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An addiction to mixing sexual pleasure and fatal violence. (Hit rock bottom. Can no longer stop their killing).

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Serial Killer Syndrome

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What were the 3 main schools of Criminological thought?

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Classical (1764)
Positive (1820)
Chicago (1920)

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VICAP stands for:

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The violent criminal apprehension program

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How many agents does VICAP have? Of these, about how many work on cases of unknown serial sex murders?

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180 agents/violent crime

Of these, only about 10 work on cases of unknown serial sex murders.

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What state has the highest frequency of serial murder?

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California

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Who came up with the term “Serial Killer Syndrome?

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C. Everette Koop (US Surgeon General under President Regan) 1984 DSM III.

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Research on serial murder lacks predictive quality because:

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  • only studying those who get caught
  • constellation of factors/common characteristics
  • made not born
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Name the disciplines involved in the study of the causes of crime:

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  • biology
  • sociology
  • psychology
  • anthropology
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____________ was a poster child for serial murder.

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Arthur Shawcross

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In order to be found mentally ill, only partial insanity needs to be found

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The Brawner Rule (U.S. V. Brawner 1972) AKA The Substantial Capacity Test

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If you have these behaviors occurring in one child then that child has been through a lot of trauma and needs therapy.

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The McDonald Triad

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According to the McDonald Triad, these three are indicators of severe trauma:

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  • animal cruelty
  • chronic bed wetting
  • fire starting
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4 Preconditions for serial killing

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  • they have to have feelings that mix with fatal violence and sexual pleasures.
  • overcome internal inhibitions/the taboo
  • overcome external inhibitions/avoid getting caught
  • being able to overcome resistance by the victim
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_________ started as a result of the case of Ted Bundy

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VICAP

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This organization is for repetitive offenders:

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The national center for the analysis of violent crime (NCAVC)

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Causation of serial killing:

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Mixture of biological, psychological and sociological characteristics.

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Which of Matza’s neutralizations was the most relevant for serial murder?

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Denial of the victim

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Anomie is a feature of the rapidly industrialized society itself

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Durkeim

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Durkeim believed that:

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Anomie (societies who don’t regulate people’s desires) was the reason why people became normless.

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7 phases of ritualistic behavior of serial murder

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(1) aura (fantasy)
(2) trolling (elements, types, non-site/site)
(3) wooing
(4) capture
(5) murder
(6) totem
(7) depression

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the intentional killing of another human being with premeditation and deliberation, including malice aforethought without regard for the law.

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Murder 1

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Killing occurs at one point in time without a cooling off period.

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Mass murder

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killing 3/4 people or more at different points in time with a cooling-off period in between; different time and different location.

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Serial murder

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Becoming a serial murder:

Murder is a _______ rather than an ______ ______.

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Murder is a process rather than an abrupt occurrence.

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erupting & going into a killing spree
Spree AKA Cluster Murder
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Mental disorders
can NOT treat symptoms
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Mental illness
can treat symptoms
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In order for the act(s) to be paraphilia (s):
- engaged in the activity for at least 6 months - serial sex killers have consistently had one or more of these performed on them as a child - have engaged in at least one paraphilia
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Types of murder:
- disorganized - organized - visionary - mission oriented - hedonistic (thrills) - power/control
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"social standing is catalyst"
Leyton (1986) -social class theory
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supports same class theory of victimization
Gunn (2000) - social class theory
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Same class-same race commit crimes against each other
Social class theory
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Generational behaviors-bad care takers-learned it by how they were treated:
Social process theory
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Coercive cycle (kids learn abusive parenting from their parents)
Inglis (1978)
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Used to describe a person capable of performing acts of sexual perversion on his or her victims without any remorse, emotion, or love.
Sex maniac
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Violent offending resulting from extraordinary beating and sexual abuse is called:
Soul murder (miller 1984)
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As a result of soul murder:
Do unto others what has been done to you.
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Anomie is the feature of the person living in a rapidly growing society.
Robert Merton
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Merton's legitimate goals:
- conformity - innovation - ritualism - retreatism - rebellion
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7 Elements of a Crime:
(1) behavior (2) threat of or actual act of harm (3) act must be illegal (4) act subject to be punished (5) mens rea (6) actus reas (7) combination of mens rea and actus reas (concurrence)
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Personality Disorders:
- Dissociative identity disorder (Multiple personality disorder) - Dissociative Amnesia - Fugue (sudden/unexpected travel away from home with the inability to recall one's past). - Depersonalization (outer body experiences)
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Sexual arousal through deviant or bizarre activities:
Paraphilia
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What piece did Lombroso add to CJ?
Switch from the criminal act to the actor
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___ percent of serial killers who have been caught have engaged in at least three of the mentioned paraphilias.
63.
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Sexual arousal cannot occur without the presence of one or more:
Paraphilia
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Viket v. Jones (1980)
- You can have a hearing before you can take someone to a mental hospital. - 5150 (a mental health hold for 72 hours)
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American/Chicago school:
Study of 3 D's - defective - dependent - delinquent
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__ is the most prevalent type of paraphilia.
Rape
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Evil people are referred to as:
The people of the lie
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McNaughten Rule (1878)
Sir Robert Peel - Not guilty by reason of insanity - guilty but insane - incompetent to stand trial
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Kaimowitz V. Michigan:
(outlawed frontal lobotomies) - Biological causes - head trauma/brain injury** - chromosomal imbalances - vitamin deficiencies - computer screens - artificial lighting - toxic poisoning (lead, nuclear waste)**
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population density=
increase in vicimization
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Urban homicide rates (y) tend to be associated with:
Social disorder (x)
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What is Ted Bundy's full name?
Theodore Robert Bundy
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Who was Ted Bundy?
An american serial killer, kidnapper, rapist, burglar, and necrophile who assaulted and murdered numerous young women and girls during the 1970s and possibly earlier.
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Ted Bundy was born on: | And died on:
Born on November 24th, 1946 in Burlington VT and died on January 24th, 1989 in Florida State Prison. (He was executed)
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Ted Bundy had ___ victims and was suspected of ___.
He had over 30 victims and was suspected of 100.
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Carole Anne Boone was:
Ted Bundy's Spouse. They were married from 1980-1986.
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Ted Bundy's education:
University of Utah from 1973-1974
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Eleanor Louise Cowell and Johnny Culpepper Bundy were:
Ted Bundy's parents.
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"The act"
Classical school (Beccaria)
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"The actor"
Positive school (Lombroso)
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Jones v. US (1983)
popular; still used. It ruled that insanity may continue after the criminal act, and therefore the offender could be placed in a psychiatric facility until it has been decided he/she has fully recovered from his/her afflictions.”

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