Chapter Ten Test

Which of the following is NOT a myth promoted by the news media about school shooters?

A vast majority of shooters have poor social and coping skills

Which of the following is NOT a fundamental question of investigative psychology?

Does the victim's body show signs of ossification?

________ profiling is often used in the search for property offenders.

Geographic

Which of the following is NOT true of the psychological characteristics of school shooters?

In most cases, social rejection alone was enough to prompt the killing of classmates.

When victims are chosen because the killer associates them with a primary target against whom revenge is sought, this is called ________.

Murder by proxy

In which type of crime scene is there evidence that the offender used planning and premeditation?

Organized crime scene

What practice accounts in part for the fact that ethnic minorities are disproportionately represented in arrest statistics?

Racial profiling

The modus operandi ________.

Refers to the actions and procedures an offender engages in to successfully commit a crime

Offenders who commit violence at the workplace can be classified according to their involvement with the workplace. What kind of involvement does the Type IV offender have with the workplace?

The offender has an indirect involvement.

A serial violent offender who does not specifically search for victims is using which one of Rossmo's hunting patterns?

Troller

Which of the following is a profile characteristic of a disorganized murderer, as classified by the FBI?

anxious mood during crime

A term coined by Havelock Ellis that refers to self-arousal and the self-gratification of sexual arousal is ________.

autoeroticism.

The strongest determining factor of victim selection for most serial murders is the ________ of the victim.

availability

The 2007 Virginia Tech killings are an example of ________, but they could also be classified as ________.

classic mass murder; spree murder

An equivocal death analysis usually relies on both ________ and ________ approaches.

clinical and actuarial

What is the primary difference between what qualifies as serial murder and what qualifies as other multiple murders?

cooling-off period.

Which primary investigative method is used by the profiling category equivocal death analysis?

interview and background information

Jenkins's 1988 study of serial killers in England found that ________.

many serial killers had been former police officers

Which of the following is NOT listed in the text as a motive of serial killers?

material gain

Research has found that the two consistent characteristics of school shooters are ________ and ________.

peer rejection and social rejection.

Which of the following is a characteristic of an organized crime scene, as classified by the FBI?

personalized victim

The term reconstructive psychological evaluation is synonymous with ________.

psychological autopsy.

Research by Fox and Levin found that MOST mass killings are motivated by ________.

revenge

During the early days of its development, crime scene profiling was used to provide investigative assistance in which of the following cases?

serial rape

The method of killing usually employed by female serial killers is ________.

shooting/no

In investigative psychology, any behavior that goes beyond what is necessary to commit the crime is called (the) ________.

signature.

The primary difference between staging and undoing is ________.

the reason behind the action.

An incident in which the offender commits serious physical or bodily harm to several workers within an organization is called ________.

workplace violence.