Deck 2: Intimate Partner Abuse and Relationship Violence

Question 1

The Cycle Theory of Violence

A) explains the cause of partner abuse.
B) attempts to examine the dynamics of partner abuse.
C) Lenore E. Walker coined the term.
D) both b and c

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Walker established the following responses for women suffering from the battered woman syndrome

A) self destructive learned helplessness deficits, self defense mechanisms including heightened awareness and traumatic effects of victimization by the abuser.
B) self defense mechanisms including learned helplessness, heightened awareness and coping skills.
C) self destructive coping responses to violence, coping skills, and learned helplessness.
D) self destructive coping responses to violence, learned helplessness deficits and traumatic effects of victimization induced by violence.

Answer 2

D

Question 3

The Stockholm syndrome occurs when persons who are held as hostages, captives or prisoners of war

A) develop learned helplessness.
B) learn to hate their captors.
C) begin to identify with the captors.
D) develop Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Dutton's theory of traumatic bonding

A) holds the more the abuser beats the victim, the more she bonds with him.
B) discussed bondage and partner abuse and holds that abused victims who are subjected to bondage as part of the abuse stay in those relationships longer than victims who are not subjected to that form of abuse.
C) is another name for the Cycle of Violence Theory.
D) holds that the victim becomes susceptible to her abuser's loving contrite pressure to return and as her fear lessens and the needs provided by her abuser increase, she may decide to return.

Question 5

Which of the following theories attempts to explain the relationship between alcohol and partner abuse?

A) the social stress and alcohol deviance theory
B) the social disinhibition theory
C) the social learning and deviance disavowal theory
D) the social integrated alcohol deviance theory.

Question 6

Straus and Gelles set forth the following factors as have more impact on the degree of risk a woman faces in a cohabitating relationship:

A) isolation, investment in the relationship, and use of alcohol
B) autonomy and control, isolation and investment in the relationship.
C) autonomy, use of alcohol, and tress.
D) isolation, stress and use of alcohol.

Question 7

What are the major types or techniques that are relied upon in assessing partner abuse?

A) self-reporting and law enforcement records.
B) law enforcement records and interviews.
C) self-reporting and court records.
D) interviews and self-reporting.

Question 8

Many victims of partner abuse by police officers do not call their law enforcement agency because

A) they fear their case will be handled by officers who know the abuser.
B) they are concerned for their safety.
C) they are concerned that the officers will side with their colleague and fail to properly investigate the crime.
D) both a and c.

Question 9

The Rule of Thumb as it applies to partner abuse:

A) was a Supreme-Court supported spousal abuse program.
B) is now considered to be an urban legend by most scholars and professionals.
C) allowed for the abuse of a wife without danger of prosecution.
D) was common practice in early England.

Question 10

Which of the following acts is not classified as partner abuse, if they cause harm?

A) Unintentional acts.
B) Sexual acts.
C) Physical acts.
D) Emotional acts.

Question 11

Outing

A) is a form of dating in the gay community.
B) is the disclosure of the victim's sexual preference.
C) is not a threat used in gay or lesbian abuse.
D) is a form of dating in the heterosexual community

Question 12

Some authorities refer to this family as a non-traditional family

A) a man and women who live together without benefit of a marriage license.
B) a family that rejects the traditional concepts of raising children.
C) when gays or lesbians live together as a family.
D) when gay or lesbians get married.

Question 13

Homosexuality is

A) a male homosexual.
B) a socially integrated group oriented toward and concerned with the welfare of homosexuals.
C) a female homosexual.
D) the manifestation of sexual desire toward a member of one's own sex.

Question 14

A gay is

A) a male homosexual.
B) a socially integrated group oriented toward and concerned with the welfare of homosexuals.
C) the manifestation of sexual desire toward a member of one's own sex.
D) both a and b.

Question 15

A lesbian is

A) a male homosexual.
B) a socially integrated group oriented toward and concerned with the welfare of homosexuals.
C) a female homosexual.
D) the manifestation of sexual desire toward a member of one's own sex.

Question 16

Partner abuse does not include individuals who are separated and living apart from their former spouses.

Question 17

The battered woman syndrome is a pattern of physical symptoms that develop after somebody has lived in a battering relationship.

Question 18

A family is two or more persons who cohabitate and who are married.

Question 19

Self-defense is the right of a person to use reasonable force to defend himself or herself from emotional abuse.

Question 20

Marital dependency includes economic, emotional, and societal forces.

Question 21

Alcohol is not a contributing factor to partner abuse.

Question 22

Compare and contrast the various theories of partner abuse.

Question 23

List the characteristics of a partner abuser.

Question 24

Describe the various types of physical abuse inflicted on partners.

Question 25

Describe the various types of sexual abuse inflicted on partners.

Question 26

Describe the various types of emotional abuse inflicted on partners.

Question 27

Should a law enforcement officer suffer more severe consequences if he or she commits partner abuse than the average citizen?

Question 28

Should a partner be able to kill his or her abuser while the abuser is asleep?

Question 29

Should same-sex couples be allowed to marry? Will that diminish the incidents of family violence within this community?

Question 30

Compare and contrast the forms of family violence inflicted upon same-sex
couples with that inflicted upon heterosexual couples. In what ways is there a difference?

Question 31

Should lesbian victims be allowed access to a battered women's shelter? Why or Why not?

Question 32

Discuss the various intervention strategies one might use when dealing with same sex partner abuse.

Question 33

Define lesbian battering.