Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. John Douglas, who has studied the effects of childhood abuse, suggests that violent offending may arise in adolescence and adulthood because those victimized as children learn destructive coping mechanisms, including skills in manipulation and denial as well as violent behavior
2. Mass murder is generally understood to have taken place when someone kills four or more victims in one location at one general point in time.
3. John Douglas and Mark Olshaker define a serial murderer as one who kills on at least three occasions, with what can be called an emotional cooling-off period between the incidents. This cooling-off period can last days, weeks, months, or years.
4. Family violence is an umbrella term that includes a wide range of behaviors, including physical, sexual, financial, and verbal or other emotional abuse between a number of dyadic relationships: intimates (e.g., spouses and ex-spouses, boy/girl-friends and exes); parents and children; siblings; and the elderly and their caregivers, including their children.
5. Intimate partner violence has been around forever, but it has only been in the past 60 years or so that it has finally been acknowledged as a social problem and a crime.


1. FALSE
2. TRUE
3. TRUE
4. TRUE
5. FALSE

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