Question 1

Among legally registered married couples, separation increases the risk of spousal homicides, with the risk being greater for:

Accepted Answer

A) wives than for husbands 
B) husbands than for wives 
C) stepchildren than for own children 
D) younger husbands than for older husbands A

Question 2

Male partners are at greater risk of being killed by their current female partners, whereas female partners face a greater
Risk of being killed by:

Accepted Answer

A) ex-partners 
B) boyfriends 
C) married partners 
D) common-law partners A

Question 3

Women in the United States are more at risk of being killed by a male partner than by all categories of persons
Outside the partnership.

Accepted Answer

A) true 
B) false 
C) true only for African Americans 
D) true only for whites A

Question 4

The ratio of intimate partner femicide to intimate partner homicide is:

Accepted Answer

A) 5:1 
B) 4:1 
C) 3:2 
D) 2:1

Question 5

The ratio of intimate partner femicides to intimate partner homicides is:

Accepted Answer

A) 1:1 
B) 3:1 
C) 5:1 
D) 8:1

Question 6

The ratio of femicide-suicides to homicide-suicides is:

Accepted Answer

A) 5:1 
B) 7:1 
C) 13:1 
D) 16:1

Question 7

According to official statistics such as the U.S. Census, the frequency of intimate partner separations is:

Accepted Answer

A) seriously overestimated 
B) accurately measured 
C) classified as divorce 
D) seriously underestimated

Question 8

Compared with co-residence, separate residence entails one of the following increases in femicide-suicide. Which one?

Accepted Answer

A) 2-fold 
B) 5-fold 
C) 7-fold 
D) 4-fold

Question 9

Findings from the Canadian Homicide Survey indicate that separation entails a 9-fold increase in the risk of femicide for
Married women who separate, while married men who separate face:

Accepted Answer

A) the same rate of increase 
B) a 2-fold increase 
C) a 5-fold increase 
D) no increase

Question 10

The ratio of homicides to homicide-suicides is:

Accepted Answer

A) 18:1 
B) 3:1 
C) 5:1 
D) 15:1

Question 11

On the average, the percent of femicides that occur between two and six months of separating is:

Accepted Answer

A) 47 
B) 62 
C) 50 
D) 74

Question 12

An isolated proposition summarizing observed uniformities of relationships between two or more variables is called:

Accepted Answer

A) a theory 
B) an hypothesis 
C) familicide 
D) an empirical generalization

Question 13

On the average, 47% of femicides occur within three months of separating. The comparable figure for femicide-suicide is:

Accepted Answer

A) 74% 
B) 62% 
C) 50% 
D) 80%

Question 14

Compared with co-residence, separate residence entails one of the following increases in femicides. Which one?

Accepted Answer

A) no increase 
B) 6-fold 
C) 2-fold 
D) 4-fold

Question 15

95% of the perpetrators of femicide-suicide are:

Accepted Answer

A) ex-partners 
B) stepfathers 
C) male 
D) Female

Exam 3: Separation and Lethal Intimate Partner Violence