T/F: The manner of death would never include accident.
False
According to Dr. Lonnie Athens, the dangerous criminal began as a socially deviant infant.
False
According to Dr. Athens, murders are always senseless from everyone's point of view.
False
Stab wounds are deeper than they are wide.
True
An abrasion would indicate the skin's contact point with a rough surface or object.
True
Mechanism of death is the bodily derangement or chemical disturbance incompatible with life, which is initiated by the cause of death.
True
Dr. Athen's believes that criminal acts are volational in that the actor considers, decides, and chooses when and where to act violently.
True
Since medicine is a science, a Medical Examiner would never consider gaining knowledge of the scene from an investigator who has viewed it, to assist in determining cause and manner of death.
False
Which of the following is not one of Dr. Athen's four stage experimental process of violentization:
brutalization
belligerency
virulency
cruelty
violent performance
cruelty
Brutalization includes three elemental experiences: violent subjugation, personal horrification, and violent coaching. Which of the following is false?
all three experiences are necessary to complete brutalization
all three do not need to be experience simultaneously
the process is never completed by early adolescence
the process is never completed by early adolescence
Which of the following is not a violent coaching technique?
bombardment
ridicule
vainglorification
coercion
haranguing
bombardment
Dr. Athen's four stage process of violentization indicates that the creation of violent criminals is preventable.
True
Homicide is a legal conclusion that the killing of a human being has violated a low prohibiting it.
False
Each element of murder must be proved by the state beyond a reasonable doubt.
True
Which one of the following is not one of the three theories for murcer in the first degree in MA?
deliberate indifference
extreme atrocity or cruelty
deliberate premeditation committed in the commission of a life felony
deliberate indifference
According to Dr. Athens, violent criminals decide to act violently based on their interpretation of a situation.
True
The Cuneen factors are used to determine which theory of murder in the first degree in MA?
deliberate indifference
extreme atrocity or cruelty
deliberate premeditation committed in the commission of a life felony
extreme atrocity
Every theory of murder in the first degree requires an unlawful killiing.
True
In second degree murcer in MA, the Commonwealth must prove mailce by showing the absence of mitigating circumstance. Which of the following is not a mitigatin circumstance:
heat of passion upon reasonable provocation
heat of passion induced by sudden combat
excessive use of forse in self defense or defense of another
excessive emotional reaction to external stimuli
excessive emotional reaction to external stimuli
Critical thinking is a protocol by which we only use our intuitive beliefs to justify positions on issues.
False
Crime reconstruction is the same a crime reenactment or crime recreation.
False
Deduction is the process of reasoning that starts with a generalization or premise and then conjsiders the logical consequences of any particulars that follow.
True
Abduction ignores deductive and inductive reasoning and arrives at a hypothesis through science.
False
Modus operandi is learned behavior, necessary to commit the crime.
