Family Harm Flashcards

1
Q

What does SAFVR stand for and what do they do?

A

Statistic assessment of family harm recidivism (reoccurrence)
Is a predictive statistical measure which calculates the likelihood of a person committing FH offence in the next 2 years given police are attending a FH investigation today

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2
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When you do you have to summit a 5F family harm report?

A

at the end of the shift

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3
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What does ROC stand for

A

Report Of Concern

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4
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What’s does CPP stand for?

A

Child Protection Protocol

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5
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Can you use your cell phone to write up the 5F report?

A

Yes

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6
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What is the name of the officer who creates the 5F?

A

The reporting officer

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7
Q

Which of the following fall into the category ‘family relationship?

  • intimate partner
  • close personal relationship
  • flatmates
  • family members
  • former intimate partners
  • former family members
A
  • intimate partner
  • family members
  • former intimate partners
  • former family members
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8
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Which act contains the definition of family relationship?

A

Family Violence Act 2018

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9
Q

Can you issue a PSO for any type of domestic relationship?

A

No, has to be a family relationship

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10
Q

Are children subjected to family violence if they only see or hear violence against a family member, but are not subjected to violence themselves?

A

Yes, even though children may have not directly received violence toward them, hearing or seeing it is still considered harm.

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11
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What does CYPeFH stand for?

A

Child or Young Person exposed to Family Harm

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12
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Where children reside at an address where family harm is occurring between the parents, children are considered victims of family harm also just by hearing or seeing it. These children have to reside at the address to be considered victims:

  • Permanently
  • occasionally
  • usually
A

Usually reside at the address FH is occurring

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13
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Jack is 16 and has witnessed his dad constantly telling his mother how stupid she is and threatening her with a hiding. Is Jack a witness or a CYPeFH?

A

Jack is at the age where he could be a witness of this episode (16 years or over) and can provide an evidential statement in regards to what he saw, making him a witness.
If Jack was at the age where his age or mental ability meant he was not able to provide an evidential statement then he would be classified as CYPeFH

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14
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What are the three situations where the term ‘mutual participants’ applies?

A
  • there is no history of FH for either parties recorded
  • no offences have occurred at the episode we are attending (i.e verbal argument only)
  • No pattern of coercive or controlling behaviour (cant establish a predominant aggressor or primary victim)
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15
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What is the name to describe:

  • the person (in the abuse history of the relationship) who is experiencing coercive and controlling behaviours from a family member or intimate partner?
  • a person who is the most significant or principle aggressor in a familial or intimate partner relationship and who has a pattern of using harmful behaviour to exercise coercive control
A
  • primary victim

- predominant agressor

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16
Q

What is a ‘child’ under the family violence act 2018?

A

a person who is under the age of 18 years

17
Q

What does CPP stand for and what is it?

A

Child Protection Protocol

a joint process that is followed when OT and police respond to behaviour that meets a certain threshold

18
Q

What are the three categories of the types of behaviour or actions that meet the CPP threshold?

A
  • Sexual abuse
  • serious wilful neglect
  • FH involving police/OT employees
19
Q

What happens when the criteria for CPP is met?

A

A referral is submitted via the family harm app

20
Q

What is violence defined as in section 9 of the family violence act 2018?

A
  • sexual violence
  • physical violence
  • phycological violence
21
Q

What are the elements of family violence in relation to a person?

A

Violence inflicted:

  • against a person
  • by another person whom that person is, or has been, in a family relationship
22
Q

Is preventing someone from accessing a place considered physiological abuse?

A

Yes

23
Q
Section 11(1) Psychological abuse (includes..)
Which of the following are considered physiological abuse:
- damage to property
- following a person
- ill-treatment of household pets
- financial abuse
- threats of sexual abuse
- harassment 
- following a person
A

all of the above

24
Q

Section 11(2) Psychological abuse - child

A person psychologically abuses a child if:
‘that person puts the child, or allows the child to be put, at real risk of seeing or hearing that abuse occurring’
Does this mean a mother, who knows her partner has had a bad day and will be angry about an upcoming bill she talks to him about, will yell and may hit her if front of their children. Does this mean the mother is guilty of abuse as she allowed the child to see the abuse since she knew it may happen and didn’t make sure the children were not present when she talked to him about the bill where he then hit her.

A

No, the person who suffers the psychological abuse is not regarded for the purposes of this subsection.

25
Q

Under episodic nature: Section 9(3)
Violence against a person includes a pattern of behaviour that is made up of a number of acts of all/one of the three kinds of abuse - physical, phycological and sexual, and that have one or both of what features:

A
  • it is coercive or controlling

- it causes the person, or may cause the person, cumulative harm

26
Q

What does ROC stand for and what does it mean?

A

Report Of Concern
A notification to OT where care and protection concerns are identified
Usually made during a FH reporting via OnDuty

27
Q

What are the 4 definitions of family relationship?

A
  • a spouse or partner of the other person
  • a family member of the other person (parent and child)
  • family that ordinarily shares a household with the other person
  • has a close personal relationship with the other person i.e boyfriend/girlfriend
28
Q

What does FVIARS stand for?

A

Family Harm Interagency Response System are specialist multi-agency teams led by police that focus on high needs and complex risk cases of family harm

29
Q

What is one of the main jobs of the IRS (Integrated Safety Response to FH?

A

work with perpetrators to prevent further violence

30
Q

What is the role of the Family Safety Team?

A

includes engaging with complex risk families, facilitating effective interventions in partnerships with the community and working to preserve the safety of those families.
The model used varies across policing districts

31
Q

What is the benefit for recognising coerseive and controlling behaviour?

A
  • assisting victim to reach out for help before their situation becomes physically violent
  • identify the people who are at risk despite the circumstances presented to you at the time i.e the victim may be initially seen as the aggressor when police arrive as she sees the police as protective where she is finally able to say what she wants
32
Q

What is the time period at which police need to put measures in place to keep those at risk safe when a FH has occurred?

A

72 hours

33
Q

What kind of approach are we wanting to take at a family harm incident?

A

Eyes wide open

34
Q

Attending a FH incident and you hear yelling and things being broken when you arrive. Under what Act and section can you enter?

A

S14 S&S Act 2012 - Warrantless entry to respond to risk of life or safety.

35
Q

You have entered the house and find the male consoling the crying female victim. You know from the past there is children at the address.
You want to talk to the female but the male keeps answering for her and wont leave her side. How can you use this Act to get the male away from the female?

A

Tell the male under S&S act you want to check the safety of the children and you are going to search the rest of the house and check on them. Offer for the male to come with you and show you around.

36
Q

What does the SAFVR results show?

A

Results in a risk assessment of either a low, moderate or high risk and is based on variables as:
- age at incident

37
Q

What does SAFVR stand for and what does it comprise of?

A

Statistic Assessment of Family Harm Recidivism
Is a predictive statistical measure which calculates the likelihood a person will commit a FH offence in the next two years given police are attending a FH investigation today. Gives a high, moderate or low risk calculation

38
Q

How is the SAFVR measure used?

A

It is combined with the outcome of the dynamic questions in OnDuty to give you a total Level Of Concern for Safety st the scene of your FH investigations

39
Q

What is the question used by police to determine who the person who is ‘at risk’?

A

if the family where all left together at the address, who is the most at risk of being harmed?