Deck 12: Intimate Partner Violence Multiple Choice Questions:

Question 1

It wasn't until _______ that wife beating was criminalized in the United States

A) the 1970's
B) beginning of the 19th century
C) after the civil war
D) well into the 20th century

Answer 1

after the civil war

Question 2

One way to help estimate prevalence of intimate partner violence and to help decrease selection and recording biases are through sampling survey methods. A weakness of this technique is

A) the methods are subject to self-reporting biases
B) it may fail to sample some groups with high prevalence of abuse, i.e., the homeless
C) the definition of abuse may be defined differently by each researcher
D) all of the above

Answer 2

all of the above

Question 3

When a victim of repeat intimate partner violence leaves her partner, she is a

A) at the same or greater risk after separation than before.
B) at the same or less risk after separation.
C) at significantly less risk.
D) intimate partner violence victims never leave their partners.

Answer 3

at the same or greater risk after separation than before.

Question 4

The number of homicides committed by intimates against both male and female African American victims and white men has declined because

A) harsher criminal sentencing for those who "kill" in self defense
B) of the availability to women of other resources for avoiding or escaping abuse
C) both A and B
D) neither A nor B

Question 5

A Child witnessing parental violence is associated with

A) criminal activity later on in that child's life.
B) a higher incidence of behavioral problems in the child.
C) a definite decrease in the child's IQ.
D) a higher risk of that child becoming an abuser when he or she is an adult.

Question 6

Women with these characteristics are more likely to characterize abused women than other women who have not been abused

A) African-American
B) Between the ages of 16 and 24
C) Living in urban areas
D) All of the above

Question 7

After leaving an abusive relationship, most women

A) Enter into or seek out another abusive relationship
B) Retain severe psychological symptoms and develop severe mental disorders
C) Do not enter into or seek out other abusive relationships
D) None of the above

Question 8

Which of the following are reasons why women stay in abusive relationships?

A) They are afraid to leave
B) They love their husbands and want to make the marriage work
C) They fear the effects of divorce
D) All of the above

Question 9

Abusers are most often persons

A) With severe mental illness and with psychotic diagnosis
B) With criminal histories, especially if they violate orders of protection
C) From upper social classes
D) Who almost invariably come from families in which abuse occurred regularly

Question 10

In "No Drop" policies

A) Once the verdict is reached in intimate partner violence cases, it cannot be appealed.
B) Prosecutors are enabled to go ahead with intimate partner violence cases even if the woman wants to drop the charge.
C) Once a single prosecuting attorney has been assigned to the case, it must go through the courtroom process without changing attorneys.
D) Once assigned to a jury, no juror can "drop" out of the jury at anytime.

Question 11

In theory, family courts are in a better position to handle problems related to children because

A) in all circumstances, family courts can impose fines or jail time.
B) family courts have links with social service agencies.
C) family courts are less intimidating and less formal.
D) all of the above.

Question 12

In order for a judge to grant a temporary order of protection

A) the alleged abuser must be convicted of the offense.
B) the alleged abuser must be present.
C) the judge can grant temporary protection without the abuser being present in the court or convicted of a crime.
D) temporary orders of protection are not issued anymore because they do not work and they are a waste of federal dollars.

Question 13

What changes have taken place in the rules and procedures governing police intervention in intimate partner violence situations?

Question 14

What evidence is there for the cycle of violence described by Lenore Walker?

Question 15

What evidence is there of battered woman syndrome?

Question 16

What does research tell us about the relative effectiveness of various forms of police intervention in intimate partner violence situations?

Question 17

What does research tell us about the effectiveness of restraining orders?

Question 18

How effective has the battered woman's syndrome been as a defense in partner murder trials?

Question 19

How does intimate partner violence affect determinations of custody and visitation?

Question 20

The contemporary view of intimate partner violence as a social problem

A) was stimulated in part by the women's movement that organized shelters and grass roots advocacy organization
B) was promulgated by an English judge, Lord Matthew Hale, who first stated the rule of thumb
C) was established by social workers at Hull House
D) was related to laws granting married women property rights

Question 21

Theoretical models of intimate personal violence (IPV) include

A) one based on feminist models which view IPV as an affirmation of gender status and control of partners
B) one based on psychotherapeutic models which view IPV as a symptom of underlying psychopathology
C) one based on a criminal justice model that defines IPV as crime to be prosecuted
D) all of the above

Question 22

Measures of incidence and prevalence of a problem or a disorder

A) are not useful because they are measured differently by different research workers
B) are useful for policy makers to decide on resources that should be allocated to a problem
C) are objective and therefore cannot be used by advocates for political purposes
D) are only used by public health scientists to determine epidemics of illnesses

Question 23

In order to determine the incidence and prevalence of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)

A) it is necessary to use a very loose definition of IPV that can avoid selection biases
B) it is necessary to use social agency or police statistics which are unaffected by selection bias
C) it is necessary to define carefully the behaviors and the relationships that are to be included in the study
D) experience shows one cannot use sampling survey methods with telephone or face to face interviews with such a delicate personal issue

Question 24

Surveys of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) have shown that

A) more women than men are subject to serious injury, although many men are assaulted by women
B) using the Conflict Tactics Scale, violence against men by women far outnumbered the rates of violence against women by men
C) the high rate of violence by women against men confirms the feminist model of IPV
D) IPV is a one time problem that stops when the victim calls the police

Question 25

Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) sometimes results in homicide where

A) women kill their partners, and the rate has been increasing in recent years
B) women kill their partners and the rate has been unchanged in recent years because pregnancy protects women against IPV
C) men kill their partners and the rate has gone down in recent years, but not as fast as the rate for women killing their partners
D) deaths can be prevented because prediction methods are highly accurate and there was prior known violence in almost all cases

Question 26

Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) and child abuse

A) rarely occur in the same families
B) occur together in many families
C) are unrelated because the abused partner is at less risk if she breaks up with the abuser
D) are unrelated because the IPV increases with age

Question 27

Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) if witnessed by a child

A) is harmless because most children won't know what is going o
B) is harmful for almost all children who will later exhibit problem behaviors
C) is harmful for boys especially who show elevated rates of behavioral problems
D) has been proven harmless because women also abuse men

Question 28

From studies of types of abusers in Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) we can conclude

A) that severe IPV occurs with equal frequency in all types of men
B) that women of all ages are equally at risk of severe IPV
C) that it is primarily abused women who share certain personality traits in common who are abused by their partners
D) that 10-20 percent of men who assault their partners are responsible for most incidents of severe violence

Question 29

When a woman remains in a violent relationship studies suggest that

A) many have understandable reasons such as love of the abuser, or reasonable fear they or their children will be harmed if they leave
B) it is only because the violence is not severe
C) it is primarily because she has a masochistic personalities and seek punishment
D) it is primarily well educated women with good jobs who return to abusive relationships over and over

Question 30

An effective response to Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) is best accomplished when service agencies

A) strictly preserve confidentiality to ensure that victim rights are protected.
B) collaborate and cooperate, even if that aim is difficult to achieve
C) work independently so that no network develops that will ensnare victims
D) avoid the use of the criminal justice system and minimize cooperation

Question 31

Medical services to battered women are

A) problematic because all states have strict reporting requirements and thus battered women avoid going to doctors
B) important because medical and dental providers are among the first to recognize victims of Intimate Partner Violence
C) important because doctors and dentists are used to working cooperatively with prosecutors to prosecute batters
D) readily available to illegal immigrant women because immigration laws don't apply to battered women

Question 32

Police are frequently called in when there is an incident of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV). The battered women victims

A) are insistent on seeing to it that batterers are arrested when they call the police
B) are most satisfied with a police policy of always arresting the batterer when called
C) frequently fail to press charges against a batterer who was arrested
D) are rarely arrested even if they had also battered their partners

Question 33

Battered women

A) prefer to petition the prosecutor to bring charges against the batterer rather than rely on the police
B) are at the top of the pyramid when prosecutors make use of vertical prosecution procedures
C) are often vengeful and want the battering partner sent to jail so he will lose his job and suffer further
D) frequently drop criminal charges after an arrest for fear of retaliation by the batterer

Question 34

If the victim of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) is reluctant to prosecute the batterer, prosecutors

A) can subpoena a reluctant victim and bring punitive charges if the victim refuses to cooperate, but they are do not like to pursue such a course
B) have no way of convicting a batterer because all other types of evidence have been ruled unconstitutional
C) can rely on their no drop policy to get the victim to enter a shelter
D) can point to strong, basic research showing the victim is safer if prosecution goes forward

Question 35

Orders of protection, or restraining orders,

A) are easier for a victim to obtain in a criminal than in a family court because the alleged abuser has fewer due process protection rights in a criminal court
B) are easier for a victim to obtain in a family than in a criminal court because the alleged abuser has fewer due process protection rights in a family court
C) are automatically enforced by the police when there is a mutual order of protection
D) are enforced vigorously because otherwise someone who is protected by the order can sue the city or town for injuries caused by lax police enforcement

Question 36

Orders of protection provide victims

A) with automatic round the clock police protection
B) with absolute protection against being murdered because abusers fear the law
C) with some protection because the order deters some abusers and potential abusers, especially in the short run
D) all of the above

Question 37

Batterer intervention programs (BIP) are

A) used to train batterers in self control after they are released from prison
B) used to help batterers of immigrant women because the victims fear losing their children
C) less useful than jail time because batterers assigned to the programs automatically lose their jobs
D) used to divert batterers who agree to participate from criminal prosecution and possible jail time

Question 38

Evaluations of batterer intervention programs show

A) there is minimal impact on recidivism (repeated episodes of battering)
B) they are most effective with the most violent batterers
C) paradoxically that they are most effective with those who dropped out of the programs
D) they may be more costly than jail time to the community because fees charged to batterers for the services in the community don't cover all the expenses

Question 39

Advocates for women and children

A) are strongly in favor of making the witnessing of Intimate Personal Violence (IPV) by a child an offense reportable to child protection authorities
B) are concerned that child protection authorities may charge the mother with neglect because the mother had not prevented the child from witnessing IPV
C) want children removed from the home immediately if the children witness IPV
D) favor the court ruling that says a child's witnessing of IPV is sufficient in and of itself even if there is no other evidence of neglect to warrant removing a child from the home

Question 40

Workers in agencies serving victims of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) and child protection authorities

A) closely cooperate because their basic missions are the same
B) often work in the same agency so close cooperation is easy
C) sometimes work at cross purposes because they see their clients and their missions differently
D) sometimes work at cross purposes because agency workers count success differently and they compete for clients

Question 41

The dynamics of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) for couples with children

A) are at play before the divorce and end with the divorce
B) favor fathers in a divorce because judges are reluctant to believe fathers abuse the mothers of their children
C) favor mothers in a divorce because their complaints about IPV are readily believed by judges
D) in theory favor the non-abusing spouse because judges are supposed to consider a history of violence as a factor in making custody decisions

Question 42

Mediation of custody disputes according to its proponents

A) is favored because in theory it saves the emotional and financial costs of a court case
B) is especially useful when one of the partners is extremely violent
C) is especially useful when one of the parties is much less powerful socially or financially than the other
D) gives custody to the parent who is a drug abuser or mentally ill because the mediators empathize with and protect the under dog

Question 43

Visitation of children with the non-custodial parent after a divorce when there has been a history of IPV

A) is not a problem because the non-custodial parent has no legal entitlement to visit his or her children
B) is a problem because the non-custodial parent is legally entitled to visit his or her child and arrangements need to be worked out
C) is not a problem because after most divorces the in which there has been a history of IPV the parties never have to see each other again
D) is a problem because supervised visitation centers are readily available in most states and they are overused to control mothers who are too "friendly parents"

Question 44

If a women has killed her partner, she can plead the "battered women defense"

A) and it is very successful in mock jury studies in overcoming standard judicial instructions on self defense
B) and the research evidence strongly favors the existence of a syndrome of learned helplessness in almost all women who have been charged with murder of an intimate partner
C) even if she was a partner in a crime if she claimed she committed the crime under duress
D) but she will get a harsher sentence if found guilty than a man convicted of an IPV murder

Question 45

Some victims of IPV are almost invisible to the justice system and to researchers. These include:

A) male victims of IPV
B) men and women assaulted by same sex partners
C) stigmatized groups such as prostitutes, addicts, and homeless people
D) all of the above