Exam 1 crim

Jack the ripper killed lower class prostitutes and mutilated the bodies

True

Jane Topan killed 31 victims as a nurse

True

Serial Killers have four main traits that are universal

True

Serial Killing is often not about passion and premeditation.

False

H.H. Holmes turned his skills into profit. He was a successful businessperson. He sold the skeletons of his victims to medical schools.

True

Sadism is the gaining of pleasure during the sexual pain and suffering of another towards individuals. Extreme cases can lead to physical damage and death.

True

Culture of honor is a term used to describe the American Southern culture and is related to the use of violence for the purpose of maintaining a reputation.

True

Toughness is a weak value in such a culture because of its effect on the deterrence of such predators from one’s possession.

False

The main element in a “culture of honor” is that a participant must be prepared to protect his reputation of toughness and strength with violence if necessary.

True

“Culture of honor” norms are embodied in the region’s laws as well as seen in looser gun control laws and less restrictive self-defense.

True

Which of the following is not a trait in serial killers?

a) They choose to kill

b) They enjoy killing

c) They do not have a guilty conscience

d) They are insane

d) They are insane

Bad genes are one explanation that blames nature, rather than nurture.

True

Jack the ripper killed what has become known as the “less dead” in that these persons were considered less alive or throw away persons that were marginal and rejected by society

True

Serial killers choose to do it, not knowing it is considered wrong by society

False

Serial killing accounts for about ___ deaths per year in the United States

200

H.H. Holmes created a house of horror that was designed to look like a

a) Church

b) Hospital

c) Hotel

d) Shop

c) Hotel

Suicide rates tend to be relatively stable within each society, but vary between societies.

True

The characteristics of anomic suicide is polar opposite of egoistic suicide

False

Violent social typologies, most often social interactions between various genders and the dominant gender perspective in any ____

a) time

b) place

c) context

d) all

d) all

“Culture of honor” norms are not embodied in the region laws as well as seen in looser gun control laws and less restrictive self-defense laws

False

General features of Durkheim’s sociology includes:

a) Positivism

b) Organicism

c) Moralism

d) All of the above

d) all of the above

According to Durkheim, which of the following is/are social suicide types:

a) Egoistic suicide

b) Altruistic suicide

c) Anomic suicide

d) all of the above

d) all of the above

Anomic suicide is caused by lack of moral discipline

True

About how many serial killers in the U.S do we have each year

a) 5

b) 15

c) 20

d) 10

c) 20

Jack the ripper killed from April 1888 until February 1891

True

Which of the following statements is false:

a) Serial killers choose to kill

b) Serial killers do not know what they are doing

c) Serial Killers do not feel remorse

d) Serial killers are not insane as they know what they are doing and still continue

b) serial killers do not know what they are doing

Which of the following are not violent physical typologies?

a) Rape

b) Social Injustice

c) Sadism

D) Sexual Harrassment

b) Social Injustice

Extreme cases of sadism can lead to physical damage and even death.

True

__is a term generally used to describe the American Southern Culture and is related to the use of violence for the purpose of maintaining a reputation.

a) Culture of Southerness

b) Culture of Horror

c) Culture of Honor

d) Culture of Violence

c) Culture of Honor

Nisbett and Colleagues suggest that the persistence of “Culture of honor” qualities have occurred because of the achieved degree of “functional autonomy.”

True

An epistemology is a way of knowing

True

An ontology is a relaity

True

Epistemologies often create ontologies

True

Ways of knowing often create realities

True

A sexual act being committed or attempted against a victim that has not freely given consent is an act of:

a) Physical violence

b) Sexual violence

c) Psychological violence

d) Economical violence

b) Sexual Violence

Expressive aggression is humiliating and degrading, telling a person that no one cares for them is an example of this type of aggression.

True

One in four women experience severe physical violnce

True

In the movie “Soldier’s girl” Barry the individual that was murdered was in the Army

True

In the movie “Soldier’s girl” Barry was murdered because he was seeing a transsexual individual

True

In the movie “Soldier’s Girl” it took one hour for an ambulance to arrive at Barry’s base to render medical assistance

True

Notions surrounding masculinity was one of the reasons that lead to Barry’s murder

True

In the movie “Soldier’s girl” Barry was beaten to death by a baseball bat

True

Abuse is any behavior that frightens, manipulates, hurts, or humiliates a person

True

In the movie “Soldier’s girl” Barry was murdered on the 4th of July

True

Masculinity can be seen ideally as valuable, noble, and the apex of manhood

True

Feminist theory of the 1960s coming out of conflict theory suggested that the maintenance of male dominance and male privilege lies at the base of all forms of social inequality and social exploitation

True

One of the reasons the movie “Troy” was a success was because it depicted our own idea of masculinity rather than the more historically accurate version of the story

True

The militaristic image is particularly predisposed towards violence

True

Violence is a male trait far more than a female trait

True

Rape is a military tactic of terror has been employed for thousands of years

True

The ancient Spartans nor the Athenians used rape as a form of terror tactic during times of war

False

In the film “Soldier’s girl” Barry and Calpurnia live happily ever after

False

Biological sociologists suggest that males are hard wired over thousands of years for violence

True

In the movie “instinct” the Ace of Diamonds was used to allow one prisoner to go outside for an hour a day. It was also used as a psychological tool to direct anger against the prisoner that stole it from others and away from guards.

True

Institutionalized violence against socially constructed notions concerning violence lie at the base of all this activity in both films “ Soldier’s girl” and “Instinct”

True

The movie “Instinct” involved notions of protecting family as a reason for violent acts

True

Violence as a part of culture can be epistemology

True

Serial killers feel guilty about killing others

False

Violence is far more a female trait than a male trait

Fasle

Serial killers never premediate their murders

False

Serial killers are sane both legally and psychologically

True

Serial killers murders can be an act of passion as well as premediation

True

Serial killers love killing people

True

Sigmund Freud, was a psychologist that came up with the social psychological theory about abnormal psychology

True

Serial killers often appear normal and typical to family, friends, and neighbors

True

Theories surrounding murders and violent crimes can be sociological, psychological, and biological

True

Serial killing is an epistemology

True

Alpha males or Ultra Males often have a militaristic, heroic, or mythological image

True

Homosexuals experience rape to a greater degree than heterosexuals

True

There is only one type of masculinity

False

In the movie “Instinct” the gorillas were violent towards Dr. Ethan Powell for no reason

False

In the movie “Instinct” Dr. Ethan Powell became a violent animal that murdered for no reason

False

In time of war, rape is still as violent as it ever was, it just becomes more normalized in the minds of individuals and groups

True

Rape is a violent crime of power, control, and dominance, as much as it is an act of self-gratification

True

Rape has never been used as a military terror tactic

False

According to Symbolic interaction theory, if you have violence in your society, it is caused by incorrect socialization, which is incorrect education

True

According to Conflict theory, if you have violence in your society, it is caused by an abusive elite class

True

According to structural functionalist theory, if you have violence in your society, it is caused by a dysfunctional social structure

True

Sociology looks at violence among groups of individuals

True

Psychology looks at violence in the individual’s mind

True