Deck 9: Homicide, Assault, and Family Violence

Question 1

Alcohol and drug abuse appear to:

A) play a causal role in family violence.
B) exacerbate but not cause in family violence.
C) cause child abuse but not spouse abuse.
D) cause spousal abuse but not child abuse.
E) a and d only.

Answer 1

B

Question 2

The most effective way of breaking the wife-abuse cycle appears to be to:

A) change the abuser's attitudinal system.
B) change an abuser's social network.
C) use legal sanctions.
D) use all of the above.
E) none of the above.

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Approximately how many cases of physical abuse result in the death of a child in the U.S. each year?

A) 700
B) 1500
C) 5500
D) 500,000
E) 550

Answer 3

B

Question 4

When a caregiver fabricates or intentionally causes symptoms in those they are caring for in order to seek and obtain medical treatment, it is usually a case of:

A) the woozle effect.
B) phanerothyme.
C) Munchausen syndrome by proxy.
D) Landau-Kleffner syndrome.
E) Guillain-Barre syndrome.

Question 5

The likeliest candidates for elder abuse appear to be:

A) African American women ages 75-85, upper class.
B) African American women ages 55-65, lower class.
C) white women ages 75-85, upper class.
D) white women ages 75-85, lower class.
E) African American males ages 75-85.

Question 6

Which group has a rate of criminal homicide that significantly exceeds its numbers in the general population, both as offenders and victims?

A) Native Americans
B) Latinos
C) British Americans
D) Asian Americans
E) African Americans

Question 7

In family violence, the term "battering" is generally reserved for:

A) heterosexual physical violence.
B) psychological abuse.
C) emotional abuse.
D) physical violence.
E) sexual violence.

Question 8

The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1974 made what activity a federal crime?

A) Trading in unregistered guns for cash.
B) Ownership of assault-type weapons
C) Juvenile possession of handgun ammunition
D) Shooting animals without a license.
E) Owning a pistol without a license.

Question 9

"The intentional inflicting of serious bodily injury on another" is a sufficient definition of which of the following offense(s)?

A) Simple assault
B) Aggravated assault
C) Assault with a deadly weapon
D) Murderous assault
E) Simple malice

Question 10

Homicides consistently account for about ____% of all violent crimes reported to the FBI.

A) 12
B) 18
C) 25
D) 40
E) 1 or 2

Question 11

The term _____ refers to the cognitive shortcuts people use to make quick inferences about their world.

A) coercion
B) cognitive reframing
C) signatories
D) cognitive ease
E) availability heuristics

Question 12

About one of every _____ murders and nonnegligent manslaughters in the U.S. involve a family member killing another family member.

A) two
B) five
C) three
D) ten
E) thirteen

Question 13

Terrorist activity is often included in which of the FBI's category of homicide?

A) Group cause homicide
B) Criminal enterprise murder
C) Personal cause murder
D) Sexual homicide
E) Politically motivated homicide.

Question 14

Negligent manslaughter is killing another:

A) as a result of recklessness.
B) with malice aforethought.
C) as a result of uncontrollable passion.
D) in self-defense when danger of serious bodily injury exists.
E) without just cause.

Question 15

The most common abuse of the elderly by caretakers is:

A) physical abuse.
B) emotional abuse.
C) neglect.
D) a combination of emotional abuse and neglect.
E) financial abuse.

Question 16

The most frequently reported violent crime in the U.S. is:

A) homicide.
B) arson.
C) aggravated assault.
D) manslaughter.
E) rape.

Question 17

The most common form of intrafamilial violence involves:

A) siblings.
B) spouses.
C) parent acting violently toward a child.
D) child acting violently toward a parent.
E) step-child acting violently toward step-parent.

Question 18

The phenomenon that occurs when the mere presence of a gun or other weapon stimulates violence is called:

A) confirmation bias.
B) stimulus provocation.
C) weapons effect.
D) weapons focus.
E) iatrogenic effect.

Question 19

Which of the following is not one of the three kinds of maltreatment that comprises emotional abuse?

A) Spanking or slapping
B) Close confinement
C) Verbal assault
D) Withholding food
E) Emotional assault

Question 20

Research on family violence indicates:

A) participants in family violence were themselves childhood victims of family violence.
B) no clear or consistent evidence that individuals who violently attack family members were themselves childhood victims of family violence.
C) spouse batterers have a history of being physically and sexually abused as children.
D) none of the above.
E) all of the above.

Question 21

What was the title of the article that led to serious child abuse being "rediscovered"?

A) Reviving Ophelia
B) A New Look at the Neglect and Abuse of Children
C) Child Abuse: Taking a Stand
D) The Battered Child Syndrome
E) A Child Called It

Question 22

A sibling killing a sister is called:

A) matricide.
B) particide.
C) parricide.
D) sororicide.
E) filicide.

Question 23

Symptoms thought to frequently accompany Battered Woman Syndrome include all of the following except:

A) narcissism.
B) selflessness.
C) low self-esteem.
D) helplessness.
E) depression.

Question 24

The weapon most commonly used in homicides in the U.S. is a knife.

Question 25

The cycle of violence theory posits that coercive and punitive tactics in parenting increase the likelihood of later aggressive behavior and potential domestic violence.

Question 26

Filicide refers to the killing of:

A) an infant.
B) a child older than 24 hours.
C) a child by the mother.
D) a child within the first 24 hours after birth.
E) a sibling.

Question 27

Studies investigating the sociological correlates of criminal homicides have found that most murderers are under the age of thirty.

Question 28

Males are more likely than female to perpetrate which act of family violence?

A) Munchausen Syndrome by proxy
B) Neonaticide
C) Elderly abuse
D) Filicide
E) Shaken baby syndrome

Question 29

Incidence refers to the total number of cases per year.

Question 30

List and describe the four categories of homicide generated by Roberts, Zgoba, and Shahidullah (2007).

Question 31

Studies of homicide have shown that murderers rarely know their victims.

Question 32

In the United States, the victims of homicide are mostly male.

Question 33

There is strong research evidence that women who kill their children are emotionally detached from their offspring.

Question 34

As a clinical diagnosis, Battered Woman Syndrome is thought to be a form of:

A) clinical depression.
B) paranoid disorder, undifferentiated type.
C) post-traumatic stress disorder.
D) bipolar disorder.
E) personality disorder.

Question 35

Families that are characterized by continuous cycles of physical aggression and violence inside the family are called:

A) multiassaultive.
B) genetically imbalanced.
C) dysfunctional.
D) maladaptive.
E) multigenerational aggressives.

Question 36

Spousal and child abuse appears to occur primarily in economically disadvantaged families.

Question 37

A youth who has been thrown away from the home by a parent or caretaker is called a thrownaway.

Question 38

Infanticide refers to the killing of an infant.

Question 39

Neonaticide refers to the killing of:

A) an infant.
B) a child older than 24 hours.
C) a child within the first 24 hours after birth.
D) a child by the mother.
E) a fetus.

Question 40

George and Bill walk into a bar, order a drink and begin playing pool. Several minutes later, one of the bar's regulars, Steve, hollers across the bar and calls Bill a sissy girl. Bill punches Steve and a fist fight ensues. This scenario depicts an example of:

A) emasculated jealousy.
B) reactive aggression.
C) alcohol induced violence.
D) conduct disorder.
E) none of the above.

Question 41

Explain what research tells about the perpetrators and victims of elder abuse.

Question 42

Describe the dynamic cascade model? Provide of an illustration of how this model explains violent behavior across childhood, adolescence and beyond.

Question 43

Define "Battered Woman Syndrome" and briefly state the controversy associated with it.

Question 44

Compare and contrast Shaken Baby Syndrome and Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy as specific forms of child abuse.

Question 45

Discuss what we know about the psychological effects of domestic violence on children.

Question 46

Describe four ways juveniles are able to access guns, despite the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act.

Question 47

Define the availability heuristic? How might it account for our perception of violence?

Question 48

List some of the factors that make the family so difficult to study.

Question 49

Discuss the relationship between guns and crime. Describe how the weapons effect may impact gang violence and neighborhood crime.