Define These Domestic Violence Terms Flashcards

Exam 5

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Common Couple Violence
Violence that arises out of a specific argument in which at least one partner lashes out physically.
Peak of Divorce
1980 per thousand married women
Low points in divorce
1955-60
Intergenerational transmission of violence is referring to the ___ of engagin in violence
Likelyhood
___ % of teen girls aged 14-17 know a peer who has been hit or beaten by a boyfriend
30-40%
Gender-Based Violence
Any act of gender violence that results in or is likely to result in physical, sexual, or psychological harm and suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion, or arbitrary deprivations of liberty, whether occuring in public or private life.
Intergenerational transmission of violence
Learning norms and behaviors, including violence, by observing others.
Intimate terrorism
Violence that is motivated by a desire to control the other partner
Mutual Violent Control
A violent pattern of behavior in which both partners are controlling and violent.
National Violence Against Women Survey
The National Institue of Justice and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention jointly sponsored a landmark telephone survey from 1995 to 1996 with a large and nationally representative sample of adult women and men about violence.
Who is most likely to be a perpetrator of violence in trafficking?
A husband who has complete control over his wife
When was domestic violence recignized as a pervasive social problem in the US?
Mid 1970's
What are the direct cost factors of child abuse? and the indirect cost factors of child abuse?
Direct: $24.4 billion Indirect: $69.7 billion
Trafficking
The illegal recruitment, transport, or sale of human beings into all forms of forced labor and servitude.
What are the three types of responses in terms of violence?
1. Non aggressive 2. Psycologically aggressive 3. Physical aggressive