Exam 3 Flashcards
Family Annihilator
person who murders his whole family or whoever is available to him during the act
Pseudo-Commandos
preoccupied by firearms and commit act after long deliberation
Set-and-run Killers
Use techniques allowing possibility of escape
Newman’s 5 Conditions of a Potential Rampage
- Marginalization (Perceived or otherwise)
- Psychosocial Problems
- Cultural Scripts
- Failure of surveillance
- Attainability to unsupervised weapon
School Shooters
predominately teenage males
Bifurcated Killing
Continuous
Killer begins in one place, stops, then continues killing in another place
Work-related Homicide Categories
- Sales and office
- Service Occupations (production, transport, etc.)
- Management, business and financial
- Professional & Related
Non-Employee Workplace Killing
former employee, disgruntled customer, overraction in a robbery attempt, or unknown motive
robbery is largest category
NRM Risk Factors
History of violence
Leader’s current condition
Abrupt reversal of direction
Attempts to gain knowledge to carry out violence
Purchase of weapons
Training in weapons
Setting date for imminent transformation
Having the means
Neutral Factors
Members have unquestioning adherence to leader and beliefs
The group segregates itself from others
Members adopt unfamiliar customs and rituals
Protective Factors
Indications a group is stable
-Practical steps to plan for the future
-Adopts bureaucratic processes that routinize affairs
-When leader dies a more conventional style of governance is established
Security Threat Groups (STGs)
prison-based gangs
