What is the approximate average age of male serial offenders?
a. early twenties
b. late twenties
c. early thirties
d. late thirties
Aki notes that the 95 percent homogeneity of Japan fosters a sense of _____.
a. honor
b. competition
c. despair
d. individualism
Criminal psychopaths make up about what percentage of the male inmate population in
prison?
a. 10-15
b. 20-30
c. 85-90
d. 45-55
Where was the VICLAS system developed?
a. United States
b. England
c. Canada
d. South Africa
This killer placed Internet requests for young homosexual men interested in ‘slaughter
and consumption” and received many serious responses. After meeting and rejecting
four men because they were not suitable, he found a willing man in an Internet chat
room. After the killing, the victim was butchered and kept in a refrigerator. By the time
the homosexual paraphiliac was caught he had cannibalized most of the victim.
a. Charles Albright
b. Jeffrey Dahmer
c. Gary Heidnik
d. Armin Meiwes
By 2014, the media had stopped assigning these to serial-killer teams.
a. special motives
b. news stories
c. monikers
d. all of the above
Lawson identified four subtypes of female offenders. Which is not one of these?
a. heterosexual nurturers
b. the seductive abuse mother molester
c. the humiliation offender
d. the overt sexual abuse offender
Sarrel and Masters identified four typologies of female sex offenders. Which is not one
of these?
a. forced assault
b. mother abuse
c. incestuous abuse
d. dominant woman abuse
Society has failed to recognize poor blacks who kill poor blacks. This lack of
recognition is rooted in minority status, socioeconomic status, and _____.
a. statistics
b. racism
c. research
d. gender
This offender, a Texas nurse, was continually employed in a hospital long after
numerous complaints and charges that she was injuring the children in her ward.
a. Mary Beth Tinning
b. Genene Jones
c. Kathleen Heide
d. Herta Oberheuser
A geographic profile does not include this.
a. distance
b. time
c. mental maps
d. mobility
In her study of psychopathology and mass murder, Souza found that most of these have
a history of mental illness.
a. mass murderers
b. serial killers
c. murderers
d. criminals
What percentage of Albert DeSalvo’s victims were older women?
a. 60
b. 10
c. 5
d. 35
Cline outlined a four-factor syndrome involving pornography. Which of the following is
NOT one of those factors?
a. decompression
b. addiction
c. acting out
d. escalation
What we can say with absolute certainty about serial killers?
a. We cannot fit them into one single behavioral profile.
b. With few exceptions, they all act alike.
c. They all fit into one single behavioral profile.
d. We can fit them into three behavioral profiles.
Diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic, this offender was believed to be delusional
when he bombed government office buildings in Oslo, Norway, killing eight and then
traveling to the island of Otoya where he attacked a youth summer camp killing 69.
a. Joachim Kroll
b. Richard Doney
c. Gerhard Schroeder
d. Anders Breivik
What did an examination of German serial killers by the German police find?
a. Homicide from robberies was as frequent as homicide with sexual motivations.
b. More of the killers were likely to have deep childhood trauma when compared to
U.S. serial killers.
c. About 70 percent of all homicides involving robberies and homicides were
committed by serial murderers.
d. More of the European killers targeted the affluent.
Most serial murderers operate in a specific place or general urbanized area.
Which is NOT TRUE regarding compensatory rapists?
a. They are sexually stimulated by their environment.
b. They are passive, introverted, non-assertive men.
c. They like to demonstrate prowess and sexual adequacy.
d. They use extreme violence against their victims.
According to the FBI, which of the following would best fit the definition of male serial
killer?
a. Mary Beth Tinning
b. Kristen Gilbert
c. Marie Hilley
d. Aileen Wuornos
What is one area that geographic profiling is not designed to address?
a. gender-specific murder
b. place-specific murder
c. disorder-specific murder
d. character-specific murder
Which of the following is true of U.S. female serial killers?
a. Most killed children, not adults.
b. Most killed at least one elderly person.
c. Few killed from all age groups.
d. When adults were killed they were more likely to be female victims.
Obese, epileptic, and abused, this female serial killer experienced a traumatized
childhood. She admitted to smothering to death five small children in her care so “no
one would hear them scream.”
a. Nancy Hazel Doss
b. Terri Rachals
c. Genene Jones
d. Christine Falling
Which of the following crimes would most likely be a “crime of passion?”
a. mass murder of all adults and children having lunch at McDonalds
b. serial murder of children who are found alone in parks
c. murdering a female teller while robbing a bank
d. murdering your ex-spouse
Anton LaVey was _____.
a. the earliest Dracula recorded in Germany
b. founder of voodoo in America
c. also known as the angel of death
d. founder of the Church of Satan
Which is not one of the four “crime phases” of murderer behavior that investigators use
to develop offender profiles and gain insight into their personalities?
a. antecedent
b. method and manner
c. body disposal
d. pre-offense behavior
According to some researchers, mothers who commit filicide also _____.
a. kill their husbands
b. kill their siblings
c. use psychotropic medications
d. attempt suicide
This term was introduced by J. L. A. Koch in 1891.
a. histrionic
b. criminology
c. psychopath
d. sociopath
According to Eysenck, what is the foundation for criminality?
a. the over-reactive RAS
b. interactions of environmental conditions and inherited personality traits
c. financial gain
d. instrumental conditioning
What is the condition of the primary psychopath?
a. usually neurotic
b. always criminal
c. usually violent and destructive
d. always a social chameleon
What does Patterson’s “coercive family interaction patterns” suggest about abused
children over time?
a. start fires in order to kill their abusers
b. report the abuse to authorities
c. rebel against the abuse
d. view abuse as normal
Which of the following offenders liked to take his female victims to his mountain
retreat in Alaska, have sex with them, give them a head start, and then hunt them down
and shoot them?
a. Robert Hansen
b. Paul John Knowles
c. Jerry Brudos
d. James P. Watson
Who was Europe’s most prolific modern serial killer?
a. Uri Zakotnova
b. Andrei Chikatilo
c. Stepan Valnophsky
d. Igor Makarov
Most missing children are returned home alive or are located. Of the .2 percent not
located or returned home, most were _____.
a. killed
b. taken from the country
c. runaways from institutions
d. sold into slavery
Yorker, et al., identified some typical scenarios in serial murder of patients by
healthcare providers. Which is not typical?
a. the presence of a common injectable substance in post mortem
b. deaths that cluster on the night shift
c. epidemiologic studies linking presence of a specific care provider to increased
likelihood of death
d. the sexual assault of the patient
Race and ethnicity are often associated with specific types of violent crimes.
Victims, even in death, are often storybooks about the offender and the circumstances
of the crime.
Females sometimes participate in team serial killing.
_____ was also known as “The Killer Clown,” and read passages from the Bible as he
killed his victims.
Young _____, especially if they were alone, ranked the highest in general preference of
offenders.
_____ views abnormal behavior as a process by which a person graduates from primary
deviance to secondary deviance.
Recent research has suggested that serotonin has no role in creating violent behavior.
Most serial murders are sexual in nature.
“Anthropophagy” refers to revulsion at eating human flesh.
Female serial murderers killed for shorter periods than their male counterparts.
Folklore pertaining to zombies, werewolves, vampires, etc., is found among few
cultures.
Team killer units with a female participant are almost always dominated by a female.
As mentioned earlier, many victims play a prominent role in their own demise by _____
the encounter with the offender.
According to social structure theory, a child who is very attached to his/her parents will
be less likely to engage in criminal behavior.
Overall, the greatest percentage of victims were killed by _____ offenders.
Technology, specifically _____, became a critical factor in convicting Wayne Williams.
Killers who work in the health care industry are seldom lust killers.