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Interpersonal Violence Flashcards

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Obsession

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recurrent and persistent thoughts, urges or impulses that are experienced at some point during the disturbance as intrinsic and unwanted

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Stalking

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a pattern of repeated contact with a person that is unwanted and causes the person to reasonably fear for their safety or the safety of those known to them

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Characteristics of Stalkers

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mostly male (80-90%)
older
higher education levels
former intimate partners
interpersonal and mental health difficulties
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Cyberstalking

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Range of:

  • Hyper-Intimacy
  • Threat
  • Real-life Transfer
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Violence and Stalking when

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stalkers are

  • under 20, non-caucasian, lower educated
  • former spouses/intimate partners
  • threaten to hurt victims
  • history of substance abuse
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Simple Obsessional Stalker

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most common, prior relationships, male stalker - female victims, difficulty maintaining relationships

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Love Obsessional Stalker

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no prior relationship, mental health difficulties, misguided hope to establish relationship

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Erotomania Stalker

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believes already in relationship with victim

least likely to seek direct contact

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Intimate Partner Violence

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acts of physical, physiological and/or sexual violence and other forms of controlling behaviour against a current or former intimate partner

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Battered Women Syndrome

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the collection of physiological responses experienced by female victims of persistent IPV including depression, learned helplessness, powerlessness

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Learned Helplessness

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a psychological condition in which an individual learns to accept their current conditions or situations as unchangeable regardless of their actions

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Cycle of Abuse Theory

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abusive relationships exhibit a predictable cycle of behavioural characteristics in which abusive partners become increasingly tense, irritable, angry and psychologically abusive

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Male Family-Only Assaulter

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engages in abusive behaviour in the household
no generalized antisocial behaviour
poor coping/communication skills
no serious psychopathology

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Male Dysphoric/Borderline Assaulter

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engages in moderate to serious IPV

mental health problems

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Dysphoria

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a mental state characterized by mood

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Male Generalized Violent/Antisocial Assaulter

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frequent violence in intimate relationships
generalized antisocial behaviour outside of relationships
substance abuse problems

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Sexual Violence

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a threatened, attempted or actual sexual act against another person without their consent

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Massachusetts Treatment Centre (MTC) Typology

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an offender typology that categorizes adult male rapists based on observable behavioural and motivational indicators

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Opportunistic Rapist

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generally impulsive

sexual violence occurs in contact of another crime

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Pervasively Angry Rapist

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high levels of generalized anger

frequent general antisocial/violent behaviour

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Sexually Motivated Rapist

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deviant sexual fantasies

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Vindictive Rapist

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misogynistic

high levels of anger toward women

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Child Molesters

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Intrafamiliar - inside fam

Extra-familiar - outside fam

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Internet Sex Offender

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disproportionately caucasian

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Deviant Sexual Preference

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a theory that predicts that men who engage in sexually deviant and violent behaviour are motivated by a recurrent and intense pattern of deviant sexual preferences

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Paraphilia

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recurrent and intense sexual urged, fantasies or behaviours to anomalous or inappropriate stimuli

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Schemas-Based Model of Sexual Assault

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sexual offending is precipitated by dysfunctional schemas about sexuality and sexual behaviour interacting with environmental variables

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Implicit Theories

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a set of beliefs or schema used to explain, predict and interpret interpersonal information

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Rape Myth

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an inaccurate and/or stereotypical attitude or belief regarding sexual violence and victims of sexual violence

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Confluence Model of Sexual Aggression

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risk for sexually violent behaviour is influenced by two different pathways that work independently or together
Hostile Masculinity Pathway
Impersonal Sexual Orientation Pathway

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Hostile Masculinity Pathway

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a general cognitive framework characterized by hostile attitudes and beliefs that accept violence toward women

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Impersonal Sexual Orientation Pathway

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men high in this pathway do not view sex as a form of emotional intimacy and tend to prefer casual sexual encounters

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