How many members were in the largest group of team offenders identified?
a. two
b. nine
c. five
d. four
Which can best be attributed to the term “insanity?”
a. A diagnosis of insanity automatically follows a diagnosis of psychosis.
b. Insanity is a legal term and judicial determination.
c. A diagnosis of insanity is a psychiatric decision.
d. A diagnosis of insanity is ultimately determined by trained psychologists.
Wolfgang noted a preponderance of killings among the _____, where interpersonal
violence was more “acceptable.”
a. lower socioeconomic classes
b. higher socioeconomic classes
c. middle classes
d. extremely wealthy
Which is not another term for the ‘signature” or personal marking of an offender?
a. the MO or “method of operating”
b. the “calling card”
c. the “trademark”
d. the “paraphilic footprint”
What are healthcare providers who murder often diagnosed with?
a. bipolar disorder
b. major depressive disorder
c. body dysmorphic disorder
d. Munchausen syndrome
In the Harbort study, many of the German serial killers were found to be affected by
this.
a. brain abnormalities
b. mental illnesses
c. mental disorders
d. Klinefelter’s Syndrome
This 1486 text was the first encyclopedia of demonology.
a. Hammer of the Gods
b. Novus Ordo Seclorum
c. Malleus Maleficarum
d. Necronomicon
Between 1995 and 2004 the cases of serial murder _____.
a. sharply inclined
b. sharply declined
c. stayed the same as before 1975
d. rose only a little
This suggests that a person feels that his or her surroundings are not real or are
detached.
a. derealization
b. unrealization
c. detachment
d. hyper-realization
What did Reiss and Roth find?
a. inhibited children are less prone to violence and aggression
b. inhibited children are more prone to victimization
c. uninhibited children are more prone to victimization
d. uninhibited children are less prone to violence and aggression
The Satanic Bible was written by _____.
a. Gore Vidal
b. David Abrahamsen
c. Gilles de Rais
d. Anton LaVey
Which of the following is false of female serial killers?
a. Average age is 40.
b. Most never married.
c. Most of them were unemployed or listed no occupation.
d. They tend to be viewed as anomalies in female homicide patterns.
The following are types of forensic evidence inspection and analysis performed in
crime labs except _____.
a. mental health diagnosis
b. glass and soil fragments
c. hair, fibers, and paint analysis
d. arson analysis including flammable residues and explosives.
Which of the following statements is correct?
a. The FBI claim that instead of several thousands of children being abducted by
strangers in the U.S. each year, the actual figures are no more than 150 stranger
abductions per year by predators who sexually assault and/or kill their child victims.
b. Evidence now strongly indicates that murders by strangers in the U.S. are on a sharp
rise.
c. Male children being abducted and killed by strangers are at greater risk than female
children.
d. Less than 10 percent of offenders in the author’s research killed one or more children.
Hickey found that about _____ percent of all serial killers had histories of various
psychiatric problems.
a. 26
b. 36
c. 46
d. 56
Convicted of giving an 89-year-old patient a heart’stopping chemical, this offender
received 17 years for her conviction.
a. Genene Jones
b. Terri Rachals
c. Kristen Gilbert
d. Jane Fonda
Male offenders reported which of the following as the most frequent motive for killing
at least one or more of their victims?
a. enjoyment
b. revenge
c. money
d. sex
Which is NOT true of offenders, according to Beauregard and Bouchard’s 2010 study?
a. They found that offenders under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol displayed less
forensic awareness.
b. Offenders who had target preferences were more likely to take forensic precautions.
c. Offenders who entered a victim’s residence and engaged in specific sexual acts during
the crime were also more likely to exhibit forensic awareness.
d. Offenders tended to be consistent in their forensic awareness and directed most of
their efforts toward removing DNA that tied them to the crime scene.
Which of the following statements is correct?
a. Female serial killers tend to kill over a longer period of time than their male
counterparts.
b. Serial killing is highly correlated to regional variations.
c. Most serial offenders kill in at least two or more states.
d. Most victims of serial killers are murdered in or very close to their homes.
These theories contend that criminal behavior is a function of a socialization process.
a. social process theory
b. social structure theory
c. social control theory
d. labeling theory
Who designed the radex model?
a. Kim Rossmo
b. Ronald Holmes
c. David Canter
d. Richard Kocsis
Which of the following was one of the findings of Operation Police Lure?
a. Children ages 10-12 were the most likely targets.
b. Children were approached most frequently between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 9:00
a.m.
c. The most effective lure used by offenders was to offer the child a ride to or from
school.
d. Boys were seldom the primary target.
In California, about how many of the nearly 120,000 registered sex offenders have
committed crimes against children?
a. 1/3
b. 40,000
c. 2/3
d. 10,000
What is the primary motive reported by female serial offenders for killing children?
a. thrills
b. revenge
c. sexual gratification
d. monetary gain
Which one of the following is true?
a. Children are not sexual in any way until puberty.
b. Multiple paraphilia often exist in the same person.
c. Persons with paraphilia have often had a sexual trauma early in life.
d. Persons with paraphilia rarely have had any sort of early life trauma.
Of the five types of female offenders Mathews identified, which are women with
histories of personal abuse and substance addictions who act alone in efforts to find
emotional intimacy?
a. teacher-lovers
b. male-coerced sexual offenders
c. the predisposed child molester
d. experimenter-exploiters
The purpose of the human-to-wolf transformation was the killing of humans, especially
_____.
a. women
b. men
c. the elderly
d. children
Serial predators prefer to operate within comfort zones and experience _____ as they
leave that comfort zone.
a. deep depression
b. excitement
c. a distance decay function
d. discomfort
In recent years, cases of team serial murder in the United States have _____.
a. increased sharply
b. decreased sharply
c. stayed the same
d. increased slightly
Which of the following is a false statement regarding the Body Farm in Tennessee?
a. There are currently five such facilities operating in the United States.
b. Bodies are observed decomposing under controlled conditions.
c. Remains are often skeletonized and added to the research collection.
d. Approximately 40-50 bodies of inmates who died in prison are donated yearly.
Among team serial killers which of the following categories is the most common
relationship groupings?
a. father/son
b. husband/wife
c. mother/son
d. brothers
As of 2014, what percentage of serial killers used guns as their sole means of killing?
a. 46
b. 69
c. 10
d. 98
_____ killers, common among female offenders, repeatedly murdered their victims in
the same location.
Satanic cults do not provide a large population of serial killers.
German serial murderers are less prone than American serial murderers to take trophies
and travel large distances to find victims.
Worry and anxiety about future is a characteristic of the psychopath.
Sexual offenders often commit only one crime.
According to social process theory, family has no significant effect on youths’
delinquent or violent behavior.
One of the several aliases of _____ was “Bluebeard.” He was married to at least 18
women and possibly as many as 26.
Sykes and Matza (1957) and Matza (1964) view the process of delinquent youths
becoming criminals as a matter of _____ their personal values and attitudes as they drift
between conventional behavior and illegitimate behavior.
Few male serial killers travel outside their home city to find victims.
_____ draws upon many areas of forensics.
Women who commit multiple murders typically use methods comparable to their male
counterparts.