Lecture 4 - Violence

Question 1

Briefly describe the crime of stalking

Answer 1

A crime of intimidation. A course of conduct directed at a specific person that involves repeated physical or visual proximity, non-consensual communication or threats sufficient to cause fear.

Included under UK “Protection of Freedoms Act 2012”.

Question 2

Name the 4 typologies of stalkers according to Miller 2012.

Answer 2

1. Intimate - most likely violent ex
2. Acquaintance - know them but not intimate e.g. work colleague
3. Public Figure - never had relationship
4. Private Stranger - never met but familiar.

Question 3

Name the 4 behavioural clusters of stalking.

Answer 3

1. Erotomanic
2. Love obsessional
3. Simple obsessional
4. Vengeance

Most at risk = history of violence + threats + rejection.

Question 4

Name the 3 types of intimate partner violence.

Answer 4

1. Generally violent/antisocial = history of violence
2. Dysphoric/Borderline = mod=sev violence, emotionally unstable
3. Family only = low sev and frequency, irregular, least psychopathology.

Question 5

Outline the different types of violent crimes in the family.

Answer 5

Domestic violence
Child abuse - neglect, violence, sexual, emotional.
Infanticide - Munchausen syndrome by proxy (make child ill) Shaken baby syndrome (brain damage)
Elder abuse
Pet abuse

Question 6

Name the 3 types of violence

Answer 6

1. Instrumental = secondary to other goal
2. Reactive = violence precipitated by perceived threat in that situation.
3. Expressive = part of pleasure

Question 7

Name the 3 categories of murder.

Answer 7

Serial Murder - 3 or more over time
Spree - 3 or more in a day but different locations
Mass Murder - 3 or more one location e.g. family.

Question 8

Name the 4 typologies of serial and mass killing.

Answer 8

1. Visionary-Hallucinations - certain group, chaotic crime scene.
2. Mission-oriented - group of people eliminated
3. Hedonistic
4. Power control