1.2 Domestic violence & abuse

Question 1

(stats) how often do police receive a domestic assistance call?

Answer 1

every minute

Question 2

(stats) what percent of domestic incidents are actually reported to the police?

Answer 2

35%

Question 3

(stats) according to the homicide statistics how many women are killed each week by a current or former partner?

Answer 3

8

Question 4

(stats) the council of Europe reported how many women experience domestic violence in their lifetime?

Answer 4

1/4 women

Question 5

(stats) in how many domestic violence cases were children also abused? (NSPCC)

Answer 5

50%

Question 6

(stats) Walby said domestic violence costs how much a year?

Answer 6

5.7 billion

Question 7

(radical feminism) why is domestic violence an inevitable feature of patriarchal society?

Answer 7

preserves power of men over women

Question 8

(radical feminism) the male dominance of police and courts explains what?

Answer 8

reluctance to prosecute in domestic violence cases

Question 9

(radical feminism) Leach - how does domestic violence occur in the modern privatised nuclear family?

Answer 9

members rely too much on each other

intense stress and strain becomes too much

Question 10

(radical feminism) the privatised nuclear family can be compared to what?

Answer 10

overloaded electricity plug

too much reliance it blows

Question 11

(radical feminism) criticism - functionalists would say what about the nuclear family?

Answer 11

it is essential to the functioning of society

Question 12

(radical feminism) criticism - what are all men not?

Answer 12

violent many are opposed to domestic violence

Question 13

(Cooper) what does the family hinder the development of?

Answer 13

individuality

Question 14

(Cooper) family relationships form what?

Answer 14

love trap

Question 15

(Cooper) what does this love trap prevent?

Answer 15

self realisation

its roles restrict development of the self

Question 16

(Cooper) what does the family serve as in an exploitative society?

Answer 16

ideological conditioning device

Question 17

(Wilkinson) domestic violence is the result of stress on family members caused by what?

Answer 17

inequality

Question 18

(Wilkinson) which families experience more stress?

Answer 18

those in poor housing and on low incomes

Question 19

(Wilkinson) those on low incomes have reduced chance of what? and increased chance of what therefore?

Answer 19

maintaining a stable relationship

increased chance of violence and conflict

Question 20

(Wilkinson) criticism - what is evidence against domestic violence for those on low incomes?

Answer 20

exists in higher classes

Question 21

(New Right) what is domestic violence a feature of?

Answer 21

dysfunctional families

Question 22

(New Right) domestic violence results from what?

Answer 22

instability, decline in moral standards and lack of social control resulting in men finding other ways to prove manhood

Question 23

(New Right) criticism - domestic violence isn’t just what?

Answer 23

a feature of lower classes

Question 24

(New Right) criticism - not all abusive men are what?

Answer 24

unemployed

Question 25

(Giddens) what did Giddens say the family is characterised by?

Answer 25

emotional intensity & personal intimacy

Question 26

(Giddens) minor arguments can escalate to what?

Answer 26

violence

Question 27

(Giddens) the isolation of the nuclear family may do what?

Answer 27

increase intensity

Question 28

(Giddens) criticisms - what remains important?

Answer 28

extended families

Question 29

(Giddens) criticisms - some say Giddens does what?

Answer 29

overpredicts violence

Question 30

(Laing) concerned with interaction within the family, he mainly studied who?

Answer 30

families with a schizophrenic member

looked at families for harmful and destructive interaction

Question 31

(Laing) laing said schizophrenia was a valid response to what?

Answer 31

insane situation

Question 32

(Laing) argues there’s a constant concern for what within families and what does this do?

Answer 32

mutual concern and attention

makes members vulnerable

Question 33

(Laing) what is interiorisation?

Answer 33

families become part of each other restricting the self, freedom and self awareness

Question 34

(Laing) adults can use their children as ammunition in conflict the child becomes like what?

Answer 34

a ball in a game of tennis

Question 35

criticisms- why is it hard to obtain valid info on domestic violence?

Answer 35

people lie/hide it

Question 36

criticisms - what do police stats rely upon?

Answer 36

reports from individuals and police reporting incidents

Question 37

criticisms - how might interviewer effect influence the answers on domestic violence?

Answer 37

female victims may be reluctant to open up to male researchers

Question 38

criticisms - what varies and what does this affect?

Answer 38

definitions of abuse

what people see as abuse and how willing they are to go forward about it