Deck 19: Treating Dangerous Offenders

Question 1

Berkowitz (1993) identified two types of violence: instrumental violence and_____.

Answer 1

expressive violence

Question 2

Murderers are highly likely to be reconvicted post-release.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Hebephilic child sex offenders are individuals who:

A) Are attracted to prepubescent children
B) Are attracted to pubescent children
C) Are aroused by both children and adults
D) Are aroused only by adults but choose to sexually abuse children for a variety of reasons (e.g. to gain a sense of power or control)

Answer 3

Are attracted to pubescent children

Question 4

Within Knight and Prentky's (1990) typology of rapists there are two types of rapist that are sexually motivated. From the list below, identify these two types.

A) The vindictive rapist
B) The opportunistic rapist
C) The pervasively angry rapist
D) The non-sadistic sexual rapist

Question 5

Beech et al. (2005) identified three types of sexual murderer. Fill in the blanks below to identify these three types.
<1> motivated
<2> motivated
<3> motivated

Question 6

According to Polaschek and Collie (2004), what are basic theoretical types of treatment programme for violent offenders?

A) Anger management/cognitive skills
B) Interpersonal violence programmes/anger management
C) Multi-modal approaches/cognitive skills
D) All of the above

Question 7

The most common method of treatment for sexual offenders is cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT).

Question 8

Many evaluations of treatment programmes for violent offenders have shown little to no effect of treatment.

Question 9

Cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) was found by Beech et al. (2011) to facilitate positive treatment effects. What other type of programme had similar positive effects?

Question 10

According to the notion of "_____" discussed by Ward and colleagues, a person will be ready to change when they possess certain internal qualities in context of external factors that promote the changes the person is trying to make.

Question 11

Beech and Hamilton-Giachritsis (2005) found that the level of group cohesiveness led to significant changes in areas of criminogenic needs amongst members of a sex offender treatment group.