Deck 1: History and Definitions of Family Violence

Question 1

Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A) The most common targets of family violence are children aged 9-14.
B) Newspapers publish sensational nonrepresentative cases of family violence.
C) Government statisticians have complete frequency data about violence in families.
D) Government statisticians provide accurate records of murders by family members.

Answer 1

Newspapers publish sensational nonrepresentative cases of family violence.

Question 2

Which of the following is a government system for monitoring family violence?

A) Youth Risk Behavior System (YBRS)
B) Infant Homicide Analysis (IHA)
C) Adult Male Battering Survey (AMBS)
D) Women's Alcohol Consumption Questionnaire

Answer 2

Youth Risk Behavior System (YBRS)

Question 3

Which statement is TRUE about family homicide statistics?

A) They should be left "as is" to capture homicide-suicide rates.
B) Grandparents who are killed require a separate surveillance system.
C) Killings at day care centers are included in group deaths of children.
D) Statistics should include the collateral deaths of all family members.

Answer 3

Statistics should include the collateral deaths of all family members.

Question 4

In combined homicide-suicides, a perpetrator commits suicide but may also kill any of the following EXCEPT:

A) Their work supervisor
B) Their children
C) Their in-laws
D) Their romantic partner

Question 5

Which of the beliefs about families contributes to violence between family members?

A) Men are the primary breadwinners in most families.
B) Children's rights are equivalent to parents' rights.
C) Families have rights to privacy and autonomy.
D) Elders in the families have more rights than fathers.

Question 6

Which pair of factors is NOT mentioned as a rationale for family violence?

A) Structural Factors and Idealization of the Family
B) Family Norms and Cultural Factors
C) Social Acceptance of Violence and Social Tolerance of Violence
D) Expectancy Factors and Lack-of-Knowledge Factors

Question 7

United Nations Conventions are essentially:

A) Conferences about global educational conditions
B) Meetings of countries with similar viewpoints.
C) International treaties about human rights.
D) Military agreements about national defense.

Question 8

Which of the following was NOT mentioned in the text as indicating society's growing concern about family violence?

A) The appearance of several new journals on the topic in the last 15 years.
B) Increased coverage of the topic in the media.
C) The increasing number of U.N. conventions and declarations about family violence.
D) Mandated family violence courses in undergraduate curricula.

Question 9

Sociologists like Spector and Kituse (1977) pointed out that:

A) Society defines a social condition as a social problem when people want to know more about it.
B) Societal reactions are central to defining social conditions as social problems.
C) Claims-makers are the millions of people who define a social condition as a social problem.
D) Different groups in society determine "facts" separately and combine them later.

Question 10

The activities of individuals or groups making assertions of grievances or claims with respect to some putative condition refers to:

A) The process of claims-making.
B) Societal consensus about grievances.
C) The attention given to feminist policy errors.
D) Opposing claims made by liberal vs. conservatives

Question 11

According to social constructionism, those who win a debate about a social issue?

A) Completely control the level of media attention a problem receives.
B) Get to define the nature of the problem.
C) Are able to prove the inherent correctness of their viewpoints.
D) No longer have to worry about opposing viewpoints.

Question 12

Which of the following is NOT a benefit of the social constructionist agenda?

A) It provides a theoretical framework for understanding family violence.
B) It helps to depoliticize gender differences in beliefs about family violence.
C) It generates numerous research questions that require investigation.
D) It illustrates the use of research in ongoing debates about family violence.
E) It helps to explain cross-cultural variations in definitions of family violence.

Question 13

A probable contribution to child abuse in the past was:

A) The need for many children in urban communities.
B) Parental disregard for disciplining children.
C) Parental disregard for the need to discipline children.
D) The belief that children were small versions of parents.
E) The government's belief in the doctrine of parens patriae.

Question 14

The full recognition of child abuse as a social problem occurred when:

A) Congress passed legislation outlawing child abuse.
B) Doctors described the battered child syndrome.
C) The women's movement set up foster shelters.
D) The U.N. condemned child abuse globally.

Question 15

Congress enacted The Child Abuse and Prevention Treatment Act in the ____.

A) 1950s
B) 1960s
C) 1970s
D) 1980s

Question 16

Which statement is FALSE about child sexual abuse?

A) Adult-child sexual interactions have been commonplace throughout history.
B) Historically some individuals believed that adult-child sexual interactions are healthy for children.
C) The ancient Greeks participated in adult-child sexual interactions frequently.
D) Woman-to-child sexual interactions were especially common in Rome.

Question 17

Which of the following is TRUE about adult-child sexual interactions?

A) They only came to light in the very late 1980s because of family secrecy.
B) They are promoted by the North American Man-Boy Love Association
C) They are illegal in every state but not illegal under federal law.
D) They are not acceptable in any current cultures.

Question 18

Which is FALSE about psychological abuse?

A) It is pervasive.
B) It has limited effects over time.
C) It is a central component in all child abuse.
D) It has only recently been considered serious.

Question 19

A frequently used variable in defining the severity of child neglect is the:

A) Obvious harm to the child.
B) Child's ability to recover.
C) Actual behaviors of the parents.
D) Weight/height ratio of the child.

Question 20

Which statement is TRUE?

A) Society recognized violence against women because of the women's movement.
B) Society recognized violence against women long before people recognized child abuse
C) Society recognized women's rights during WWII when women worked in factories.
D) NOW successfully brought battering into public view with little help from other organizations.

Question 21

Which statement is FALSE about wife-beating in the past?

A) It was illegal for a man to hit his wife if he had also failed to provide financial support.
B) Women had very few legal rights as individuals separate from their husbands.
C) Restitution for rape of a wife was paid to the husband not the wife.
D) Early marriage laws allowed a man to hit his wife to "keep her in line."

Question 22

Which statement related to wife abuse is TRUE?

A) Eriz Pizzey in England wrote a book entitled "Scream Quietly or the Neighbors Will Hear."
B) During the 1800s, women had the right to slap a man's face if he were sexually aggressive.
C) Child abuse organizations and NOW held similar political opinions and had similar agendas.
D) The first shelter for battered women was established in Seneca Falls, NY.

Question 23

All of the following beliefs supported the historical failure to protect women from forced sex in marriage EXCEPT?

A) Marriage automatically signifies a woman's consent.
B) Marital privacy must be preserved.
C) Intervention by the State will disintegrate marital trust
D) Wives will use sex to control their husbands.

Question 24

The problem of marital rape:

A) Has been acknowledged as far back as the 1700s in England.
B) Was ignored by California courts as late as 2011.
C) Is the most common problem married women faced in the 1990s.
D) Began to be recognized in the 1960s and 1970s.

Question 25

Which of the following is TRUE about dating violence?

A) It has led to antiviolence educational programs on campuses.
B) It became an issue under child abuse laws before wife beating did.
C) It was the last type of intimate violence to be recognized.
D) It has far more serious consequences than marital violence.

Question 26

Which of the following is TRUE about stalking?

A) It is legal in 34 states.
B) It is illegal in all 50 states.
C) It has been considered a social problem for the past 40 years.
D) It is seldom illegal if the perpetrator cyberstalks.

Question 27

Which of the following is TRUE about date rape?

A) Society recognized the problem in the early 1960s.
B) Experts uniformly accepted Koss's statistics on rape.
C) The primary risk is that women go out alone after dark.
D) Society previously thought strangers perpetrated most rape.

Question 28

In which decade did academia clearly begin to focus on elder abuse?

A) 1940s
B) 1960s
C) 1980s
D) 1990s

Question 29

Which statement is TRUE in regard to elder abuse?

A) People began to note that "elder abuse" and "child abuse" had similarities.
B) Nursing home personnel were active in reporting elder abuse to police agencies.
C) Laws mandating professionals to report elder abuse occurred as early as the 1930s.
D) Congress passed the Elder Justice Act in 2007 to protect elders from marital rape.

Question 30

As American society began to recognize wife abuse as a problem, which of the following occurred?

A) It judged wives' battering of husbands as an even more serious problem.
B) A debate arose over the level of women's marital violence against men.
C) Researchers found that women were exaggerating claims of marital violence.
D) It turned its attention away from the problems of child abuse.

Question 31

Co-occurrence refers to:

A) Situations where there is marital violence and child maltreatment
B) Situations where there is family violence and stalking
C) Situations where there is child maltreatment and stalking
D) Situations where there is marital violence and stalking

Question 32

Which statement is TRUE?

A) Child abuse and spouse abuse almost always occur separately within a family.
B) Mothers who fail to protect a child from a violent father should be prosecuted.
C) Child and elder protective agencies must protect any and all abused family members.
D) Child protective agencies and battered women's advocates have different mandates.

Question 33

Which statement is TRUE regarding abuse of women in other countries?

A) It occurs rarely.
B) It stems primarily from poverty.
C) It is punished severely.
D) It is widespread.

Question 34

Cross-culturally which statement is TRUE?

A) Other countries generally studied violence against women before Americans did.
B) Acceptance of various types of violence against women varies across cultures.
C) International standards for defining abuse were finally formalized in 1992.
D) Violence against women and children is most deplorable in South Africa.

Question 35

Which of the following is TRUE about racial differences in family violence?

A) They are strongly rooted in biology.
B) They result from haphazard educational policies.
C) They are not related to biology.
D) They are not related to racism.

Question 36

Which statement is TRUE?

A) Most immigrants have achieved middle-class socioeconomic status.
B) Immigrant women are especially vulnerable to family violence.
C) Counselors have been quick to become culturally competent in therapy.
D) Immigrant parents are especially unlikely to use corporal punishment.

Question 37

Which statement is TRUE?

A) Researchers have been particularly interested in lesbian intimate violence.
B) Gay male intimates are clearly less violent than heterosexual intimates.
C) Research findings on same-sex partner violence challenge patriarchal viewpoints.
D) Partner abuse among homosexual Canadians is less common than in the United States.

Question 38

Research on gay and lesbian violence shows that:

A) Homosexual relationships are more violent than heterosexual relationships.
B) Many forms of same-sex IPV differ from those found in heterosexual IPV.
C) Homosexual relationships are less violent than heterosexual relationships.
D) Same-sex homicides tend to be less brutal than heterosexual homicides.

Question 39

Which of the following statements regarding abuse of disabled persons is TRUE?

A) Disabled persons rarely experience abuse because it is especially cruel.
B) Disabilities include physical and mental impairments that limit function.
C) Surveillance systems of disabled abuse victims capture over 90% of the abuse.
D) Perpetrators rarely use tactics that are related to the person's disability.

Question 40

Which statement is TRUE about the special problems rural women face when abused?

A) The police are not well-trained.
B) Guns are not available to women.
C) Social services are intrusive.
D) Rural societies are rebellious.

Question 41

Religious tenets frequently pose a problem for women because tenets:

A) Often encourage violence among family members.
B) Allow women and children few if any human rights.
C) Suggest male dominance is a God-given right.
D) Legalize sexual abuse of women who have no husbands.

Question 42

Which statement is TRUE about the definitions of family violence?

A) They change from year to year due to legislative enactments
B) They are universally accepted as correct
C) They are subject to cultural and legal interpretations
D) They are precise enough to include all possible forms of violence

Question 43

Family violence researchers:

A) Generally negotiate definitions with shelter personnel.
B) Usually use a "shotgun" approach to defining family violence.
C) Frequently operationalize their definitions through test development.
D) Uniformly define family violence in terms of legitimacy and intentionality.

Question 44

Which statement is TRUE about family violence?

A) Legislatures ignore feminists' lobbying efforts.
B) Laws eventually formalize societal norms.
C) Researchers' definitions often become laws.
D) Current definitions capture the many nuances of family violence.

Question 45

A serious problem in legally defining family violence is that:

A) Laws usually apply to single events and family abuse events occur repeatedly.
B) Legislatures lack scientific information about the seriousness of family violence.
C) Laws cannot focus narrowly enough to specify which incidents merit prohibition.
D) Advocates irritate legislators to the point of creating a "backlash" effect.

Question 46

As noted in the following table, the highest total costs for adult partner violence in 2007 were for: 11ee8c2d_2085_a350_a5c0_f13af4b277ee

A) Rapes
B) Stalking
C) Murders
D) Physical assaults

Question 47

As noted in the following table, the highest indirect costs of child abuse and neglect in 2004 were for: 11ee8c2d_2085_ca61_a5c0_a5895c6856e0

A) Special education needs.
B) Hospitalization.
C) Adult criminal justice system.
D) Juvenile delinquency.

Question 48

Programs aimed at preventing or intervening in child abuse do NOT usually involve:

A) Neighborhood watch programs.
B) Home visits with at-risk parents.
C) Child-care educational programs.
D) Foster care and adoption programs.

Question 49

All of the following are general categories of programs to prevent/intervene child abuse EXCEPT:

A) School-based programs.
B) Community awareness campaigns.
C) Volunteer baby-sitting exchanges.
D) Family support and training.

Question 50

Which of the following are TRUE about school-based prevention programs?

A) They are expensive but worthwhile.
B) They primarily target individuals 4-6 years of age.
C) They focus on misuse of violence.
D) They primarily address athletes' behavior.

Question 51

Options for responding to child abuse do NOT include:

A) Placement in foster care.
B) Child-elder sponsored day care.
C) Providing treatment for victims.
D) Adoption into a suitable home.

Question 52

All of the following are community-based awareness programs EXCEPT:

A) Dissemination of fact sheets.
B) Employer-based initiatives.
C) "Teach early" messages directed at men.
D) Door-to-door solicitation for funding.

Question 53

The rationale for mandatory reporting laws and mandatory arrest laws is to?

A) Force society's agents to solve the problem of family violence.
B) Make victims feel like their suffering was not in vain.
C) Pinpoint areas where additional public funds should be spent.
D) Identify abuse, protect victims, and punish perpetrators.

Question 54

The primary problem related to mandatory reporting laws for professionals is/are the:

A) Failure of legislatures to clarify and publish such laws.
B) Outspoken criticism of the laws by feminist advocates.
C) Ethical dilemmas stemming from violating client confidentiality.
D) Attitudes professionals hold about being "above the law."

Question 55

Which statement about the Criminal Justice System (CJS) is TRUE?

A) The CJS has been the leader in formulating anti-battering policy.
B) Battered women's advocates suggest that police need more discretion.
C) Criminal sanctions have been the exception rather than the rule.
D) Because policemen do not condemn child abuse laws are violated.

Question 56

Which statement is TRUE about treating offenders and victims?

A) "Medicalization" of battering suggests that deviant behavior is not entirely voluntary.
B) Battered women's advocates believe that couples' therapy is especially effective.
C) Family violence specialists agree that incarceration is the most effective form of treatment.
D) Court-ordered counseling is particularly effective in preventing family violence.

Question 57

Which statement is FALSE about family violence myths?

A) Myths arise because of the cultural "spill-over" effect.
B) Repetition of untrue statements makes them seem like facts.
C) People who do not know the real facts are likely to accept myths.
D) Many myths about family violence contain a kernel of truth.

Question 58

Which of the following is NOT a myth?

A) Family violence is uncommon.
B) Only poor people are involved in family violence.
C) Drugs/alcohol is the real causes of family violence.
D) Severe family violence is the rule rather than the exception.

Question 59

Why is it important to study family violence?

Question 60

Discuss how a phenomenon like family violence becomes a social problem.

Question 61

Discuss the "discovery" of family violence beginning with the 1800s.

Question 62

Describe some contradictory viewpoints about adult-child sexual interactions.

Question 63

Offer a brief historical overview of the development of the awareness of family violence

Question 64

What is the role of social constructionism in family violence awareness?

Question 65

Define prevalence and incidence as these concepts apply to family violence.

Question 66

How are governmental violence surveillance programs helpful?

Question 67

What does "medicalization" mean?

Question 68

Discuss the selection of family abuse situations discussed in newspapers.

Question 69

What issues revolve around physical punishment of children as a form of child abuse?

Question 70

Why are women and children the most likely victims of family violence?

Question 71

Should Americans become involved in combating family violence in other countries?

Question 72

Do you consider family violence a human rights issue?

Question 73

Do you think myths about family violence play a role in the perpetuation of family violence?