Chapter 11 - Homicide

Question 1

Overcontrolled offender

Answer 1

suppresses emotions until they explode

Question 2

Undercontrolled offender

Answer 2

Quick temper, long history of violence

Question 3

Excitation transfer theory

Answer 3

acting out due to a previous event AKA displaced aggression

Question 4

Frustration-aggression hypothesis

Answer 4

internal state that occurs when someone is blocked from attaining a goal

Question 5

Berkowitz’s Neoassociation model

Answer 5

negative feelings cause parasympathetic NS to act up leading to aggression
explains reactive violence

Question 6

General-aggression model

Answer 6

assesses risk factors for aggression

Question 7

Serial murder

Answer 7

2+ victims at different times

Question 8

Mass murder

Answer 8

4+ victims at same time

Question 9

Spree murder

Answer 9

3+ victims at same time in different locations

Question 10

Modus Operandi Typology

Answer 10

Pattern or method of the killing

Question 11

Hunter

Answer 11

stays in one location

Question 12

Poacher

Answer 12

short term

Question 13

Troller

Answer 13

Random attacks

Question 14

Trapper

Answer 14

Creates situations

Question 16

Visionary serial killer

Answer 16

Believes killing can prevent tragedies

Question 17

Mission-oriented serial killer

Answer 17

believes they are responsible for improving society - has agenda

Question 18

Hedonistic serial killer

Answer 18

aroused by sadistic violence

Question 19

Power oriented serial killer

Answer 19

feels power from having control over someone else’s life

Question 20

What is the main motivation of women serial killers

Answer 20

material or financial gain

Question 21

Most likely victims of women serial killers

Answer 21

Husbands, children

Question 22

Most common method of killing for women serial killers

Answer 22

poison or pills

Question 23

MacDonald triad

Answer 23

fire-setting, cruelty to animals, bed wetting

Question 24

Hickey’s Trauma-Control Model

Answer 24

explains that early childhood and later stress can lead to violent behavior

Question 25

Predispositional factors

Answer 25

bio, socio, psych - ological

Question 26

Traumatic events

Answer 26

Early trauma - unstable home

Question 27

Truma Reinforcement

Answer 27

Inability to cope

Question 28

Low self-esteem / Fantasies

Answer 28

Fantasize instead of having social relations

Question 29

Increasingly violent fantasies

Answer 29

developed through trauma

Question 30

Dissociation

Answer 30

unable to confront trauma

Question 31

Facilitators

Answer 31

Things to cope with trauma - alcohol, drugs, porn

Question 32

Homicidal behavior

Answer 32

acts of violence

Question 33

Which murders plan to die during their plan?

Answer 33

Public mass murderers

Question 34

revenge

Answer 34

wanting to get even with someone or a group

Question 35

power

Answer 35

enjoy the fear they cause

Question 36

loyalty

Answer 36

save someone they care about

Question 37

profit

Answer 37

eliminate other witnesses

Question 38

terror

Answer 38

send a message

Question 39

what can cause school shooters

Answer 39

social and peer rejection

Question 40

disciple mass killer

Answer 40

creating a relationship and in the end asking them to harm themselves (Momo)

Question 41

Cults

Answer 41

groups with leaders that have malintentions - they gain the trust and eventually control them

Question 42

Jonestown Massacre

Answer 42

Pastor that convinced 900 followers to kill their children and commit suicide