Chapter 12: The Psychology of Economic Crime
1. Psychology may be used as part of law enforcement for protecting the mentally incompetent accused of crime
- True
- False
2. One of the assets an investigator should have is advanced training in research methods and statistics
- True
- False
3. Offender profiling is also called
- Statistical analysis
- Criminal profiling
- DNA profiling
- Racial profiling
4. Criminal profiling requires understanding of physiology
- True
- False
5. There are two broad categories of criminal profiling deductive and reasoning
- True
- False
6. The FBI was the first agency to develop a systematic form of profiling
- True
- False
7. Disorganised offenders are impulsive meaning they
- Have good social skills
- Are able to plan
- Are liable to make mistakes
- Are able to maintain control
8. The FBI classification system is rarely applied to what type of crime?
- Serial murder
- Serial rape
- Theft
- Kidnapping
9. Canter’s method of crime profiling relies upon the MI5 database
- True
- False
10. Profiling depends on
- Knowledge of behaviour
- Intuition
- Understanding of DNA
- Analysis of physical evidence
11. Which scientist is responsible for the application of scientific methods and logic to crime investigation
- Luke Picard
- Edmond Locard
- Bernard Spilsbury
- Juan Vucetich
12. Ensuring that evidence is not contaminated or tampered with is known as maintaining the chain of custody
- True
- False
13. The four stages of the FBI profiling method do not include:
- Assimilation
- Classification
- Orientation
- Profile generation
14. When killing includes necrophilia, this suggests the offender kills for what reason?
- Hunger
- Anger
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexual gratification
15. What element was not included in Canter’s initial profile of the Railway Killer?
- Sexual inexperience
- Good level of education
- Comfortable with the north London area
- Flexible working patters.