Deck 4: Confrontational Homicide

Question 1

Confrontational homicides tend to occur in

A) Private residences
B) Public places
C) Prisons
D) There was no indication given in the Chapter as to where they occurred.

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Which of the following is not generally True about confrontational homicide?

A) The victim is most often male.
B) The altercations quickly evolve into violence and end in death.
C) The participants are often intoxicated.
D) Feuds that lead to the homicide evolve over years until the participants react

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Wolfgang introduced this term to describe homicide incidents in which the victim was the first to employ physical force in an altercation that ended in his or her death.

A) Victim-precipitated homicide
B) Confrontational homicide
C) Offender-bated homicide
D) Subcultural homicide

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Luckenbill argued that homicide is often the result of a seemingly inconsequential incident that turn into what he called:

A) Confrontational homicides
B) Character contests
C) Honor challenges
D) Duels

Question 5

This theory takes into account that individuals make decisions that may put them at great risk for victimization

A) Lifestyle-Exposure Theory
B) Victim-Predicated Homicide
C) Situate Homicide Theory
D) Differential Victim Theory

Question 6

According to Felson's interviews with 500 individuals about disputes in which they had taken part,

A) If third parties prompted conflicts, they tended to be more severe.
B) Confrontations were more severe if a woman were the victim.
C) Third parties had no affect on the confrontations.
D) Third parties only decreased violence as opposed to escalating it.

Question 7

Wolfgang developed this idea to explain the high rates of violence among young lower socio-economic class African Americans who lived in urban areas of Philadelphia.

A) Situated Transactions
B) Victim-predicated homicide
C) Subculture of violence
D) Confrontational homicide

Question 8

The Southern Subculture of Violence explains violence by

A) Urban African American youth
B) White southern men
C) Rural Americans
D) Poor southern whites

Question 9

Nisbet and Cohen explain that the culture of honor that developed in the south and not other parts of the U.S. because:

A) The south was settled by Scott Irish herdsmen
B) The south had slavery
C) The south is largely rural and poor
D) The south is subject to much more severe hot weather

Question 10

According to Rita Simon's opportunity thesis, we would expect that as women gained opportunities more similar to men,

A) They would commit more homicides overall.
B) They would commit fewer homicides.
C) They would kill their children more often than in the past.
D) They would commit more confrontational homicides.