Sex Offenders Exam 1

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Sex offenders come in all different shapes and sizes.  Even though we have a stereotypical image of what a sex offender looks like in our own minds, this is not necessarily reflected in reality.

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One of the most important things we understand about sex offenders is their fantasies.  It is often their fantasy that drives them because it is an act or behavior that provides them pleasure and makes them feel alive.  

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Your professor describes mankind (in general) as sexually aggressive little monkeys.  

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were twins and shared victims

One of the most interesting things about the case of the pediatricians in Cincinnati, Ohio, was that they____________. 

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Sex offenders are often rational people that behave in rational ways.  That is they go to work, pay their taxes, and bills, and are normal in most of the things they do.  The exception to this is their offending/sexual behavior.  It oftentimes does not make sense to others unfamiliar with the role that fantasy and compulsion play in their lives.  

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Everyone  (including sex offenders) has an ideal victim type (IVT).

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When we can understand an offender's fantasy, we can begin to assemble his current and past behavioral patterns.

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Criminal profiling sex crimes involves attempting to overlay a rational framework on an often-irrational act.

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Sex Offenders come from all different ethnic and educational backgrounds,

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stuffed animals

Plushophilia refers to sexual attraction to ________

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John Mark Carr killed Jon Benet Ramsey.

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Richard Von Krafft-Ebing, a German physician and neurologist is credited with coining the terms "sadism" and" masochism." (Chapter One: Sexual Behavior and Deviancy)

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According to the William Taylor article, the Presidents Commission on Obscenity in the 1960's stated that pornography caused harm to those that possess it. (Chapter One: Sexual Behavior and Deviancy)

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1973

In what year did the American Psychiatric Association stop classifying homosexuality as a mental disorder? (Chapter One: Sexual Behavior and Deviancy)

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In the middle ages, women were considered to be more lustful and physically desirous of sex than men. (Chapter Two: Sex Offending)

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The first sexual psychopath laws passed in the United States in the 1930's made it possible to civilly commit these offenders for an indeterminate set of time. (Chapter Two: Sex Offending)

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According to the Hayes, Carpenter and Dwyer article, conjugal sex during the seventeenth century was often silent and fully clothed. (Chapter Two: Sex Offending)

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According to the Hayes, Carpenter and Dwyer article, up until the end of the seventeenth century, it was the common understanding that sex (or a sex act) began with a kiss instead of genital contact. (Chapter Two: Sex Offending)

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According to the Hayes, Carpenter and Dwyer article, city spaces are seen as more dangerous than rural spaces. (Chapter Three : Out of Place)

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According to the Hayes, Carpenter and Dwyer article, cyberspace is highly threatening to children and adults because it constitutes a public space and yet it is all but non-legislatable. (Chapter Three : Out of Place)

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Sex in a public bathroom

"Cottaging" is often referred to as _____________. (Chapter Three : Out of Place)

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According to your text, most traffic to pornographic sites like Pornhub come from desktop computers.

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Habitual sexual offender

Westley Dodd is an example of a ___________ offender. (Please choose the best answer)

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According to your text, defining any type of sexual behavior as normal or deviant is difficult because society cannot agree on any such moral prohibitions but the vilest types.

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A classic example of "crimes against nature" would include a sexual act between humans and animals.

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According to your text, it wasn’t until the past 50 years that many states and jurisdictions revised and eliminated legal prohibitions against sodomy.

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According to your test, the pornography industry is more profitable than all of the major professional sports teams combined.

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Even though the law is beginning to consider psychological coercion in the crime of rape, it is still difficult to prove absent threatening letters, recorded conversations, tweets or physical harm.

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Sexual practices and we typically regard as deviant today (like pedophilia), were often once quite normal at another time, place, and culture.

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Currently, more than 85 percent of all police departments participate in the National Incident Based Reporting System (NIBRS.)

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In most states, the age of consent is 16.

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Most of us belong to many cultures, and each imprints upon us its values.

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Rituals instill and help remind us of the values of our culture.

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According to class notes and lecture, one of the most important rituals in baseball is that you never step on the foul line.

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Our cultural values are often passed down from generation to generation.

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Our prominent (or most important) cultural values stay with us our entire lives.

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Just because we have strong cultural values of some kind does not mean that we will not act in a way incongruent with them at one time or another.

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Folkways are normal, habitual ways of doing things.

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Failure to hold one's knife and fork the correct way while eating is an example of a violation of a folkway.

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Eating food with one's mouth closed is an example of a folkway

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Prohibitions against murder are an example of a More.

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Mores, for the most part, are codified into law (usually criminal law).

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motivational

According to Lord and Wilot (2011) there are three types of sexual offender deniers. Which of the following pertains to those who do not want to stop re-offending? (Chapter Five: Sex Offender Characteristics)

external

Which type of denier are more concerned of being held accountable for their actions and what other people will think of them if found out. (Chapter Five: Sex Offender Characteristics)

intrinsic

According to Lord and Wilot (2011) there are three types of sexual offender deniers. Which of the following pertains to those who suffer from low self-esteem, no ego-strength, and little self awareness and are afraid of being seen in a negative light? (Chapter Five: Sex Offender Characteristics)

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According to Abel et al. (1987) during a 1987 survey, approximately ____ percent of the 561 sex offenders interviewed were found to be married or involved in a significant relationship. (Chapter Five: Sex Offender Characteristics)

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Most sex offenders do not see themselves as a danger to others. (Chapter Five: Sex Offender Characteristics)

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According to your text, the boundaries of what is appropriate behavior and what is not is often blurred and being pushed and pulled every day.

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United States v. Windsor

Which Supreme Court case declared the Defense Against Marriage Act unconstitutional paving the way for gay marriage across the country?

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The social isolation of the early Mormons made it easier to hold traditional values intact.

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The social isolation of the early Mormons made it easier to hold traditional values intact.

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In the area of sexual behavior almost every act, thought or fantasy is conditioned by our cultural values.

jessica rabbit

Which Disney character showed her unclothed backside (for just a few frames) in the movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

 

William Jefferson Clinton

Which United States President signed the Defense Against Marriage Act in 1996?

10 years

The original age of consent in America was ____ .

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According to the text, the average female looses her virginity at the age of 17.3.

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In early America, children and parents often shared the same bed at night.

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Spouse/Significant other

Typically, when we are middle-aged (35-45 years old), who is the primary determiner of our behavior?

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We have mores and folkways in the area of sexual behavior.

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folkway

Failure to take it slow in a first intimate encounter would be considered a violation of a ______.

folkway

Talking about your former boyfriend or girlfriend during an intimate encounter with your current date would be considered a violation of a _____.

more

According to class lecture, incest is a violation of a sexual _____.

time geography lineage

According to class notes and lecture, definitions of appropriate behavior vary across 

kinsey davis

Which famous theorist stated that "it is not the quality of the act that accounts for the deviancy, but the applications of sanctions by those in power?"

subjective

There are four different standards for judging sexual behavior.  These include the statistical, cultural, religious, and subjective standards.  Of these four, what standard do most sex offenders use to justify their own behavior?

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If more that 50 percent of people engage in a behavior, is it necessarily normal behavior?

females

Which gender is said to have at least one additional lover in 25-50 percent in all marriages?  

males

Which gender is said to have at least one additional lover in 50-65 percent in all marriages?  

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Males in the United States on average, loose their virginity before the age of 14.

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The statistical standard is really not that meaningful in defining what normal behavior is.  It simply allows an individual to compare what they do (or might do in the future) in comparison to others. 

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The definitive work on bestiality and zoophilia was conducted by Williams and Weinberg (2003). They claim that practitioner's main reason for engaging in sexual relations with animals was the desire for affection and pleasurable sex. (Chapter 9: Aberrant Forms of Sexual Behavior)

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partialism

A ________ refers to the generation of sexual excitement by a body part. (Chapter 9: Aberrant Forms of Sexual Behavior)

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A fetish refers to an attraction to an inanimate or non-living, non-breathing object. (Chapter 9: Aberrant Forms of Sexual Behavior)

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bestiality

Sexual contact with animals is generally referred to as _______. (Chapter 9: Aberrant Forms of Sexual Behavior)

frottage

According to Cressey's article on taxi-hall dancers, what type of paraphilia was routinely practiced by these young women? (Chapter 9: Aberrant Forms of Sexual Behavior)

females

According to Zadra (2007) which gender was more likely to have sexual dreams of with public figures or celebrities. (Chapter 10: Dream Imagery)

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Freud (1900) argued that all dreams contain sexual imagery either in latent or manifest forms. (Chapter 10: Dream Imagery)

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Husband (1936) found that married men were more likely to have sexual dreams about someone other than their current partner. (Chapter 10: Dream Imagery)

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Kinsey (1953) found that by the age of 45, ____ percent of men had had a nocturnal emission (orgasm in their sleep). (Chapter 10: Dream Imagery)

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Kinsey (1953) found that by the age of 45, ____ percent of women had had a sexual dream resulting in an orgasm. (Chapter 10: Dream Imagery)

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To understand a person, we must understand what motivates them. The same can be said of many sexual offenders.

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Many (or even most) offenders must repeat or live out their acts, in the same way, using the same modus operandi to fulfill their fantasy.

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An attraction to a mans chest would be considered a fetish.

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Many sex offenders share some commonalities with people with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) in that they fixate on a scene, a victim type or an act and often cannot get that out of their head.

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Sex is such a powerful emotion and draw that advertisers use to peddle their products to us.

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Most sex offenders have some type of idea victim type.

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For many sex and violent offenders, living out their fantasy is what makes them feel alive and in the “zone.”

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For most people, when the object of a fetish is used in sexual play it heightens the experience.

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To truly understand a person (or in this case a sexual or violent offender) you must be able to distinguish just what their fantasies are.

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According to class notes and lecture, it is normal for everyone to have some type of sexual fantasy.

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The four elements of normal as well as deviant sexual behavior are the same, they are just weighted differently with sexual offenders.

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Male sexual fantasies are often very explicit and sometimes comprised of a graphic physical encounter.

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Female sexual fantasies are often more complex and difficult to interpret.

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Men understand female fantasies and women in general.

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Sex often involves the five senses, and thus we learn to associate various symbols with sex and sexuality.

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Many of the items we buy are manufactured to evoke a subliminal sexual response (eg. cars, etc.)

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Many of the items that we buy are marketed to us with a sexual undertone because it is very effective in getting us to pay attention and want that desired item.

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The individual from Arvada, Colorado, had a fantasy about raping and killing mature, adult women.

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The individual from Arvada, Colorado was likely going to commit his own crimes in the near future.

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Major companies use sex to sell their goods to people.  These goods include automobiles, junk food, and beer.

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