Criminal Psychology MCQs

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

A. a technique for assessing a man’s sexual responsiveness to different types of sexual imagery
B. a measure of effect size
C. a type of lie detector test
D. a technique for assessing the acceptance of rape myths in rapists

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

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

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

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

A. Knowledge
B. Comprehension
C. Understanding
D. Practice

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

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

A. Early interventions may be costly, but they are more cost effective than ignoring the problem- this would result in higher costs of society for dealing with delinquent children later in life
B. If acted on interventions can be effective at reducing future delinquency
C. It is predictive of later more serious behavior
D. All of the above