disciple-type killer
Golem syndrome refers to _____.
a. persons capable of murdering without remorse or feelings for the victim
b. persons who have the ability to become vampires, werewolves, and zombies
depending upon their appetites
c. how murder victims return from the dead to seek revenge
d. the tree monsters in lord of the rings
This killer was a college graduate and once worked as a fishing guide and security
guard. He later became a police officer who had a fantasy for taking young women into
the woods and hanging them.
a. Harold Shipman
b. Gerard Schaefer
c. Orville Majors
d. Martin Bryant
Hickey, in his Fresno Juvenile Fire study, noted all of the following about children who
set fires except _____.
a. They are more frequently spanked or isolated from others than non-fire-setters.
b. They report bad experiences at home.
c. Their families often face financial problems, family restructuring, or relocation.
d. They often grow up to be arsonists.
Why is Joachim Georg Kroll, the Laundry Room Killer, of particular interest to German
profilers?
a. He had a low IQ.
b. He killed babies left unattended.
c. He was unemployed but had an extremely high IQ.
d. He wore underwear stolen from people he had killed.
This 15th century figure was known as “Drakul” (Dragon).He was particularly known
to be a vicious and depraved sadist who enjoyed torturing and murdering peasants who
lived within his jurisdiction.
a. Ivan the Great
b. Jack the Ripper
c. Bram Stoker
d. Vlad Tepes
America’s Most Wanted was inspired by the murder and decapitation of 6-year-old
Adam Walsh. Who is Walsh’s killer believed to be?
a. Gerhard Schaefer
b. Robin Gecht
c. John Gacy
d. Ottis Toole
For the psychopath, becoming adept as a serial killer requires perfecting this.
a. rationalization and unconscious pretense
b. rationalization and conscious pretense
c. conscious pretense
d. rationalization
Between 1977 and 1978, seven females in Georgia, most of whom were elderly, were
sexually assaulted and strangled to death. The offender was referred to as the “Stocking
Strangler.”
a. Robert Joe Long
b. Albert DeSalvo
c. Calvin Jackson
d. Carlton Gary
Why did Melvin Carter, the College Terrace Rapist, return to the apartment of his
“date”?
a. He fell in love with her and couldn’t bear to be without her.
b. He wanted to apologize for breaking into her apartment.
c. He felt terrible that he had forgotten her radio in his car, and he didn’t want her to
think him a thief.
d. He forgot his keys.
The role of _____ in violent crime is of growing importance in understanding the
dynamics of the interactions among the forces of biology, psychological factors, and
our environment.
a. neurobiology
b. sociology
c. podiatry
d. psychology
Single-homicide offenders kill _____.
a. men and women with equal frequency
b. more men than women
c. more women than men
d. more children than either women or men
This mental disorder or syndrome is unintentionally caused in a patient by a clinician or
practitioner.
a. iatrogenic
b. tautological fallacy
c. anterograde syndrome
d. symptom substitution
This theory suggests that crime occurs when an opportunity arises within the normal
areas an offender travels, such as to and from work, recreation, school, and community
activities.
a. rational choice
b. routine activity theory
c. crime pattern
d. life-course
What percentage of the time is a child’s enuresis considered to be a “red flag” of
something more serious?
a. 10
b. 20
c. 40
d. 50
This African-American male posed as a self-employed talent scout as he searched for
his victims in the Atlanta, GA, area in the early 1980s.
a. Calvin Jackson
b. Derrick Todd Lee
c. Carleton Gary
d. Wayne Williams
Each year in the United States about how many children are abducted, sexually
assaulted, and killed by sexual predators?
a. about 50
b. about 150
c. less than 50
d. nearly 550
She was a medical doctor in the Auschwitz death camps who killed children with oil
and a surgical anesthetic. She removed organs and limbs from her victims.
a. Leni Riefenstahl
b. Terri Rachals
c. Herta Oberheuser
d. Christine Falling
Perhaps the single most critical stumbling block that currently stands in the way of
understanding serial murder is the disagreement among researchers and law
enforcement personnel about _____.
a. how to keep track of all the serial murderers
b. how to define the phenomenon
c. who is considered the real “expert” on the matter
d. how to draw jurisdictional lines in investigations
Regarding missing children in the United States _____ account for the greatest
percentage of children found alive whereas _____ account for the greatest percentage of
children found dead.
a. runaways/parental abductions
b. discarded children/abbreviated abductions
c. runaways/relative abductions
d. runaways/stranger abductions
He murdered 11 children and teens with a hammer because he “did not want them to
suffer as he had suffered.” He contended that his killings were “mercy killings” that
would never have happened had those children been raised in loving homes.
a. Ottis Toole
b. Clifford Olson
c. Arthur Shawcross
d. Andrei Chikatilo
Which do serial killers tend to be?
a. college graduates
b. some college
c. highly intelligent
d. not highly educated
According to Rossmo, which offender style prefers to travel away from home to hunt
victims?
a. hunter
b. poacher
c. troller
d. trapper
He entertained prostitutes at his “Piggy Palace Good Times Society.” Thirty trace
remains of victims were found but most of the corpses were fed to his pigs that were
frequently bought and sold at local markets.
a. Robert Pickton
b. Clifford Olson
c. Jay Healey
d. Jean Baptiste
What does NAMBLA stand for?
a. North American Model Boy Association
b. North American Man/Boy Love Association
c. National Association of Masters and Boys
d. National Association of Marlon Brando Lookalikes
The study on team killers found that having more than one offender involved in serial
killing _____.
a. did not increase the number of victims per case
b. increased dramatically the number of victims per case
c. increased only slightly the number of victims per case
d. decreased the number of victims per case
The _____ are a fast-growing group of particularly accessible potential victims.
There is a correlation between head trauma and violent behavior.
Erich Fromm considered evil a process and not a state.
Law enforcement officials have been dealing with serial murder for only a few years.
The term _____ is a non-diagnostic label used to describe a potpourri of individuals
determined by societal standards to possess characteristics at variance with general
community standards and practices.
Hickey, in noting the degree of mobility exercised by offenders, has delineated three
distinct groups of offenders: traveling serial killers, local serial killers, and serial killers
who never leave their homes or places of employment.
Aki found that crime in Japan is deterred more by _____ and _____ than legal
punishments.
Similar to all serial killers, team offenders could rarely be legally classified as _____.
American serial killers were slightly more likely to be involved in postmortem activities
including mutilation.
Often _____ are not performed when a death occurs under the care of an attending
physician.
All serial killers are psychopaths.
A number of deaths have been attributed to _____ where persons experimenting for the
first time or through miscalculation have accidentally killed themselves by hanging.
_____ focus on individuals’ socioeconomic standing, suggesting that poor people
commit more crimes because they are stifled in their quest for financial or social
success.
Serial killers generally deny the victim according to neutralization theory.
Insanity is a _____. Very few offenders (2 percent”4 percent) are legally insane.
_____ is finding sexual gratification by substituting objects for the sexual partner.