Most forms of white collar crime would fall into which of the following categories of
aggressive behavior?
A) Instrumental
B) Hostile
C) Passive-aggressive
D) Functional
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Which of the following statements best characterizes the relationship between alcohol
and aggression?
A) The majority of crimes are caused by alcohol use.
B) There is no relationship between alcohol use and violence.
C) There is no empirical research linking alcohol and violence.
D) Alcohol facilitates aggressive behavior.
Answer:
A sexual disorder in which bizarre fantasies are necessary for sexual excitement is
called
A) hebephilia.
B) paraphrenia.
C) pornography.
D) paraphilia.
Answer:
ADAM, Monitoring the Future, and NSDUH are all examples of surveys that collect
data on
A) drug use.
B) hate crime.
C) sex offending.
D) status offenses.
Answer:
Instigating triggers, impelling forces, and inhibiting forces are the three categories of
A) overt aggression.
B) GAM theory.
C) covert aggression.
D) I3 theory.
Answer:
In general, heavy drug users
A) are polydrug users.
B) do not commit crimes.
C) are usually women.
D) do not use alcohol.
Answer:
Of the following offenders, which is most likely to carefully select their targets and
victims?
A) Auto thieves
B) Robbers
C) Pickpockets
D) Burglars
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Which form of amnesia is the most widely used justification for an insanity defense or
mitigation of criminal responsibility in the U.S. courts today?
A) Chronic organic amnesia
B) Alcohol-Induced Persisting Amnestic Disorder
C) Wernicke’s amnesia
D) Limited amnesia
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Match up the terminology in the left column to the definitions in the right column.
A) Assumes that one cannot be held responsible if an unlawful action is the product of
mental disease or defect
B) Major disturbances in perception which involve sensing or perceiving things or
events that others do not sense or perceive
C) An approach to risk assessment that focuses on small number of risk factors, may
ignore others
D) A disorder (some say a disease) of the mind that is judged by experts to interfere
substantially with a person’s ability to cope with life on a daily basis
E) A person’s state of mind at the time an offense was committed
F) Allows the court to render a “middle-ground” verdict in the case of allegedly
mentally disordered defendants
G) A risk assessment instrument developed by the MacArthur Research Network
H) The guidebook for clinicians seeking to define and diagnose specific mental
disorders
I) False beliefs about the world
J) Addressed directly the question of what duty therapists owe to third parties in
warning them of possible harmful behavior from their clients
1. Mental illness
2. DSM
3. Delusions
4. Hallucinations
5. The Durham Rule
6. Guilty but Mentally Ill
7. The Multiple Iterative Classification Tree
8. The Tarasoff case
9. Actuarial approach
10. Insanity
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Quay has said that psychopaths “know the words but not the music” in reference to their
lack of real emotion. This is also known as
A) tone deafness.
B) emotional vacuity.
C) pathological deficiency.
D) semantic aphasia.
Answer:
Primary psychopaths who engage in repetitive antisocial behavior are called ________
psychopaths.
A) heinous
B) criminal
C) secondary
D) callous
Answer:
Which one of the following offenses would not be considered larceny?
A) Shoplifting
B) Home invasion
C) Pickpocketing
D) Purse snatching
Answer:
Filicide refers to the killing of
A) an infant.
B) a child older than 24 hours.
C) a child by the mother.
D) a child within the first 24 hours after birth.
Answer:
Compared to the UCR, the NIBRS
A) provides information on international crime.
B) includes demographic data about the arresting officer.
C) provides more detailed information about a criminal event.
D) includes conviction data as well as arrest data.
Answer:
Which of the following is not listed in the text as a motive of male serial murderers?
A) Domination
B) Sexual excitement
C) Media attention
D) Material gain
Answer:
In the Supreme Court case Sell v. U.S. (2003), the Court ruled that
A) in cases that did not involve violence, courts should be very careful in ordering
medication to treat mentally disordered offenders who refuse the medication.
B) mentally disordered offenders should be sedated in the courtroom.
C) psychoactive drugs should not be ordered by any court against the wishes of the
defendant, even if the mentally disordered offender tends to be violent.
D) mentally disordered offenders should be institutionalized until cured.
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Most adult rapists
A) regularly view pornography.
B) subscribe to attitudes and ideology that encourage men to dominate and control
women.
C) are mentally disordered.
D) have considerable facial hair.
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Research suggests that serious juvenile offenders
A) demonstrate poor social skills.
B) have relatively low recidivism rates.
C) have are highly motivated to change their behavior.
D) specialize in one offense throughout their delinquent careers.
Answer:
Compared to other violent criminals, research shows that terrorists are often
A) reactively depressed.
B) sexually sadistic.
C) emotionally stable.
D) mentally disordered.
Answer:
According to the DSM-5, those individuals who are drawn to children and adults for
sexual gratification are diagnosed as which type of pedophile?
A) Exclusive type
B) Nonexclusive type
C) Mixed age type
D) Combination type
Answer:
At high doses of more than 4 ounces, alcohol acts as a
A) depressant.
B) stimulant.
C) motivator.
D) hallucinogen.
Answer:
Which process, identified by Ervin Staub, occurs when a group or culture is selected by
another group or culture as a scapegoat or an ideological enemy?
A) Relative deprivation
B) Targeted selection
C) Political extremism
D) Cultural devaluation
Answer:
________ are tablets that have been manufactured to turn blue in a drink to increase
visibility and thus be more visually detectable to potential victims of sexual assault.
A) Fentanyl
B) GHB
C) Ketamine
D) Rohypnol
Answer:
MDSO is an acronym for
A) manic depressive sex offender.
B) mentally disabled sex offender.
C) multiple diastolic sex offender.
D) morally dissuaded sex offender.
E) mentally disordered sex offender.
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Match up the terminology in the left column to the definitions in the right column.
A) Behavior perpetrated or attempted with the intention of harming one or more
individuals physically or psychologically (as opposed to socially) or to destroy an
object
B) Unprovoked, goal-directed behavior driven by expectations of rewards
C) Destructive physical aggression intentionally directed at harming other persons or
things
D) Aggression that occurs in response to anger-inducing conditions
E) A reaction to frustration associated with a lack of control due to high states of
arousal
F) The tendency to attack space violators
G) The presence of aggressive stimuli in the external environment increases the
probability of aggressive responses
H) The assumption that physiological arousal, however produced, dissipates slowly
over time
I) Posits that violence often occurs because of an escalation cycle, which begins with an
initial triggering event that may be serious or relatively benign
J) The tendency to model or copy an activity portrayed in the entertainment or news
media
1. Contagion effect
2. Aggression
3. Territoriality
4. Excitation transfer theory
5. Violence
6. General aggression model
7. Reactive aggression
8. Proactive aggression
9. Weapons effect
10. Hostile aggression
Answer:
The type of aggression that includes anger expressions, temper tantrums, and vengeful
hostility, and more generally “hot-blooded” aggressive acts is called
A) proactive aggression.
B) mediated aggression.
C) aggressive mimicry.
D) reactive aggression.
Answer:
Robert Hare’s research focuses on the ________ of the psychopath.
A) family background
B) neurological features
C) socioeconomic status
D) antisocial tendencies
Answer:
A robbery in which the main weapon used is one’s own body rather than guns, knives,
or other weapons is called ________ robbery.
A) street
B) strong-arm
C) kinesthetic
D) tertiary
Answer:
Which of the following is a basic assumption of classical conditioning?
A) Humans are automatons.
B) Humans are active learners.
C) Humans are good.
D) Humans are evil.
Answer:
The right and wrong test refers to which one of the following insanity defenses?
A) Magna Carta
B) The M’Naghten Rule
C) ALI/Brawner Rule
D) The Durham Rule
Answer:
The tendency to attack space violators is referred to as
A) territoriality.
B) hydraulic model of aggression.
C) passive violence.
D) animality.
Answer:
Which theorist is most closely associated with stimulus-response psychology?
A) Watson
B) Bandura
C) Pavlov
D) Wundt
Answer:
Compare and contrast cyberstalking and cyberbullying. How do you think these crimes
differ from bullying and stalking?
Answer:
Violence between ________ is believed to be the most common form of violence within
families.
Answer:
Compare and contrast the Quest for Significance Theory and Terror Management
Theory.
Answer:
Data from the NCVS indicate that most rape or sexual assault victimizations (55%)
occurred at or near the victim’s ________.
Answer:
Mass murder
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The primary perpetrators of elder abuse are ________ members.
Answer:
The terms emerging adulthood and pathways are associated with the ________ focus on
criminology.
Answer:
How may the availability heuristic account for our perception of violence?
Answer:
According to social learning theorists, internal processes such as thinking and
remembering are known as ________ processes.
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The UCR considers arson a ________ crime.
Answer: