Mar 11

Question 1

Reactive violence

Answer 1

Impulsive reaction to a real or perceived provocation or threat

Question 2

Example of reactive violence

Answer 2

Assault due to rage

Question 3

Instrumental violence

Answer 3

Premeditated and aimed at achieving secondary goal

Question 4

Example of instrumental biolence

Answer 4

Assault in order to rob someone

Question 5

Four classes of homicide

Answer 5

First-degree murder
Second-degree murder
Infanticide
Manslaughter

Question 6

First-degree murder

Answer 6

Planned and deliberate

Question 7

First-degree murder sentencing

Answer 7

Mandatory life sentence with no eligibility for parole until after 25 years

Question 8

Additional info about first-degree murder

Answer 8

When victim is a peace officer, when death is caused by terrorist activity, murder committed during sexual assault/kidnapping/hijacking aircraft/no precedence, etc.

Question 9

Second-degree murder

Answer 9

Murder that is not first-degree
Did not plan it or intend to kill

Question 10

Second-degree murder sentencing

Answer 10

Mandatory life sentence with no eligibility for parole until after 10 years

Question 11

Infanticide

Answer 11

Mother causes death or newly-born child when not fully recovered/mind is disturbed from effects of child birth

Question 12

Sentencing for infanticide

Answer 12

Maximum 5 years

Question 13

Manslaughter

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Examples of manslaughter

Answer 14

Walk in and see someone abusing their child
Kill someone in bar fight

Question 15

Multiple murder

Answer 15

Killing 3 or more victims

Question 16

Three types of multiple murders

Answer 16

Mass murder
Spree murder
Serial murder

Question 17

Mass murder

Answer 17

Single location with no “cooling-off period”

Question 18

Example of mass murder

Answer 18

Marc Lepine killed 14 women at Montreal’s Ecole Polytechnique (1989)

Question 19

Spree murder

Answer 19

Two or more locations with no “cooling-off period”

Question 20

Example of spree murder

Answer 20

Justin Bourque killed 3 RCMP officers in Moncton (2014)

Question 21

Serial murder

Answer 21

Cooling-off period between murders usually occurring at different locations

Question 22

2 examples of serial murder

Answer 22

Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka killed 3 teen girls in St. Catherine’s Ontario (1990s)
Robert Pickton confessed to killing 49 women in BC (1990s)

Question 23

Assault

Answer 23

Physical aggression

Question 24

Examples of assault

Answer 24

Pushing, slapping, punching, face-to-face verbal threats (e.g., spitting)

Question 25

4 types of assault

Answer 25

Common assault/level 1
Assault with a weapon/level 2
Assault causing bodily harm/level 2
Aggravated assault/level 3

Question 26

Examples of aggravated assault/level 3

Answer 26

Maiming, disfiguring, endangering life of victim

Question 27

Robbery

Answer 27

Actual or threatened use of violence when stealing

Question 28

Theft

Answer 28

Just stealing (not violent)

Question 29

Terrorism

Answer 29

Committed for a political, religious, or ideological purpose with intention to intimidate the public’s security, including economic security or to compel a person, a government, or organization to do or refrain from doing an act

Question 30

2 examples of Terrorism

Answer 30

Nathaniel Veltman ran over and killed 4 and injured 1; a Muslim Pakistani Canadian family (Islamaphobia)
17-year-old boy stabbed and killed a spa receptionist; he was found with a note “long live the incel rebellion” (misogyny)

Question 31

Hate crime

Answer 31

Motivated by hate based on race, national or ethnic origin, language, colour, religion, sex, age, mental or physical disability, sexual orientation or gender identity or expression
No formal definition (less ideologically/politically motivated than terrorism)