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Q:
This offender became known by the media as the "Scorecard Killer."
a. John Wayne Gacy
b. Randy Kraft
c. Herb Baumeister
d. Dean Corll
Q:
In the case of the Prostitute Murders in California, (2000- 2001), what was the reason given for the killer to stab the youngest victim nearly 150 times and mutilate her face?
a. He wanted to make her ugly like all prostitutes he killed.
b. She had cheated him out of drugs.
c. She had cheated him out of money.
d. She laughed at him because he was impotent.
Q:
Which of the following was one of the findings of Operation Police Lure?
a. Children ages 10-12 were the most likely targets.
b. Children were approached most frequently between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m.
c. The most effective lure used by offenders was to offer the child a ride to or from school.
d. Boys were seldom the primary target.
Q:
Operation Police Lure revealed that which lure was most often used by child abductors/molesters?
a. offering a ride home in their car
b. offering candy or treats
c. inviting the child to have his/her picture taken
d. asking for help
Q:
This was the primary motive for killing children reported by male serial offenders.
a. thrills
b. revenge
c. sexual gratification
d. mental illness
Q:
What is the primary motive reported by female serial offenders for killing children?
a. thrills
b. revenge
c. sexual gratification
d. monetary gain
Q:
Most serial offenders who are white usually are also lower middle class or middle class, and their homicides tend to be _____.
a. intraracial
b. interracial
c. of any race
d. of a specific race chosen by the offender
Q:
Of the 420 serial killers examined in the Hickey study, approximately what percent killed at least one child?
a. 10
b. 24
c. 40
d. 65
Q:
Most missing children are returned home alive or are located. Of the .2 percent not located or returned home, most were _____.
a. killed
b. taken from the country
c. runaways from institutions
d. sold into slavery
Q:
Of all children who are murdered each year in the United States, which of the following currently represent the greatest percentage of victims?
a. American Indians
b. Hispanics
c. whites
d. blacks
Q:
Nearly 75 percent of child abduction murder victims are killed within _____ hours.
a. 2-3 hours
b. 6-12 hours
c. 24-48 hours
d. 3 days
e. 1 week
Q:
Regarding missing children in the United States _____ account for the greatest percentage of children found alive whereas _____ account for the greatest percentage of children found dead.
a. runaways/parental abductions
b. discarded children/abbreviated abductions
c. runaways/relative abductions
d. runaways/stranger abductions
Q:
Which of the following statements is correct?
a. The FBI claim that instead of several thousands of children being abducted by strangers in the U.S. each year, the actual figures are no more than 150 stranger abductions per year by predators who sexually assault and/or kill their child victims.
b. Evidence now strongly indicates that murders by strangers in the U.S. are on a sharp rise.
c. Male children being abducted and killed by strangers are at greater risk than female children.
d. Less than 10 percent of offenders in the author's research killed one or more children.
Q:
According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, which types of abductions accounted for the greatest percentage of children found dead?
a. parental
b. stranger
c. non-parental relatives
d. acquaintance
Q:
Which of the following classifications describe children who are murdered by their parent(s) or legal guardians?
a. murdered children
b. disposable children
c. unwanted children
d. discarded children
Q:
Dr. Wayne Lord, former director of the FBI's child abduction unit, found that of the 3,200 to 4,600 annual occurrences of non-familial child abductions, _____ were by predators who sexually assaulted and/or killed their child victims.
a. 25-35
b. 40-50
c. 100-150
d. 1000-1500
Q:
In one case in which 11 children had been abducted, sexually assaulted and murdered, the government made a deal with the captured killer and paid him $10,000 for each body he had buried in order to recover the victims. The killer produced 10 bodies. When an outraged public became aware of this transaction the government was forced to recover the money.
a. Robert Pickton
b. Clifford Olson
c. Juan Corona
d. Arthur Shawcross
Q:
Who is at greatest risk of victimization in cases of serial murder?
a. young women
b. young men and young women
c. the elderly
d. young women and children
Q:
Which of the following statements is correct regarding victim facilitation in serial murder cases according to Hickey's research?
a. Less than 25 percent of victims were categorized as low facilitation.
b. Most victims were found to be both high and low facilitation.
c. Over two-thirds of all victims were generally in the right place at the wrong time.
d. Most victims were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Q:
Who first examined victim precipitation in the noted Philadelphia study?
a. Hirschi
b. McDonald
c. Doerner and Lab
d. Wolfgang
Q:
Which of the following mobility groups was least common but was responsible for the greatest average number of victims per offender and the greatest average number of victims per case?
a. traveling
b. place-specific
c. local
d. semi-local
Q:
African Americans constitute approximately _____ percent of offenders in the 2004 serial murder study.
a. 10
b. 20
c. 30
d. 40
Q:
African Americans are responsible for over ______ percent of homicides.
a. 20
b. 10
c. 5
d. 50
Q:
Single-homicide offenders kill _____.
a. men and women with equal frequency
b. more men than women
c. more women than men
d. more children than either women or men
Q:
Murders represent less than _____ percent of all violent crimes in the United States.
a. 10
b. 25
c. 35
d. 1
Q:
The face of serial victimization is changing gradually. Today there are _____.
a. greater number of victims per offender
b. more cases of only female victims
c. a decrease in males being targeted
d. fewer strangers and more family members being targeted
Q:
This group is referred to by Quinet as the "_____," or missing persons who were never reported as missing and some of whom could easily be victims of serial murder.
a. permanently missing
b. long gone
c. bozzios
d. missing missing
Q:
Between 1995 and 2004 the cases of serial murder _____.
a. sharply inclined
b. sharply declined
c. stayed the same as before 1975
d. rose only a little
Q:
Of Hickey's 2004 study, nearly _____ percent of the 367 cases (431 offenders) appeared since 1975.
a. 50%
b. 60%
c. 70%
d. 80%
Q:
Discuss the relationship between victim selection and power among female serial murderers.
Q:
Because women are seldom viewed by the public as killers, how are female serial murderers identified?
Q:
_____ was popular for hundreds of years as a method of murder.
Q:
As mentioned earlier, many victims play a prominent role in their own demise by _____ the encounter with the offender.
Q:
_____ killers, common among female offenders, repeatedly murdered their victims in the same location.
Q:
In earlier decades of American history, _____ was not considered a justification or an explanation for female homicide.
Q:
The orientation of criminological research focuses primarily on _____ criminality.
Q:
Most female serial murderers hold skilled occupations.
Q:
Some underlying issues in understanding gender-based psychopathy regarding females may include a firm grasp on reality.
Q:
Female serial killers tend to be typical in terms of female criminality.
Q:
Women who commit multiple murders typically use methods comparable to their male counterparts.
Q:
Women who kill rarely do so as a result of domestic conflicts and tend to kill multiple times.
Q:
When family members are the victims of female serial killers _____ are the primary targets.
a. children
b. siblings
c. parents
d. husbands
Q:
Female serial killers are most likely to be _____.
a. sent to death row/executed
b. given life in prison
c. never apprehended
d. confined to mental hospital
Q:
In terms of psychopathy, Verona and Vitale note that females likely have differing norms for aggression that may require a higher level of this in order to for them to engage in violent behavior.
a. psychopathic traits
b. frustration
c. physical strength
d. testosterone
Q:
Obese, epileptic, and abused, this female serial killer experienced a traumatized childhood. She admitted to smothering to death five small children in her care so "no one would hear them scream."
a. Nancy Hazel Doss
b. Terri Rachals
c. Genene Jones
d. Christine Falling
Q:
According to some researchers, mothers who commit filicide also _____.
a. kill their husbands
b. kill their siblings
c. use psychotropic medications
d. attempt suicide
Q:
Lombroso considered the female offender to be _____.
a. insane
b. physically fairly similar to the male offender in facial appearance
c. psychologically similar to the male offender
d. psychologically more cruel and vicious than the male offender
Q:
What is the most common motivation for female serial murderers?
a. sex
b. trauma
c. money
d. enjoyment
Q:
Who were the "poison eaters?"
a. Victims who were given poison by females serial killers.
b. People who deliberately ingested arsenic.
c. People who ingested potassium chloride to improve their physical appearance.
d. Nurses who over time fed poison to their patients and some to themselves to conceal their crimes.
Q:
Since 1975, the number of _____ female offenders has appeared to have dropped considerably, while their male counterparts have remained about the same.
a. traveling
b. local
c. place-specific
d. gender-specific
Q:
Among serial killers who had at least one partner and traveled from state to state, a _____ proportion involved female offenders.
a. significantly high
b. moderate
c. small
d. median
Q:
Female serial killers were most likely to be _____ in their mobility.
a. traveling
b. local
c. place-specific
d. regional
Q:
Which of the following is true of U.S. female serial killers?
a. Most killed children, not adults.
b. Most killed at least one elderly person.
c. Few killed from all age groups.
d. When adults were killed they were more likely to be female victims.
Q:
Which of the following used rat poison laced with arsenic to kill at least four of her husbands, her mother, two children, and several other relatives?
a. Terry Rachals
b. Christine Falling
c. Nannie Doss
d. Genene Jones
Q:
In the case of _____ victims, some offenders took years to systematically kill each one.
a. husband
b. child
c. sibling
d. acquaintance
Q:
Which of the following statements is correct?
a. Female offenders generally target specific age groups.
b. The most common method used by female offenders to kill their victims is suffocation.
c. The most common motive reported by female offenders for killing victims was a combination of motives.
d. Most female offenders acted alone.
Q:
Since 1975, female serial killers have been more likely to target which type of victim?
a. family
b. acquaintances
c. strangers
d. family and acquaintances
Q:
Regardless of sex, homicide usually involves an offender and a victim who are _____ to each other.
a. strangers
b. acquainted or related
c. unknown
d. opposed
Q:
According to the FBI, which of the following would best fit the definition of male serial killer?
a. Mary Beth Tinning
b. Kristen Gilbert
c. Marie Hilley
d. Aileen Wuornos
Q:
According to the FBI, who was the first documented female serial killer?
a. Nannie Hazel Doss
b. Linda Sue Jones
c. Aileen Wuornos
d. Mary Beth Tinning
Q:
Wolfgang noted a preponderance of killings among the _____, where interpersonal violence was more "acceptable."
a. lower socioeconomic classes
b. higher socioeconomic classes
c. middle classes
d. extremely wealthy
Q:
Which of the following statements is correct?
a. Female serial killers tend to kill over a longer period of time than their male counterparts.
b. Serial killing is highly correlated to regional variations.
c. Most serial offenders kill in at least two or more states.
d. Most victims of serial killers are murdered in or very close to their homes.
Q:
Which of the following statements is correct?
a. Since the turn of the 20th century the number of victims per case killed by female serial offenders has fluctuated.
b. Most female offenders were employed outside the home during the course of their killings.
c. Unlike their male counterparts, about one third of female offenders were black.
d. Females tend to kill more for revenge than any other motive.
Q:
This offender admitted to having tried to kill two previous husbands in order to collect insurance. The day after she was sentenced to 20 years in prison, she married again in a ceremony performed by the same judge who sentenced her.
a. Linda Sue Jones
b. Betty J. Neumar
c. Mary Beth Tinning
d. Aileen Wuornos
Q:
Which of the following is false of female serial killers?
a. Average age is 40.
b. Most never married.
c. Most of them were unemployed or listed no occupation.
d. They tend to be viewed as anomalies in female homicide patterns.
Q:
In the Heckert and Ferraiolo study, most respondents imagined this of female serial killers.
a. They have prior criminal records.
b. They were brutal killers.
c. They used torture techniques.
d. They used guns to dispatch victims.
Q:
Heckert and Ferraiolo (1996) conducted a study of college students to examine perceptions of female serial killers. What did they discover?
a. Students thought female serial killers would be in their 30s and slovenly.
b. Students thought female serial killers would be insane.
c. Students thought female serial killers would be quite attractive.
d. Students thought female serial killers would have a criminal record and be adept at using poisons.
Q:
Females represent what percentage of all serial killers in Hickey's study?
a. 8
b. 15
c. 26
d. 34
Q:
This offender, a Texas nurse, was continually employed in a hospital long after numerous complaints and charges that she was injuring the children in her ward.
a. Mary Beth Tinning
b. Genene Jones
c. Kathleen Heide
d. Herta Oberheuser
Q:
Who are the "quiet killers"?
a. female serial killers
b. persons who kill with poisons
c. persons who kill family members
d. male hospital orderlies
Q:
She was a medical doctor in the Auschwitz death camps who killed children with oil and a surgical anesthetic. She removed organs and limbs from her victims.
a. Leni Riefenstahl
b. Terri Rachals
c. Herta Oberheuser
d. Christine Falling
Q:
Would the occupations of team serial killers have an effect on their decision to commit their crimes? Why or why not?
Q:
Why are non-related female masterminds in serial-murder relationships so rare?
Q:
Similar to all serial killers, team offenders could rarely be legally classified as _____.
Q:
Offender mobility data indicated that team killers were most likely to remain in local proximity to their killing sites and least likely to be classified as _____ offenders.
Q:
Cases were extremely rare in which non-related _____ masterminded multiple homicides, but they do occur.
Q:
The _____ are a fast-growing group of particularly accessible potential victims.
Q:
The primary catalyst for serial-murder victimization stems from a perceived need to acquire _____ and _____ over others.
Q:
Team killers were likely to come in contact with one another as a result of chance meetings.
Q:
Team killers are unlikely to kill in a very specific place.