psych 2031

Question 1

ViCLAS

Answer 1

The violent crime linkage analysis system developed by the rcmp to collect and analyze info on serious crime in Canada

Question 2

An inability on the part of the police to link geographically dispersed serial crimes committed by the same offender because of information sharing among agencies

Answer 2

Linkage blindness

Question 3

what are the 4 clusters of sex offender

Answer 3

1.Hunters- (Actively seek out victims close to their home)

2.Poachers- (who travel far to find victim)

3.trollers- (who encounter victim during regular routine)

4.trappers- (who put themselves into a situation)

Question 4

A model of personality that assumes the primary determinants of behaviour are stable, internal traits

Answer 4

Classic Trait model

Question 5

An investigate technique that uses crime scene locations to predict the most likely area where an offender resides

Answer 5

Geographic profiling

Question 6

What is the basic assumption behind geographic profiling?

Answer 6

Most serial offenders do not travel far from home, therefore it should be possible to accurately predict where they live

Question 7

a label used to describe a person whose psychopathic traits are assumed to be due to environmental factors

Answer 7

Sociopathy

Question 8

How to interview a psychopath (Quayle)

Answer 8

1. Know the case
2. Control the interview, authority
   3.Show admiration
   4.avoid criticism
   5.avoid conveying emotion

Question 9

What might a psychopath do in an interview?

Answer 9

-Try to outsmart interrogator

-enjoy the attention

-attempt to control interrogation

Question 10

A theory that suggests psychopaths fail to use contextual cues that are peripheral to a dominant response set to modulate their behaviour

Answer 10

response modulation deficit theory

Question 11

Filicide

Answer 11

When parents kill their children

Question 12

Familicide

Answer 12

The killing of a spouse and children

Question 13

Femicide

Answer 13

Killing of women

Question 14

Androcide

Answer 14

Killing of men

Question 15

When an individual has killed two or more victims in separate events

Answer 15

Serial murder

Question 16

when an individual has killed multiple victims in one event at one location

Answer 16

Mass murder

Question 17

offender must have killed two or more victims in one continuous event at two or more locations

Answer 17

spree murder

Question 18

Visionary serial murderer

Answer 18

A murderer who kills in response to voices or visions telling them to kill

Question 19

This type of killer is motivated by self gratification and is divided into 3 subsets, lust, thrill, comfort

Answer 19

Hedonistic serial murderer

Question 20

reporting details of a previously witnessed event or person

Answer 20

recall memory

Question 21

determining whether a previously seen item or person is the same as what is currently being viewed

Answer 21

Recognition memory

Question 22

3 ways police limited their ability to collect complete accurate information from eye witnesses

Answer 22

1. police interrupting eye witnesses
2. short specific questions
3. asked questions that were predetermined and inconsistent with information that witness provided them with

Question 23

memory conformity

Answer 23

when what one witness reports influences what another witness reports

Question 24

what are 2 techniques used in hypnosis?

Answer 24

1. Age regression (witness goes back in time and relives the event)
2. television technique (witness imagines they are watching the event on an imaginary technique)

Question 25

4 memory retrieval techniques in cognitive interview

Answer 25

1. reinstate context
   2.report everything
   3.reversing order
   4.changing perspective

Question 26

why are photo arrays more common than lineup?

Answer 26

-Less time consuming
-Portable
-Photos are static
-witness may be less anxious

Question 27

Identification procedure that shows one person to the witness

Answer 27

Showup

Question 28

Walk-by identification

Answer 28

When a witness is brought out in public by police to identify suspect

Question 29

Cross race effect

Answer 29

People being able to identify faces of their own race more accurately than faces of other races

Question 30

What methods are used to determine an offenders background characteristics?

Answer 30

Deductive - Evidence left at crime scene
Inductive- evidence at crime scene compared to other solved crimes, previous offenders characteristics

Question 31

What is a risk of criminal profiling?

Answer 31

Tunnel vision

Question 32

Homology assumption of criminal profiles

Answer 32

Similar crimes are committed by similar people

Question 33

DSM-5

Answer 33

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of mental Disorder

Question 34

Disregard for rights, and violation of other from childhood, early adolescents, criminal behaviour, little guilt, untruthful, risk-taking

Answer 34

Pervasive Pattern

Question 35

Symptoms of APD

Answer 35

– Repeatedly engaging in criminal acts
– Deceitfulness
– Impulsivity
– Irritability
– Reckless behaviors
– Irresponsibility
– Lack of remorse

Question 36

what % of adult offenders in prison have psychopathy

Answer 36

10-25%

Question 37

What % of general pop have psychopathy?

Answer 37

0.5%

Question 38

How to measure Psychopathy?

Answer 38

PCL-R
PPI-R
Tri-PM

Question 39

Underlying mechanisms for psychopathy?

Answer 39

-Immaturity of prefrontal cortex
- Low arousal in autonomic nervous system)