Miller-Perrin, Violence and Maltreatment in Intimate Relationships 2e SAGE Publishing, 2021
CHAPTER 1: HISTORY AND DEFINITIONS OF INTIMATE VIOLENCE AND
MALTREATMENT
Multiple Choice
- Who negotiates the understanding of social conditions into specific social problems?
- lawyers
- religious leaders
- claims makers
- governments
Ans: C
Learning Objective: 1-2: Demonstrate the ways in which VMIR can be viewed as a social construction.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Introduction
Difficulty Level: Easy
- What does it mean to operationalize a variable?
- Define the variable.
- Measure the variable.
- Create questions that will measure the variable as it has been defined.
- Ask questions about the variable.
Ans: C
Learning Objective: 1-1: Describe the key issues that are present in determining the scope of violence and maltreatment in intimate relationships (VMIR).
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Estimating the Scope of the Problem
Difficulty Level: Medium
- What term means that victims are often exposed to multiple forms of violence and
- multiple victimization
- polyvictimization
- revictimization
- victimizations
maltreatment?
Ans: B
Learning Objective: 1-1: Describe the key issues that are present in determining the scope of violence and maltreatment in intimate relationships (VMIR).
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Polyvictimization
Difficulty Level: Easy
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Miller-Perrin, Violence and Maltreatment in Intimate Relationships 2e SAGE Publishing, 2021
- Some policy argues for programs that simultaneously address violence against
- It is cost-effective.
- The same institutions solve these issues.
- All forms of violence are interconnected.
- It reduces the number of staff needed.
children, the elderly, and intimate partners simultaneously. What is the reasoning behind this?
Ans: C
Learning Objective: 1-1: Describe the key issues that are present in determining the scope of violence and maltreatment in intimate relationships (VMIR).
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Polyvictimization
Difficulty Level: Easy
- Practices such as widow burning and female genital manipulation are not protected
- non-western practices
- violence
- cultural objectivism
- cultural relativism
by the UN because they reject what?
Ans: D
Learning Objective: 1-2: Demonstrate the ways in which VMIR can be viewed as a social construction.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Intimate Violence and Maltreatment as a Social Construction
Difficulty Level: Medium
- A church organization raises funds to go to Washington, DC, and schedule meetings
- claims making
- cultural relativism
- moral making
- negotiations
with legislatures to talk about sexual child abuse in the church. Which of the following is it an example of?
Ans: A
Learning Objective: 1-2: Demonstrate the ways in which VMIR can be viewed as a social construction.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Intimate Violence and Maltreatment as a Social Construction
Difficulty Level: Medium
- Which of the following is NOT involved in the shift of a social condition to a social
- claims makers
- societal reactions
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problem?
Miller-Perrin, Violence and Maltreatment in Intimate Relationships 2e SAGE Publishing, 2021
- social definitions
Ans: C
Learning Objective: 1-2: Demonstrate the ways in which VMIR can be viewed as a social construction.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Intimate Violence and Maltreatment as a Social Construction
Difficulty Level: Medium
- If the cultural practice of boys becoming men after ingesting semen is not considered
- cultural relativism
- claims making
- harm
- intervention work
violence, then we are engaging in what?
Ans: A
Learning Objective: 1-2: Demonstrate the ways in which VMIR can be viewed as a social construction.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Intimate Violence and Maltreatment as a Social Construction
Difficulty Level: Hard
- ______ challenge a social practice to redefine it as a social problem.
- Laws
- Claims makers
- Governments
- Lawyers
Ans: B
Learning Objective: 1-2: Demonstrate the ways in which VMIR can be viewed as a social construction.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Intimate Violence and Maltreatment as a Social Construction
Difficulty Level: Easy
- What practice in the United States is currently not considered abuse, but some
- beating your child
- beating your spouse
- rape
- circumcision
claims makers are emerging to consider it abuse?
Ans: D
Learning Objective: 1-2: Demonstrate the ways in which VMIR can be viewed as a social construction.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Intimate Violence and Maltreatment as a Social Construction
Difficulty Level: Easy
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Miller-Perrin, Violence and Maltreatment in Intimate Relationships 2e SAGE Publishing, 2021
- Who defines social problems for the public?
- police
- legislatures
- winning claim makers
- religious leaders
Ans: C
Learning Objective: 1-2: Demonstrate the ways in which VMIR can be viewed as a social construction.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Intimate Violence and Maltreatment as a Social Construction
Difficulty Level: Easy
- Up until ______ times, children were regarded as property.
- ancient
- medieval
- Victorian
- modern
Ans: A
Learning Objective: 1-3: Summarize the historical events that have led to the discovery of VMIR.
Answer Location: The Discovery of Childhood and the Recognition of Child Abuse
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Difficulty Level: Easy
- Infanticide is sometimes seen as a solution to ______.
- unwanted pregnancies
- unwanted infants
- abusive partners
- difficult children
Ans: B
Learning Objective: 1-3: Summarize the historical events that have led to the discovery of VMIR.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Discovery of Childhood and the Recognition of Child Abuse
Difficulty Level: Easy
- When it comes to infanticide, who is most likely to be killed?
- boys
- girls
- sick children
- twins
Ans: B
Learning Objective: 1-3: Summarize the historical events that have led to the discovery of VMIR.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: High-Tech Feticide: Sex-Selective Abortions
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