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3 Instructor’s Manual and Test Bank Yumi E. Suzuki
FAMILY V IOLENCE
LEGAL, MEDICAL, AND SOCIAL
PERSPECTIVES
Ninth Edition by Harvey Wallace (deceased) Cliff Roberson Julie L. Globokar 1 / 4
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Chapter 1
Characteristics and Consequences of Family Violence
TEACHING POINTS
• It is difficult to define what constitutes family violence.
• There are inherent problems in attempting to measure the extent of family violence.
• The study of family violence is still in its infancy.
• There are numerous myths and misconceptions that surround family violence.
• The concept of family violence is a wide-ranging concept that must remain flexible to adaption as we learn more about its scope and impact.
• The term serious injury may involve physical or emotional harm or a violation of another family member’s rights and freedom of choice.
• Intervention strategies vary widely in dealing with family violence.
• The most commonly relied on data on the extent of family violence are reports by local law enforcement agencies, the American Humane Society, the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR), and the National Crime Victimization Surveys.
• Since adoption of the mandatory reporting laws for child abuse, and in some states mandatory arrest of those accused of intimate partner abuse, local agencies have been able to provide researchers with a wealth of information regarding family violence.
• The Violence against Women Act provides a fundamental change in the criminal justice system’s gathering of information on violent crimes committed against women.
• The UCR program is a nationwide statistical compilation involving more than 1,600 cities, counties, and state law enforcement agencies that voluntarily report data on reported crimes.
• The psychiatric model tries to understand family violence by analyzing the offender’s personality traits and mental status.
• The psychopathology theory is grounded on the concept that certain individuals suffer from mental illness, personality disorders, and other dysfunctions that cause them to engage in aggressive acts within the family.
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• The substance abuse theory accepts the proposition that drugs or alcohol cause or contribute to family violence.
• The social–psychological model analyzes external environmental factors that affect the family unit. Factors such as stress, family structure, the intergenerational transmission of violence, and family interactions are all considered as primary causes of family violence.
• The social learning theory assumes that the type of behavior most frequently rein-forced by others is the one most often exhibited by the individual.
• The exchange theory is based on the premise that persons act according to a system of rewards or punishments.
• The frustration–aggression theory is based on the premise that human beings display aggression toward objects that impede their achievement of certain goals.
• The ecological theory is based on an analysis of the organism and the environment, the interacting systems in which family development occurs, and the environment in which the family resides.
• The sociobiology or evolutionary theory is based on the concept that parents display aggressive acts toward children who are not their own or do not have the potential to reproduce.
• The sociocultural model of family violence focuses on the roles of men and women in our society as well as on the cultural attitudes toward women and the acceptance of violence as a cause of family violence.
• The culture of violence theory is based on the premise that violence is unevenly distributed within our society, and that violence is more prevalent in the lower socioeconomic sectors of society.
• The patriarchy theory views society as dominated by males, with women in subordinate positions, treated by men as possessions and things.
• The general systems theory views the maintenance of violence as a result of the social system in which families live.
• This social conflict theory analyzes large-scale conflicts, marriages, and the communication process.
• The resource theory is based on the proposition that the one who controls resources, such as money, property, or prestige, is in the dominant position in a relationship.
• The intergenerational transmission of violence theory was formerly known as the cycle of 3 / 4
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violence theory.
• One of the most obvious consequences of family violence is the physical injuries suffered by victims. These injuries are easy to observe and treat.
• There are four general classifications of physical injuries inflicted on victims of family violence: immediate injuries that heal leaving no trace, injuries that leave visible scars, unknown long-term physical injuries, and long-term catastrophic injuries.
• The types of physical injuries suffered by victims of family violence can cover the entire spectrum of illness, from simple bruises to deadly gunshot wounds to the head.
• Acute stress disorder (ASD) is acute stress that is experienced in the immediate aftermath of a traumatic event.
• Posttraumatic stress disorder is defined as the development of characteristic symptoms following a psychologically distressing event that is outside the range of usual human experience.
• Victims of family violence may suffer a wide variety of mental disorders as a result of their victimization.
TEST BANK FOR CHAPTER 1
Multiple Choice Questions
- Family violence is generally defined as
- the physical injury inflicted upon a wife by her husband.
- any act or omission by persons who are cohabitating that results in serious injury to
other members of the family.
- any physical, emotional or psychological injury inflicted by a husband on his wife.
- any act or omission by a husband upon his wife that results in serious injury.
ANSWER: b Ref. page: 6
- Family violence includes which of the following acts?
- criminal offenses.
- behavioral acts.
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