Chapter 8- Final Exam

Question 1

physical force exerted for the purpose of

injury, pain or abuse on a person or persons or for the purpose of damaging or destroying property

Answer 1

violence

Question 2

goes with psychopathy

• injury of individual is secondary to the acquisition of another external goal
• money, status, security or material goods

Answer 2

instrumental violence

Question 3

AKA expressive violence

-physical violence perpetrated by a hostile and angry reaction to a perceived threat or dangerous situation

Answer 3

reactive violence

Question 4

What are the causes of violence?

Answer 4

biological factors
socialization factors 
cognitive factors
situational factors
(hostile attribution bias)

Question 5

processes through which a person learns patterns of thinking, behavior and feeling from is or her early life

• social behavior
• antisocial beliefs

Answer 5

socialization factors

Question 6

ideas beliefs and patterns of thinking that emerge as a result of interactions with the world during a persons lifetime

• problem solving
• antisocial beliefs

Answer 6

cognitive factors

Question 7

characteristics of the environment such as stress or agression in others that encourage or endanger violent behavior

• stress
• aggression
• aversive situations
• deprived environments

Answer 7

situational factors

Question 8

greater impact on young children than adults
observational learning
inhibits natural inhibition to violence

Answer 8

long term effects of violent media

Question 9

predicting future violence or undesirable actions targeted at specific individuals or institutions after an expressed threat has been communicated
-focus on preventing violence

Answer 9

threat assessment

Question 10

carefully planned by perpetrator
plan to kill specific group or hit list
statistically rare but immense psychological impact
terrorist attacks at school
schools as soft targets
global concern but have not occurred in U.S.

Answer 10

school shootings

Question 11

What are the types of school shootings?

Answer 11

direct
indirect
veiled
conditional

Question 12

a wide assortment of threatening and injurious behaviors that occur within one’s place of employment

Answer 12

workplace violence

Question 13

What are the 4 main types of workplace violence based on the assailants relationship to workplace

Answer 13

violence between employees an supervisors
stress management
increase in workplace violence litigation
threat assesments

Question 14

a variety of federal programs designed to increase safety; includes violence prevention as well as ways to deal with problems related to bullying and harrassment

Answer 14

Safe School Initiative (SSI)

Question 15

“unlawful killing of one human by another with malice afterthought either expressed or implied”

Answer 15

criminal homicide

Question 16

unintended killing that results from unjustifiable conduct that places others at risk

Answer 16

manslaughter

Question 17

individuals separately kill a number of individuals over time there is a cooling off period

Answer 17

serial murder

Question 18

the killing of 3 or more individuals usually at 2 or 3 different locations- there is no cooling off period

Answer 18

spree murder

Question 19

the killing of 3 or more persons at a single location

• no cooling off period
• classic
• family
• availability heuristic

Answer 19

mass murder

Question 20

little empirical research

• case studies
• descriptive
• self reports
• most are not mentally disordered

Answer 20

serial killers

Question 21

Holmes and DeBurger created a serial killer typology, there are 4 aspects to it, what are they?

Answer 21

visionary
mission oriented
hedonistic
power control

Question 22

serial killer driven by delusions or hallucinations that compel the person to kill a particular group of individuals

Answer 22

visionary type

Question 23

serial killer who believes that there is a particular group of people who are considered undesirable and who must be destroyed or eliminated

Answer 23

mission-oriented type

Question 24

serial killer who strives for pleasure and thrill seeking. To this killer, people are simply objects to use for one’s own enjoyment. It’s divided into lust, thrill and creature comfort killers

Answer 24

hedonistic type

Question 25

Type of serial killer who obtains satisfaction from the absolute life-or-death control has over the victim

Answer 25

power-control killer

Question 26

sudden and unpredictable
offender is immediately known
socially isolated 
MENTALLY DISORDERED 
gain recognition control

Answer 26

mass murder

Question 27

crimes motivated by an offenders learned prejudice against particular social groups

Answer 27

hate crimes

Question 28

crime of intimidation
the longer the duration the greater the potential damage to the victim
motive is to control intimidate or frighten victims
previous relationships and more dangerous

Answer 28

stalking

Question 29

What are the 3 behavioral clusters of stalking?

Answer 29

erotomanic- the most dellusional
love obsessional
simple obsessional

Question 30

usually has a serious mental disorder and is often considered delusional. Public figures are typically targets of this type of stalking

Answer 30

erotomania stalkers

Question 31

stalkers who seek a love relationship with a stranger or causal acquaintance with whom they are obsessed

Answer 31

love obsession stalkers

Question 32

stalkers who seek power and control after a failed relationship with the victim; often associated with past domestic violence

Answer 32

simple obsessional