Deck 12: Responding to Serial Killers

Question 1

For profiling to fulfill its potential, law enforcement must do which of the following?

A)collaborate with academic and medical professionals
B)improve media relations
C)collaborate with profilers from other countries
D)collaborate more with the FBI

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Such profiling is empirically based and has not placed much value on motivation or personality.It does help law enforcement in deciding where to begin knocking on doors and setting up stakeouts.

A)offender profiling
B)geographic profiling
C)equivocal death profiling
D)crime scene profiling

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Serial predators prefer to operate within comfort zones and experience _____ as they leave that comfort zone.

A)deep depression
B)excitement
C)a distance decay function
D)discomfort

Answer 3

C

Question 4

What did the term "forensics" originally mean?

A)courts of law
B)medicine
C)psychiatry
D)crime labs

Question 5

Which of the following is not a characteristic of organized serial killers according to the FBI?

A)victim a stranger
B)little use of restraints
C)body hidden
D)may leave town/change job

Question 6

Which is not one of the four "crime phases" of murderer behavior that investigators use to develop offender profiles and gain insight into their personalities?

A)antecedent
B)method and manner
C)body disposal
D)pre-offense behavior

Question 7

A serious problem with the dichotomous model of organized and disorganized crime scenes is _____.

A)that it is used primarily by the FBI and not other law enforcement agencies
B)interagency co-operation
C)that it applies only to crime scenes involving violence
D)the lack of rigorous reliability and validity testing

Question 8

Which is not one of the three interlinked areas of profiling research that Salfati summarized?

A)place-specific behavior
B)individual differentiation
C)behavioral consistency
D)inferences about offender characteristics

Question 9

This theory suggests that crime occurs when an opportunity arises within the normal areas an offender travels, such as to and from work, recreation, school and community activities.

A)rational choice
B)routine activity theory
C)crime pattern
D)life-course

Question 10

This profiling tool is used to prioritize a variety of homicides and other serious crimes.Also known as criminal personality assessment, it is applied to other forms of profiling.Profilers match the personality characteristics of a certain type of offender with those of a suspect.

A)offender profiling
B)geographic profiling
C)equivocal death profiling
D)psychological profiling

Question 11

Law enforcement agencies collect data, often using case studies or anecdotal information, which then is transformed into general descriptions of the types of persons most commonly associated with a certain type of criminal activity.

A)offender profiling
B)geographic profiling
C)equivocal death profiling
D)crime scene profiling

Question 12

What is part of the serial-killer stereotype?

A)They are stupid.
B)They are educated.
C)They are well-employed.
D)They are intelligent.

Question 13

Which of the following is not a characteristic of a disorganized lust murderer according to the FBI?

A)nocturnal
B)lives/works near the crime scene
C)lives alone
D)body left at scene

Question 14

A geographic profile does not include this.

A)distance
B)time
C)mental maps
D)mobility

Question 15

This is often critical to the outcome of criminal cases.

A)academic research
B)intangible evidence
C)physical forensics
D)hearsay

Question 16

Also referred to as criminal investigation analysis, this form of profiling is based upon the FBI model developed by their Behavioral Science Unit.Psychosocial data are compared to other similar cases and investigators engage in an experiential/informational guessing technique to reconstruct the offenders' personality.

A)offender profiling
B)geographic profiling
C)equivocal death profiling
D)crime scene profiling

Question 17

This theory suggests that offenders are more likely to act on their first opportunity in relation to their buffer zone.

A)routine activity
B)rational choice
C)crime pattern
D)strain

Question 18

Who designed the radex model?

A)Kim Rossmo
B)Ronald Holmes
C)David Canter
D)Richard Kocsis

Question 19

According to Rossmo, which offender style prefers to travel away from home to hunt victims?

A)hunter
B)poacher
C)troller
D)trapper

Question 20

This research suggests that crimes are more likely to occur closer to an offender's domicile and that the farther away he/she travels from home base the fewer crimes they will commit.

A)traveling crime
B)road crime
C)vacation crime
D)journey-to-crime

Question 21

The Body Farm is an academic research facility at the University of West Georgia that studies the decomposition of the human body for forensic purposes.

Question 22

Offender profiling attempts to infer as much as they can about the offender from
the types of victim chosen.

Question 23

The following are types of forensic evidence inspection and analysis performed in crime labs except _____.

A)mental health diagnosis
B)glass and soil fragments
C)hair, fibers, and paint analysis
D)arson analysis including flammable residues and explosives.

Question 24

Which of the following is a false statement regarding the Body Farm in Tennessee?

A)It's the only facility of its kind in the world.
B)Bodies are observed decomposing under controlled conditions.
C)Remains are often skeletonized and added to the research collection.
D)Approximately 40-50 bodies of inmates who died in prison are donated yearly.

Question 25

Media impact, management of departmental resources, and unusual complexity of any given case are rare problems associated with serial murder cases.

Question 26

According to Liebert, in evaluating the contributions of psychiatry to the investigation of serial murders, which offenders pose special problems of being narcissistic, highly intelligent, and manipulative?

A)asexual serial killers
B)lust killers
C)place-specific killers
D)psychopathic serial killers

Question 27

When enzymes in the digestive system eat from the body, causing the tissue to liquefy, this process is called: _____.

A)putrefaction
B)homeostasis
C)retrogestation
D)rigor mortis

Question 28

According to Liebert, the _____ murderer represents the extreme end of the borderline-narcissistic personality disorder spectrum.

Question 29

In the matter of serial killers, it seems that people are overwhelmingly in favor of _____.

A)execution
B)long term mental health therapy
C)long term prison sentences
D)life without possibility of parole

Question 30

What was the real problem facing profilers in attempting to effectively profile the
D)C.Snipers?

A)the variety of rifles used in the killings
B)their mobility
C)their race
D)ineffective eye witnesses

Question 31

According to Hickey, which of the following is the best response to reducing the number of serial murders?

A)reduce violence in the home
B)reduce the number of appeals filed by serial offenders
C)provide appropriate therapy for traumatized children
D)hire more law enforcement to investigate serial murder

Question 32

Equivocal is also referred to as psychological autopsy.

Question 33

According to Yochelson, what were his subjects doing after gaining many insights over several years of intensive treatment?

A)becoming normal
B)renouncing crime
C)becoming empathetic and warm human beings
D)committing more sophisticated crimes and using their insights to excuse what they did

Question 34

_____ draws upon many areas of forensics.

Question 35

This research effort aims to scientifically standardize the definition of legal terms such as "heinous," "atrocious," "evil," and "depraved."

A)the Body Farm
B)the Hare Checklist
C)the Thesaurus of Evil
D)the Depravity Scale

Question 36

Victim profiling describes the types of person(s)most closely associated with the type of offense.

Question 37

Keppel examined the solvability factors involved in serial murder investigations.Which of the following is not one of those factors?

A)quality of court procedures during the preliminary hearing
B)quality of police interviews with eyewitnesses
C)quality of scientific analysis of the physical evidence
D)quality of investigations at the crime scene

Question 38

_____ help investigators develop databases and benchmarks for serial crime.