Statutory rape is:

Related Mcqs:

1. Rape is:

   A. a relatively under reported crime
   B. tend to be carried out by men know to women rather than by strangers
   C. more commonly carried out by younger offenders
   D. all of the above

2. The legal definition of rape now includes:

   A. only vaginal penetration
   B. oral and vaginal penetration
   C. vaginal penetration of an adult
   D. vaginal, oral and anal penetration

3. Which of the following can be identified as a typology of rape based on the psychological motive of the rapist?

   A. Paranoid- aggressive, depressive, psychopathic, over controlled repressors
   B. Power- assurance, power- assertive, anger retaliatory and anger excitement
   C. Feminist, social learning and evolutionary
   D. Fixated and regressed sexual offender

4. Only when experimental participants were informed that a women was raped did they perceive the women’s behavior as inviting rape> This best illustrates that victim- blaming is fueled by:

   A. deindividuation
   B. the bystander effect
   C. the mere exposure effect
   D. hindsight bias

5. The legal definition of rape now includes:

   A. only vaginal penetration
   B. oral and vaginal penetration
   C. vaginal penetration of an adult
   D. vaginal, oral and anal penetration

6. Sexual fantasy is accepted as a driving force in sexual offending. Which of the following raises over this assumed simple link between fantasy and offending?

   A. Sexual offences are often non- consummatory
   B. When treatment is mainly directed at reducing fantastic recidivism actually increases
   C. Unacceptable themes are found in the fantasy of ‘normal’ individuals but they don’t have to be acted upon in order to have erotic effects
   D. All of the above

7. Women are the most at the risk of physical violence from people they_____, men are most at risk of attack from people they____, and the most risky stage of life in terms of homicide is_____.

   A. don’t know; don’t know; childhood
   B. know; don’t know; young adulthood
   C. don’t know; don’t know; adulthood
   D. know; know; young adulthood

8. As the evidence accumulates, a broad consensus has been reached regarding the characteristics of treatments that impact on offending. But which of the following is actually one of those characteristics?

   A. Indiscriminate targeting of treatment programs helps to reduce recidivism
   B. The type of treatment program is important, with stronger evidence for unstructured behavioral and multi- model approaches
   C. The most successful studies behavioral in nature, include a cognitive component
   D. The most effective programs have low treatment integrity

9. Which of the following statements about offender profiling is FALSE?

   A. Inductive methods of profiling are often referred to as clinical in the style, while deductive methods are seen as ‘statistical’
   B. Constructing psychological profiles of historical figures typically relies on specialist knowledge
   C. Both ‘organized’ and ‘disorganized’ offenders are careful not to leave evidence
   D. Profiling common characteristics of known offenders involves gathering data about the crime for multiple sources

10. Intra- sexual homicide (young men kill young men more than females kill females) would offer support for:

    A. biological basis of aggression
    B. adaptively basis of aggression
    C. homicidal protest
    D. media causes violence hypothesis