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Module 12 Flashcards

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1
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What are single homicides?

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Only involve one victim (common)

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What is multiple homicides?

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Involve more than one victim

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What are the 3 types of multiple murders?

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  • Spree murder
  • Serial murder
  • Mass murder
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How many victims in spree murder?

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2+

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How many victims in serial murder?

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2+

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How many victims in mass murder?

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4+

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How many events in spree murder?

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1

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How many events in serial murder?

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2+

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How many events in mass murder?

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1

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How many locations in spree?

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2+

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How many locations in serial?

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2+

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How many locations in mass?

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1

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13
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Does spree murder have a cooling off period?

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no

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14
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Does serial murder have a cooling off period?

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yes

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15
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Does mass murder have a cooling off period?

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No

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How long is a cooling off period?

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At least 30 days.

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17
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What are usually the targets of serial homicide?

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Act alone on strangers

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What is the average age of serial killer? What sex and race?

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  • 25-40
  • Male
  • Slightly higher African than white
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What is the average number of victims for a serial killer? What sex>

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  • 4
  • Women
  • Often prostitutes
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What are the 6 types of serial killers?

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  • Visionary
  • Mission-Oriented
  • Power/control
  • Hedonistic: Lust
  • Hedonistic: Thrill
  • Hedonistic: Comfort-Oriented
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What type of serial killer is more common in women?

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Hedonistic: Comfort-Oriented

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What is the motive and victim of visionary serial killer?

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  • Psychotic
  • Random
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What is the motive and victim of mission-oriented serial killer?

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  • Eliminate specific group
  • Non random
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What is the motive and victim of power/control serial killer?

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  • Absolute dominance
  • Non random
25
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What is the motive and victim of hedonistic: lust serial killer?

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  • Sexual gratification
  • Random
26
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What is the motive and victim of hedonistic: thrill serial killer?

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  • Excitement
  • Random
27
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What is the motive and victim of hedonistic: comfort-oriented serial killer?

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  • Financial gain
  • Non random
28
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What are the 4 criticisms of dividing serial killers into different types?

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  • Overlap of types
  • Types were generated from case files
  • Cannot explain changing motives
  • Lack of empirical scrutiny or analyses by other researchers
29
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Who should that there was no evidence of these typologies?

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Cantor and Wentrik

30
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What are the limitations of current research on psychopathy and serial killers?

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  • Small case studies
  • Not scientifically rigorous in scoring
  • Estimate that 90% are psychopaths is inflated
31
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What are the 3 points of the mcdonald triad?

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  • Fire setting
  • Torturing animals
  • Enuresis (bed wetting)
32
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What 2 things added = serial murder?

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  • Adverse childhood experience
  • Mcdonald triad
33
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What are 3 things serial killers experienced in early childhood (3-8)?

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  • 63% childhood abuse
  • 34% domestic violence
  • 56% abandoned by 1 parent
34
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What 2 things serial killers experience in middle childhood (9-15)?

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  • 71% rejected by peers causing maladjusted coping (internalizing, fantasizing)
  • 64% violent fantasizing, conceptualization of death
35
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What 2 things of serial killers in late adolescence (16-19)?

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  • 48% conduct disorder
  • 58% juvenile record
36
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What 2 things of serial killers in adulthood (20-30)?

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  • 46% never married
  • 87% at least one criminal conviction
37
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What is the average age of a serial killers first murder?

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30

38
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What is offender profiling?

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Technique for identifying the personality and behavioural features of an offender based on an analysis of the crimes they have committed.

39
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What are the 4 goals of profiling?

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  • Suspect prioritization
  • New lines of enquiry
  • Interview strategies
  • Flush out offender
    ** Goal is to narrow suspects not necessarily identifying the exact person.
40
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How is a profile constructed?

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What + why

41
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What is deductive profiling?

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  • Profiling an offender from evidence relating to that offender (ex. body found with no blood so that is not the crime scene)
42
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What is inductive profiling?

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  • Profiling an offender from what is known about other offenders (ex. most serial killers that attack people in parking lots are white males, if the offender attacked people in parking lots, its likely the offender is a white male)
43
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What is the FBI model of offender profiling?

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Organized-disorganized model

44
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What are the behaviours of the organized portion of the organized-disorganized model?

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  • planning
  • Using restraints
  • sex acts prior
  • use of vehicle
  • Little evidence
  • body left
  • no post death mutilation
45
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What are the behaviours of the disorganized portion of the organized-disorganized model?

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  • spontaneous
  • no restraints
  • sex acts after
  • no vehicle
  • post death mutilation
  • evidence left
  • body or parts taken
46
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What are the characteristics of the organized portion of the organized-disorganized model?

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  • Avg IQ
  • Skilled job
  • lives with partner
  • Has car
  • Follows media
  • Sexually adequate
  • Intrest in media
  • Geographically mobile
47
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What are the characteristics of the disorganized portion of the organized-disorganized model?

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  • Below avg IQ
  • unskilled job
  • lives alone
  • lives close to crime
  • little media interest
  • sexually inadequate
  • minimal interest in media
  • geographically stable
48
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What are the 4 criticisms of the organized-disorganized model?

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  • Theoretical underpinnings (We are assuming traits are stable which they are not)
  • Prevalence of “mixed” crime scenes (crime scenes can be both organized and disorganized, its not one or the other)
  • Many profilers are ambiguous
  • Profilers are no more experts in the area then students trained shortly
49
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What is the Barnum effect?

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Finding personal meaning in vague statements that could apply to many people (ex. horoscopes).

50
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What has more support than behavioural profiling?

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geographical profiling

51
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What is geographic profiling?

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Technique use in serial crime investigations that involves an analysis of crime scene locations. Determines the probable area of offender residence

52
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What type of crime is committed closer to home?

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Sexual assaults

53
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What type of crime is committed farther from home?

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Property crime

54
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What is marauder? What precent of offenders follow this?

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  • Follow the circle hypothesis of geographical profiling
  • 80%
55
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What is commuter? What precent?

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  • Don’t follow circle hypothesis
  • 20%

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