Deck 14: Criminal Subtypes: Intimate Partner Violence, the Mentally Disordered, and Sex Offenders

Question 1

Studying the violence that occurs against women in families is important because

A) it helps to develop treatments for men who batter
B) decreasing spousal abuse may decrease child abuse
C) many women do not leave abusive relationships, and treatment of the men is one way of increasing the safety of the women
D) it may prevent children from growing up to be violent
E)all of the above

Answer 1

all of the above

Question 2

In the area of intimate partner violence, there is little research on

A) personality factors that reflect an Antisocial Personality Pattern
B) cognitions supportive of assault on women
C)genetic markers for domestic violence
D) witnessing violence in families
E) social support for violence

Answer 2

genetic markers for domestic violence

Question 3

The brief arrest of suspects in IPV cases has consistently found

A) reductions in recidivism
B) increases in recidivism
C) no effect
D)mixed results
E) there has been no research on this topic

Answer 3

mixed results

Question 4

Evidence-based risk assessments for men who batter their partners such as the ODARA and SARA are

A)well-validated and widely used
B) still in the early phases of development and validation
C) not researched at all
D) mainly variations of the LSI-R
E) mainly variations of the PCL-R

Question 5

Specialized risk assessment instruments for intimate partner violence

A) predict better than assessment instruments used to predict general offending
B)predict as well as general scales but not significantly better
C) have yet to show that they predict domestic violence
D) predict only when used in combination with more general risk instruments
E) predict significantly more poorly than the LSI-R

Question 6

Compared to nondisordered offenders, mentally disordered offenders are

A) a higher risk to reoffend violently
B) a higher risk to reoffend in general
C) no different in terms of recidivism
D) hospitalized rather than incarcerated
E)at a slightly lower risk to reoffend

Question 7

The prevalence of psychosis among offenders is

A) very high
B) high within inmate populations
C) impossible to estimate
D)low
E) the same as found in the general population

Question 8

Indicators of mental health

A)are poor predictors of recidivism
B) tap criminogenic needs
C) are predictors of recidivism among mentally disordered offenders but not normal offenders
D) are rarely used in the assessment of dangerousness
E) none of the above

Question 9

A risk factor among mentally disordered offenders is

A) noncompliance with taking medication
B)threat/control-override delusions
C) visual hallucinations
D) delusions of grandeur
E) all of the above

Question 10

One of the best predictors of recidivism among mentally disordered offenders is

A) intelligence
B) anxiety
C) schizophrenia
D)antisocial personality
E) manic-depression

Question 11

In a review of 14 treatment programs for mentally disordered offenders, Skeem and her colleagues (2011) found that

A)treatment focusing on symptoms had the worst outcomes
B) antipsychotic medication worked best
C) most offenders became better on their own
D) most of the programs were equally effective
E) the programs were equally effective except for the psychopaths' degrees

Question 12

Treatment interventions for mentally disordered offenders

A)rarely target criminogenic needs
B) focus mainly on the risk principle
C) have been very effective in reducing recidivism
D) are almost exclusively provided in prison settings
E) none of the above

Question 13

Sex offenders are similar to nonsexual offenders in that

A)they also commit nonsexual crimes
B)antisocial personality is an important predictor
C)cognitions supportive of the antisocial behavior are important correlates of sexual recidivism
D)b and c only
E)all of the above

Question 14

Meta-analytic reviews of the sex offender treatment literature have concluded that treatment has

A) no effect on sexual recidivism
B)an effect on reducing recidivism when there is adherence to the RNR principles
C) a small effect on increasing recidivism
D) The studies are so poorly done that a conclusion cannot be drawn.
E) Too much undetected sexual crime is committed to make sense of the literature.

Question 15

STABLE-2007

A) is the revised version of STATIC-99
B)measures such factors as deviant sexual interests and intimacy deficits
C) has a subscale called ACUTE-2007
D) measures risk factors that change little over time
E) is applied to sex offenders and other mentally disordered offenders