Exam 9: Homicide, Assault, and Family Violence

George and Bill walk into a bar, order a drink and begin playing pool. Several minutes later, one of the bar's regulars, Steve, hollers across the bar and calls Bill a sissy girl. Bill punches Steve and a fist fight ensues. This scenario depicts an example of:

List and describe the four categories of homicide generated by Roberts, Zgoba, and Shahidullah (2007).

The most frequently reported violent crime in the U.S. is:

Describe the dynamic cascade model? Provide of an illustration of how this model explains violent behavior across childhood, adolescence and beyond.

The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1974 made what activity a federal crime?

Neonaticide refers to the killing of:

What was the title of the article that led to serious child abuse being "rediscovered"?

Alcohol and drug abuse appear to:

In the United States, the victims of homicide are mostly male.

Spousal and child abuse appears to occur primarily in economically disadvantaged families.

The most common form of intrafamilial violence involves:

As a clinical diagnosis, Battered Woman Syndrome is thought to be a form of:

Males are more likely than female to perpetrate which act of family violence?

Symptoms thought to frequently accompany Battered Woman Syndrome include all of the following except:

The term _____ refers to the cognitive shortcuts people use to make quick inferences about their world.

"The intentional inflicting of serious bodily injury on another" is a sufficient definition of which of the following offense(s)?

Homicides consistently account for about ____% of all violent crimes reported to the FBI.

List some of the factors that make the family so difficult to study.

Which group has a rate of criminal homicide that significantly exceeds its numbers in the general population, both as offenders and victims?

A youth who has been thrown away from the home by a parent or caretaker is called a thrownaway.