Crisis Intervention-Ch 6, Intimate Violence and Abuse

Question 1

who quoted “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

Answer 1

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi, Anna Karenina

Question 2

Intervention in intimate violence occurs in _____,______,_____ and _____ context that the criminal justice agents needs to understand in collaborating with crisis victims to resolve their crises.

Answer 2

psychological,social, political and ideological

Question 3

who quoted “violence is as American as apple pie”

Answer 3

Stokely Crmichael

Question 4

who defined violence as “violence is broadly construed to include injury, or threat of injury inflicted by one or more people on human beings, other species, the natural environment, or property.

Answer 4

Gottesman, editor of an encyclopedia

Question 5

A narrower definition is provided by ____ ____, leading expert on family violence. “violence as an act carried out with intention or perceived intention of causing physical pain or injury to another person.

Answer 5

Richard Gelles

Question 6

McCloskey suggests that some fathers suffer from a ____ ____, in which they abuse their children to injure their wives.

Answer 6

Medea Complex

Question 7

In many cases the effects of _____or ____ abuse are more distrubing than the effects of physical abuse.

Answer 7

psychological or emotional

Question 8

primary harm in stalking and sexual harassment is

Answer 8

psychological rather than physical

Question 9

Buenker notes that violence is often approved of as “the only feasible means to a higher good, as the only language understood by adversaries or as the court of last resort

Answer 9

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Question 10

Defining intimate violence:

when violence has a fatal outcome, the results may be termed

Answer 10

1. infanticide- killing of infant child
2. parricide- killing one’s mom or dad
3. patricide- killing one’s father
4. matricide- killing one’s mother
5. fratricide- killing one’s sibling

Question 11

____ ____ violence includes violent actions against a spouse, ex-spouse or sexual partner with whom one resides or resided.

Answer 11

intimate partner violence

Question 12

repeated use of physical force against a partner.

Answer 12

battering

Question 13

____ rape is another form of intimate partner violence.

Answer 13

Marital

Question 14

defined by ___, “unwanted sexual contact accomplished by force, intimidation or coercion that results in vaginal, anal or oral sexual intercourse or penetration of a womans body.

Answer 14

Pagelow

Question 15

Copeland and Wolfe argue that violence against women is a ________ crime.

Answer 15

bias-motivated

Question 16

hatred against women is

Answer 16

misogyny

Question 17

An understanding of violence as _____ _____ is important to accurate assessment of individual in crisis

Answer 17

coercive control

Question 18

The concept of violence against women gained official stature with the passage of the

Answer 18

VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN ACT BY THE US CONGRESS IN 1995

Question 19

who enacted the first law anywhere in the world against wife beating and unnatural severity to children.

Answer 19

from 1640 to 1680 the Puritans of colonial Massachusetts

Question 20

______ suggests that human violence arises from evolutionary causes. Humans compete with one another for opportunities for reproduction and thus insure the conservation of their contribution to the genetic pool of the species, a concept called ___ ____

Answer 20

Sociobiology

genetic fitness

Question 21

Notion of someone going berserk or acting in a blind rage typifies this view of violence as ____ ___

Answer 21

expressive behavior- expression of internal feelings of anger, rage or hate

Question 22

to commit violence to achieve a goal would be

Answer 22

instrumental-

Question 23

instrumental nature of much violence has at least two implications that ar important for practitioners to understand.

Answer 23

1. if violence is instrumental, then it can be controlled or pervented by increasing the costs of doing violence.
2. violence is not cathartic- if instrumental violence achieves a goal, it is reinforced.

Question 24

Buenker suggests several characteristics of American society that help to explain its level of violence.

Answer 24

1. nationss persisting frontier experience
2. revolutionary national birth
3. celebration of individualism
4. competition
5. social and spatial mobility

Question 25

African Americans, particularly young men, are at particularly high risk of violent offending and victimization. Sampson and Wilson have identified several reasons for racial differences in offending”

Answer 25

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Question 26

Regardless of the target or location of violent behavior, such behavior seems to vary according to ____,____ and _____.

Answer 26

seriousness-likelihood that behavior will cause harm.
chronicity-extent to which the behavior is chronic, that is, occurs repeatedly over time instead of only once or on few occasions.
frequency-how often a behavior occurs in a given, limited time period.

Question 27

______ is the study of population characteristics, such as age, sex, race and income.

Answer 27

demography–“demos” is Greek for people

Question 28

Demographics of violence, three things should be kept in mind

Answer 28

1. violence is not confined to any group
2. offending and victimization do not occur with the same frequency in different groups
3. vast majority of people in any minority group are not frequent or serious violent offenders

Question 29

An exception to this generalization involves intimate partner homicide with white females as the victim. white females suffer higher rates of intimate partner homicide than black females or males of either race.

Answer 29

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Question 30

for child abuse and neglect, findings regarding the demographic correlates are mixed, but there is evidence that poverty, unemployment, race and ethnicity are predictive of the risk of abuse. National survey of elder abuse indicates that low income, but not race, is predictive of several forms of elder mistreatment.

Answer 30

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Question 31

boys that witness their fathers behaving violently are _____ times more likely to engage in spouse abuse in later life.

Answer 31

10 times

Question 32

National survey, Hotaling, Straus and Lincoln found that those who assaulted family members are more likely to assault persons outside the family.

Answer 32

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Question 33

M-Teams bring the skills of professionals form a variety of disciplines or practice area together to deal with cases of mistreatment.

Answer 33

multidisciplinary teams

Question 34

Intimate violence is linked to the concepts of family violence and violence against women. Three forms of intimate violence that have received the greatest attention from protective services and criminal justice agencies are:

Answer 34

1. child abuse
2. intimate partner violence
3. elder mistreatments