Psychology of Crime
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Psychology of Crime explores the psychological factors that contribute to criminal behavior, examining how individual, social, and environmental influences shape the actions of offenders. This course covers major theories of criminality, including biological, cognitive, and sociocultural perspectives, and investigates topics such as personality disorders, aggression, moral development, and the role of mental illness in crime.
Students will analyze case studies, discuss preventative strategies, and evaluate the effectiveness of rehabilitation programs, gaining a comprehensive understanding of the complex interplay between psychology and criminal activity.
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Criminal Behavior A Psychological Approach 11th Edition Curt R. Bartol
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Criminal Behavior
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Q1) The text primarily focuses on mentally disordered offenders. A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Psychological criminology recently shifted its focus to a more ________ and ________ approach to the study of criminal behavior.
A) forensic; scientific B) trait-focused; instrumental C) personality; biological D) cognitive; developmental Answer: D
Q3) NCVS data consistently show that males are most likely to be victimized by
Answer: strangers
Q4) The modern form of classical theory is ________ theory. Answer: deterrence
Q5) According to the developmental approach,poor nutrition and early school failure are ________ factors for antisocial behavior.
Answer: risk
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Chapter 2: Origins of Criminal Behavior: Developmental Risk Factors
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Q1) ADHD frequently co-occurs with which diagnostic category?
A) Mental disorder
B) Conduct disorder
C) Status offenses
D) Psychopathy
Answer: B
Q2) One of the strongest predictors of later antisocial behavior is A) peer rejection.
B) lack of interests or hobbies.
C) dysfunctional family dynamics.
D) excessive television viewing.
Answer: A
Q3) Studies examining the education of inmates in correctional facilities found that many inmates had attained a(n)________ of education or less.
Answer: eighth grade
Q4) The cause of ADHD is unknown.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Origins of Criminal Behavior: Biological Factors
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Q1) Research has consistently suggested that the neurotransmitter serotonin may play the most significant role in aggression and violence.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) The small group of nerve cells in the brain involved in aggressive behavior is called the ________ and is part of the ________ system. A) amygdala; limbic B) frontal lobe; central nervous C) hippocampus; limbic D) atempora; activating
Answer: A
Q3) Prenatal and life experiences affect that both twins in the same way are known as ________ environments.
Answer: shared; or common
Q4) Research has consistently suggested that the neurotransmitter ________ may play the most significant role in aggression and violence.
Answer: serotonin
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Chapter 4: Origins of Criminal Behavior: Learning and
Situational Factors
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Q1) Learning the consequences of one's behavior is the basis of ________ learning.
Q2) In which situation is bystander apathy LEAST likely to occur?
A) A thief steals tires from a car parked on a busy street
B) An assailant snatches a purse on a crowded sidewalk
C) An assailant stabs someone in front of a lone jogger in a residential neighborhood
D) A thief steals a muffin from a bakery during the morning rush
Q3) Studies conducted by Stanley Milgram and Philip Zimbardo both found that one's situation strongly influences behavior.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Early learning theorists worked in the laboratory,using ________ as their primary subjects.
Q5) According to Akers' differential association reinforcement theory,criminal behavior develops primarily as the result of A) frustration.
B) heightened expectancies that are innate in the individual.
C) social reinforcements given by significant others.
D) classical conditioning.
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Chapter 5: Human Aggression and Violence
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Q1) Cognitive scripts are ________ behavioral patterns for certain situations that are ________ to change.
A) available; relatively easy
B) persistent; resistant
C) innate; impossible
D) aggressive; relatively easy
Q2) GAM posits that violence often occurs because of a(n)________ cycle,which begins with an initial triggering event that may be serious or relatively benign.
Q3) Why is it pessimistic to view violence and aggression as a genetically programmed aspect of human nature? Explain the sentence: Aggression is a simple,direct method of solving immediate conflicts.
Q4) Which of the following behaviors represents an example of passive-aggressive behavior?
A) Slapping someone
B) Refusing to speak to someone
C) Shouting at someone
D) Shooting someone
Q5) The revised frustration-aggression hypothesis was proposed by ________.
Q6) According to Bandura's the mass media are examples of ________ models.
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Chapter 6: Juvenile Delinquincy
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Q1) Steinberg's dual systems model of risk-taking is based on evidence from the field of A) forensic science.
B) entomology.
C) sociology.
D) neuroscience.
Q2) Which of the following statements is not correct?
A) The number of prevention, intervention, and treatment programs that have been tried with delinquents and children at risk over the past three decades is overwhelming.
B) Serious forms of antisocial behavior in school-aged children and adolescents have been particularly resistant to change.
C) To date, virtually no prevention programs have been highly successful in eliminating antisocial behavior and reducing delinquent behavior.
D) One-on-one psychotherapy that treats the juvenile without involving the social environment is generally ineffective.
Q3) Prevention and treatment programs have shifted from focusing on reducing risk factors to emphasizing ________ factors.
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Chapter 7: Criminal Psychopathy
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Q1) Recent research clearly indicates that psychopathy is not a category but exists on a(n)________.
Q2) The boldness factor of psychopathy is sometimes referred to as ________ dominance.
Q3) Juveniles who possess psychopathy-like characteristics,such as ________ traits,are believed to be particularly susceptible to antisocial behavior throughout their lives.
Q4) Neuropsychological indicators have been repeatedly found in psychopaths,as reflected in electrodermal measures,cardiovascular,and other nervous system indices.These indicators are called A) confluence.
B) markers.
C) cloaca.
D) neuroindicators.
Q5) Cleckley's book The Mask of Sanity describes in clear and empirically useful terms the major behaviors demonstrated by the ________ psychopath,as distinct from the other psychopathic types.
Q6) Briefly describe the core characteristics of the criminal psychopath.
Q7) Name and describe five instruments used to measure psychopathy.
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Chapter 8: Crime and Mental Disorders
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Q1) Describe guilty but mentally ill statutes.Why do many legal scholars oppose them?
Q2) All of the following standards or rules to determine insanity are or have been represented in various state or federal legal systems except the
A) Dayton Rule.
B) M'Naghten Rule.
C) Brawner Rule.
D) Product Test.
Q3) The core of the insanity defense involves which one of the following issues?
A) Competency to stand trial
B) Whether the person can be rehabilitated
C) Criminal responsibility
D) Past psychiatric history
Q4) Which disorder has been referred to as the UFO of psychiatry?
A) Dissociative Identity Disorder
B) Postpartum Psychosis
C) Dysthymic Disorder
D) Borderline Personality Disorder
Q5) The ________ case was the impetus for duty to warn/protect statutes.
Q6) Adjudicative competence involves competence to proceed and ________ competence.
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Chapter 9: Homicide, Assault, and Family Violence
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Q1) Studies of homicide have shown that murderers rarely know their victims.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In family violence,the term "battering" is generally reserved for A) heterosexual physical violence.
B) psychological abuse.
C) emotional abuse.
D) physical violence.
Q3) Incidence refers to the total number of cases per year.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The most common abuse of the elderly by caretakers is A) physical abuse.
B) emotional abuse.
C) neglect.
D) a combination of emotional abuse and neglect.
Q5) Theories that view domestic violence as a tactic for gaining power and control in relationships are highly consistent with ________ theory.
Q6) An attack becomes ________ assault when the purpose is to inflict serious bodily injury.
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Chapter 10: Multiple Murder, School, and Workplace
Violence
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Q1) Which of the following was reported by the National Center for Education Statistics?
A) Over the years, the percentage of youth homicides occurring at school remains more than 10 percent of the total number of youth homicides.
B) While fear of being harmed at school has decreased, the risk of being victimized by school violence has steadily increased.
C) More school shootings have occurred in Germany than in all other countries combined.
D) Students were more likely to be victims of serious violence or homicide away from school.
Q2) The modus operandi
A) is an unusual pattern that is not necessary to commit the offense.
B) refers to the procedures an offender engages in to successfully commit a crime.
C) is a consistent, unchanging behavior the offender uses across all crimes.
D) is a crucial link investigators must focus on when linking crimes.
Q3) Design a program that could be offered in schools to address school violence.Include details about what research tells us about the perpetrators of these attacks.
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Chapter 11: Psychology of Terrorism
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Q1) Terrorism today offers a much greater threat of violence to the world than ever before due to ________.
Q2) A terrorist who writes a good-bye letter to his parents immediately before carrying out a suicide mission is engaging in
A) a fail-safe procedure.
B) martyrdom.
C) a point-of-no-return ritual.
D) dehumanization.
Q3) Which factor has contributed to the increase in lone wolf terrorist activities in the United States?
A) Unemployment
B) Social media
C) Poverty
D) Racial profiling
Q4) List and describe briefly the characteristics of lone wolf terrorists.Provide an example.
Q5) The textbook uses the ________ definition of terrorism.
Q6) Left-wing extremist groups become terrorists when they move from ________ activism to violent activities.
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Chapter 12: Sexual Assault
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Q1) Data from the NCVS indicate that most rape or sexual assault victimizations (55%)occurred at or near the victim's ________.
Q2) The Knight and Sims-Knight Three-path model identifies causal pathways in the development of
A) irresistible impulses.
B) mental disorders of rapists.
C) attitudes that support rape.
D) sexual coercive behavior in male offenders.
Q3) In the UCR,statutory rapes is considered a
A) noncriminal event.
B) Part I crime.
C) social issue.
D) Part II crime.
Q4) Define RNR principles and their relevance to treatment of adult sex offenders.
Q5) The United States has the highest reported incidence of rape in the world. A)True
B)False
Q6) The original MTC had five major classifications and ten subtypes.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Sexual Assault of Children and Youth
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Q1) Describe the psychological effects of child sexual victimization.
Q2) Which question is a key of child pornography research?
A) Do those involved in child pornography have legitimate access to the child?
B) Is child pornography a crime?
C) Are the victims of child pornography harmed?
D) Do those persons interested in child pornography online also seek physical sexual contact with children?
Q3) CSOs tend to be ________ and rapists tend to be ________.
A) generalists; specialists
B) male; female
C) specialists; generalists
D) female; male
Q4) In the UCR summary report statistics (SRS),rape of children is now included under ________ data.
Q5) JSOs who sexually victimize peers or adults are more likely to have a more extensive criminal history compared to JSOs who victimize children.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Most chronic criminal offenders are ________ rather than specialists.
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Chapter 14: Burglary, Home Invasions, Thefts, and White
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Q1) Vaughn et al.'s 2008 research identified four classes of burglars based on ________ motives.
A) psychological
B) financial C) sexual
D) external
Q2) The most common Part I property crime is
A) motor vehicle theft.
B) burglary.
C) larceny-theft.
D) shoplifting.
Q3) 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
Q4) There has been a growth in the prevalence of auto theft involving ________ as a method of access.
Q5) Official burglary rates have ________ in recent years.
Q6) Identity theft is known to victimize the deceased and ________.
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Chapter 15: Violent Economic Crime, Cybercrime, and
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Q1) Both criminal and prisoner hostage-taking situations are instrumental in nature. A)True
B)False
Q2) Some people who cyberstalk or cyberbully may be more inclined to act in a deviant manner because of the ________ that the Internet provides.
Q3) The primary motive for adult arsons appears to be
A) revenge.
B) crime concealment.
C) financial gain.
D) vandalism.
Q4) Explain the motivations and situational dynamics behind street robbery.
Q5) Doris Hall (1998)reports that the experience of being stalked for an extended period of time is akin to A) mind-game playing.
B) bullying.
C) rape.
D) psychological terrorism.
Q6) Amateur bank robbers are highly ________ in their behavioral patterns.
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Q7) Less than 10 percent of fires set by ________ is reported.
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Chapter 16: Substance Abuse, Alcohol, and Crime
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Q1) What are the four main categories of drugs discussed in this chapter? List their main effects,and provide one example of a drug from each category.
Q2) The Arrestees Drug Abuse Monitoring Program (ADAM)collects data through A) urinalysis of arrestees and self-report data.
B) autopsies and hospital records.
C) local and federal police reports.
D) prison studies and forensic laboratories.
Q3) Recent evidence suggests a relationship between A) heroin addiction and money-producing crime.
B) amphetamine addiction and violence.
C) marijuana use and family violence.
D) cocaine use and sexual assault.
Q4) The Drug Induced Rape Prevention and Punishment Act of 1996 was designed to prohibit the use of A) ecstasy.
B) marijuana.
C) Rohypnol.
D) oxycodone.
Q5) Persistent crack users are often ________ users.
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