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Week 11 Flashcards

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Homicide

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The intentional killing of another person

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personality Types

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The psychological classification of people into discrete categories based on the statistical combination of specific attributes

Qualitative Differences

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The Under Controlled offender

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Quick Temper

Low tolerance for frustration

Failure to internalize inhibitions or restraints against behaving aggressively

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The over controlled offender

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Extremely rigid behavioural inhibition system against the expression of aggression impulses

Violence characterized as explosive occurring after long periods of building anger and frustration

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Frustration-Aggression Hypothesis

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Goal blockage; Aversive Experience
Negative affect -> Aggression

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Cognitive Neo-Association model

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Negative affect - fight or flight response
Learned associations between negative affect, hostile attributions, and aggression

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Excitation transfer Theory

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Residual Arousal
Attributional Biases

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General Aggression Model

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Inputs (individual, situational factors)

Routes (Arousal, Affect, Cognition)

Outcomes (Behavioural Responses)

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Self-Regulation

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The ability to control our emotional responses and evaluate and select appropriate behavioural responses

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Under Regulation

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Disinhibited or impulsive behaviour that results from a failure to exert control over ones feelings and subsequent behaviour

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Filicide

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A general term that refers to the killing of a child by their parent

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Neonaticde

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The killing of an infant within the first 24 hour of their birth

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Infanticide

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The killing of the infant who is a day or older (older than 24 hours)

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Aggressive Offender

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History of violence

Murder of child is part of pattern of violent

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Emotionally Overloaded Offender

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No or limited history of violence

Murder of child an accumulation

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Parricide

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The murder of a parent by their child

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Matricide

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Killing of your mother

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Patricide

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Killing of your father

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Mass Murder

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A form of multiple murder that involves killing four or more victims as part of one event at a single geographical location

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Spree Murder

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A form of multiple murder that involves killing the victims during one continuous event at two or more geographical locations

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Serial Murder

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A form of multiple murder that involves killing two or more victims at different times (cooling off period)

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Disciple mass Killer

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A type of mass murderer who kills as a result of their relationship with a person ordering the murdered

Jonestown Massacre

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Coercive Persuasion

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Forms of social influence that produce significant changes in an individuals behaviour and thought processes

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Love Bombing

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A recruitment technique often employed by cults that involves showering potential recruits with unconditional love

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The foot in the door technique

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A compliance tactic that involved getting someone to fulfill a more extreme request by first gaining his his or her agreement to preform smaller, benign tasks and gradually increasing them

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Cognitive Dissonance Theory

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The experience of inconsistent thought results in anxiety that people may reduce by changing their attitudes to minimize the inconsistency

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Victim Selection

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Strangers
Young women
High Vulnerability
Sex Workers

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Motive

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Sex, power, and control
Araphilic Disorder
Erotophonophlia (sexual homicide)

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Methods

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Power/Control
Eg. Non-Lethal Torture

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Female Serial Killers

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“Active” for longer periods

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Male Serial Killers

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“Quiet Killers”

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Visionary Serial Killers

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Motivated by a serious psychotic disorder
Delusions or Hallucinations

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Mission-Oriented Serial Killer

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Targets victims based on an agenda or mission, electing people who he or she feels are unworthy and should be systematically eliminated from society

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Hedonistic Serial Killers

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Motivated by the thrill enjoyment derived from killing

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Power-Oriented Serial killer

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Motivated by the power and enjoyment derived from the exercising an ultimate life-or-death from of control over another person

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The Macdonald Triad

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A set of three behavioural problems - fire setting, cruelty towards animals, enuresis - that emerge in early childhood

Potential Precursors to serious adult adult antisocial behaviours

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The Addication model of serial murder

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Theory states that act if murder has a ritualistic aspects for serial killers that leads them to become addicted or compelled to kill

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Aura Phase

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Social withdrawal
Abnormal Fantasises

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Trolling Phase

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“Feeling-out” stages
Living out aspects of fantasy
Identifying, following victims

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Wooing Phase

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Interactions with victim
Building of trust, confidence

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Capture and Murder Phases

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Capture and murder of victim

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Totem Phases

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Emotional arousal from act of homicide decreases over time
Symbolic Trophy
Re-living homicide

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Depression phase

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Depression
Return to the aura phase

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trauma Control Model

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The combination of certain predisposition factors and early traumatic events interact with several other factors over there life-course to “create” a serial killer

Psychology of Crime (12 decks)

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