Chapter 8- Final Exam Flashcards
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
violence
goes with psychopathy
- injury of individual is secondary to the acquisition of another external goal
- money, status, security or material goods
instrumental violence
AKA expressive violence
-physical violence perpetrated by a hostile and angry reaction to a perceived threat or dangerous situation
reactive violence
What are the causes of violence?
biological factors socialization factors cognitive factors situational factors (hostile attribution bias)
processes through which a person learns patterns of thinking, behavior and feeling from is or her early life
- social behavior
- antisocial beliefs
socialization factors
ideas beliefs and patterns of thinking that emerge as a result of interactions with the world during a persons lifetime
- problem solving
- antisocial beliefs
cognitive factors
characteristics of the environment such as stress or agression in others that encourage or endanger violent behavior
- stress
- aggression
- aversive situations
- deprived environments
situational factors
greater impact on young children than adults
observational learning
inhibits natural inhibition to violence
long term effects of violent media
predicting future violence or undesirable actions targeted at specific individuals or institutions after an expressed threat has been communicated
-focus on preventing violence
threat assessment
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.
school shootings
What are the types of school shootings?
direct
indirect
veiled
conditional
a wide assortment of threatening and injurious behaviors that occur within one’s place of employment
workplace violence
What are the 4 main types of workplace violence based on the assailants relationship to workplace
violence between employees an supervisors
stress management
increase in workplace violence litigation
threat assesments
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
Safe School Initiative (SSI)
“unlawful killing of one human by another with malice afterthought either expressed or implied”
criminal homicide
unintended killing that results from unjustifiable conduct that places others at risk
manslaughter
individuals separately kill a number of individuals over time there is a cooling off period
serial murder
the killing of 3 or more individuals usually at 2 or 3 different locations- there is no cooling off period
spree murder
the killing of 3 or more persons at a single location
- no cooling off period
- classic
- family
- availability heuristic
mass murder
little empirical research
- case studies
- descriptive
- self reports
- most are not mentally disordered
serial killers
Holmes and DeBurger created a serial killer typology, there are 4 aspects to it, what are they?
visionary
mission oriented
hedonistic
power control
serial killer driven by delusions or hallucinations that compel the person to kill a particular group of individuals
visionary type
serial killer who believes that there is a particular group of people who are considered undesirable and who must be destroyed or eliminated
mission-oriented type
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
hedonistic type
Type of serial killer who obtains satisfaction from the absolute life-or-death control has over the victim
power-control killer
sudden and unpredictable offender is immediately known socially isolated MENTALLY DISORDERED gain recognition control
mass murder
crimes motivated by an offenders learned prejudice against particular social groups
hate crimes
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
stalking
What are the 3 behavioral clusters of stalking?
erotomanic- the most dellusional
love obsessional
simple obsessional
usually has a serious mental disorder and is often considered delusional. Public figures are typically targets of this type of stalking
erotomania stalkers
stalkers who seek a love relationship with a stranger or causal acquaintance with whom they are obsessed
love obsession stalkers
stalkers who seek power and control after a failed relationship with the victim; often associated with past domestic violence
simple obsessional
