Psychopathology of Crime Final
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Course Introduction
Psychopathology of Crime examines the complex relationship between psychological disorders and criminal behavior. The course explores various mental health conditions, such as personality disorders, psychosis, and mood disorders, and analyzes their potential influence on criminal actions. Students will engage with current research, case studies, and theoretical frameworks that highlight the intersection between abnormal psychology and the justice system. Emphasis is placed on understanding risk factors, diagnostic criteria, and the implications for assessment, intervention, and legal responsibility within forensic and criminal contexts.
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Criminal Behavior A Psychological Approach 11th Edition Curt R. Bartol
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Criminal Behavior
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Q1) Three disciplines that have traditionally dominated the study of crime are
A) sociology, psychology and psychiatry.
B) psychology, sociology and anthropology.
C) psychology, anthropology and economics.
D) psychology, anthropology and medicine.
Answer: A
Q2) Behaviors that are forbidden only to juveniles because of their age are known as A) public order violations.
B) Part I crimes.
C) status offenses.
D) juvenile delinquency.
Answer: C
Q3) In general,individuals sentenced to prison accurately represent the "true" criminal population.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) The modern form of classical theory is ________ theory. Answer: deterrence
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Chapter 2: Origins of Criminal Behavior: Developmental Risk Factors
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Q1) Strategies employed by parents to achieve specific academic,social,or athletic goals are called parental ________; whereas parental attitude toward the child and the emotional climate of the parent-child relationship refers to parental ________.
A) styles; practices
B) practices; styles
C) authority; tactics
D) tactics; authority
Answer: B
Q2) IQ refers to a broad,all-encompassing ability.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Parents' awareness of their child's peer associations,free time activities,and physical whereabouts when outside the home is known as parental
A) participation.
B) mindfulness.
C) neurosis.
D) monitoring.
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Origins of Criminal Behavior: Biological Factors
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Q1) The research on environmental risk factors during infancy indicates that A) lead exposure may be linked to antisocial behavior.
B) trans fats are closely associated with delinquent behavior.
C) junk foods often lead to persistent and violent criminal behavior.
D) an organic diet can greatly reduce likelihood of antisocial behavior.
Answer: A
Q2) The term dizygotic twins is synonymous with A) fraternal twins.
B) identical twins.
C) dichorionic.
D) unifertilization.
Answer: A
Q3) Temperament is determined largely by genetics.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) The principal target of manganese is the ________ system.
Answer: nervous
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Chapter 4: Origins of Criminal Behavior: Learning and
Situational Factors
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Q1) Explain the concept of deindividuation and illustrate by describing any one experiment in social psychology.
Q2) According to Sutherland's differential association theory
A) criminal behavior can be learned only by associating with others who are criminal.
B) violent behavior is biologically determined.
C) criminal behavior is learned like any other behavior.
D) criminal behavior is learned primarily through classical conditioning.
Q3) Which individual is a well-known social learning theorist?
A) B. F. Skinner
B) Hans Eysenck
C) John Watson
D) Julian Rotter
Q4) John B.Watson believed that a rigid scientific approach was crucial to understanding human behavior.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Early learning theorists worked in the laboratory,using ________ as their primary subjects.
Q6) Briefly explain Bandura's theory of moral disengagement.
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Chapter 5: Human Aggression and Violence
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Q1) What does the current research suggest about the effects of violent video games on aggressive behavior?
Q2) Children with a hostile attribution bias are less likely than average children to see aggressive actions from others where there are none.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Bullying is an example of reactive aggression.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The aggression debate is part of a wider controversy about the respective merits of ________ and nurture.
Q5) All of the following offenses are considered violent except A) cyberstalking.
B) murder.
C) rape.
D) robbery.
Q6) Choose three concepts in the chapter and one newsworthy case.Define the concepts and use the concepts to explain the case.
Q7) The revised frustration-aggression hypothesis was proposed by ________.
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Chapter 6: Juvenile Delinquincy
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Q1) Scott Henggeler and his colleagues have designed a treatment approach for serious juvenile offenders that is responsive to many of the social systems influencing the child's delinquent behavior.This treatment approach is called
A) multisystemic therapy.
B) restrictive intervention.
C) Gestalt therapy.
D) rehabilitative intervention.
Q2) Which type of prevention consists of working with children and adolescents who demonstrate some early signs of aggressive,antisocial,conduct disorder,or delinquent behavior but have not yet been formally classified as delinquent?
A) Primary
B) Multisystemic
C) Tertiary
D) Secondary
Q3) Compare and contrast Moffitt's Developmental Theory with Patterson's Coercion Theory.
Q4) Youthful offenders are processed in ________ courts,but sentencing options are typically more lenient for them.
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Chapter 7: Criminal Psychopathy
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Q1) After summarizing the research on juvenile psychopathy,explain why this construct is so controversial.
Q2) The childhood of the psychopath is often characterized by A) hyperactivity.
B) cruelty to animals.
C) enuresis.
D) fire setting.
Q3) Which of the following statements about juvenile psychopathy is correct?
A) There are no instruments available for measuring juvenile psychopathy.
B) Juvenile psychopathy as a construct clearly does not exist.
C) Some researchers are concerned about the negative implications of labeling juveniles as psychopaths.
D) Juvenile psychopaths display behavior identical to that of adult psychopaths.
E) Juvenile psychopathy is correlated with sexual aggression.
Q4) Research indicates that the recidivism rate associated with psychopaths is very high.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe at least one concern about using the PCL across racial and ethnic backgrounds.
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Chapter 8: Crime and Mental Disorders
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Q1) All states and all courts recognize that behavior that is likely to result in ________ harm is dangerous.
Q2) When the M'Naghten Rule is applied,the essential inquiry is whether
A) the act was the result or product of a mental defect.
B) the person was able to distinguish between right and wrong at the time of offense.
C) the act was the result of an "irresistible impulse."
D) the act was the result of an addiction.
Q3) Which of the following statements is most accurate?
A) Most criminals are mentally ill.
B) Most criminals have a mental disorder.
C) Most mentally disordered individuals are not violent.
D) Most murderers cannot help themselves because of mental illness.
Q4) There is evidence that men who have both schizophrenia and ________ are at an increased risk of violent offending.
A) substance abuse
B) delusional disorder
C) affective psychosis
D) depression
Q5) Adjudicative competence involves competence to proceed and ________ competence.
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Chapter 9: Homicide, Assault, and Family Violence
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Q1) How may the availability heuristic account for our perception of violence?
Q2) The primary perpetrators of elder abuse are ________ members.
Q3) Studies investigating the sociological correlates of criminal homicides have found that most murderers are under the age of thirty.
A)True
B)False
Q4) When a caregiver fabricates or intentionally causes symptoms in those they are caring for in order to seek and obtain medical treatment,it is usually a case of A) the woozle effect.
B) phanerothyme.
C) Munchausen syndrome by proxy.
D) Landau-Kleffner syndrome.
Q5) Families that are characterized by continuous cycles of physical aggression and violence inside the family are called A) multiassaultive.
B) genetically imbalanced.
C) multiaggressive.
D) maladaptively violent.
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Chapter 10: Multiple Murder, School, and Workplace
Violence
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Q1) Public mass shootings are also known as A) active shooter situations.
B) domestic terrorism.
C) geographical profiling.
D) serial killing events.
Q2) The primary difference between what qualifies as serial murders and what qualifies as mass murders is A) premeditation.
B) the selection of victims.
C) a cooling-off period.
D) the number of victims.
Q3) Psychological profiling is an assessment practice designed to help in the identification and prediction of ________ in known individuals.
Q4) Serial murder by children or adolescents is an exceedingly rare event.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Classic murders also may be called ________ mass murders.
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Q6) Discuss the differences in motive,victim selection,and method of killing between male and female serial killers.
Chapter 11: Psychology of Terrorism
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Q1) Some terrorists convince themselves that their actions are socially worthy and have an ultimate moral purpose.This process is called
A) social absolutism.
B) moral consistency.
C) social determinism.
D) moral justification.
Q2) In the context of terrorism,________ is defined as an individual's indoctrination to fully embrace a terrorist group's ideology and mission,and to gradually embrace the of violence necessary to reach the group's goals.
Q3) Eric Rudolph is presented in the text as an example of a A) charismatic leader.
B) school shooter.
C) religious radical.
D) lone wolf terrorist.
Q4) The textbook uses the ________ definition of terrorism.
Q5) What affect has globalization had on a)the incidence of terrorism and b)the power of terrorist organizations?
Q6) List and describe briefly the characteristics of lone wolf terrorists.Provide an example.
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Chapter 12: Sexual Assault
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Q1) Research suggests that men convicted of rape
A) show high and nearly equal sexual arousal to portrayals of both violent, nonconsenting sexual acts and nonviolent, consenting sexual acts. B) were more sexually aroused toward attractive victims than nonattractive victims. C) felt they had little control over their sexual impulses. D) have a very limited ability to fantasize.
Q2) The Groth rape typology is similar to the original MTC typology,except that Groth A) emphasizes the motives for the rape.
B) has more categories of rape behavior than the MTC. C) has better behavioral descriptions of the categories. D) emphasizes victim reactions.
Q3) Which of the following is an example of a situational vulnerability factor?
A) One's home
B) Under age 18
C) Alcohol consumption
D) History of victimization
Q4) Define RNR principles and their relevance to treatment of adult sex offenders.
Q5) Describe three of the rape myths discussed in the chapter.
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Chapter 13: Sexual Assault of Children and Youth
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Q1) CSOs tend to be ________ and rapists tend to be ________.
A) generalists; specialists
B) male; female
C) specialists; generalists
D) female; male
Q2) Which of the following illustrates a difference between the MTC and the MTC:CM3?
A) The removal of the regressed offender classification
B) The addition of male victims
C) The revision of the homosexual nurturer type
D) The classification of offenders based on physical injury to victims
Q3) Sex offenders often discover their interest in young children during ________ and remain attracted to them into adulthood.
Q4) Identify and briefly describe the six types of female sex offenders proposed by Vandiver and Kercher.
Q5) The more an offender's sexual preference is limited to children,the ________ socially competent the offender tends to be.
Q6) Sexual ________ appears to be a strong predictor for child molesters who are most prone to be repeat offenders.
Q7) Adult CSOs most frequently use a ________ setting to commit their sexual abuse.
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Chapter 14: Burglary, Home Invasions, Thefts, and White Collar
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Q1) Recent research suggests that burglars often select targets that are the most A) vulnerable.
B) challenging.
C) wealthy.
D) isolated.
Q2) The majority of property crimes eventually result in physical aggression.
A)True
B)False
Q3) According to the Vaughn et al.(2008)burglar typology,which class of burglar was the most violent?
A) The feral threat
B) The young versatile
C) The sexual predator
D) The vagrant dominator
Q4) Alarms and window locks are examples of ________ cues.
Q5) Official burglary rates have ________ in recent years.
Q6) Green's categories of white-collar crime are mutually exclusive.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Violent Economic Crime, Cybercrime, and
Crimes of Intimidation
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Q1) Which type of stalker does not seek a personal relationship with their targets?
A) Love obsession
B) Possessive
C) Vengeance
D) Erotomania
Q2) Research by Wright et al.(2006)found that all of the following are characteristics of American street culture except
A) hedonistic pursuit of sensory stimulation.
B) disdain for conventional living.
C) future orientation.
D) image and status.
Q3) A hostage is most likely to survive a hostage situation if she A) plays the subordinate role and not attract attention to oneself.
B) attempts to reason with the hostage takers.
C) becomes assertive and argumentative.
D) pleads for mercy.
Q4) Both the number of robberies reported to police and the robbery rate have ________ in recent years.
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Q5) Cybercrime refers to any illegal act that involves a(n)________ system.
Q6) Less than 10 percent of fires set by ________ is reported.
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Chapter 16: Substance Abuse, Alcohol, and Crime
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Q1) Drug courts are designed to be a first step in diverting nonviolent offenders with drug problems into treatment and other community-based programs.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Opiate narcotics generally have ________ and analgesic effects.
Q3) Cocaine is an opiate narcotic.
A)True
B)False
Q4) More individuals are incarcerated in jails and prisons for drug offenses than for any other offense.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The Arrestees Drug Abuse Monitoring Program (ADAM)collects data through A) urinalysis of arrestees and self-report data.
B) autopsies and hospital records.
C) local and federal police reports.
D) prison studies and forensic laboratories.
Q6) While drug use has decreased among teens in recent years,________ is the most commonly used drug among this age group.
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