A. Rape is frequently viewed as a crime of power, control and violence rather than sexual gratification
B. There is a general trend that sexual offending begins in the early life of an offender
C. Rapists have claimed to have experienced more psychological abuse than nonsexual violent offenders
D. Rape of older women by strangers tends to feature more strongly in rape statistics
Related Mcqs:
- Which of the following statements relating to the stages in Freud’s psychogenetic model of development matches up with Freud’s suggestions?Which of the following statements relating to the stages in Freud’s psychogenetic model of development matches up with Freud’s suggestions?
A. At an early oral stage children usually start to explore their environment but experience control and discipline from their parents
B. Fixation at the anal stage results in children deriving pleasure in adulthood from activities such as overeating, smoking, drinking and kissing
C. At the genital stage children discover pleasure from touching their genitals
D. During the latency period sexual impulses are rechanneled into activities such as sport, learning and social activities - 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 - 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 - 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 - Which of the following sources provide information about crime in society?
A. The media
B. Personal experience
C. Crime statistics, research data such as that found on the internet
D. All of the above - 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 - Which of the following are includes in Farrington’s list of predictive factors?
A. Overly harsh or lax parenting style
B. Criminality in the family
C. Low intelligence
D. All of the above - 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 - All of the following refer to ways that police officers try to enhance memory retrieval in eye witnesses except for_______.
A. Leadings
B. Change perspective
C. Report everything
D. Context reinstatement - Forensic and criminal psychologists should exercise great caution before assuming that the media plays a role in generating violent criminality. Which of the following would support this caution?
A. The media give a similar message about violence as do other sources of socialization. Indeed, the media give messages about when it is appropriate to use violence and when it is not
B. Young violent offenders prefer violent videos compared to controls but they also tend to have been abused by their parents. When this factor is taken into account their media consumption is not different from controls
C. Violent crime statistics in the states show a delayed effect as result of the introduction of violent television but this claim is not supported in Great Britain
D. All of the above
