Criminal Psychology Exam Review
Course Introduction
Criminal Psychology explores the psychological factors that underpin criminal behavior, delving into theories of offending, personality traits associated with crime, and the social and environmental influences that contribute to criminality. The course examines the role of mental disorders, risk assessment, offender profiling, and the psychological processes involved in criminal investigations and interrogations. Students will analyze case studies, current research, and real-world applications to better understand the motivations and thought patterns of offenders, as well as the role psychology plays within the criminal justice system, rehabilitation, and prevention of crime.
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Criminal Behavior A Psychological Approach 10th Edition by Curtis R. Bartol
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Criminal Behavior
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Q1) According to the author, our inability to prevent crime is largely due to:
A) a declining interest in the field of criminology.
B) the difficulty in defining the term "crime".
C) the complexity of the issue.
D) the paucity of experts studying crime.
E) the lack of funding available for research.
Answer: C
Q2) Free will is the hallmark of classical theory.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) The Hate Crime Statistics Act was passed in:
A) 1975
B) 1983
C) 1990
D) 2001
E) 2007
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Origins of Criminal Behavior: Developmental Risk Factors
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Q1) Low parental monitoring is associated with:
A) higher levels of antisocial behavior.
B) higher levels of violence.
C) earlier initiation of drug abuse.
D) earlier initiation of alcohol abuse.
E) all of the above.
Answer: E
Q2) A mother who feels helpless that her 12-year-old son is using marijuana and therefore allows the behavior to continue is exhibiting:
A) intermittent punishment.
B) an authoritative parenting style.
C) internal locust of control.
D) persuasive denial.
E) a lax style of parenting.
Answer: E
Q3) IQ refers to a broad, all-encompassing ability.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Origins of Criminal Behavior: Biological Factors
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Q1) TEDS is an acronym for:
A) Twins' Early Development Study
B) Twins Environmental Differentiation Study
C) Traditional Environmental Development on Siblings
D) The Early Diyzygotic Sample
E) Twins Environmental Determination Study
Answer: A
Q2) Which personality feature, commonly associated with antisocial behavior, shows high hereditability and little environmental influence?
A) Optimism
B) Empathy
C) Schizophrenic detachment
D) Temperament
E) Callous-unemotional traits
Answer: E
Q3) Adolescents are most vulnerable to risky behavior when they are with a group of their peers.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Origins of Criminal Behavior: Learning and
Situational Factors
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Q1) The common human tendency to discount the influence of a situation and explain behavior by referring to the personality of an actor is called:
A) reductionism.
B) type I error.
C) ecological error.
D) fundamental attribution error.
E) type II error.
Q2) Acts performed in response to orders from authority considered illegal or immoral by the larger community are called:
A) bystander apathy.
B) reductionism.
C) crimes of obedience.
D) fundamental attribution error.
E) status offenses.
Q3) Briefly explain Bandura's theory of moral disengagement.
Q4) Skinner argued that the most effective way to eliminate behavior was through extinction.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Human Aggression and Violence
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Q1) One of the criticisms of "Stand-Your-Ground" laws is that they:
A) obligate the potential victim to flee.
B) promote racial discrimination.
C) encourage confrontation.
D) pertain to homeowners in high socioeconomic neighborhoods.
E) require an individual to be in grave danger before using force.
Q2) The weapon used in road rage is:
A) a gun.
B) a knife.
C) one's fist.
D) obscene gestures.
E) the vehicle.
Q3) Aggressive behavior is always criminal.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Discuss the various theoretical perspectives on aggression, including the research in support of or refuting these perspectives.
Q5) Why is it pessimistic to view violence and aggression as a genetically programmed aspect of human nature?
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Q6) Discuss the difficulties in adequately defining aggression.
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Chapter 6: Juvenile Delinquency
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Q1) Describe the characteristics of Multisystemic therapy. Summarize the research findings about the program's success.
Q2) Provide a brief history of juvenile justice, including the date of its origin in the United States.
Q3) Poor interpersonal skills, conduct disorders, and difficult temperaments are often found in the background of _____offenders.
A) AL
B) ADHD
C) LCP
D) delinquent
E) status
Q4) A child delinquent is between the ages of:
A) 7 and 12.
B) birth and 7.
C) 6 and 13.
D) birth and 14.
E) 3 and 13.
Q5) Summarize the five characteristics of successful treatment programs.
Q6) Briefly describe the three categories of prevention and give an example of each.
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Chapter 7: Criminal Psychopathy
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Q1) Those researchers who advocate for a fourth core factor in psychopathy argue that ____ should be included with the three core factors.
A) low intelligence
B) arrogance
C) lack of guilt
D) impulsiveness
E) antisocial behavior
Q2) Robert Hare's research studies have found that criminal psychopaths appear to be deficient in:
A) linguistic processing.
B) common sense.
C) intelligence.
D) logic.
E) boundary apathy.
Q3) The primary psychopath is:
A) usually neurotic.
B) a violent criminal.
C) usually violent and destructive.
D) usually highly emotional.
E) a true psychopath.
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Chapter 8: Crime and Mental Disorders
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Q1) MPD stands for Multiple Psychosis Disorder.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Discuss the role of law enforcement and mental health courts in deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill.
Q3) When the M'Naghten Rule is applied, the essential inquiry is whether:
A) the act was the result or product of a mental defect.
B) the person was able to distinguish between right and wrong at the time of offense.
C) the act was the result of an "irresistible impulse."
D) the act was the result of an addiction.
E) the person intentionally planned to do harm.
Q4) In Foucha v. Louisiana, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that defendants found NGRI could:
A) not be retried once they were no longer insane.
B) not remain hospitalized once they were no longer mentally disordered.
C) be hospitalized for as long as they remain dangerous.
D) be given medication to treat their disorder.
E) not be given medication to treat their disorder.
Q5) Briefly describe four legal standards for of insanity and their requirements.
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Chapter 9: Homicide, Assault, and Family Violence
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Q1) Describe the dynamic cascade model? Provide of an illustration of how this model explains violent behavior across childhood, adolescence and beyond.
Q2) Discuss what we know about the psychological effects of domestic violence on children.
Q3) Homicides consistently account for about ____% of all violent crimes reported to the FBI.
A) 12
B) 18
C) 25
D) 40
E) 1 or 2
Q4) Studies investigating the sociological correlates of criminal homicides have found that most murderers are under the age of thirty.
A)True
B)False
Q5) In the United States, the victims of homicide are mostly male.
A)True
B)False
Q6) List some of the factors that make the family so difficult to study.
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Chapter 10: Multiple Murder, School, and Workplace
Violence
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Q1) Which of the following is not a fundamental question of investigative psychology?
A) What are the important behavioral features of the crime that may help identify the perpetrator?
B) Are there any other crimes that are likely to have been committed by the same person?
C) What are the important behavioral features of the crime that may help prosecute the perpetrator?
D) What inferences can be made about the characteristics of the offender that may help identify him/her?
E) Does the victim's body show signs of ossification?
Q2) Discuss the differences in motive, victim selection and method of killing between male and female serial killers.
Q3) Children are more likely to be victims of violence away from school, as opposed to in school.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Discuss the usefulness of organized, disorganized, and mixed crime scene classification.
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Chapter 11: Psychology of Terrorism
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Q1) Lone wolf terrorists are more likely to be mentally disturbed than other terrorists.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Cognitive restructuring involves:
A) moral justifications.
B) euphemistic language.
C) advantageous comparisons.
D) a and b.
E) all the above.
Q3) What affect has globalization had on a) the incidence of terrorism and b) the power of terrorist organizations?
Q4) Describe the reasons why a terrorist might volunteer for a suicide mission.
Q5) The developmental histories of most terrorists are fraught with mental instability and antisocial behavior.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Define the three major disengagement practices often employed by terrorists to justify their actions.
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Chapter 12: Sexual Assault
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Q1) Research by Scully and Marolla on deniers and admitters found five major themes running through deniers' explanations for their rape behavior. Which one of the following was not one of them?
A) Attractive women are more seductive in their behavior than unattractive women.
B) Women mean "yes" when they say "no."
C) Most women eventually relax and enjoy it.
D) Nice girls don't get raped.
E) It's no big deal because the women weren't hurt.
Q2) Rape is widely believed to be the most underreported crime.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Most adolescent sex offenders have a diagnosed mental disorder.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Many mental health clinicians do not consider sex offenders to be clinically mentally disordered.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Summarize the research on the prevalence of acquaintance rape.
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Chapter 13: Sexual Assault of Children and Youth and Other
Sexual Offenses
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Q1) A sexual disorder in which bizarre fantasies are necessary for sexual excitement is called:
A) hebephilia.
B) paraphrenia.
C) pornography.
D) paraphilia.
E) voyeurism.
Q2) Hebephilia is a distinct, diagnostic category of pedophilia.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Sexual attraction to inanimate objects is referred to as:
A) ontoanalysis.
B) neuroglia.
C) fetishism.
D) spasmodic fixation.
E) pidgin.
Q4) Identify some of characteristics of female juvenile sex offenders and their victims.
Q5) Describe the cognitive and intellectual characteristics of child molesters.
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Q6) Outline the demographic and psychological characteristics of child molesters.
Chapter 14: Property and Public Order Crime
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Q1) In addition to the other negative effects of victimization, victims of fraud and identity theft are most likely to experience:
A) post-traumatic stress.
B) feelings of self-blame.
C) uncontrollable anger.
D) clinical depression.
E) homicidal thoughts.
Q2) The psychological distance between what people perceive they have now and what they feel they can realistically attain is referred to as relative deprivation.
A)True
B)False
Q3) According to the Vaughn et al. (2008) burglar typology, which class of burglar was the most violent?
A) The feral threat
B) The young versatile
C) The sexual predator
D) The vagrant
E) The dominator
Q4) Compare and contrast motor vehicle theft and carjacking.
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Chapter 15: Violent Economic Crime and Crimes of Initimidation
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Q1) Most bank robberies are carried out by a single offender.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Define Stockholm Syndrome and London Syndrome. Provide examples of each.
Q3) Compared with arsonists, bombers as a group seem to be more intent on:
A) making a political statement.
B) destruction and injury.
C) being caught.
D) justifying their actions.
E) social protest.
Q4) The fastest growing computer crime is:
A) child pornography.
B) hacking.
C) fraud.
D) cyberbullying.
E) theft.
Q5) Next to deaths caused by motor vehicle accidents, fires are the leading cause of death among young children.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: Substance Abuse, Alcohol, and Crime
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Q1) Available evidence on cannabis indicates:
A) a moderate relationship between cannabis and crime.
B) a strong relationship between cannabis usage and crime.
C) no significant relationship between cannabis and crime.
D) a weak, but significant relationship between cannabis and crime.
E) none of the above.
Q2) Summarize and discuss the six main conclusions researchers have reached in recent years regarding the relationship between drugs and crime.
Q3) Which of the following is a type of crime identified by Goldstein (1985) in his tripartite conceptual model?
A) Romantically induced crime
B) Economically compulsive crime
C) Conditional crime
D) Drug induced crime
E) None of the above
Q4) Cocaine use has been steadily increasing since 2009.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Discuss the relationship between alcohol and crime.
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