Exam Review for PSYC 3402

Contents

1. Serial Killers
2. Sex offenders
3. Aboriginal offenders
4. Mentally disordered offenders
5. Female offenders

There is more of a focus on the book this time (as compared to the midterm).

Serial Killers

• Definitions of serial, mass, and spree murder
  • Know what the problems are in defining these crimes
• Characteristics of these crimes and the individuals who commit them
  • Understand the characteristics
• Characteristics of female serial killers (and the general differences between them and male serial killers)
• Serial killer typologies – what are the main criteria? What are the main criteria in the FBIs opinion? What are the statistical approaches (SSA – know how to interpret, what the differences between the points mean)? Holmes and Holmes…

Sex offenders

• Myths and facts about sex offenders (True/False question)
• Types of offences and offenders
  • Child molesters: heterogeneous offences and offenders (fixated-regressed model)
    • Grawth typologies: main differences between offenders, main criteria and how they differ, types of offenders
  • Rapists: Canter types of rapists
• Rates of offending
  • Factors that influence rates
  • Victimization rates
  • Victim, offender, and offence characteristics
• Recidivism rates: understand patterns
  • Factors that influence rates
  • The prediction of recidivism
• Risk factors associated with sex offending (in relation to general offending)
  • Meta-analysis results
  • Specific risk factors and unrelated risk factors
• The effectiveness of treatment
  • What is effective treatment, how to interpret bubble graphs

Aboriginal offenders

• Aboriginal over-representation
  • The extent of the problem (4 reasons – list, describe, evidence related to them; root causes)
  • Patterns of over-representation across Canada
• Reasons for over-representation
  • Related evidence
• Recidivism
• Childhood and adult risk factors (differences between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal offenders)
• Offender needs
• Canada’s response to over-representation
  • Aboriginal specific treatment
    • Legislation
    • Healing lodges (talk about the research)
    • Effectiveness of healing lodges
  • Aboriginal specific courts
    • Gladue court
• Two Major Problems with ending over-representation

Mentally disordered offenders

• Definition of MDOs – what groups are included
• Assessment methods
  • The DSM-IV
• Base rates of diagnoses
  • Understand the general patterns of APD within general community population
• Mental disorder and crime: is there a relationship? Varies over time, disagreement
• Prevalence and co-morbidity
• MDO’s and risk factors
• MDO’s and recidivism
• Problems with psychiatric diagnoses
• Why screen for mental disorders
  • Offender suicide

Female offenders

• Correctional Service of Canada: what’s their mandate, legislation that supports their mandate
• History of women’s incarceration: general knowledge (movies)
• Female offending patterns:
• Profile of female offenders
  • Admission
  • Institutional
• Comparison of female offenders with male offenders
• Treatment issues with female offenders
• Reintegration programs and theories related to programming