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Midterm Flashcards

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Closed society

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A community in which all changes meet with fear and mistrust, a critical discussion is subject to oppression, and democratic, individualistic, and egalitarian ideologies are banished

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Open society

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Full of criticism and anti-dogmatism, a readiness for open discussion, dismissal of taboo and submission to authority of reason, and belief in universal brotherhood

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Polemology

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The discipline dealing with the explanation of causes and determinants of wars and armed conflicts

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Irenology

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The study of peace

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Structural violence

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The result of inequalities existing in societies that are economic, political, or stem from unequal access to education

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What are some of the long term effects of family violence on individuals?

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  • Increased risk of chronic illness
  • Alcohol and drug use
  • Job loss (leading to economic vulnerability)
  • Social isolation
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Which sex is twice as likely to be victims of police reported family violence?

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Females

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Approximately what percent of family violence victims were physically assaulted? (StatsCan, 2015)

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75%

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Which province reports the highest rate of family violence?

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Saskatchewan

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Intimate partners are accused in what portion of police-reported violent crime?

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1/3rd

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What is the most common type of victimization among IPV victims?

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Physical assault

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Which provinces report the lowest rates of IPV?

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Ontario and PEI

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Which group of people is at the highest risk of intimate partner homicide?

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Females 25-29 years old

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Primary prevention

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Approaches that aim to prevent violence before it occurs

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Secondary prevention

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Approaches that focus on the more immediate responses to violence

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Tertiary prevention

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Approaches that focus on long-term care in the wake of violence

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Decision (action) theory

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The proximal cause of violence is an intention, choice, or decision

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Intimate partner violence

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Any behaviour within a present or former intimate relationship that causes physical, psychological, or sexual harm

19
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In what year did laws change so that a husband could no longer legally rape his wife?

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1983

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What is the Duluth model? (Armenti & Babcock, 2016)

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Men’s groups intended to reduce populations in prisons

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What are the limitations of the Duluth model? (Armenti & Babcock, 2016)

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  • No studies have found it to be effective
  • Not based off of scientific research
  • Problems with group interventions
  • Too general
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What is one of the most common interventions for IPV currently? (Armenti & Babcock, 2016)

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The Duluth model

23
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What is the “power and control wheel”? (Armenti & Babcock, 2016)

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Conceptualizes IPV as one form of abuse to maintain male privilege

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What are the two distinct types of relationship violence that underscore differences in perpetration according to Johnson? (Armenti & Babcock, 2016)

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  • Patriarchal terrorism (later changed to coercive controlling violence)
  • Common couple violence (later changed to situational couple violence)
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What is the primary criticism of conjoint interventions? (Armenti & Babcock, 2016)

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Implies that victims are partially responsible

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Risk (Bowen, 2011)

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The likelihood of an incident of violence occurring at some point in the future

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What are some criticisms of unaided clinical IPV risk assessment? (Bowen, 2011)

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  • Lack of validity and reliability
  • The clinical risk predictions are only slightly above chance
  • Competence in this area varies significantly between clinicians
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Illusory correlations (Bowen, 2011)

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An assumed correlation between two factors that does not exist empirically

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Confirmatory bias (Bowen, 2011)

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Placing emphasis on evidence which confirms an opinion and paying less attention to evidence to the contrary

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Hindsight bias (Bowen, 2011)

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The overestimation of the predictability of an outcome after the fact

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What is the emphasis on with actuarial IPV risk assessment? (Bowen, 2011)

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Predicting a specified behaviour within a specified time frame

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What are the limitations of actuarial IPV risk assessment? (Bowen, 2011)

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  • Focuses on predicting future behaviour

- Limited number of variables

33
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What method of homicide is more common in IPH (compared to non-IPH)? (Caman, 2017)

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Strangulation

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After separation, at what time is the risk for IPH highest? (Caman, 2017)

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First 3 months

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What are some of the risk factors for IPH presented by Caman (2017)?

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  • Social disadvantage
  • Chronic substance abuse
  • Estrangement in combination with prior IPV
  • Previous threats
  • Nonfatal strangulation
  • Stepchild in the relationship
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What were the hypotheses of the Caman (2017) study?

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  • Perpetrators of IPH are less disadvantaged in regard to sociodemographic characteristics
  • Perpetrators of IPH are less likely to have a criminal offending history
  • Perpetrators of IPH have less persistent criminal offending history (ie. lower number of convictions)
  • Perpetrators of IPH are more likely to commit suicide in connection with the offence compared to non-IPH perpetrators
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What did Caman (2017) recommend?

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  • That IPH offences be considered as a separate type from non-IPH offences
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What did Caman (2017) find regarding victims of IPH and how they differ from victims of non-IPH?

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Victims of IPH had lower levels of criminality

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