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
Related Mcqs:
- 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 - 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 - Statutory rape is:
A. penile penetration of any child below the age of consent to sexual intercourse
B. rape of a female adult
C. any form of sexual act that a woman may not wish
D. rape of someone under mitigating circumstances - 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 - 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 - which of the following problems regarding phallometry is?
A. Using phallometry to elicit confessions can increase the risk of false confessions
B. It is not effective at deciding who is a pedophile and who is not from any group of men
C. Normal men show erections to pubescent children and rape scents
D. It does not assume sexual motives underlie rape - What can we not say about moral reasoning and delinquency?
A. When moral issues are related to crime the differences between male delinquents and male non- delinquents are their greatest
B. Male delinquents are typically at Kohlberg’s pre- conventional level compare to male non- delinquents
C. Offenders were typically at Kohlberg’s conventional level of moral reasoning, i.e. obtaining social approval compared non- offenders
D. Non-offenders males tend to be at a lower level of moral reasoning than non- offendring females - The percentage of people who report being a victim of particular sort of crime in the previous year is known as the_____rate, as it opposed to the frequency of crimes being committed in one year which is known as______rates.
A. prevalence; prevalence
B. victim; criminal
C. incidence; prevalence
D. prevalence; incidence - Aggression and violent conduct can best predicted by:
A. Antisocial behavior
B. History of mental illness
C. Family criminality
D. A and C - Find the statement.
A. There are many extremely violent individuals who will act violently in many situations and against many different targets
B. There is a great deal to suggest that violence is learnt
C. Field research is less indicative of an adverse influence of the media on violence contrary to laboratory studies which shows the clearest effects- often using meta- analysis
D. There is little evidence concerning the influence of media on actual acts of criminal violence. Most laboratory studies which show effects involve acts against dolls (these are not criminal acts)
