Crisis Intervention-Ch 7, Intimate Partner Violence Flashcards
A product of patriarchal traditions of mens right to control their women, is a form of terroristic control of wives by their husbands that involves the systematic use of not only violence, but economic subordination, threats, isolation and other control tactics
Patriarchal Terrorism
______ in the home and between men and women in general can reduce both the social control and the cost of being violent.
inequality
________ to describe the behavior of intimates who seriously, frequently and chronically abuse their partners.
chronic battering
who quoted “If you are one of those fortunate people who have not had personal experience with battering, your best avenue of education would be to talk with ten women who have”
Kathleen J Ferraro
three surveys that attempt to estimate population rates of partner violence:
- National Crime Victimization Survey- NCVS
- National Violence Against Women Survey-NVAW
- National Family Violence Survey- NFVS
_______ produces the lowest estimates rates of intimate partner violence.
NCVS
For 1993-1998, NCVS found rates of 7.6 act of violence by intimates per 1,000 women and 1.5 per 1,000 men
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Both NVAW and NFVS use versions of the ________ to measure intimate partner violence.
Conflict Tactics Scale- asked for variety of acts that involve violence. , pushing, grabbing, shoving etc
NCVS and NVAW take several precaustions to assure respondents of their anonymity.
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NVAW survey of intimate partner assaults was 44.2 per 1000 women and 31.5 per 1000 men. NVAW also measured rape by intimate partners. women reported a rate of 5 per 1000 persons.
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National Family Violence Survey
highest estimated levels of violence are found in the 1985 NFVS. Overall rates of violence against woment were estimated at 213 per 1000 and severe violence against woment were 3.4 per 1000
violence against men against women were 124 per 1000 and severe violence was 4.8 per 1000.
Another way to assess the extent of intimate partner violence is to measure the ____ chances of victimization.
lifetime.
NCVS data indicate that rates of partner victimization are highest for young adults age ___ to___ and decline steadily for older persons.
20 to 24
NCVS, about ____ percent of the victims of violence by intimate partners were women.
85 %
What group had higher percentages of intimate victimizations and suffer a greater relative risk of victimization.
African Americans
American Indians
Alaskan Natives
what group had the lowest risk of victimization
Asian or Pacific Islander background
NCVS indicates that there is a strong negative relationship between household income and intimate partner violence. rates for women.
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NCVS data indicate that about two-thirds of the victims of violence were ____ attacked. Remainder were threatened in some way.
physically
Data on murder come from the FBI _____ and more detailed _______
UCR and Supplemental Homicide Reports
Murder is the most serious and least common kind of violence. In 1999, only 15,530 of the 11.6 million index offenses known to the police were murders and nonnegligent manslaughters.
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____ are the victims of most homicides.
men
A study conducted in Kansas City, Missouri showed that police had responded to one or more calls of service at the address of victim or offender in the 2 yrs prior to intimate partner homicide in ____ of cases.
90 %
Issues of the greatest salience to interveners are the ______ between intimates and the _____ involving chronic battering.
context of violence
nature of relationships
Bother batterers and survivors of battering are more likely than other to have been reared in a battering home.
violent family background section
Learned aggression:
Violence permeates our ___ and ____.
norms and values
In the home, violence between adults and violence directed toward children teaches the children three lessons.
- those who love you the most are also those that hit you.
- there is a moral right to hit other members of same family and
- when all else fails, use violence