Serial Murderers and their Victims 6th Edition by Eric W. Hickey – Test Bank

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MULTIPLE CHOICE:

1. In California, about how many of the nearly 120,000 registered sex offenders have

committed crimes against children?

a. 1/3

b. 40,000

c. 2/3

d. 10,000

ANS: C REF: 147

2. The DSM-IV definition of paraphilia includes all the following EXCEPT:

a. preference for the use of a non-human object for sexual arousal.

b. repetitive sexual activity with humans that involves real or simulated suffering or

humiliation.

c. the condition covers a timeframe of at least two months.

d. repetitive sexual activity with non-consenting partners

ANS: C REF: 150

3. Which of the following is considered to be a paraphilic serial killer?

a. Aileen Wuornos

b. Charles Albright

c. Kenneth Bianchi

d. Robert Hansen

ANS: B REF: 148

4. A paraphilia is:

a. An inability to achieve sexual arousal through any physical means.

b. Unusual or bizarre imagery or acts necessary for sexual arousal.

c. A compulsion to have one’s anatomical sex changed surgically.

d. A victim who has been raped or molested numerous times resulting in sexual

dysfunction.

ANS: B REF: 151

5. 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.

ANS: B REF: 151

16. 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

ANS: D REF: 155

7. Which of the following paraphilia involves sexual arousal through the use of enemas?

a. infibulation

b. klismaphilia

c. autoeroticism

d. coprophilia

ANS: B REF: 157

8. Which of the following paraphilia involves sexual involvement of a person with dolls or

mannequins?

a. necrophilia

b. anthropophagy

c. pygmalionism

d. pederasty

ANS: C REF: 158

9. The act or fantasy of engaging in sexual activity with prepubescent children as a

preferred means of achieving sexual gratification and/or arousal is known as:

a. fetishism

b. pedophilia

c. sexual masochism

d. zoophilia

ANS: B REF: 160

10. 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

ANS: A REF: 161

211. 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

ANS: C REF: 161

12. 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

ANS: B REF: 161

13. 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

ANS: B REF: 163

14. 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

ANS: A 163

15. 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

3ANS: B REF: 163

16. 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

ANS: B REF: 164

17. 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.

ANS: D REF: 169-170

18. 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.

ANS: A REF: 170

19. Melvin Carter, the College Terrace Rapist, returned to the apartment of his “date”

because:

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.

ANS: C REF: 171

20. Sexual sadism is to sexual masochism as ______ a. the punisher / the punished

b. observing / exposing

c. alive / dead

d. children / animals

is to ______:

ANS: A REF: 173

421. 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

ANS: D REF: 174

22. Another term for scoptophilia (voyeurism) is:

a. stroker

b. peeping tom

c. triolist

d. frotteur

ANS: B REF: 175

23. The following paraphilias are considered preparatory paraphilias EXCEPT:

a. necrophilia

b. erotomania

c. frottage

d. retifism

ANS: A REF: 179

24. The following paraphilias are considered attack paraphilias EXCEPT:

a. necrophilia

b. pedophilia

c. scoptophilia

d. sadism

ANS: C REF: 179

25. Lust killing, which is sexually sadistic murder, also involves:

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.

ANS: A REF: 181

26. 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.

5a. The Green River Killer

b. Charles Albright

c. Armin Meiwes

d. Ted Bundy

ANS: D REF: 186

27. A common fetish in Britain is the:

a. gas–mask fetish

b. women’s underwear fetish.

c. sex organs of corpses fetish.

d. women’s teeth fetish.

ANS: A REF: 191

28. 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

ANS: B REF: 192

29. The “signature” or personal marking of an offender is NOT also known as:

a. the MO or “method of operating.”

b. the “calling card.”

c. the “trademark.”

d. the “paraphilic footprint.”

ANS: A REF: 198

30. 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

ANS: D REF: 198-199

6TRUE/FALSE:

1. Sexual offenders often commit only one crime.

ANS: T REF: 147

2. For the offender, the sexual attack in certain serial killings is not an integral part of the

murder, both psychologically and physiologically.

ANS: F REF: 147

3. Most serial murders are sexual in nature.

ANS: T REF: 148

4. The sex murderer appears to harbor deep-seated fantasies, whereas the lust

murderer kills out of fear and a desire to silence his victim.

ANS: F REF: 149

5. The need to control is rarely present in primary paraphilia.

ANS: F REF: 181

COMPLETION:

1. 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 _____.

ANS: sex offenders/ sexual predators REF: 147

2. 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.

ANS: expressive homicides/ instrumental homicides REF: 148

3. A number of deaths have been attributed to _____ where persons experimenting for

the first time or through miscalculation have accidentally killed themselves by hanging.

ANS: autoerotic asphyxia REF: 151

74. According to the DSM-IV, for a person to be diagnosed with paraphilia, their

fantasies, urges, and behaviors are examined for _____, _____, and _____.

ANS: intensity, frequency, and duration REF: 152

5.

_____ is finding sexual gratification by substituting objects for the sexual partner.

ANS: Fetishism REF: 156

ESSAY:

1. List and discuss the myths and realities of predator priests. Which myth surprised you

the most? Which reality surprised you? Why?

REF: 164

2. 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?

REF: 167

3. Analyze and discuss the differences between preparatory paraphilia and attack

paraphilia. Does having a preparatory paraphilia make one a serial killer?

REF: 177-179

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