WMST - Chapter 12

Question 1

Corporal Punishment

Answer 1

Physical punishment inflicted upon the body of someone. Historically, corporal punishment was licit, and widely used against a variety of groups, including wives, slaves, employmees, soldiers, and servants. Corporal punishment of children remains legal in North America

Question 2

Familicide

Answer 2

The murder of one’s spouse and at least one of one’s children

Question 3

Family-class Immigrants

Answer 3

according to Canadian immigration law, family-class immigrants are those who come to Canada through sponsorship by a spouse, common-law partner, conjugal partner, parent, or other eligible relative

Question 4

Femicide

Answer 4

literally, this means the murder of a woman. Scholars generally use it to refer to a killing that targets someone because she is female, those who use the term wary in the breadth of their definitions

Question 5

Gender Symmetry

Answer 5

in studies of intimate-partner violence, gender symmetry refers to the concept of relative ‘balance’ in woman-to-man and man-to-woman vioelnce.

Question 6

Homicide

Answer 6

the killing of a human being by another; both murder and manslaughter are forms of homicide

Question 7

Homosexual Panic

Answer 7

a purported state of psychotic rage brought on by recieving unwanted homosexual advances. Homosexual panic has been successfully used as a defence against criminal charges in a variety of nations

Question 8

‘Honor’ Killing

Answer 8

family murder, often involving multi-party collusion or multiple perpetrators. These murders target someone, almost always a girl or woman, perceived to have brought shame unpon the family.

Question 9

Intimate-Partner Violence

Answer 9

Physical, sexual and emotional abuse or threats directed against an intimate partner, whether in a marital or non-marital relationship. IPV may occur within heterosexual or non-heterosexual relationships

Question 10

Patriarchal Violence

Answer 10

Bell hook’s term for family violence ‘based on the belief that it is acceptable for a more powerful individual to control others through various forms of coercive violence.’ Hooks links this idea to male domination, but notes that women can and do enact patriarchal violence, particularly against children.

Question 11

Rape

Answer 11

Penile penetration without consent

Question 12

Sexual Assault

Answer 12

any form of sexual touching without consent. Canada’s Criminal Code distinguishes among categories of sexual assault based on degrees parallel to the degrees of common assault

Question 13

Sexual-Minority

Answer 13

A discriptor for anyone whose sexual orientation, gender idtentity, or seual identity differs from that of the majority culture

Question 14

Stalking

Answer 14

Under Canadian law, a form of criminal harassment involving some combination of repeatedly following a person, watching a person, communicating with aperson when such communication is not desired, and threatening a person either directly or by proxy