Murder/Homicide
Homicide Demographics
Child Abuse
Weapons
Wild Card
100
Criminal homicide is defined as causing the death of another person without one of these two things

What is legal justification or an excuse?

100

According to 2010 UCR data, this percentage of males are offenders of homicide

What is 90%?

100

This type of maltreatment is the most common in child abuse cases

What is neglect?

100

The weapon most commonly used in homicides

What is a firearm?

100

The availability heuristic increases these two things in our mind

What is fear and incident?

200

Homicide is justifiable is what two situations

What is execution and self-defense?

200

The percentage of homicide victims that are white

What is 47%?

200

Approximately this many children are maltreated at some point in their life in the United States

What is 1 in 7?

200

Guns directly cause violent crime, true or false

False

200

Intentionally inflicting serious bodily harm on someone with the use of a weapon is classified as this

What is aggravated assault?
300

Murderers have the same set of universal risk factors, true or false

What is false?

300

Homicides are normally committed in the process of interpersonal arguments and ____

What is a felony?

300

Sexual abuse in children is mostly committed by female caretakers, true or false

False

300

The percentage of homicides that involve use of a firearm 

What is 68%?

300

Excessive exposure to violence results in being

What is desensitized? 

400

The presence of malice aforethought classifies a killing as this

What is murder?

400

UCR data for homicides is based on conviction rates, true or false

What is false?
400

Shaken Baby Syndrome results in this percentage of all abuse and neglect deaths

What is 10-12%?

400

This amendment gives the constitutional right to bear arms

What is the Second Amendment? 

400

This type of violence is related to personal or material gain

What is proactive violence?

500

According to the powerpoint, premedication can occur as late as 

What is moments before the killing?

500

1/3 of victims and 1/2 of offenders are under this age

What is 25 years old?

500

When a parent, generally the mother, brings in their child to the doctor with symptoms they induced is known as this syndrome

What is Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy?
500
This kind of check is used as a restriction to deter people from getting a weapon

What is a background check?

500

This type of manslaughter states that you should have known your actions could have resulted in the death of another 

What is involuntary manslaughter?