Deck 11: Domestic Violence

Question 1

In 1641, ________ enacted the first law against wife beating in the Western world.

A)the British Parliament
B)the Virginia Commonwealth
C)the Massachusetts Bay Colony
D)the French Republic

Answer 1

C

Question 2

A characteristic of coercive controlling violence is that

A)it escalates into serious violence and injury.
B)it is motivated by control.
C)it is mostly perpetrated by men.
D)all of the features are correct.

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Which of the following statements is true about situational couple violence?

A)It usually escalates into serious violence.
B)It arises from a particular incident.
C)It is the result of the need for control.
D)It is usually perpetrated by men.

Answer 3

B

Question 4

In an experiment conducted by the Minneapolis Police Force in the early 1980s, _____ resulted in the lowest level of repeat violence.

A)arresting the suspect
B)ordering the offender to leave home for 8 hours
C)trying to mediate the dispute
D)taking the woman (and children) into protective custody

Question 5

Vincent is unemployed for more than six months. He becomes impatient with his failure to find a new job, and he directs his anger toward his family members by beating and abusing them. Vincent's behavior can be best explained by the ________ perspective.

A)social learning
B)frustration-aggression
C)social exchange
D)integrative

Question 6

Identify an accurate statement about child abuse.

A)Young children are at the greatest risk of dying from physical abuse.
B)Hitting children is the least tolerated form of family violence.
C)Neglect is the most serious form of child abuse.
D)Child abuse is absent in the lower social classes.

Question 7

A child engages in violent acts immediately after watching a violent television program. This behavior can be best explained by the ________ perspective.

A)social exchange
B)social learning
C)frustration-aggression
D)integrative

Question 8

Who among the following is most likely to commit acts of domestic violence?

A)employed men
B)unemployed men
C)men with college degrees
D)men with graduate degrees

Question 9

Which of the following characteristics would describe a young man who has committed sexual aggression against an acquaintance compared to a young man who has not?

A)The one who has committed sexual aggression would show more hostility toward women.
B)The one who has committed sexual aggression would consider violence against women acceptable.
C)The one who has committed sexual aggression would show greater physiological arousal when presented with rape scenarios in psychology experiments.
D)all of these

Question 10

Which of the following statements is true about the political model of domestic violence?

A)It focuses on the relations of power and authority between men and women.
B)It contends that problems arise due to inadequate biological defenses in people.
C)It suggests that problems should be solved by the intervention of social welfare professionals.
D)It is primarily concerned with illness and well-being.

Question 11

In what type of families is child abuse least likely to occur?

A)families in which both parents are employed
B)low-income families
C)families that earn less than $15,000 per year
D)families in which the husband is unemployed

Question 12

A pattern in which a man seeks to control the behavior of his partner through serious, violent acts is

A)situational couple violence.
B)frustration-aggression.
C)battery.
D)coercive controlling violence.

Question 13

Of the three types of relationships-dating, married, and cohabiting relationships-which has the highest incidence of physical assault?

A)dating
B)married
C)cohabiting
D)all the same

Question 14

Which of the following statements is true about poly-victimization?

A)It refers to experiencing multiple types of child maltreatment.
B)It is a rare phenomenon among women.
C)It predominantly occurs in men who have high income.
D)It excludes any form of physical abuse.

Question 15

A 2006 study found that less than half of all child abuse cases referred to professionals were for

A)physical or sexual abuse.
B)educational neglect.
C)physical neglect.
D)malnutrition.

Question 16

The ________ perspective advocates that aggressive behavior occurs when a person is blocked from achieving a goal.

A)social learning
B)social aggression
C)frustration-aggression
D)social exchange

Question 17

Identify a feature of situational couple violence.

A)It is rare between intimate partners.
B)It is the most serious kind of violence that occurs between intimate partners.
C)It involves one partner getting angry and lashing out at another partner.
D)It is the result of a long-term pattern of violence between couples.

Question 18

Which of the following statements is true about coercive controlling violence?

A)It involves a pattern of violence such as repeatedly beating one's partner.
B)It is mostly perpetrated by women.
C)It is less likely to cause injuries.
D)It affects a much larger share of the population than does situational couple violence.

Question 19

Coercive controlling violence differs from situational couple violence in that coercive controlling violence is

A)more common.
B)mostly perpetrated by men.
C)less serious.
D)primarily motivated by anger.

Question 20

Instead of using any force, men with more income influence their wives' actions by trading money for a desired behavior. This can be best explained by the ________ perspective.

A)social learning
B)social exchange
C)frustration-aggression
D)behavior modification

Question 21

Rape or sexual assault by an intimate partner declined by more than half between 1994 and 2011.

Question 22

Attention to rape by husband has been around for many years.

Question 23

Why do you think cohabiting partners would report a higher rate of physical assault than dating or married partners?

Question 24

On the basis of surveys and state reports (usually compiled from self-reporting by doctors, social workers, and other childcare professionals), there are more cases of child abuse in the United States than cases of child neglect.

Question 25

Male dominance today is based in part upon the use of, or threat of the use of, force against women.

Question 26

If a domestic violence advocate were operating under the political model, which of the following proposals he or she would most likely support?

A)increasing women's pay to a level that is equal to men's pay
B)counseling couples on how to control their anger
C)policies aimed at preserving the family unit
D)providing mental health services to men who abuse their partner

Question 27

There is at least a modest association between lower social class and violence against spouses and partners.

Question 28

Based on survey responses, it would be accurate to say that wives in the United States are just as violent as husbands.

Question 29

In most instances of domestic violence, the woman is the victim.

Question 30

Using the sociological knowledge you have gained in this course so far, what do you think explains the relatively high frequency of and persistence of men's violence against women in the United States?

Question 31

In the New England colonies, enforcement of moral behavior excluded violent acts by husbands against their wives.

Question 32

According to a 2004 national report, the most common type of elder abuse was

A)neglect by a caregiver.
B)physical abuse.
C)sexual abuse.
D)psychological violence by a spouse.

Question 33

Physical abuse of the elderly by their sons or daughters is a pervasive problem in the United States.

Question 34

Why should you be cautious in interpreting social statistics about issues such as domestic violence, no matter which group or organization is reporting them?

Question 35

The vast majority of parents in the United States do not spank or slap their children.

Question 36

When compared to women who cohabit, all of the following are possible explanations for the lower risk married women have of experiencing domestic violence except

A)a selection effect by which women refuse to marry violent men.
B)cohabitating women are more likely to have been abused as children, which is associated with further abuse as an adult.
C)the increased chance men who cohabit have of being unemployed.
D)the lower degree of commitment within cohabitating unions.

Question 37

Advocates of the medical model of domestic violence perceive the solution to domestic violence to be

A)passage of protective laws.
B)intervention by health and social welfare professionals.
C)a societal change of attitude toward women's problems.
D)completion of conflict resolution courses.

Question 38

The feminist movement in the United States had as its fundamental goal on the issue of domestic violence

A)to treat the physical injuries of the victims.
B)to treat the personal problems of the perpetrator.
C)to remove the social supports for male violence in our culture.
D)to treat the emotional trauma of the victims.

Question 39

On the basis of research that is currently available on domestic violence, which of the following types of families is most likely to experience abuse?

A)families with high educational levels
B)two-parent families
C)families where the husband did not have a full-time job
D)high-income families

Question 40

Assuming for the sake of discussion that the United States as a society fosters a culture of violence and aggression overall, how would you explain the fact that most men, despite being physically stronger than women, do not beat their wives or partners or otherwise commit acts of aggression against them?

Question 41

Describe the two models or ways of thinking about domestic violence in the United States.

Question 42

Define the two kinds of intimate partner violence and how these definitions are helpful to us to go beyond the medical and political models that were used in recent times.

Question 43

Why and how did social structure, law, and custom support men's control over women?

Question 44

What possible differences exist between women who have been victims of sexual aggression and those who have not?

Question 45

Why is the hitting of children the most tolerated form of family violence in the United States?

Question 46

Why is it important to distinguish between rising abuse and rising reports? Don't they indicate the same thing?

Question 47

What is the heart of the problem of foster care in the United States?

Question 48

Describe a family where child abuse is most likely to occur.

Question 49

How does the "kinship care" option of foster care differ from more traditional foster care arrangements?

Question 50

Why did it take so long to recognize child abuse as a problem that our society needed to address?

Question 51

Describe each of the following perspectives-social learning, frustration-aggression, and social exchange-in terms of their assumptions and limitations as an explanation for domestic violence.

Question 52

What is Douglas Besharov referring to when he argues that, in certain instances, a child's real problem is poverty, not maltreatment?

Question 53

Why is it so difficult to define child abuse in the United States?

Question 54

There seems to be an association between acts of domestic violence and class (lower class couples report more violence). What political and sociological reasons might explain this association or cause you to question it?

Question 55

How do you define spousal or child abuse by the medical model and by the political model?