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What is the term for sociological theories that focus primarily upon an individual’s socioeconomic standing to explain crime?
a. social process theories
b. social structure theories
c. social control theories
d. labeling theories

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b. social structure theories

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  1. A general argument posited by feminists regarding serial murder is that women are usually selected as victims because of their _____.
  2. A general argument posited by feminists regarding serial murder is that women are usually selected as victims because of their _____.
    a. powerlessness
    b. sexuality
    c. race
    d. social class
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a. powerlessness

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  1. Gunn, in her research on social class and serial murder, found that adult male victims are selected by social-class standing, whereas adult female victims are selected on the basis of their _____.
    a. sexuality
    b. financial standing
    c. gender
    d. race
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c. gender

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  1. These theories contend that criminal behavior is a function of a socialization process.
    a. social process theory
    b. social structure theory
    c. social control theory
    d. labeling theory
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a. social process theory

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According to Bandura, how can aggressive and violent behavior be substantially reduced?
a. providing appropriate non-violent role models
b. physically punishing children for aggressive behavior
c. allowing children to blow off steam in socially acceptable ways
d. controlling the sale of guns and weapons in our society

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a. providing appropriate non-violent role models

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According to researchers, what is the social learning of violence a direct result of?
a. being victimized
b. biological influences
c. gun ownership
d. viewing violence

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d. viewing violence

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What does the “coercive cycle” refer to?
a. parents learning abusive parenting techniques from their parents, then carrying them out with their own children
b. the revolving door of our punitive criminal justice system that perpetuates violent crime
c. the sexual exploitation of children
d. foster children being moved from one abusive family to the next that often leads them to become abusers themselves

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a. parents learning abusive parenting techniques from their parents, then carrying them out with their own children

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How does Miller refer to “soul murder” in her book For Your Own Good?
a. the horrible effects of being raised in an abusive foster home
b. extraordinary beatings and sexual abuses of young children by parents and relatives
c. the desire of some serial killers to not only kill children but to first destroy them emotionally
d. the effect of pervasive violence within our penal system that precludes criminals from ever being rehabilitated

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b. extraordinary beatings and sexual abuses of young children by parents and relatives

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As children at risk become adolescents, some of them will find themselves engaged in what Goffman referred to as _____ or places where routine degradation processes are the norm for stripping away individualism in order for conformity, compliance, and altruism to flourish.
a. partial institutions
b. state institutions
c. social institutions
d. total institutions

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d. total institutions

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What do Hirschi’s four elements of the social bond include?
a. alliances, involvement, participation, and belief
b. attachment, participation, cooperation, and regulation
c. attachment, commitment, involvement, and belief
d. alliances, commitment, cooperation, and regulation

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c. attachment, commitment, involvement, and belief

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How does Becker describe “moral entrepreneurs?”
a. people who create rules
b. religious zealots
c. persons who exploit those with moral values
d. persons who punish others for not sharing their same values

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a. people who create rules

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Less than _____ of all homicides in the United States are committed by juveniles.
a. 59 percent
b. 25 percent
c. 1 percent
d. 10 percent

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d. 10 percent

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According to Brown, et al., what is the culture of honor hypothesis?
a. It describes a thinking disorder that is difficult to treat.
b. Habitual criminals who are honorable experience internal conflicts when committing crimes.
c. States that place high regard on social status and strength in regards to one’s property, reputation, and family will have higher rates of violence and aggression than states classified as non-culture-of-honor states.
d. An idea that describes organized civil disobedience.

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C. States that place high regard on social status and strength in regards to one’s property, reputation, and family will have higher rates of violence and aggression than states classified as non-culture-of-honor states.

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Who perpetrates the most mass murders in grammar schools, junior high, and high schools?
a. pre-pubescent juveniles
b. teenagers
c. adults
d. teachers

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c. adults

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What are the four types of juvenile killers that Myers identified in his study?
a. explosive, predatory, revenge, displaced matricide
b. explosive, predatory, revenge, displaced patricide
c. calm, predatory, revenge, displaced matricide
d. explosive, rational, revenge, displaced matricide

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a. explosive, predatory, revenge, displaced matricide

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What are the three categories of offenders that Kirby classified?
a. primary juvenile offenders, secondary juvenile offenders, and tertiary juvenile offenders
b. primary juvenile offenders, maturing juvenile offenders, and secondary juvenile offenders
c. maturing juvenile offenders, mature juvenile offenders, adult offenders
d. juvenile offenders, adult offenders, and elderly offenders

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b. primary juvenile offenders, maturing juvenile offenders, and secondary juvenile offenders

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This killer of 10 victims, including his grandparents and mother, explained that “he was killing his mother all along.”
a. Craig Price
b. Eric Harris
c. Richard A.
d. Ed Kemper

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d. Ed Kemper

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Which of the following is not part of the MacDonald Triad?
a. fire-setting
b. animal cruelty
c. burglary
d. enuresis

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c. burglary

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Which of the following statements is correct?
a. Children who are physically or sexually abused seem to mimic their mistreatment on their companion animals.
b. For a mistreated child, power and dominance is preferable to the plight of helplessness.
c. Animal cruelty may signify a child’s preoccupation with death and that the child may be rehearsing their own suicide.
d. Cruelty to animals during childhood occurs much more often among aggressive criminals than among non-aggressive criminals or non-criminals.

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d. Cruelty to animals during childhood occurs much more often among aggressive criminals than among non-aggressive criminals or non-criminals.

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What should parents or guardians do when children are cruel to animals, according to Margaret Mead and other researchers?
a. never punish or discipline the child as they are already traumatized
b. always hold the child responsible through discipline
c. never hold the child responsible through punishment
d. always report such abuse to local authorities

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b. always hold the child responsible through discipline

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What does Price & Dodge’s intention-cue detection refer to?
a. attributional bias
b. reformational bias
c. fire-setting behavior
d. conduct disorder

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a. attributional bias

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What does Patterson’s “coercive family interaction patterns” suggest about abused children over time?
a. start fires in order to kill their abusers
b. report the abuse to authorities
c. rebel against the abuse
d. view abuse as normal

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d. view abuse as normal

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What percentage of the time is a child’s enuresis considered to be a “red flag” of something more serious?
a. 10
b. 20
c. 40
d. 50

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b. 20

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According to Fineman’s typologies of fire-setters, which of the following most closely resembles the profile of certain types of serial killers?
a. cry for help
b. delinquent
c. anti-social
d. revenge

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a. cry for help

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Hickey, in his Fresno Juvenile Fire study, noted all of the following about children who set fires except _____.
a. They are more frequently spanked or isolated from others than non-fire-setters.
b. They report bad experiences at home.
c. Their families often face financial problems, family restructuring, or relocation.
d. They often grow up to be arsonists.

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d. They often grow up to be arsonists.

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According to Hickey, what is the most likely explanation for serial murder?
a. organic brain pathology
b. childhood traumatization
c. mental illness
d. role modeling

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b. childhood traumatization

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For the psychopath, becoming adept as a serial killer requires perfecting this.
a. rationalization and unconscious pretense
b. rationalization and conscious pretense
c. conscious pretense
d. rationalization

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a. rationalization and unconscious pretense

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Offenders may suppress traumatic event(s) to the point where he or she cannot consciously recall the experience(s). What may this be called?
a. causal overkill
b. psychodynamic violence
c. splitting off the experience
d. psychological trauma

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c. splitting off the experience

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What does the “Mephisto Syndrome” describe?
a. a combination of dissociation and psychopathy
b. feelings of extreme frustration followed by aggression
c. characteristics of both psychotic and psychopathic persons
d. a combination of dissociation and psychosis

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a. a combination of dissociation and psychopathy

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Cline outlined a four-factor syndrome involving pornography. Which of the following is NOT one of those factors?
a. decompression
b. addiction
c. acting out
d. escalation

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a. decompression

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T/F- A social structure theorist would not say that criminal behavior is a function of a socialization process.

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True

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T/F- According to social structure theory, a child who is very attached to his/her parents will be less likely to engage in criminal behavior.

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FALSE

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According to social process theory, family has no significant effect on youths’ delinquent or violent behavior.

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FALSE

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Serial killers generally deny the victim according to neutralization theory.

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TRUE

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Classical control theory contends that punishment deters prospective murderers.

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TRUE

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In California, about how many of the nearly 120,000 registered sex offenders have committed crimes against children?
a. 1/3
b. 40,000
c. 2/3
d. 10,000

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c. 2/3

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Which of the following is considered to be a paraphilic serial killer?
a. Aileen Wuornos
b. Charles Albright
c. Kenneth Bianchi
d. Robert Hansen

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b. Charles Albright

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According to Money and Werlas, what does a paraphilia involve?
a. preference for the use of a non-human object for sexual arousal
b. real or simulated suffering or humiliation
c. an obsessive dependence on an unusual stimulus, either physical or fantasy
d. repetitive sexual activity with non-consenting partners

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c. an obsessive dependence on an unusual stimulus, either physical or fantasy

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How long does a paraphilia last, according to the DSM-V?
a. over a period of at least six months
b. over a period of at least two months
c. over a period of at least a month
d. a paraphilia may last only an instant

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a. over a period of at least six months

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Which one of the following is true?
a. Children are not sexual in any way until puberty.
b. Multiple paraphilia often exist in the same person.
c. Persons with paraphilia have often had a sexual trauma early in life.
d. Persons with paraphilia rarely have had any sort of early life trauma.

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b. Multiple paraphilia often exist in the same person.

41
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This killer placed Internet requests for young homosexual men interested in “slaughter and consumption” and received many serious responses. After meeting and rejecting four men because they were not suitable, he found a willing man in an Internet chat room. After the killing, the victim was butchered and kept in a refrigerator. By the time the homosexual paraphiliac was caught he had cannibalized most of the victim.
a. Charles Albright
b. Jeffrey Dahmer
c. Gary Heidnik
d. Armin Meiwes

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d. Armin Meiwes

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Which of the following paraphilia involves sexual arousal through the use of enemas?
a. infibulation
b. klismaphilia
c. autoeroticism
d. coprophilia

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b. klismaphilia

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Which of the following paraphilia involves sexual involvement of a person with dolls or mannequins?
a. necrophilia
b. anthropophagy
c. pygmalionism
d. pederasty

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c. pygmalionism

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What is the act or fantasy of engaging in sexual activity with prepubescent children as a preferred means of achieving sexual gratification and/or arousal?
a. fetishism
b. pedophilia
c. sexual masochism
d. zoophilia

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b. pedophilia

45
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Sarrel and Masters identified four typologies of female sex offenders. Which is not one of these?
a. forced assault
b. mother abuse
c. incestuous abuse
d. dominant woman abuse

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b. mother abuse

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Lawson identified four subtypes of female offenders. Which is not one of these?
a. heterosexual nurturers
b. the seductive abuse mother molester
c. the humiliation offender
d. the overt sexual abuse offender

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a. heterosexual nurturers

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Of the five types of female offenders Mathews identified, which are women with histories of personal abuse and substance addictions who act alone in efforts to find emotional intimacy?
a. teacher-lovers
b. male-coerced sexual offenders
c. the predisposed child molester
d. experimenter-exploiters

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c. the predisposed child molester

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These people seldom marry, are not sexually attracted to other adults, and in their own twisted perspective do not harm children because they care about them.
a. female sex offenders
b. pedophiles
c. abusers
d. serial killers

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b. pedophiles

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Each year in the United States about how many children are abducted, sexually assaulted, and killed by sexual predators?
a. about 50
b. about 150
c. less than 50
d. nearly 550

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b. about 150

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Rather than groom victims, these offenders are opportunistic and will molest children both in private and in public places, even when unsuspecting parents are close by.
a. child molesters
b. pedophiles
c. serial killers
d. female sex offenders

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a. child molesters

51
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What does NAMBLA stand for?
a. North American Model Boy Association
b. North American Man/Boy Love Association
c. National Association of Masters and Boys
d. National Association of Marlon Brando Lookalikes

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B). North American Man/Boy Love Association

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Which is NOT TRUE regarding compensatory rapists?
a. They are sexually stimulated by their environment.
b. They are passive, introverted, non-assertive men.
c. They like to demonstrate prowess and sexual adequacy.
d. They use extreme violence against their victims.

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d. They use extreme violence against their victims.

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Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE regarding John Jamelske?
a. His killing career lasted just under two years.
b. He viewed himself as unorthodox and a Casanova.
c. He hunted young women for nearly 16 years.
d. He constructed an underground, concrete bunker where he would keep sex slaves.

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a. His killing career lasted just under two years.

54
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Why did Melvin Carter, the College Terrace Rapist, return to the apartment of his “date”?
a. He fell in love with her and couldn’t bear to be without her.
b. He wanted to apologize for breaking into her apartment.
c. He felt terrible that he had forgotten her radio in his car, and he didn’t want her to think him a thief.
d. He forgot his keys.

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c. He felt terrible that he had forgotten her radio in his car, and he didn’t want her to think him a thief.

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Sexual sadism is to sexual masochism as _____ is to _____.
a. the punisher / the punished
b. observing / exposing
c. alive / dead
d. children / animals

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a. the punisher / the punished

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Which of the following is the very essence of the sadistic drive?
a. the wish to inflict pain
b. to end up life-long companions who share a common interest
c. to punish in order to correct passive behavior
d. the pleasure in the complete domination over another person

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d. the pleasure in the complete domination over another person

57
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What is another term for scopophilia (voyeurism)?
a. stroker
b. peeping tom
c. triolist
d. frotteur

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b. peeping tom

58
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Which is not considered an attack paraphilia?
a. necrophilia
b. pedophilia
c. scopophilia
d. sadism

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c. scopophilia

59
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Which is not considered a preparatory paraphilia?
a. necrophilia
b. erotomania
c. frottage
d. retifism

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a. necrophilia

60
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What does lust killing involve?
a. postmortem acts of mutilation and desecration
b. stabbing which is by far the preferred method of killing
c. voluntary participation by the victim
d. killing with an axe, the preferred method by most killers

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a. postmortem acts of mutilation and desecration

61
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This killer may have murdered over 100 victims. He was usually able to lure the intended victims to his car by asking them for assistance. He was always polite and friendly and sometimes wore his arm in a sling to appear as a harmless, well-bred young man simply in need of help. At other times he was known to lurk in dark shadows and attack women who were alone.
a. The Green River Killer
b. Charles Albright
c. Armin Meiwes
d. Ted Bundy

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d. Ted Bundy

62
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This killer’s fantasy for greater sexual pleasure led him, on November 26, 1968, to strangle Jan Whitney, 23 with a postal strap. After killing Whitney, he had sexual intercourse with the corpse, then cut off the right breast and made an epoxy mold of the organ. Before dumping her body in the river, he took pictures of the corpse.
a. Edmund Kemper
b. Jerry Brudos
c. Dennis Lynn Rader
d. Charles Ng

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b. Jerry Brudos

63
Q

What is a common fetish in Britain?
a. gas–mask fetish
b. women’s underwear fetish.
c. sex organs of corpses fetish.
d. women’s teeth fetish.

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a. gas–mask fetish

64
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Which is not another term for the “signature” or personal marking of an offender?
a. the MO or “method of operating”
b. the “calling card”
c. the “trademark”
d. the “paraphilic footprint”

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a. the MO or “method of operating”

65
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Between 1996 and 1997, this offender lived in Yosemite National Park where he worked as a handyman at several hotels. Those who knew him described him as likeable loner who never dated and was not inclined to close friendships.
a. Lewis, a 28 year old Gulf War Veteran
b. Edmund Kemper
c. Gerald Brudos
d. Cary Stayner

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d. Cary Stayner

66
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Sexual offenders often commit only one crime.

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TRUE

67
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For the offender, the sexual attack in certain serial killings is not an integral part of the murder, both psychologically and physiologically.

A

FALSE

68
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Most serial murders are sexual in nature.

A

TRUE

69
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The sex murderer appears to harbor deep-seated fantasies, whereas the lust murderer kills out of fear and a desire to silence his victim.

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FALSE

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