Exam 9: Modus Operandi, Motive, and Technology

Computers and the Internet are no different from other technologies adapted by the criminal.

The cotton gin and the Gatling gun are examples of:

An unintended consequence of the Advanced Research Projects Agency's development of a mechanism for ensured communication between military installations was:

When the Advanced Research Projects Agency began funding a mechanism for ensured communications between military installations, they understood full well that they were developing a pervasive form of social-global connectedness.

The criminal's MO consists of learned behaviors that can evolve and develop over time.

Maury Roy Travis, compared with other serial murderers, was foolish, impulsive, and unskilled.

The study that was taken and modify by the FBI's National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime was:

Modus operandi is a Latin term that means "the method of operating."

Power reassurance - one of the offense behaviors - intends to restore the criminal self- confidence or self-worth through the use of extremely high aggression means.

The emotional, psychological, or material need that that impels, and is satisfied by, a behavior is known as:

Criminal motivation is, generally:

Modus operandi and motive are considered to be the same thing.

In this offense behavior, the goal is the victim's total fear and submission for the purposes of feeding the offender's sexual desires.

Anger retaliatory offense behavior is behavior wherein the offender obtains sexual gratification from the victim's pain and suffering.

Profit-oriented offense behavior indicates that the offender's motivation was based on:

The technology that proved to be the downfall of Maury Roy Travis was the online mapping service that had logged his IP address.

You are investigating the hacking and defacing of a corporate website. Provide a motivational analysis for this incident based on each of the offense behaviors listed in the text.

As a general rule, law enforcement groupies are always engaged in some form of criminal activity.

Using e-mail for anonymous harassment is an example of how technology has been used as a vehicle for criminal behavior.

A criminal's MO reflects how he committed his crimes.