Violent Crime MCQs

Violent Crime MCQs

Our team has conducted extensive research to compile a set of Violent Crime MCQs. We encourage you to test your Violent Crime knowledge by answering these 20 multiple-choice questions provided below.
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1: The media has had a negative effect on enhancing safety and preventing bullying and other threatening behavior.

A.   True

B.   False

2: Which of the following is not considered one of the characteristics of a wife abuser?

A.   Hostility

B.   Financial stability

C.   Having been a battered child

D.   Alcohol abuse

3: Which of the following types of robbers would be associated with career criminals?

A.   Addict

B.   Opportunist

C.   Alcoholic

D.   Professional

4: Organized serial killers do not generally keep “trophies.”

A.   True

B.   False

5: California was the first state to pass anti-stalking legislation in 1990.

A.   True

B.   False

6: The United States possesses, by far, the highest homicide rate among economically developed countries.

A.   True

B.   False

7: The most feared type of robber is referred to as a ______.

A.   Addict robbers

B.   Strong arm robbers

C.   Alcoholic robbers

D.   Opportunistic robbers

8: Real rape is aggravated rape and involves ______.

A.   Violence

B.   Weapons

C.   Attackers

D.   All of these

9: The killing of several victims in three or more separate incidents over weeks, months, or years is ______.

A.   Multicide

B.   Multiple murder

C.   Serial murder

D.   Spree murder

10: Which nation has the highest homicide rate—in which a firearm was the weapon used?

A.   Russia

B.   Australia

C.   United States

D.   Denmark

11: In many violent crimes, victims contribute to their own harm.

A.   True

B.   False

12: The killing of four or more victims at one location on a single occasion is called ______.

A.   Spree murder

B.   Mass murder

C.   Multicide

D.   Multiple murder

13: Which typology does a serial killer who is considered a “thrill seeker” and murders for creature comforts, profit, or pleasure thought to have?

A.   Visionary

B.   Mission-oriented

C.   Hedonist

D.   Over-control

14: Which of the following is not a historical event which suggests that violence is part of the American psyche?

A.   National paranoia

B.   Fear of government authority

C.   Industrial Revolution

D.   A prolonged frontier experience

15: What kind of violent offenders are individuals who live in subcultures in which violence is an acceptable problem-solving mechanism?

A.   Pathological

B.   Situational

C.   Cultural

D.   Serial

16: _____ is threatening to do bodily harm to a person or placing him or her in fear of such harm.

A.   None of these

B.   Assault

C.   Cesare Beccaria

D.   Jeremy Bentham

17: _____ is defined as excessive mistreatment, either physically or emotionally, of children beyond any reasonable explanation.

A.   Misdemeanors

B.   Midwest

C.   None of these

D.   Child abuse

18: _____ is known as ways of life in societies that approve of violence as a means of resolving disputes.

A.   Rarely come into contact with law enforcement

B.   Culture of violence

C.   Do not have stable family lives

D.   None of these

19: Is gun control attempts to regulate and limit the availability of guns to the public?

A.   True

B.   False

20: _____ is domestic battering by a spouse or lover.

A.   Intimate partner violence

B.   Stings

C.   Burglars

D.   All of these

21: _____ is defined as the killing of four or more victims at one location on a single occasion.

A.   Marx

B.   None of these

C.   Experiment

D.   Mass murder

22: _____ is known as experiment that concluded that arrest works best in deterring repeat domestic violence.

A.   None of these

B.   Minneapolis Domestic Violence Experiment

C.   Triads

D.   Juarez Plaza

23: Is post hoc error “After-the-fact” error. If a person exhibits a characteristic after the fact, it is mistakenly assumed to be the cause of the behavior?

A.   True

B.   False

24: _____ is a series of murders over a period of time.

A.   Age-crime debate

B.   Serial murder

C.   Mild pessimism

D.   None of these

25: _____ is defined as murder at two or more locations with almost no time between the murders.

A.   Emphasis on the criminalization of behavior

B.   Spree murder

C.   None of these

D.   Mild pessimism

26: _____ is known as this is a “culture within a culture” in which violence is an approved manner of resolving interpersonal disputes.

A.   Subculture of violence

B.   Lack of legitimate opportunity

C.   Capitalism

D.   None of these

27: Is workplace violence violence that occurs within a place of work?

A.   False

B.   True