Exam 9: Violent Crime

All of the following were identified as reasons why women are reluctant to report rape except ______.

Workplace violence is the number two factor in on-the-job deaths and number one among women.

Intensives have continuing criminal involvement from an early age and commit on the average 51 crimes per year.

Which of the following is considered a characteristic of sex offenders?

Offenders who engage in violence because it is an acceptable means of resolving conflict among their acquaintances would be identified as which of the following?

Senile molesters are usually involved in illegal careers.

Much of the high violent crime rate in the United States consists of child abuse.

______ involves theft through violence or the threat of violence.

Identify one to two protective measures that discourage victimization.

The explanation for robbery is economic, rather than racial.

There is evidence that blacks are more likely to be serial murderers than other groups.

Which of the following crimes is usually sexual in nature?

Identify two characteristics of wife abusers.

Multiple murder is also referred to as ______.

______ is considered aggravated rape, which involves violence, weapons, and attackers, and is recognized as rape by the courts.

Multiple murders have, according to some scholars, increased since the ______.

Many of the biological and psychological theories of crime have the greatest explanatory power when applied to individual cases and particularly to multiple murderers.

Visionaries are thrill-seekers who murder for creature comforts, profit, or pleasure in life.

Describe the four categories of workplace violence.

What is the terrible triad?