Week 11 Flashcards
Homicide
The intentional killing of another person
personality Types
The psychological classification of people into discrete categories based on the statistical combination of specific attributes
Qualitative Differences
The Under Controlled offender
Quick Temper
Low tolerance for frustration
Failure to internalize inhibitions or restraints against behaving aggressively
The over controlled offender
Extremely rigid behavioural inhibition system against the expression of aggression impulses
Violence characterized as explosive occurring after long periods of building anger and frustration
Frustration-Aggression Hypothesis
Goal blockage; Aversive Experience
Negative affect -> Aggression
Cognitive Neo-Association model
Negative affect - fight or flight response
Learned associations between negative affect, hostile attributions, and aggression
Excitation transfer Theory
Residual Arousal
Attributional Biases
General Aggression Model
Inputs (individual, situational factors)
Routes (Arousal, Affect, Cognition)
Outcomes (Behavioural Responses)
Self-Regulation
The ability to control our emotional responses and evaluate and select appropriate behavioural responses
Under Regulation
Disinhibited or impulsive behaviour that results from a failure to exert control over ones feelings and subsequent behaviour
Filicide
A general term that refers to the killing of a child by their parent
Neonaticde
The killing of an infant within the first 24 hour of their birth
Infanticide
The killing of the infant who is a day or older (older than 24 hours)
Aggressive Offender
History of violence
Murder of child is part of pattern of violent
Emotionally Overloaded Offender
No or limited history of violence
Murder of child an accumulation
Parricide
The murder of a parent by their child
Matricide
Killing of your mother
Patricide
Killing of your father
Mass Murder
A form of multiple murder that involves killing four or more victims as part of one event at a single geographical location
Spree Murder
A form of multiple murder that involves killing the victims during one continuous event at two or more geographical locations
Serial Murder
A form of multiple murder that involves killing two or more victims at different times (cooling off period)
Disciple mass Killer
A type of mass murderer who kills as a result of their relationship with a person ordering the murdered
Jonestown Massacre
Coercive Persuasion
Forms of social influence that produce significant changes in an individuals behaviour and thought processes
Love Bombing
A recruitment technique often employed by cults that involves showering potential recruits with unconditional love
The foot in the door technique
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
Cognitive Dissonance Theory
The experience of inconsistent thought results in anxiety that people may reduce by changing their attitudes to minimize the inconsistency
Victim Selection
Strangers
Young women
High Vulnerability
Sex Workers
Motive
Sex, power, and control
Araphilic Disorder
Erotophonophlia (sexual homicide)
Methods
Power/Control
Eg. Non-Lethal Torture
Female Serial Killers
“Active” for longer periods
Male Serial Killers
“Quiet Killers”
Visionary Serial Killers
Motivated by a serious psychotic disorder
Delusions or Hallucinations
Mission-Oriented Serial Killer
Targets victims based on an agenda or mission, electing people who he or she feels are unworthy and should be systematically eliminated from society
Hedonistic Serial Killers
Motivated by the thrill enjoyment derived from killing
Power-Oriented Serial killer
Motivated by the power and enjoyment derived from the exercising an ultimate life-or-death from of control over another person
The Macdonald Triad
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
The Addication model of serial murder
Theory states that act if murder has a ritualistic aspects for serial killers that leads them to become addicted or compelled to kill
Aura Phase
Social withdrawal
Abnormal Fantasises
Trolling Phase
“Feeling-out” stages
Living out aspects of fantasy
Identifying, following victims
Wooing Phase
Interactions with victim
Building of trust, confidence
Capture and Murder Phases
Capture and murder of victim
Totem Phases
Emotional arousal from act of homicide decreases over time
Symbolic Trophy
Re-living homicide
Depression phase
Depression
Return to the aura phase
trauma Control Model
The combination of certain predisposition factors and early traumatic events interact with several other factors over there life-course to “create” a serial killer
