According to Hickey, which of the following is the best response to reducing the
number of serial murders?
a. reduce violence in the home
b. reduce the number of appeals filed by serial offenders
c. provide appropriate therapy for traumatized children
d. hire more law enforcement to investigate serial murder
Why are offenders who kill in hospitals and nursing homes not easy to identify?
a. They do not attract media attention.
b. They are loud killers who go about performing their tasks poorly.
c. They are unfriendly and cold.
d. They are outwardly dispassionate.
What was Heinrich Gross also known as?
a. Dr. Grotesque
b. Dr. Death
c. Dr. Golem
d. Dr. Vomit
Which is the least-experienced form of traumatization experienced by male offenders?
a. sexual abuse
b. parents deceased
c. prostitute mother
d. poverty
Peter Stubb/Stump was a _____.
a. vampire
b. werewolf
c. ghoul
d. witch
Which of the following statements is correct regarding victim facilitation in serial
murder cases according to Hickey’s research?
a. Less than 25 percent of victims were categorized as low facilitation.
b. Most victims were found to be both high and low facilitation.
c. Over two-thirds of all victims were generally in the right place at the wrong time.
d. Most victims were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
These two were cousins who decided to kill someone just to see what it would feel like.
a. Bianchi and Buono
b. Lucas and Toole
c. Hickock and Smith
d. Coleman and Brown
Whom did Jack the Ripper particularly enjoy targeting?
a. children
b. elderly
c. rich women
d. prostitutes
The face of serial victimization is changing gradually. Today there are _____.
a. greater number of victims per offender
b. more cases of only female victims
c. a decrease in males being targeted
d. fewer strangers and more family members being targeted
When combining all mass murders, mini-mass murders, and attempted mass murders,
the incidences of such murders remains _____.
a. very high.
b. very low.
c. consistently stable.
d. a mystery to explain.
Which is NOT true, according to Beauregard and Martineau (2012)?
a. Often forensic evidence is never sent to crime labs.
b. There often is not increased evidence of identifying suspects, pressing charges, or
securing convictions.
c. Offenders may be learning from popular media how to decrease their chances of
being caught and convicted.
d. All of the above are true.
In California, the average length of time for an appeals process to be completed is
_____.
a. over 16 years
b. over 10 years but less than 15
c. 10 years or less
d. 5 years tops
Of all children who are murdered each year in the United States, which of the following
currently represent the greatest percentage of victims?
a. American Indians
b. Hispanics
c. whites
d. blacks
Which of the following statements is true?
a. The term “psychopath” has never been officially used in Japanese psychiatry.
b. Psychopath is a current, popular term in Japanese psychiatry.
c. The term “psychopath” was often used in Japan between 1955 and 1965 but gradually
faded from usage in Japanese psychiatry.
d. The term “psychopath” became popular in Japan following the rape of Nanking.
One of the confounding myths of serial murder is that they are all, by definition _____.
a. violent.
b. committed by killers who report prior criminality and incarcerations.
c. cases of sane individuals who commit atrocities on society.
d. sexual.
Kristen Gilbert is believed to have injected her patients with large doses of this drug,
causing their hearts to beat rapidly and uncontrollably.
a. adrenaline
b. digoxin
c. morphine
d. potassium chloride
Lycanthropy refers to _____.
a. sacrificing of small animals to ward off evil spirits
b. the stoning of people believed to be possessed by evil spirits
c. the transformation of human beings into wolves
d. medical procedure to exorcise evil spirits
Of the 420 serial killers examined in the Hickey study, approximately what percent
killed at least one child?
a. 10
b. 24
c. 40
d. 65
How are evil people best defined according to M. Scott Peck?
a. by the “consistency of their sins”
b. by the illegality of their actions
c. as golems
d. as Satan worshippers
Japanese male offenders were more likely than their American male counterparts to
murder using this method.
a. guns
b. poisons
c. stabbing
d. strangulation
Which of the following serial killers is currently serving time on death row in San
Quentin, California? He claims that his accomplice was the person who carried out all
the killings.
a. Kenneth Bianchi
b. Alton Coleman
c. Henry Lee
d. Douglas D. Clark
According to the text, what is believed to be Genene Jones’s motive for killing?
a. to draw attention to how lax hospitals are in their care
b. to take revenge on parents of children who were rude to the nursing staff
c. a need to prove there were enough sick children to justify construction of a pediatric
intensive-care unit in Kerrville, Texas
d. thrill-seeking
Which of the following statements is correct?
a. Since the turn of the 20th century the number of victims per case killed by female
serial offenders has fluctuated.
b. Most female offenders were employed outside the home during the course of their
killings.
c. Unlike their male counterparts, about one third of female offenders were black.
d. Females tend to kill more for revenge than any other motive.
John is robbing Radio Shack with his partner Eric. Eric becomes impatient with the
store owner and waves his gun, which goes off accidentally. The bullet ricochets off a
metal table and strikes John, killing him. What crime has Eric committed?
a. manslaughter
b. felony murder
c. negligent homicide
d. accidental homicide
According to Yorker, et al., what is the most common way to kill?
a. injections
b. pills
c. inhalants
d. suppositories
What do Hirschi’s four elements of the social bond include?
a. alliances, involvement, participation, and belief
b. attachment, participation, cooperation, and regulation
c. attachment, commitment, involvement, and belief
d. alliances, commitment, cooperation, and regulation
According to the FBI, who was the first documented female serial killer?
a. Nannie Hazel Doss
b. Linda Sue Jones
c. Aileen Wuornos
d. Mary Beth Tinning
What is a common fetish in Britain?
a. gas”mask fetish
b. women’s underwear fetish.
c. sex organs of corpses fetish.
d. women’s teeth fetish.
This type is a pervasive pattern of detachment from relationships, including limited
expression of emotions.
a. paranoid
b. schizotypal
c. histrionic
d. schizoid
Heckert and Ferraiolo (1996) conducted a study of college students to examine
perceptions of female serial killers. What did they discover?
a. Students thought female serial killers would be in their 30s and slovenly.
b. Students thought female serial killers would be insane.
c. Students thought female serial killers would be quite attractive.
d. Students thought female serial killers would have a criminal record and be adept at
using poisons.
In many past cultures, and in some modern ones, _____ was generally viewed as a
distinct form of possession, the controlling of a human by
an evil spirit.
Female serial killers tend to be typical in terms of female criminality.
A function of the early European _____ was to find ways to eradicate the problems
attributed to witchcraft and sorcery.
The _____ of violent behavior describes, in effect, the cyclical experience of serial
offenders.
Healthcare killers meet the general criteria for serial killing except for the stereotypic
element of violence.
In earlier decades of American history, _____ was not considered a justification or an
explanation for female homicide.
Cases were extremely rare in which non-related _____ masterminded multiple
homicides, but they do occur.
Japan is among countries with high rates of serial murder.
Serial murderers rarely have distinctive victim-selection criteria, motivations, and
sexual interests.
Analyze the constant need of psychopaths to be in control of their social and physical
environment. Why would a psychopath feel this need?
According to Holmes and Holmes, an institutional mass murderer commits mass
murder as a crime of obedience when ordered to by his or her leader.