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Q:
Healthcare killers meet the general criteria for serial killing except for the stereotypic element of violence.
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Killers who work in the health care industry are seldom lust killers.
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According to the Yorker study, nurse's aides were more likely to suffocate, use poisons, or administer oral medications.
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The most prolific, documented serial killer ever in all of Europe is Heinrich Gross.
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Every year in the United States, about 80,000 persons die in hospitals unrelated to the reasons for which they entered hospital care.
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Which is not a red flag that may signal suspicious activity in hospitals, hospices, and nursing homes?
a. The family was at the patient's bedside at the time of death.
b. Fellow employees often report allegations to investigators, not management.
c. There are no eyewitness to the crime.
d. The weapon of choice is usually a sudden death chemical readily available on the ward and often considered non-detectable or not checked at autopsy.
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According to the text, what is believed to be Genene Jones's motive for killing?
a. to draw attention to how lax hospitals are in their care
b. to take revenge on parents of children who were rude to the nursing staff
c. a need to prove there were enough sick children to justify construction of a pediatric intensive-care unit in Kerrville, Texas
d. thrill-seeking
Q:
This drug was used by Genene Jones in the murder of 15-month-old Chelsea McClellan.
a. potassium chloride
b. adrenaline
c. cyanide
d. succinylcholine
Q:
Convicted of giving an 89-year-old patient a heart"stopping chemical, this offender received 17 years for her conviction.
a. Genene Jones
b. Terri Rachals
c. Kristen Gilbert
d. Jane Fonda
Q:
Kristen Gilbert is believed to have injected her patients with large doses of this drug, causing their hearts to beat rapidly and uncontrollably.
a. adrenaline
b. digoxin
c. morphine
d. potassium chloride
Q:
After Donald Harvey was arrested, what was found among his possessions?
a. a letter to one of the victims expressing his remorse
b. a list of victims yet to be killed
c. pictures of all his victims
d. a Bible with passages about murder underlined
Q:
This "angel of death" started killing when he/she turned 18 and began working as a nurse's aide at Mary Mount Hospital in Laurel County, Kentucky. He/she first killed an aunt, then committed what he/she referred to as "accidental homicides," followed by 10 or more patient deaths.
a. Kristen Gilbert
b. Dolores Claiborne
c. Filipina Narciso
d. Donald Harvey
Q:
Why do hospitals and nursing homes fall prey to healthcare killers, even after they have been terminated from a previous job?
a. They tend to be charming and good-looking.
b. Their references are seldom checked.
c. Hospital and nursing-home administrators are lazy.
d. The job isn't that important.
Q:
Why are offenders who kill in hospitals and nursing homes not easy to identify?
a. They do not attract media attention.
b. They are loud killers who go about performing their tasks poorly.
c. They are unfriendly and cold.
d. They are outwardly dispassionate.
Q:
This offender was a respiratory therapist for nine years. He confessed to killing dozens of terminally ill patients over 10 years. He claimed to be an "angel of death" who had killed as many as 200 victims.
a. Charles Cullen
b. Efren Saldivar
c. Donald Harvey
d. George Clooney
Q:
This sophisticated drug used in some murders is difficult to detect once the body has been prepared for burial.
a. oxycodone
b. morphine
c. caffeine
d. potassium chloride
Q:
At the Toronto Hospital for Sick Children in Ontario, Canada, dozens of infants were believed to have been killed with overdoses of what drug?
a. pavulon
b. succinylcholine chloride
c. morphine
d. digoxin
Q:
Charles Cullen confessed to the murders of how many patients over a period of 16 years?
a. 40
b. 13
c. 2
d. over 20
Q:
What is true regarding "place-specific" killers?
a. Nearly half are male offenders.
b. They are not stay-at-home killers.
c. Nearly one third have dumpsites for bodies.
d. Nearly all have dumpsites for bodies.
Q:
What are offenders who kill family or relatives called?
a. angels of death
b. black widows
c. demons of death
d. brown recluses
Q:
What is one area that geographic profiling is not designed to address?
a. gender-specific murder
b. place-specific murder
c. disorder-specific murder
d. character-specific murder
Q:
The Yorker study found that most healthcare providers who committed murders came from which states?
a. Illinois, Kentucky, and Florida
b. California, Hawaii, Florida, and Georgia
c. New York, Alabama, California, and Illinois
d. California, Texas, Michigan, and Florida
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This killer managed to avoid punishment and was even awarded prestigious honors for his research. He became an expert on the pathology of mental illness and, after the war, lectured and became an expert court witness in thousands of criminal cases.
a. Charles Cullen
b. Wayne Bleyle
c. Efren Saldivar
d. Heinrich Gross
Q:
How did the Third Reich refer to children with defective genes?
a. useless citizens
b. white inferiority
c. white liars
d. useless eaters
Q:
What sorts of murders are trademarks of place-specific killers?
a. dutiful, regular, and methodical
b. violent and gory
c. feature well-hidden corpses
d. have victims who are the same sex
Q:
What are healthcare providers who murder often diagnosed with?
a. bipolar disorder
b. major depressive disorder
c. body dysmorphic disorder
d. Munchausen syndrome
Q:
Harold Shipman was convicted of killing how many victims?
a. Between 200 and 300.
b. 23
c. 15
d. Less than 10
Q:
Which of the following is not true regarding Harold Shipman?
a. He came from a wealthy aristocratic background.
b. His father was a lorry driver.
c. His family lived in a small house in Nottingham.
d. His mother died sitting in her armchair.
Q:
What was Heinrich Gross also known as?
a. Dr. Grotesque
b. Dr. Death
c. Dr. Golem
d. Dr. Vomit
Q:
In their study of 90 cases of serial murder, Yorker, et al., found that 86 percent of their cases involved nursing personnel and that women were involved in ____ percent of the cases.
a. 82
b. Less than 30
c. 55
d. 49
Q:
According to Yorker, et al., where do most healthcare-related murders occur?
a. in hospital settings
b. in patients' homes
c. in local clinics
d. in ambulances
Q:
According to Yorker, et al., what is the most common way to kill?
a. injections
b. pills
c. inhalants
d. suppositories
Q:
Yorker, et al., identified some typical scenarios in serial murder of patients by healthcare providers. Which is not typical?
a. the presence of a common injectable substance in post mortem
b. deaths that cluster on the night shift
c. epidemiologic studies linking presence of a specific care provider to increased likelihood of death
d. the sexual assault of the patient
Q:
Which of the following IS NOT true regarding euthanasia?
a. It is still a crime in most states.
b. It originated in Asia.
c. It involves a medical provider trying to ease the suffering of a patient.
d. It involves a medical provider believing that letting a person die or assisting them in dying demonstrates mercy for the patient.
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This offender was known as a reclusive individual who seldom spoke to his neighbors. His co-workers knew him as a man with a quick temper who sometimes threw medical charts and slammed his fist on counters or walls when summoned by patients. Patients were known to refuse meds because of their aversion to him.
a. Wayne Bleyle
b. John Riems
c. Harold Shipman
d. Donald Harvey
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Discuss reasons that Yorker, et al., excluded authentic euthanasia from their study.
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Why was Harold Shipman the most prolific documented serial killer in Europe? In your opinion, what factors made this possible?
Q:
Serial killers usually seek out those _____ than themselves.
Q:
Analyze and discuss the differences between preparatory paraphilia and attack paraphilia. Does having a preparatory paraphilia make one a serial killer?
Q:
Discuss Rozee's 1993 study which found that in 35 non-industrialized societies some forms of rape are socially acceptable. Why would a society find some forms of rape to be acceptable? Do you think this has changed in any of these societies since 1993?
Q:
List and discuss the myths and realities of predator priests. Which myth surprised you the most? Which reality surprised you? Why?
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_____ is finding sexual gratification by substituting objects for the sexual partner.
Q:
According to the DSM-V, for a person to be diagnosed with paraphilia, their fantasies, urges, and behaviors are examined for _____, _____, and _____.
Q:
A number of deaths have been attributed to _____ where persons experimenting for the first time or through miscalculation have accidentally killed themselves by hanging.
Q:
Serial murder now has multiple categories that include both _____ such as sexual killings or hate crimes and _____ or those more likely carried out for financial gain.
Q:
Problematic to investigating sex crimes, interrogating suspects, understanding
victimization, and punishing and treating those who commit sex crimes is being
able to differentiate between _____ and _____.
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The need to control is rarely present in primary paraphilia.
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The sex murderer appears to harbor deep-seated fantasies, whereas the lust murderer kills out of fear and a desire to silence his victim.
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Most serial murders are sexual in nature.
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For the offender, the sexual attack in certain serial killings is not an integral part of the murder, both psychologically and physiologically.
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Sexual offenders often commit only one crime.
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Between 1996 and 1997, this offender lived in Yosemite National Park where he worked as a handyman at several hotels. Those who knew him described him as likeable loner who never dated and was not inclined to close friendships.
a. Lewis, a 28 year old Gulf War Veteran
b. Edmund Kemper
c. Gerald Brudos
d. Cary Stayner
Q:
Which is not another term for the "signature" or personal marking of an offender?
a. the MO or "method of operating"
b. the "calling card"
c. the "trademark"
d. the "paraphilic footprint"
Q:
What is a common fetish in Britain?
a. gas"mask fetish
b. women's underwear fetish.
c. sex organs of corpses fetish.
d. women's teeth fetish.
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This killer's fantasy for greater sexual pleasure led him, on November 26, 1968, to strangle Jan Whitney, 23 with a postal strap. After killing Whitney, he had sexual intercourse with the corpse, then cut off the right breast and made an epoxy mold of the organ. Before dumping her body in the river, he took pictures of the corpse.
a. Edmund Kemper
b. Jerry Brudos
c. Dennis Lynn Rader
d. Charles Ng
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This killer may have murdered over 100 victims. He was usually able to lure the intended victims to his car by asking them for assistance. He was always polite and friendly and sometimes wore his arm in a sling to appear as a harmless, well-bred young man simply in need of help. At other times he was known to lurk in dark shadows and attack women who were alone.
a. The Green River Killer
b. Charles Albright
c. Armin Meiwes
d. Ted Bundy
Q:
What does lust killing involve?
a. postmortem acts of mutilation and desecration
b. stabbing which is by far the preferred method of killing
c. voluntary participation by the victim
d. killing with an axe, the preferred method by most killers
Q:
Which is not considered a preparatory paraphilia?
a. necrophilia
b. erotomania
c. frottage
d. retifism
Q:
Which is not considered an attack paraphilia?
a. necrophilia
b. pedophilia
c. scopophilia
d. sadism
Q:
What is another term for scopophilia (voyeurism)?
a. stroker
b. peeping tom
c. triolist
d. frotteur
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Which of the following is the very essence of the sadistic drive?
a. the wish to inflict pain
b. to end up life-long companions who share a common interest
c. to punish in order to correct passive behavior
d. the pleasure in the complete domination over another person
Q:
Sexual sadism is to sexual masochism as _____ is to _____.
a. the punisher / the punished
b. observing / exposing
c. alive / dead
d. children / animals
Q:
Why did Melvin Carter, the College Terrace Rapist, return to the apartment of his "date"?
a. He fell in love with her and couldn't bear to be without her.
b. He wanted to apologize for breaking into her apartment.
c. He felt terrible that he had forgotten her radio in his car, and he didn't want her to think him a thief.
d. He forgot his keys.
Q:
Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE regarding John Jamelske?
a. His killing career lasted just under two years.
b. He viewed himself as unorthodox and a Casanova.
c. He hunted young women for nearly 16 years.
d. He constructed an underground, concrete bunker where he would keep sex slaves.
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Which is NOT TRUE regarding compensatory rapists?
a. They are sexually stimulated by their environment.
b. They are passive, introverted, non-assertive men.
c. They like to demonstrate prowess and sexual adequacy.
d. They use extreme violence against their victims.
Q:
What does NAMBLA stand for?
a. North American Model Boy Association
b. North American Man/Boy Love Association
c. National Association of Masters and Boys
d. National Association of Marlon Brando Lookalikes
Q:
Rather than groom victims, these offenders are opportunistic and will molest children both in private and in public places, even when unsuspecting parents are close by.
a. child molesters
b. pedophiles
c. serial killers
d. female sex offenders
Q:
Each year in the United States about how many children are abducted, sexually assaulted, and killed by sexual predators?
a. about 50
b. about 150
c. less than 50
d. nearly 550
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These people seldom marry, are not sexually attracted to other adults, and in their own twisted perspective do not harm children because they care about them.
a. female sex offenders
b. pedophiles
c. abusers
d. serial killers
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Of the five types of female offenders Mathews identified, which are women with histories of personal abuse and substance addictions who act alone in efforts to find emotional intimacy?
a. teacher-lovers
b. male-coerced sexual offenders
c. the predisposed child molester
d. experimenter-exploiters
Q:
Lawson identified four subtypes of female offenders. Which is not one of these?
a. heterosexual nurturers
b. the seductive abuse mother molester
c. the humiliation offender
d. the overt sexual abuse offender
Q:
Sarrel and Masters identified four typologies of female sex offenders. Which is not one of these?
a. forced assault
b. mother abuse
c. incestuous abuse
d. dominant woman abuse
Q:
What is the act or fantasy of engaging in sexual activity with prepubescent children as a preferred means of achieving sexual gratification and/or arousal?
a. fetishism
b. pedophilia
c. sexual masochism
d. zoophilia
Q:
Which of the following paraphilia involves sexual involvement of a person with dolls or mannequins?
a. necrophilia
b. anthropophagy
c. pygmalionism
d. pederasty
Q:
Which of the following paraphilia involves sexual arousal through the use of enemas?
a. infibulation
b. klismaphilia
c. autoeroticism
d. coprophilia
Q:
This killer placed Internet requests for young homosexual men interested in "slaughter and consumption" and received many serious responses. After meeting and rejecting four men because they were not suitable, he found a willing man in an Internet chat room. After the killing, the victim was butchered and kept in a refrigerator. By the time the homosexual paraphiliac was caught he had cannibalized most of the victim.
a. Charles Albright
b. Jeffrey Dahmer
c. Gary Heidnik
d. Armin Meiwes
Q:
Which one of the following is true?
a. Children are not sexual in any way until puberty.
b. Multiple paraphilia often exist in the same person.
c. Persons with paraphilia have often had a sexual trauma early in life.
d. Persons with paraphilia rarely have had any sort of early life trauma.
Q:
How long does a paraphilia last, according to the DSM-V?
a. over a period of at least six months
b. over a period of at least two months
c. over a period of at least a month
d. a paraphilia may last only an instant
Q:
According to Money and Werlas, what does a paraphilia involve?
a. preference for the use of a non-human object for sexual arousal
b. real or simulated suffering or humiliation
c. an obsessive dependence on an unusual stimulus, either physical or fantasy
d. repetitive sexual activity with non-consenting partners
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Which of the following is considered to be a paraphilic serial killer?
a. Aileen Wuornos
b. Charles Albright
c. Kenneth Bianchi
d. Robert Hansen