Quiz 3 Flashcards
Physical and sexual assault
Intimate terrorism
Legislation passed to prosecute perpetrators and protect victims
Violence against women act of 1994
Current and former spouses and dating partners
Intimate partner
Also referred to as the domestic violence spouse abuse wife battering or family violence
Intimate partner violence
A pattern of assaultive in coercive behaviors including physical sexual and psychological attacks as well as economic coercion that adults or adolescence use against their intimate partners
Domestic violence
This occurs as a result of periodic serial conflicts
Situational couple violence
This theory attributes occurrence of intimate partner violence to a patriarchal social structure meaning a system where the children and women have less power than men
Radical feminist sociocultural theory
This theory shuns a male versus female’s approach and instead emphasizes differences among as opposed to between men and women. It recognizes the importance of motherhood and women’s lives and focuses on the complex connections between domestic violence child abuse and mothering
Postmodern feminist theory
This proposes that intimate partner violence is only one form of oppression and social control and that life occurs within an intersection of systems of power and oppression.
Intersectional feminism
This addresses intrapsychic processes that influence interpersonal behavior. Humans are motivated from earliest moments by the need for significant relationships with objects.
Object relations theory
This theory assumes that intimate partner violence can be mutual and systemic in nature. Proposing that women initiate intimate partner violence as often as men do especially in the realm of verbal and emotional abuse.
Gender inclusive theories
In 1768 common-law asserted that a husband can meet his wife as long as the stick was no thicker than his thumb
Rule of thumb
In 1848 women met in New York State to discuss their social religious and civil rights and to begin advocating for equally and freedom from abuse with in their own homes
Seneca Falls convention
In 1920 women won the right to vote
The 19th amendment
In 1966 this organization was formed to represent women
National organization for women NOW
This coalition was formed in 1979
National coalition against domestic violence
This act was passed in 1984
US domestic violence prevention act
Required to take the abuser into legal custody
Mandatory arrest
In 1994 this legislation was passed. Through it grants for awarded for increased training technical assistance shelters prevention coordination mandatory arrest prosecution and protection for victims
The violent crime control and law-enforcement act or also known as the violence against women act
Physical sexual psychological and economic abuse
Types of intimate partner violence
The percentage of person within a demographic group experience partner violence during specific time period
Prevalence
The number of separate incidents of violence committed against persons during a specific.
Incidence
The concept that men and women can be equally prone to use violence against each other
Gender symmetry
This includes physical sexual and psychological abuse as well as stalking and can be conceptualized as a constellation of several abusive and violent behaviors
Dating violence
The annual financial cost of intimate partner violence
5.8 billion
This model is based on the feminist perspective that men are the perpetrators of abuse against female victims. The perpetrator uses intimidation, emotional abuse, isolation, minimization and denial of the abuse while blaming the victim for his actions, misuse of children, male privilege, economic abuse, and corecion and threats against their victim
Power and control wheel
Within a more equal relationship each partner has power and the ability to control the other. This is characterized by non-threatening behavior respect trust and support honesty and accountability responsible parenting shared responsibility economic partnership and negotiation and fairness
Equality wheel
Perpetrators of partner violence typically implement strategies of power and control in a three phase pattern. The circular pattern from the tension building phase to the actual abuse
Cycle of violence
Victim inability to remove themselves from abusive relationships. They learned they were helpless to control the outcome of their behaviors
Learned helplessness
Signs after IPV: Fear for their lives, experience of the trauma for more than four weeks, The effects impact important parts of their lives, feel disruption in interpersonal relationships, significant difficulties with body image, develop sexual intimacy and issues
Battered women syndrome
