With the exception of those who murder their families, mass murderers appear to
_____.
a. plan their attack like serial murderers
b. give little thought or concern to capture or death
c. commit their crimes in private places
d. plan a detailed escape route
Formerly called “psychogenic amnesia,” this is a loss of memory due to psychological
reasons rather than organic problems.
a. depersonalization-derealization disorder
b. dissociative amnesia
c. negative affectivity
d. sociopathy
Born in 1966 east of Johannesburg, South Africa, this offender became a prime example
of cases that do not fit traditional profiles of violent offenders.
a. Stewart Wilken
b. Anders Breivik
c. Martin Bryant
d. Fritz Haarmann
This offender became known by the media as the “Scorecard Killer.”
a. John Wayne Gacy
b. Randy Kraft
c. Herb Baumeister
d. Dean Corll
Which one of the following sets of descriptors best applies to paranoid personality
disorders?
a. unpredictable, irresponsible, guiltless
b. theatrical, dependent, dysphoric
c. pervasive distrust, suspiciousness of others
d. aloof, detached, humorless
In the mid-1960s, these two went on a killing spree for several days. In some of the
murders, the killers would toss a coin to see which one would get to stab the victim to
death.
a. Bianchi and Buono
b. Rutterschmidt and Golay
c. Kelbach and Lance
d. Beck and Fernandez
The “Zebra Murders” involved the killing of _____ by _____.
a. white males by black males
b. black males by white males
c. white females by black females
d. black females by white females
How did the Third Reich refer to children with defective genes?
a. useless citizens
b. white inferiority
c. white liars
d. useless eaters
Hewitt examined demographic characteristics of victims and offenders in the
often-publicized community of “Middletown, U.S.A.” (_____) and found the
victim”offender relationships to be similar to those in larger cities.
Team offenders were less likely to have criminal records for sex-related crimes than
what kind of killers?
a. teams
b. females
c. males
d. solo
This was the primary motive for killing children reported by male serial offenders.
a. thrills
b. revenge
c. sexual gratification
d. mental illness
According to the FBI, what is killing four or more persons at one time considered to be?
a. blanket homicide
b. spree murder
c. mass murder
d. serial murder
Which of the following IS NOT true regarding euthanasia?
a. It is still a crime in most states.
b. It originated in Asia.
c. It involves a medical provider trying to ease the suffering of a patient.
d. It involves a medical provider believing that letting a person die or assisting them in
dying demonstrates mercy for the patient.
Since 1975, female serial killers have been more likely to target which type of victim?
a. family
b. acquaintances
c. strangers
d. family and acquaintances
The Yorker study found that most healthcare providers who committed murders came
from which states?
a. Illinois, Kentucky, and Florida
b. California, Hawaii, Florida, and Georgia
c. New York, Alabama, California, and Illinois
d. California, Texas, Michigan, and Florida
According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, which types of
abductions accounted for the greatest percentage of children found dead?
a. parental
b. stranger
c. non-parental relatives
d. acquaintance
Offenders may suppress traumatic event(s) to the point where he or she cannot
consciously recall the experience(s). What may this be called?
a. causal overkill
b. psychodynamic violence
c. splitting off the experience
d. psychological trauma
Which of the following used rat poison laced with arsenic to kill at least four of her
husbands, her mother, two children, and several other relatives?
a. Terry Rachals
b. Christine Falling
c. Nannie Doss
d. Genene Jones
Which is not considered a preparatory paraphilia?
a. necrophilia
b. erotomania
c. frottage
d. retifism
Most serial offenders who are white usually are also lower middle class or middle class,
and their homicides tend to be _____.
a. intraracial
b. interracial
c. of any race
d. of a specific race chosen by the offender
Among serial killers who had at least one partner and traveled from state to state, a
_____ proportion involved female offenders.
a. significantly high
b. moderate
c. small
d. median
According to Holmes and Holmes, a person who plans an escape route following the
killing aftermath falls into which mass murderer classification?
a. ideological mass murderer
b. disciple-type killer
c. psychotic killer
d. set-and-run killer
Such profiling is empirically based and has not placed much value on motivation or
personality. It does help law enforcement in deciding where to begin knocking on doors
and setting up stakeouts.
a. offender profiling
b. geographic profiling
c. equivocal death profiling
d. crime scene profiling
What may well be the epitome of narcissism?
a. total domination of oneself
b. eventual act of self-destruction
c. total domination of others
d. sum total of personality disorders
In _____, the Supreme Court ruled that insanity may continue after the criminal act, and
therefore the offender could be placed in a psychiatric facility until such time when he
or she is determined to have recovered from his or her afflictions.
a. United States v. Brawner
b. Durham v. United States
c. Jones v. United States
d. Vitek v. Jones
The following was/were believed to be able to detect criminal predisposition
by examining bumps and abnormalities on the surface of the skull.
a. sociologists
b. phrenologists
c. criminologists
d. neurobiologists
This disorder is characterized by orderliness, perfectionism, and inflexible behaviors.
a. post-traumatic stress disorder
b. non-phobic panic disorder
c. kleptomania
d. obsessive-compulsive disorder
The need to control is rarely present in primary paraphilia.
Which of the following statements is correct?
a. Children who are physically or sexually abused seem to mimic their mistreatment on
their companion animals.
b. For a mistreated child, power and dominance is preferable to the plight of
helplessness.
c. Animal cruelty may signify a child’s preoccupation with death and that the child may
be rehearsing their own suicide.
d. Cruelty to animals during childhood occurs much more often among aggressive
criminals than among non-aggressive criminals or non-criminals.
In some mass killings an offender begins killing in one location, then moves to another
location to continue. What is this phenomenon called?
a. bifurcation
b. bilocation
c. bicyclation
d. bilaterality
Which of the following offenders has been identified as a serial killer?
a. Richard Speck
b. James Huberty
c. Charles Whitman
d. Jerry Brudos
These people seldom marry, are not sexually attracted to other adults, and in their own
twisted perspective do not harm children because they care about them.
a. female sex offenders
b. pedophiles
c. abusers
d. serial killers
In the case of _____ victims, some offenders took years to systematically kill each one.
a. husband
b. child
c. sibling
d. acquaintance
This young man raped and strangled elderly women who lived in the Park Plaza Hotel
where he worked as a porter.
a. Paul John Knowles
b. Robert Joe Long
c. Calvin Jackson
d. James Watson