Exam 12: Responding to Serial Killers

According to Yochelson, what were his subjects doing after gaining many insights over several years of intensive treatment?

Media impact, management of departmental resources, and unusual complexity of any given case are rare problems associated with serial murder cases.

Victim profiling describes the types of person(s)most closely associated with the type of offense.

A serious problem with the dichotomous model of organized and disorganized crime scenes is _____.

Also referred to as criminal investigation analysis, this form of profiling is based upon the FBI model developed by their Behavioral Science Unit.Psychosocial data are compared to other similar cases and investigators engage in an experiential/informational guessing technique to reconstruct the offenders' personality.

According to Rossmo, which offender style prefers to travel away from home to hunt victims?

This research effort aims to scientifically standardize the definition of legal terms such as "heinous," "atrocious," "evil," and "depraved."

What is part of the serial-killer stereotype?

A geographic profile does not include this.

This profiling tool is used to prioritize a variety of homicides and other serious crimes.Also known as criminal personality assessment, it is applied to other forms of profiling.Profilers match the personality characteristics of a certain type of offender with those of a suspect.

Which is not one of the three interlinked areas of profiling research that Salfati summarized?

_____ draws upon many areas of forensics.

According to Liebert, the _____ murderer represents the extreme end of the borderline-narcissistic personality disorder spectrum.

What was the real problem facing profilers in attempting to effectively profile the D.C.Snipers?

This is often critical to the outcome of criminal cases.

Which of the following is not a characteristic of organized serial killers according to the FBI?

When enzymes in the digestive system eat from the body, causing the tissue to liquefy, this process is called: _____.

Law enforcement agencies collect data, often using case studies or anecdotal information, which then is transformed into general descriptions of the types of persons most commonly associated with a certain type of criminal activity.

Serial predators prefer to operate within comfort zones and experience _____ as they leave that comfort zone.

For profiling to fulfill its potential, law enforcement must do which of the following?