Chapter 8 - Violent Offending Flashcards

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reactive violence

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impulsive reaction to a real or perceived threat
ex: assault due to rage

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instrumental violence

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premeditated and aimed at achieving secondary goal
ex: assault in order to rob someone

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first-degree murder

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planned and deliberate
- when victim is a peace officer or when death is caused by terrorism, etc
- mandatory life sentence 25yrs before parole

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second-degree murder

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murder that is not first-degree
- not planned, excessive force
- mandatory life sentence 10yrs before parole

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infanticide

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mother causes death of newly-born child when not fully recovered/mind is disturbed from effects of childbirth
- max 5yrs in prison

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manslaughter

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committed during heat of passion or sudden provocation that overwhelms self-control, or due to criminal negligence

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multiple murder

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killing 3 or more victims

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mass murder

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single location with no ‘cooling off period’
- ex: Marc Lepine killed 14 women at Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal

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spree murder

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two or more locations with no ‘cooling-off period’
- ex: Justin Bourque killed 3 RCMP officers in Moncton
in 2014

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serial murder

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cooling off period b/t murders usually occurring in diff locations
- ex: Robert Pickton confessed to killing 49 women in BC in the 90s

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assault and the levels of it

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assault: physical aggression

level 1 - common assault
level 2 - assault w/ weapon, threat of arm, or causing bodily harm
level 3 - aggravated assault, maiming, disfiguring, endangering life

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robbery

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actual or threatened use of violence when stealing

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terrorism

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committed for a political, religious, or ideological purpose to intimidate public’s security
- OR to compel a person, gov, or organization to do or refrain from doing an act

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example of terrorism

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17 yr old boy stabbed and killed receptionist; he was found w/ a note “long live the incel rebellion”

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hate crime

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motivated by hate based on race, national or ethnic origin, language, color, religion, sex, age etc
- no formal definition (less ideological and politically motivated than terrorism)

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16
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social learning theory: operant conditioning (examples of reinforcement/
punishment)

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operates vicariously through observing others:
pos. reinf - child pushes another kid and steals toy
pos. pun - child is scolded by parent, they don’t get toy, feel bad, avoid future aggression
neg reinf - child is bullied and punches bully to silence them
neg pun - teacher scolds child for punching bully, excludes them from field trip

17
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self-reinforcement

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  • part of operant conditioning
  • ex: feel powerful and assertive rather than guilty and remorseful (learned through lack of discipline)
  • mediated by cognition; attention, perception, memory (ex: hostile attribution bias)
18
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biosocial model of violence

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  • genetic vulnerabilities interact w/ enviro factors (bad temperament and no discipline)
  • biological correlates of antisocial beh (low resting heartrate, fearlessness theory and stim-seeking theory- esp when combined w/ large fam and poor relation w/ parent(s))
  • low skin conductance
  • nicotine and alcohol exposure in utero
  • lack of oxygen at birth
19
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two-path model of criminal violence

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  • model showing genetic/bio interactions w/ social factors
  • tested on 868 men w/ history of violence
  • the two paths are NOT mutually exclusive
20
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Path 1 of the two-path model of criminal violence

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neurodevelopmental insults like brain trauma combined w/ antisociall parenting

21
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Path 2 of two-path model of criminal violence

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psychopathy and other related diagnoses interact w/ antisocial parenting
- model doesn’t account for combined heritable and social factors that lead to psychopathy