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Psychology of Violence and Intimidation MCQ

Psychology of Violence and Intimidation MCQ

 

1. _____ is known as the aggressive actions, including deaths, that occur at the workplace, not necessarily caused by those who work within the organization.

Answer

Correct Answer: workplace violence

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2. _____ is defined as serial killer driven by delusions or hallucinations that compel the person to kill a particular group of individuals.

Answer

Correct Answer: visionary type

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3. _____ is program designed to communicate with and help the nation’s law enforcement agencies to investigate, identify, track, apprehend, and prosecute violent serial offenders by sharing information across juris­dictional boundaries.

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Correct Answer: Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (ViCAP)

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4. Is violence against women act federal law containing multiple provisions for preventing and responding to crimes perpetrated against women and girls, particularly in areas of domestic violence and sexual assault?

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Correct Answer: True

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5. _____ is known as use of physical force or destruction.

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Correct Answer: violence

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6. _____ is defined as stalkers who do not seek a relationship with their victims, but rather are trying to elicit a response, such as fear, or change of behavior, such as moving to a new geographical area.

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Correct Answer: vengeance stalkers

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7. _____ is set of investigative and operational activities designed to identify, assess, and manage individuals who may pose a threat of violence to identifiable targets, such as the school environment.

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Correct Answer: threat assessment

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8. Is stalking defined as “a course of conduct directed at a specific person that involves repeated physical or visual proximity, nonconsensual communication, or verbal, written, or implied threats sufficient to cause fear in a reasonable person” (Tjaden, 1997, p. 2)?

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Correct Answer: True

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9. Is spree murder refers to the killing of three or more individuals without a cooling-off period, usually at two or three different locations?

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Correct Answer: True

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10. _____ is known as those processes through which a person learns patterns of thinking, behavior, and feeling from his or her early life experiences.

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Correct Answer: socialization factors

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11. _____ is defined as characteristics of the psychosocial environment, such as stress or aggression in others, that encourage or engender violent behavior.

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Correct Answer: situational factors

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12. _____ is stalkers who seek power and control after a failed relationship with the victim; often associated with past domestic violence.

Answer

Correct Answer: simple obsession stalkers

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13. Is serial murder incidents in which an individual (or individuals) kill a number of people (usually a minimum of three) over time?

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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14. _____ is known as general term for school violence, including events involving guns and other weapons.

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Correct Answer: school shootings

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15. _____ is defined as a variety of federal programs designed to increase safety in schools; includes violence prevention as well as ways to deal with problems related to bullying and harassment.

Answer

Correct Answer: Safe School Initiative (SSI)

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16. _____ is refers to physical vio­lence precipitated by a hostile and angry reaction to a perceived threat or dangerous situation.

Answer

Correct Answer: Reactive or expressive violence

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17. Is power-control killer type of serial murderer who obtains satisfaction from the absolute life-or-death control he has over the victim?

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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18. _____ is known as the process by which individuals learn patterns of behavior by observing another person performing the action.

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Correct Answer: observational learning

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19. _____ is defined as the intentional and premeditated killing of one human being by another without justification or excuse.

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Correct Answer: murder

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20. _____ is serial killer who believes that there is a particular group of people who are considered undesirable and who must be destroyed or eliminated.

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Correct Answer: mission-oriented type

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21. Is mass murder involves the killing of three or more persons at a single location with no cooling-off period between the killings?

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Correct Answer: True

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22. _____ is known as the unjustified killing of a human being without premeditation. May be negligent or non-negligent, and does not require intent to kill.

Answer

Correct Answer: manslaughter

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23. _____ is defined as stalkers who seek a love relationship with a stranger or casual acquaintance with whom they are obsessed.

Answer

Correct Answer: love obsession stalkers

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24. _____ is term used for behaviors that presumably indicate deception on the part of someone being interviewed.

Answer

Correct Answer: leakage

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25. Is instrumental violence occurs when the injury of an individual is secondary to the acquisition of some other external goal of the offender?

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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26. _____ is known as serial killer who strives for pleasure and thrillseeking. To this killer, people are simply objects to use for one’s own enjoyment. The hedonistic type is divided into lust, thrill, and creature comfort killers.

Answer

Correct Answer: hedonistic type

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27. _____ is defined as also called bias crimes, these are criminal offenses motivated by an offender’s bias against a group to which the victim either belongs or is believed to belong.

Answer

Correct Answer: hate crimes

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28. _____ is federal law that requires law enforcement officials to collect extensive data on reported crimes allegedly motivated by hatred or bias against someone belonging or believed to belong to a specific group.

Answer

Correct Answer: hate crime statistics act

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29. Is ethnocentrism refers to the tendency to interpret events in accordance with one’s own cultural heritage?

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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30. _____ is known as this type of stalker usually has serious mental disorder and is often considered delusional. Public figures are typically the targets of this type of stalking.

Answer

Correct Answer: erotomania stalkers

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31. _____ is defined as threats or unwanted advances directed at another using the Internet or other forms of online communication.

Answer

Correct Answer: cyberstalking

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32. _____ is the unlawful and intentional killing of a human being. The term encompasses both murder and nonnegligent homicide.

Answer

Correct Answer: criminal homicide

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33. Is cognitive factors the internal processes that enable humans to imagine, to gain knowledge, to reason, and to evaluate. Each person has his or her own cognitive version of the world?

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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34. _____ is known as a form of peer aggression in which one or more individuals physically, verbally, or psychologically harass a victim who is perceived to be weaker. Although primarily directed at children and adolescents, bullying also may be directed at adult peers.

Answer

Correct Answer: bullying

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35. _____ is defined as also called hate crimes, these are criminal offenses motivated by an offender’s bias against a group to which the victim either belongs or is believed to belong.

Answer

Correct Answer: bias crimes

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36. _____ is behavior that is intended to cause harm or damage to another person.

Answer

Correct Answer: aggression

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37. Which type of violence occurs when injury is secondary to the acquisition of another external goal?

Answer

Correct Answer: Instrumental violence

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38. The overrepresentation of African Americans in the UCR violent crime arrests rate is due to all of the following except ______.

Answer

Correct Answer: Biological factors

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39. At what age are students especially susceptible to cyberbullying?

Answer

Correct Answer: During their middle school years

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40. Hate crime is synonymous with bias crime.

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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41. Discrimination in the workplace has similarities to bias crimes and to crimes of intimidation.

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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42. The most frequent victims of workplace homicide are ______.

Answer

Correct Answer: Retail workers

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43. Ted Bundy reported the way a woman walked and talked was an important factor in his victim selection. Which subtype of hedonistic killer was he?

Answer

Correct Answer: Lust

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44. According to Holmes and DeBurger’s typology, the murderer who is driven to kill by delusions or hallucinations would be considered the ______ type.

Answer

Correct Answer: Visionary

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45. Hostile attribution bias is an example of a ______ cause of violence.

Answer

Correct Answer: Cognitive

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46. The cooling-off period refers to the ______.

Answer

Correct Answer: Time interval between killings in a serial murder

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47. Research suggests that heavy exposure to media violence may ______.

Answer

Correct Answer: Desensitize one to violence

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48. Human violence is ultimately a learned behavior.

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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49. All of the following are common motives of serial killers except ______.

Answer

Correct Answer: Financial gain

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50. Male serial murderers often choose victims who are ______.

Answer

Correct Answer: Easily accessible

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51. Which of the following is a characteristic of mass murders?

Answer

Correct Answer: The perpetrator is often frustrated and angry.

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