Chapter 16

Question 1

A term used to refer to a homicide of a female person that occurs in the context of IPV.

Answer 1

Femicide

Question 2

A term used to distinguish violence which targets people, or groups of people, on the basis of their gender from other forms of violence. It includes any act that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual, or psychological harm, such as rape, torture, mutilation, sexual slavery, forced impregnation, and murder.

Answer 2

Gender-based violence

Question 3

Basic rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled.

Answer 3

Human rights

Question 4

The number of cases of disease with an onset during a prescribed period of time; often expressed as a rate.

Answer 4

Incidence

Question 5

A pattern of assaultive and coercive behaviors which may include inflicted, physical injury, psychological abuse, sexual assault, progressive social isolation, deprivation, intimidation, and threats. These behaviors are perpetrated by someone who is, was, or wishes, to be involved in an intimate or dating relationship with an adult or adolescent, and they are aimed at establishing control by one partner over the other.

Answer 5

Intimate partner violence (IPV)

Question 6

An assessment that identifies high risk factors for IPV.

Answer 6

Lethality assessment

Question 7

To be responsible for; commit a crime.

Answer 7

Perpetrate

Question 8

Number of cases of a disease, infected persons, or people with some other attribute present during a particular interval of time, often expressed as a rate.

Answer 8

Prevalence

Question 9

Framed in the context of “intentional” violence, or stated another way, that which is carried out by a person or persons against another person or persons when there is a conscious choice to act in a violent manner.

Answer 9

Violence