Chapter 5 Family Violence Flashcards
Family Violence
Umbrella term that includes a wide range of behaviours, including physical, sexual, financial and verbal or other emotional abuse between individuals in a number of dyadic relationships: intimates (e.g., spouses and ex spouses, boyfriends/girlfriends and exes); parents and children; siblings; and the elderly and their caregivers, including their children.
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Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)
Intentional use of physical force against an intimate partner (boyfriend/girlfriend, spouse, or ex); it has been around forever but has only been acknowledged for around the past 30 years.
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Conflict Tactics Scale
An instrument to measure violence; spans a range of behaviors, including reasoning, verbal aggression, and physical aggression or violence.
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Patriarchy, Patriarchal
Refers to the inequity of power held by males over females. The term comes from the Greek word for patriarch or father as ruler. This idea proposes that the subjugation of women by men is built into the organization of society.
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Intergenerational Transmission of Violence Theory
Sometimes referred to as the cycle of violence; contends that those who experience and/or witness violence as children are more likely to become violent in adulthood compared with children who do not experience or witness violence.
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Cycle of Violence
The idea that those who experience and/or witness violence as children are more likely to become violent in adulthood compared with children who do not experience or witness violence.
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Violence Against Women Act (VAWA)
Intended to improve criminal justice and community-based responses to intimate partner violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.
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Minneapolis Domestic Violence Experiment
The first large-scale experiment to test the deterrent effects of arrest on batterers; it began in 1981.
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Deterrence Theory
The perspective that criminal behaviour can be prevented by the threat of formal and informal sanctions.
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Specific Deterrence Argument
Contends that offenders who are arrested and punished for a specific behaviour will be less likely to behave in the same way in the future.
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Mandatory Arrest
Requires police to detain a perpetrator when there is probable cause that an assault or battery has occurred or if a restraining order is violated, regardless of a victim’s consent or protestations.
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Spouse Assault Replication Program (SARP)
Published findings of replications of the Minneapolis Domestic Violence Experiment study in six cities funded by the National Institute of Justice. Interestingly, the findings did not uniformly find that arrest was an effective deterrent in spouse assault cases.
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Procedural Justice
Contends that conformity to group rules is as much about having fair procedures in place as it is about fair or favourable outcomes.
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Victim Empowerment
Means that victims’ rights and wishes are factored into the process of administering justice.
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Kenosha Domestic Abuse Intervention Project
A mandatory arrest law in Wisconsin; data from the project indicates that after the law went into effect, women experienced a 12-fold increase in arrests, while the number of men arrested doubled during the same time period.
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