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Homicide Flashcards

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Homicide

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the intentional killing of another person

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Personality Type

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the psychological classification of people into discrete categories based on the statistical combination of specific attributes

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2 Personality Types

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Type A

Machiavellian

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Uncontrolled Offender

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quick temper
low tolerance for frustration
failure to internalize inhibitions or restraints against behaving aggressively

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Over-controlled Offender

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extremely rigid behavioural inhibition system against the expression of aggressive impulses
violence characterized as explosive

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Frustration-Aggression Hypothesis

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goal blockage leads to aggression

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Cognitive Neo-Association Model

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Negative effect leads to fight or flight

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Excitement Transfer Theory

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residual arousal

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General Aggression Model

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Inputs (individual, situational factors)
Routes (arousal, affect, cognitions)
Outcomes (behavioural responses)

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Self-Regulation

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the ability to control our emotional responses and evaluate and select appropriate behavioural responses

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Under-regulation

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disinhibited or impulsive behaviour that results from a failure to exert control over one’s feelings and subsequent behaviour

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Filicide

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general term that refers to the killing of a child by a parent

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Neonaticide

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killing of an infant within the first 24 hours since birth

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Infanticide

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killing of a child older than 24 hours

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Parricide

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murder of a parent by their child

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Matricide

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killing of one’s mother

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Patricide

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killing of one’s father

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Mass Murder

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form of multiple murder that involves killing four or more victims as part of one event at a single geographic location

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8 types of mass murderers

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Disciple Mass Killer
Family Annihilator
Disgruntled Employee Mass Killer
Ideological Mass Killer
Set-and-Run Mass Killer
Disgruntled Citizen Mass Killer
School Shooter
Psychotic Mass Killer
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Disciple Mass Killer

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a type of mass murderer who kills as a result of their relationship with a person ordering the murders

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Destructive Cult

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a strictly organized group that has a charismatic leader, uses deceptive means to recruit members and retains them through manipulative strategies that negate freedom of choice

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Coercive Persuasion

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forms of social influence that produce significant changed in an individuals behaviour and thought processes

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Love Bombing

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a recruitment tactic often employed by cults that involves showering potential recruits in unconditional love

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3 types of School Shooters

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Traumatized School Shooter
Psychotic School Shooter
Psychopathic School Shooter

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Traumatized School Shooter

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developmental risk factors
broken home, abuse
parental substance abuse/criminality

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Psychotic School Shooter

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serious mental health problems, schizophrenia wth paranoid delusions/hallucinations

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Psychopathic School Shooter

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psychopath
lack of empathy
high levels of narcissism

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Spree Murder

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a form of multiple murder that involves killing the victims during one continuous event at two or more geographic locations

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Serial Murder

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a form of multiple murder that involved killing two or more victims at different times

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Paraphilia Disorder

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causes the person distress or impairment or involved infliciting psychological distress or physical harm on another

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Erotophonophilia

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involves the murder of an unsuspecting sexual partner

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Organized Killer

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generally intelligent
socially and sexually adept
emotionally controlled

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Disorganized Killer

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socially and sexually inept

below average intelligence

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Visionary Serial Killer

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motivated by a serious psychotic disorder

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Mission-Oriented Serial Killer

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targets based on agenda/mission, selecting victims whom they deem to be unworthy and should be eliminated from society

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Hedonistic Serial Killer

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thrill or enjoyment derived from killing

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Power-Oriented Serial Killer

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motivated by power from exercising ultimate life-or-death control over another

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MacDonald Triad

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3 behavioural problems that emerge in childhood

  • fire-setting
  • cruelty towards animals
  • enuresis (bedwetting)
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Norris’ Addiction Model of Homicide

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the act of murder has a ritualistic aspect for serial killers that leads them to become addicted or compelled to kill

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6 Stages of Addiction Model of Homicide

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Aura Phase
Trolling Phase
Wooing Phase
Capture and Murder Phase
Totem Phase
Depression Phase
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Hickeys Trauma-Control Model

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the combination of certain predispositional factors and early traumatic events interact with several other factors over the life course to ‘create’ a serial killer

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Dissociation

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an adaptive response to serious traumatic events that provoke intense feelings of anxiety

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