Deck 4: Assault and Murder: A Continuum of Violence

Question 1

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

A) capital punishment deterrence
B) federal government deterrence
C) specific deterrence
D) general deterrence

Answer 1

D

Question 2

______ killers are rare because they suffer from some form of psychosis: They frequently perceive voices or images that command them to kill.

A) power/control
B) mission
C) visionary
D) thrill

Answer 2

C

Question 3

_____ is the most extreme form of punishment that states and the federal government can hand down as a sanction for murder.

A) capital punishment
B) incarceration
C) probation
D) parole

Answer 3

A

Question 4

The ______ for capital punishment is that executing those who commit murder is the only effective way to keep them from ever killing again.

A) death deterrence justification
B) incapacitation justification
C) general deterrence
D) specific deterrence

Question 5

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

A) Edwin Sutherland
B) Marvin Wolfgang
C) Karl Marx
D) John Locke

Question 6

______ are killings judged to be legally acceptable because they occurred in defense of life or property.

A) murders
B) criminal homicides
C) justifiable homicides
D) excusable homicides

Question 7

Mass murders are likely to take place in ______.

A) an airport
B) a school setting
C) an office building
D) a federal building
E) all of the above

Question 8

There are three broad types of multicide: mass murder,spree murder,and ______.

A) serial murder
B) heinous murder
C) felony murder
D) terrorism

Question 9

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

A) serial murder
B) felony murder
C) mass murder
D) spree murder

Question 10

The final justification for capital punishment is ______ and has nothing to do with public safety-it is a moral justification.

A) incapacitation
B) general deterrence
C) retribution
D) deliberation

Question 11

______ generally include two categories-murder and manslaughter-with various types subsumed under each.

A) justifiable homicides
B) excusable homicides
C) criminal homicides
D) felony homicides

Question 12

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.

A) social learning
B) rational choice
C) symbolic interactionism
D) deterrence

Question 13

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

A) power/control
B) comfort
C) mission
D) visionary

Question 14

______ are accidental or unintentional killings that did not occur because of negligence or recklessness.

A) justifiable homicides
B) excusable homicides
C) criminal homicides
D) murder

Question 15

A ______ murderer is one who kills on at least three occasions,with what can be called an emotional cooling-off period between the incidents.

A) triad
B) mass
C) spree
D) serial

Question 16

______ are criminal homicides in which the degree of responsibility is considered much less than murder,not only because premeditation and deliberation are absent but also because the offender did not act with malice.

A) justifiable murder
B) felony murder
C) manslaughters
D) first degree murder

Question 17

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."

A) Uniform Crime Report
B) violent crime
C) simple
D) aggravated

Question 18

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

A) first degree murder
B) premeditation
C) felony murder
D) manslaughter

Question 19

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."

A) aggravated
B) simple
C) Uniform Crime Report
D) violent crime

Question 20

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

A) mass murder
B) spree murder
C) homicide
D) mission killers

Question 21

Although there are many different factors that influence violent assaults,the majority of homicides appear to be sparked by relatively minor conflicts and disagreements.

Question 22

Most of us use the terms murder and homicide interchangeably,but they are really distinct categories of killing.

Question 23

Discuss the characteristics of serial murderers.

Question 24

Generally,involuntary manslaughter makes up the majority of nonlethal violent crime victimizations.

Question 25

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.

Question 26

Holmes and Holmes classify serial killers into six typologies,based on the explicit or implicit motives of the killer.List and provide a brief overview of each typology.

Question 27

Why was the BTK killer classified as a serial murderer? Discuss the characteristics that surround Dennis Rader and the crimes he committed.

Question 28

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

Question 29

In 2015,the death penalty was authorized as punishment for capital murder in 31 states,by the federal government,and by the U.S.military.

Question 30

Other factors that frequently appear in the histories of serial killers include what has been termed the homicidal triad: bed-wetting past an appropriate age,cruelty to animals,and fire setting.

Question 31

John Douglas and Mark Olshaker define a serial murderer as one who kills on at least three occasions,with what can be called an emotional cooling-off period between the incidents.This cooling-off period can last days,weeks,months,or years.