Psychopathology and the Law
Midterm Exam
Course Introduction
This course explores the complex intersection between mental health disorders and the legal system. Students will examine how various forms of psychopathology including mood disorders, psychotic disorders, personality disorders, and developmental disorders are understood within legal contexts such as competency to stand trial, criminal responsibility, civil commitment, and forensic assessment. The course also addresses issues related to expert testimony, the insanity defense, risk assessment, and the rights of individuals with mental illness, providing students with a comprehensive understanding of how psychopathology influences legal outcomes and policy.
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Introduction to Forensic Psychology Research and Application 5th Edition by Curtis R. Bartol
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Forensic Psychology
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Q1) Describe some of the psychological stressors that are unique to the immigrant population. What are the reasons for this?
Answer: Immigrants may experience anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation, serious mental illness, or posttraumatic stress. Many fear for the safety of relatives and friends facing persecution or violence in another country. The 21st century has become a time when many immigrants groups are viewed with suspicion, targeted for selective prosecution, subjected to hate crimes, and in some cases threatened with deportation. For example, immigrants faced mounting stressors in 2017, when presidential executive orders either barred travel from specific countries or halted entry into the United States for many refugees seeking sanctuary. Since the turn of the century, psychologists involved in assessing or treating members of immigrant groups have reported numerous issues in both adults and children, ranging from posttraumatic stress, anxiety disorders, language barriers, and problems with acculturation. Immigrants who are undocumented often fear reporting victimization-such as domestic violence, sexual assault, and sex trafficking-so as not to bring attention to themselves. There are also social and cultural barriers to seeking mental health services.
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Chapter 2: Police and Public Safety Psychology
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Q1) Most law enforcement officers complete their career without ever firing a weapon in the line of duty.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Compare and contrast screening-out and screening-in.
Answer: Screening-out procedures try to eliminate those applicants who appear to be poorly suited for work in law enforcement. Screening-out procedures are those most commonly used by police psychologists when screening police candidates. Screening-in procedures, on the other hand, are intended to identify those attributes that distinguish one job applicant as being potentially a more effective officer than another. Implicit in this approach is the ability to rank-order applicants, allowing agencies to select the top candidates from a pool that passed the initial screening procedures. This approach assumes that there are traits, habits, reactions, and attitudes that distinguish an outstanding officer from a satisfactory one.
Q3) Research shows that the most effective police officers are physically strong.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Psychology of Investigations
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Q1) Which statement is correct about the five categories of profiling discussed in the chapter?
A) They are mutually exclusive in that only one type can occur per case.
B) They can be practiced by licensed profilers only.
C) They often overlap, in that more than one may be relevant in a case.
D) They have been designated as such by the American Psychological Association.
Answer: C
Q2) The earliest forms of crime scene profiling were based on clinical data.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Which answer choice illustrates a flaw in profiling?
A) the assumption that human behavior is consistent across time and place
B) the belief that context influences behavior
C) the focus on victim rather than offender characteristics
D) the tendency to overestimate the intelligence of the offender
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Consulting and Testifying
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Q1) Which 1996 case recognized the importance of the psychotherapist-patient confidentiality?
A) Jaffe v. Redmond
B) Frye v. U.S.
C) Jenkins v. U.S.
D) Bowers v. Hardwick
Q2) The four stages of the judicial process are ______.
A) criminal, civil, appellate, and supreme
B) pretrial, trial, disposition, and appeals
C) arrest, arraignment, deposition, and sentencing
D) investigation, preliminary, intermediate, and incarceration
Q3) Name two dynamic risk factors and two static risk factors associated with criminal behavior.
Q4) The first stage of the jury selection process is known as the voir dire.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Empirical literature has consistently supported the superiority of clinical data over actuarial data for the prediction of violence.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Consulting With Criminal Courts
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Q1) Research indicates that ______ are more sympathetic to the insanity defense than are ______.
A) psychologists; psychiatrists
B) psychiatrists; psychologists
C) judges; juries
D) juries; judges
Q2) In regard to risk assessment, both the ethical code of the APA and the Specialty Guidelines for Forensic Psychology state that psychologists should ______.
A) not use risk assessment instruments to evaluate sex offenders
B) use only validated risk assessment instruments to evaluate sex offenders
C) not participate in death penalty sentencing of sex offenders
D) use only clinical data when communicating their findings
Q3) Which high-profile defendant suffered from a paranoid personality disorder, was competent to stand trial, and had a trial considered an embarrassment to the justice system?
A) Stephen Raucci
B) Ted Bundy
C) O.J. Simpson
D) Colin Ferguson
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Chapter 6: Family Law and Other Forms of Civil Litigation
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Q1) Which type of capacity is often evaluated retrospectively?
A) capacity to consent to treatment
B) mental capacity
C) capacity to withdraw treatment
D) testamentary capacity
Q2) Parental rights are not terminated when parents of young children are incarcerated.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which standard for determining child custody presumes that the child is best left in the care of the mother?
A) best interest of the child standard
B) tender years doctrine
C) least detrimental alternative standard
D) golden nurturer doctrine
Q4) What is the most common custody arrangement in the United States?
A) divided custody
B) sole custody
C) joint custody
D) split custody
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Chapter 7: The Development of Delinquent and Criminal Behavior
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Q1) What do the Supreme Court cases Miller v. Alabama (2012), Jackson v. Hobbs (2012), and Roper v. Simmons (2005) all have in common?
A) They involved the death penalty for juvenile offenders.
B) They all involved juvenile psychopaths.
C) The decisions all involved research on cognitive abilities of adolescents.
D) The decisions all involved the provision of rehabilitative services.
Q2) Preliminary diffusion tensor imaging results indicate that adolescent males tend to outperform females on emotion identification and nonverbal reasoning.
A)True
B)False
Q3) While walking through the halls of middle school, Vic accidentally bumps into a student named Jack. Vic is surprised when Jack responds by yelling profanity at Vic and punching him in the stomach several times. Which term best describes Jack's reaction?
A) hostile attribution bias
B) visual-spatial deficit
C) callous-unemotional effect
D) reactive transference
Q4) Compare and contrast a male psychopath and a female psychopath.
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Chapter 8: Psychology of Violence and Intimidation
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Q1) A hate crime motivated by bias against a person with AIDS would be considered a ______ bias.
A) gender
B) disability
C) sexual orientation
D) religious
Q2) The majority of school shootings have been carried out by one or more students against other students.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which statement best summarizes current statistics on gun violence in the United States?
A) The majority of gun-related deaths are not criminal offenses.
B) The number of firearm homicides is directly proportional to each state's gun safety legislation.
C) Handguns account for the greatest majority of both fatal and nonfatal incidents in the United States.
D) Firearm violence has been substantially decreasing since 1999.
Q4) Identify the four violent crimes reported in the UCR.
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Chapter 9: Psychology of Sexual Assault
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Q1) According to Groth, many rapists are motivated by sexual desire.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Most Internet-initiated sex crimes involve offenders who are ______.
A) White males, older than 25 years
B) White males, under age 18
C) Black males, older than 25 years
D) Black males, under age 18
Q3) The MTC:R3 identifies ______ major types and ______ subtypes of rapist.
A) nine; six
B) four; nine
C) eleven; seven
D) two; six
Q4) The majority of child molesters have been diagnosed as psychopaths.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The majority of interfamilial pedophilia involves older siblings molesting younger siblings.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Forensic Psychology and the Victims of Crime
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Q1) Which statement about online sexual solicitation is most accurate?
A) The majority of Internet child molesters use trickery to assault children.
B) Most Internet-initiated sex crimes consist of adult men who use the Internet to meet and entice underage teenagers into sexual meetings.
C) Child and adolescent online profiles and other social media channels frequently attract aggressive sexual predators.
D) Increasingly, offenders and traffickers are using the Internet to facilitate the sexual trafficking and exploitation of children.
Q2) Briefly explain the relationship between monoculturalism and psychology. How may this relationship affect the role of forensic psychologists?
Q3) Alicia is a 10-year-old girl who was sexually abused by an uncle, is regularly hit by her mother, and has been sexually assaulted by her older brother. Which term accurately describes Alicia?
A) polyvictim
B) vicarious traumatization
C) multiculturalism
D) iatrogenic effect
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Chapter 11: Family Violence and Child Victimization
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Q1) Imagine you are a practitioner working with a victim of IPV. What is the most important factor to consider?
A) prior criminal history of the perpetrator
B) the safety of the victim(s)
C) the stability of the family unit
D) rehabilitation potential of the perpetrator
Q2) The human cognitive system is unlimited in its information processing capacity and has a unique ability to simultaneously attend to everything going on in the environment.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Compare and contrast postpartum blues, postpartum depression, and postpartum psychosis.
Q4) Psychological distress experienced by clinicians as a result of working with traumatized victims is called ______.
A) vicarious traumatization
B) post-traumatic stress disorder
C) psychological variance
D) subversive reaction
Q5) Discuss three limitations of human memory.
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Chapter 12: Correctional Psychology in Adult Settings
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Q1) The PCL-R, VRAG, and the HCR-20 are psychological tests typically administered at which stage of an inmate's incarceration?
A) entry
B) crisis
C) atonement
D) release
Q2) Which of the following is an example of a criminogenic need?
A) depression
B) low self-esteem
C) anxiety
D) alcohol abuse
Q3) Estelle v. Gamble (1976) granted inmates the right to ______ medical treatment.
A) specialized
B) state-of-the-art
C) life-saving
D) adequate
Q4) Jails are typically operated by the federal government.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe the mosaic of despair.
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Chapter 13: Juvenile Justice and Corrections
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Q1) Greg was placed in juvenile detention following an arrest for sexual assault. Which program is Greg least likely to participate in while he is being held?
A) a youth math class
B) a sex education class
C) a substance abuse treatment program
D) a treatment program for juvenile sex offenders
Q2) Which two factors are strong predictors of Miranda competence in juveniles?
A) cognitive ability and ethno-racial group
B) socioeconomic status and education level
C) religion and race
D) age and suggestibility
Q3) Which two instruments have received favorable reviews for the assessment of juvenile sex offending?
A) the SAVRY and the YLS/CMI
B) the MMPI and the JSOAP
C) the WAIS-R and the NEO-PI
D) the 16-PF and the K-ABC
Q4) Identify the major problems facing juvenile corrections at the end of the 20th century. Which of these problems continue today?
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