Exam 4: Assault and Murder: A Continuum of Violence

A ______ assault is an "attack without a weapon resulting either in no injury,minor injury (for example,bruises,black eyes,cuts,scratches,or swelling),or an undetermined injury requiring less than 2 days of hospitalization."

______ is generally understood to have taken place when someone kills four or more victims in one location at one general point in time

______ refers to the knowledge and intention to kill while deliberation implies that the killing was planned and thought about rather than committed on impulse.

______ in 1958 coined the term victim precipitation,which simply means that victims sometimes start the conflict that ends in their own death.

The theory known as ______ also contends that human behavior-including assaults and homicides-occurs in social situations,and that the meanings people attach to their behavior is an important element in understanding what takes place in a given circumstance.

______ appears to be the least common of the three types of multicide.

The ______ argument argues that people generally refrain from committing murder because they fear execution.

______ killers murder to obtain a sense of domination and total control over their victims.

John Douglas,who has studied the effects of childhood abuse,suggests that violent offending may arise in adolescence and adulthood because those victimized as children learn destructive coping mechanisms,including skills in manipulation and denial as well as violent behavior

Mass murder is generally understood to have taken place when someone kills four or more victims in one location at one general point in time.

A(n)______ assault is defined as "an attack or attempted attack with a weapon,regardless of whether or not an injury occurred and attack without a weapon when serious injury results."