Final Exam Flashcards
What do we know about school related violence in terms of incidence and prevalence? Are schools safer or more dangerous with regard to school shootings? Consider the Uvalde shooting in your answer.
Active workplace shooters went up from 83 to 394 from 2015 to 2020. Largest percentage of shooters were male. 67% of adults and 58% of adolescents active shooters indicated desire for violence beforehand. No statistically significant similarities in motive, relationship to victims, SES. In 40% of incidents the shooter ha committed suicide and the rest are ended by law enforcement. They’re safer in terms of fewer body count, fewer students bringing guns and weapons to schools.
What are the myths associated with school shootings? How do these myths affect the development of threat assessment, response, and prevention?
no one knew it was going to happen, most of the time that’s never true. The offender gets access to guns illegally, they usually get them through legal means. That there is a profile for school shooters, there isn’t a profile. That they are mentally deranged or have some sort of severe mental illness. When we use these maths to train towards active shooters, we’re typically using our narrative of what the shooter looks like and then planning around it.it we are not inclusive in that assessment, we’re gonna miss all sorts of potential shooters.
Most emergency preparedness and threat assessment procedures focus on what happens once a shooter comes to school or campus. Why are these strategies ineffective for preventing school shootings from occurring in the first place?
How is the experience of stalking different from other types of victimizations? What is different about the victimization experience?
Stalking is different because it is usually a precursor to homicide intimate partner violence. Stalking is different because of the fact that it’s often an indicator that there’s going to be more violence down the road. It’s also different, because a lot of the acts that people to while they’re stalking don’t actually appear out of context. Stalking is based more on fear, the object of the stalker is to be able to provoke fear, and to be able to show that they can be anywhere at anytime and there’s nothing you can do about it.
What are the patterns and trends associated with intimate partner violence (ipv)? What is the scope of the problem and how big of a problem is it?
35.6% of women will experience IPV in their lifetime, 16% of homicides involve IPV and 40% of female homicide victims, IPV down 67% from 1994 to 2012 (most of that from 1994-2002), 20% of IPV victims report ptsd symptoms, 61% of bisexual women compared to 35% of heterosexual women, 1 in 4 women and 1 in 7 men will experience severe IPV Violence, 38% of IPV households have children. children that live in a household with IPV are more likely to become a victim of IPV in the future.
What are mandatory arrest policies? What are the benefits and drawbacks associated with mandatory arrest policies? How does the concept of dual arrest factor into this equation?
Minneapolis domestic violence experiment- concluded that mandatory arrest policies were a good idea because the victim can’t recant or say well it didn’t actually happen or I overreacted, I don’t really wanna press charges or I’ve changed my mind. Benefits of it was it would lead to more arrests and were action taken by police officers. The prosecutor and the police can then charge case where the victim didn’t want to. Downside is that it’s a way of someone else stepping in and saying we have control over you and what you want to do.it also typically puts the victim in more danger because the more police contacts that the offender has the more likely it’s going to lead to an escalation in violence.it doesn’t protect the victim at all it protects a criminal Justice system, the criminal Justice system could say we did something but it doesn’t protect the victim at all. A dual arrest would be beneficial if both parties are
What are the obstacles to getting out of a violent relationship? How do those obstacles affect the ability of a victim to escape?
Within the family and the extended family themselves - obstacles like it’s important to work it out for the sake of the children. It’s important to raise kids in an intact home as opposed to a broken home. It’s important to work things out with your partner rather than leaving your partner. Family is the most important thing, the family should be protected at all costs. A trouble intact home is better than 2 parents who weren’t together anymore. The obstacles are 1. Economics, because typically the abuser doesn’t want the victim working, and so they’ll do anything that they can to get the person fired or to get them in a job that doesn’t allow them to be able to get out or have financial resources. 2. Kids are also an obstacles because you’re tied to that abuser through your kids. The obstacles are barriers in terms of the ability of the victim to feel safe but also the ability of the victim to be able to support herself and to find a place to live that isn’t going to be accessible to her abuser. Family is also an obstacle because most times they refuse to believe that the offender is capable of those actions but they believe they’re doing the right thing and take the offenders side.
How is the concept of domestic violence different from the concept of intimate partner violence? Why does Snyder say about this distinction?
Snyder discusses the common myths surrounding domestic violence in her book, “no visible bruises”. What does she say about those myths and how they impact thinking regarding domestic violence?
What are the things that lawmakers can do in terms of programs or practices that will have an impact on decreasing and preventing domestic violence according to Snyder?
Danger assessment teams-you could do an assessment of how much at risk a woman is of being a victim of extreme violence by doing those types of assessments. Have victim services under one roof, the prosecutor, the police, victim services, women’s groups have various types of support mechanisms that are able to support the victim. The courts should let the victim know if they release their abuser as well as have no contact orders so the offender cannot have access or call the victim
What does Snyder say with regard to punishing domestic violence offender and its effectiveness for changing the patterns of domestic violence offenders?
Johnson typology
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Incompetent suitor stalkers
An individual who has problems with relationships as a whole, they’re not able to maintain relationships. As a result of that they become obsessed with the person that they are stalking and they typically want to believe that there is some level of relationship there when there actually is not.
Simple obsessional stalkers
Someone who becomes obsessed with someone because usually of their status or usually because of who they are. it might be for example a situation where someone is obsessed with a teacher or someone is obsessed with somebody that they work with
Power control wheel
Way of understanding different types of methods that abusers will use in their attempts to control the person that they’re abusing.
