Chapter 13 Flashcards
What is Conflict Tactics Scale?
A survey tool designed by Murray Straus to measure intimate-partner violence. It is both the most widely used and the most controversial measure of IPV.
What is corporal punishment?
Physical punishment inflicted upon the body of someone. Historically, corporal punishment was licit and widely used against various groups,
including wives, slaves, employees, soldiers, and servants. Corporal punishment of children remains legal in North America (though not in some European countries).
What is familicide?
The murder of one’s spouse and at least one of one’s children.
What is family-class immigrants?
According to Canadian immigration law, those who come to Canada through sponsorship by a spouse, common-law partner, conjugal partner, parent, or another eligible relative.
What is femicide?
The murder of a woman. Scholars generally use it to refer to a killing that targets someone because she is female, though those who use the term vary in the breadth of their definitions.
What is gender summetry?
In studies of intimate-partner violence, the concept of relative “balance” in woman-to-man and man-to-woman violence. This theory has been powerfully debunked by Russell Dobash and others.
What is “honour” killing?
Family murder, often involv-ing multi-party collusion or multiple perpe-trators. These murders target someone, almost always a girl or woman, perceived to have humiliated the family.
What is intimate-partner violence (IPV)?
Physical, sexual, and emotional abuse and/or threats directed against an intimate partner, whether in a marital, common-law, or dating relationship. IPV may occur within heterosexual or non-heterosexual relationships.
What is intimate terrorism?
Within a domestic context, coercive power and control that may include sexual, physical, economic, and emotional abuse. In an intimate-terrorism situation, one partner (usually male) controls or attempts to control all aspects of the life of the other partner (usually female).
What is military sexual trauma (MST)?
Trauma resulting from sexual assault or sexual harassment experienced while an individual was serving in the military.
What is Montreal Massacre?
The “active-shooter” murder of 14 women on December 6, 1989, at École Poly-technique in Montreal. The shooter separated men from women and described his attack as against feminism.
What is patriarchal violence?
According to bell hooks, family violence “based on the belief that it is ac-ceptable for a more powerful individual to con-trol others through various forms of coercive violence.” She links this idea to male domination, but notes that women can and do enact pa-triarchal violence, particularly against children.
What is meant by sexual-minoirty?
A descriptor for anyone whose sexual orientation, gender identity, or sexual identity differs from that of the majority culture.
