Exam 9: The Female Serial Murderer

Women who kill rarely do so as a result of domestic conflicts and tend to kill multiple times.

She was a medical doctor in the Auschwitz death camps who killed children with oil and a surgical anesthetic.She removed organs and limbs from her victims.

Among serial killers who had at least one partner and traveled from state to state, a _______proportion involved female offenders.

All of Aileen Wuornos's victims were between the ages of:

Obese, epileptic, and abused, this female serial killer experienced a much traumatized childhood.She admitted to smothering to death five small children in her care so "no one would hear them scream."

When family members are the victims of female serial killers _____ are the primary targets.

Female serial killers tend to be typical in terms of female criminality.

Which of the following used rat poison laced with arsenic to kill at least four of her husbands, her mother, two children, and several other relatives?

The orientation of criminological research focuses primarily on _____ criminality.

Which of the following is false of female serial killers?

As mentioned earlier, many victims play a prominent role in their own demise by _____ the encounter with the offender.

Most female serial murderers hold skilled occupations.

Heckert and Ferraiolo (1996)conducted a study of college students to examine perceptions of female serial killers.They discovered that _____.

Women who commit multiple murders typically use methods comparable to their male counterparts.

Who were the "poison eaters"?

Wolfgang noted a preponderance of killings among the _____, where interpersonal violence was more "acceptable":

Which of the following statements is correct?

Lombroso considered the female offender to be _____.

Regardless of gender, homicide usually involves an offender and a victim who are _____ to each other.

This offender, a Texas nurse, was continually employed in a hospital long after numerous complaints and charges that she was injuring the children in her ward.