Deck 9: The Victimization of Individuals Online: Cyberstalking and Paedophilia

Question 1

This act is the persistent and targeted harassment of an individual via electronic communication such as email.?

A) Stalking
B) Cyberstalking
C) Hate speech
D) Surveillance

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Common stalking characteristics, such as making phone calls to victims, sending victims offensive material, following and watching the victim, and trespassing on the victim's property are all examples of _______________.?

A) one-time behaviours
B) light behaviours
C) hard behaviours
D) repeated behaviours

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Globally, _______________ are most likely to be victims of stalking.?

A) men
B) women
C) minorities
D) children

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Early reports of stalking during 1989 and 1990 found that media coverage mostly focused on _______________.?

A) celebrities
B) politicians
C) children
D) world leaders

Question 5

The majority of cases involving stalkers indicate that perpetrators are usually _______________.?

A) strangers whom the victims have never met
B) estranged or former partners of the victim
C) the current romantic partner of the victim
D) the victim's immediate and extended family members

Question 6

This type of stalking involves less invasive but nonetheless significant harassment of the victim.?

A) 'Acquaintance stalking'
B) 'Persistent stalking'
C) 'Normal stalking'
D) 'Nuisance stalking'

Question 7

Criticisms of the reliance on the use of restraining orders involving all of the following except _______________.?

A) that the purpose of restraining orders may be undermined by sporadic enforcement
B) that they may be ineffective in deterring the stalker
C) that applying for restraining orders are more difficult for men than women
D) that the prohibition of 'repeated harassing behaviour' may be over-broad

Question 8

Furedi (2005) views the public response to online paedophilia as symptomatic of what he calls our contemporary _______________, one which is beset by 'obsessive preoccupations about safety'.?

A) culture of fear
B) rationality
C) call-and-response
D) moral decay

Question 9

In the context of paedophilia, what is 'grooming'?

A) The preparatory method paedophiles use for later physical contact and abuse
B) The specific medium paedophiles use to contact their victims (e.g. chatroom)
C) The act of coercing a child into meeting, then not showing up
D) The methods police use to entice children online only to later report their behaviour to their parents

Question 10

A form of cyberstalking and online harassment where offenders coalesce into an online mob and 'dogpile' onto the victim, en-masse, in a concentrated harassment campaign is called.?

A) 'digital trolling'
B) 'Rickrolling'
C) 'virtual mob'
D) 'techno-fake-out'

Question 11

What is 'revenge porn'?

A) A fetish among pornography viewers where iconic supervillains commit sexual acts against their superhero counterpart
B) The online, non-consensual distribution of nude photographs or videos for retribution by a former intimate partner
C) A type of BDSM porn which portray ex-lovers and their sexual 'revenge' against one another
D) A type of pornography where real-life couples act out 'cheating' scenarios to get back at one another

Question 12

In the 1980s, most people associated stalking with the stalking of celebrities, which was thought to be driven by a condition called _______________.?

A) Celebrity sexual fixation
B) Erotomania
C) Celebmania
D) Erotophilia

Question 13

The US Center for Disease Control is responsible for conducting this major study which provides insights into stalking victimization.?

A) National Crime Victimization Survey
B) The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health
C) National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey
D) National Sexual Violence Study

Question 14

Which of the following is not one of the tactics victims deploy to cope with cyberstalking described by Tokunaga and Aune (2017).?

A) Ignore or avoid
B) Help seeking
C) Online presence management
D) All of the above
E) None of the above

Question 15

_______________ was a website operated by Hunter Moore which allowed offenders to not only post sexual photos of people but also disclose their identifying information. The website was shut down.?

A) IsAnybodyUp.com
B) GetBackAtHer.com
C) RevengePorn.com
D) HatefulThings.com

Question 16

_______________ is a slang term used to describe people who take revealing, close-up images of women without their consent.?

A) Voyeurists
B) Shooters
C) Snipers
D) Captchas

Question 17

_______________ is another word for upskirt photographs or revealing, close-up images of women taken without their consent, often in public.?

A) Candids
B) Publicshots
C) Creepshots
D) Filthshots

Question 18

_______________ involves a persistent and intensely misogynistic form of harassment described by Mantilla (2015).?

A) Gendertrolling
B) Femhate
C) Genderflaming
D) Girl-grilling
E) Herassment

Question 19

_______________ is the name of a "how-to" guide passed around among child contact abusers, as well as online forums and chat rooms.?

A) Pederasts Guide
B) The Manual of the Child
C) Pederasts Handbook
D) Pedophile's Handbook