Deck 21: Mass Murder

Question 1

What is the purpose of creating a nomothetic profile of a mass murderer?
a. To identify patterns in known cases to and design prevention initiatives
b. To assist in criminal investigations
c. To provide the basis for expert courtroom testimony
d. All of the above

Answer 1

All of the above

Question 2

If multiple persons are discovered dead in a particular location, it is legitimate forensic practice to assume that their deaths must have been the result of a homicide.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

All mass murderers generally have the same motive.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

The most complete understanding of a mass murder or any other case is best found in a behavioral assessment of the crime.

Question 5

Messages sent or left by the offender in the 24 hours prior to the crime are more common when the offender does not expect or plan to survive.

Question 6

Unless the offender experienced one or more barriers to their actions that required eliminating collateral targets, the primary and secondary targets will likely have been among the first to die.

Question 7

Which of the following is a myth of mass murders?
a. It is uniquely an American problem
b. Mass murderers are always lone, unemployed, psychotic gunmen
c. Mass murder happens in one type of place
d. All of the above

Question 8

Genocidal campaigns do not involve just killing, but also may be characterized by mass rape, torture, and other abuses.

Question 9

Mass murders happen all over the world, in all nations and cultures.

Question 10

The term mass murder is synonymous with killing spree.

Question 11

There is not one nomothetic "profile" that can be rendered from studying cases of mass murder.

Question 12

Which of the following is true regarding mass murders?
a. There must be multiple victims
b. All victims must be dead
c. All deaths must be the result of a homicide
d. All of the above

Question 13

Which of the following is not a category of motivation applicable to mass killings?
a. Revenge
b. Anger
c. Reassurance
d. Profit

Question 14

Which of the following is not necessary in a mass murder protocol?
a. Conducting a thorough victimology
b. Conducting a damage assessment
c. Looking for messages sent or left by the offender in the 24 hours prior to the crime
d. All of the above are necessary

Question 15

A perpetrator who hopes to "send a message" through murder is an example of what motivational type of mass murder?
a. Power-oriented mass killers
b. Profit-oriented mass killer
c. Terror-oriented mass killer
d. Revenge-oriented mass killer

Question 16

Mass murders committed by cults reflect what motivational type of mass murder?
a. Loyalty-oriented mass killer
b. Profit-oriented mass killer
c. Terror-oriented mass killer
d. Revenge-oriented mass killer

Question 17

Mass murders designed to eliminate victims and witnesses to a crime refer to what motivational type of mass murder?
a. Loyalty-oriented mass killer
b. Profit-oriented mass killer
c. Terror-oriented mass killer
d. Revenge-oriented mass killer

Question 18

Pseudocommando killers are an example of what motivational type of mass murder?
a. Power-oriented mass killers
b. Profit-oriented mass killer
c. Terror-oriented mass killer
d. Revenge-oriented mass killer

Question 19

Which of the following is true regarding messages sent by an offender in the 24 hours prior to the crime?
a. The messages are left to provide an explanation for the offender's actions
b. The messages are left to provide an apology for the offender's actions
c. Messages are more common when the offender does not expect to live or plan to survive
d. All of the above

Question 20

Genocide is a sub-type of mass murder.

Question 21

Explain the relationship between mass murder and the media.

Question 22

List 3 motives of mass murders and provide an example of each.

Question 23

Define mass murder. Explain the difference between mass murder and genocide.