Deck 8: Violence

Question 1

How is sexual violence gendered?

A) Almost 91% of the victims are girls and women, and 97% of the perpetrators are men and boys.
B) Whereas almost 90% of the victims are girls and women, men and women are equally likely to be the perpetrators.
C) Whereas 99% of the perpetrators are men and boys, the victims of violence are equally likely to be male or female.
D) 99% of the perpetrators are men and boys, and 75% of the victims are women and children of both sexes.

Answer 1

A

Question 2

What is the caveman mystique?

A) A popular belief that men have evolved to be naturally violent and sexually aggressive and that they cannot control these instincts
B) A masculine persona that sexually aggressive and violent and does not value verbal communication
C) A trend whereby men who feel entitled to dates and sex with women lash out violently if they do not get these things
D) The romanticization of violent, sexually aggressive men in popular culture

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Black Americans make up about 13% of the U.S. populations. In 2017, they made up ______ percent of unarmed Americans killed by police.

A) 13%
B) 21%
C) 35%
D) 50%

Answer 3

C

Question 4

What group commits the highest percentage of sexual assaults and rapes of women?

A) Strangers
B) Partners and acquaintances
C) Soldiers
D) Relatives

Question 5

What is Kimmel's alternative to evolutionary and psychological explanations of male violence?

A) The claim that male violence is a result of biological male differences
B) The theory that power differences between men and women produce gender domination and subordination, leading to men's sexual entitlement and rape
C) The argument that any explanation for male violence excuses it, so instead of explanations, programs to eradicate it are needed
D) The idea that both evolution and psychology that account for male violence: men's psychologies have evolved to extremes of violence

Question 6

What happened when women began looking to the criminal justice system for safety and protection from domestic violence?

A) Juries took sympathetic views of battered women, and public awareness of domestic violence and sympathy increased.
B) Legal protections arose to ensure that domestic abuse became a felony in most states.
C) They learned that institutional practices and practitioners implicated women in their own victimization and excused violent partners.
D) Self-defense courses for women arose in urban areas after the courts turned battered women away.

Question 7

What other approach to violence against women has been successful, besides criminal justice?

A) Housing for poor battered women
B) Bicultural and bilingual services for immigrants
C) Shelters that accepted lesbians and homeless women
D) All of the above

Question 8

How have crime and imprisonment rates changed in the U.S. in the past several decades?

A) They have remained the same.
B) Serious crime rates have been increasing for the past 20 years, and the number of prisoners serving life sentences has more than quadrupled since 1984.
C) Serious crime rates have been increasing for the past 20 years, but the number of prisoners serving life sentences decreased by more than four times since 1984.
D) Serious crime rates have been declining for the past 20 years, but the number of prisoners serving life sentences has more than quadrupled since 1984.

Question 9

How does the United States compare to other nations in its proportion of citizens in prison?

A) The United States has the highest proportion of citizens in prison worldwide.
B) The United States has the lowest proportion of citizens in prison worldwide.
C) The United States has more citizens in prison than developed nations but fewer than developing nations.
D) The United States has more citizens in prison than developing nations but fewer than developed nations.

Question 10

What is CEDAW?

A) A declaration of equal rights for women that the U.S. signed into law in 1979
B) A 1979 bill of human rights that calls on governments that sign the treaty to remove all forms of discrimination against women
C) The International Criminal Court's charge against femicide in Guatemala in 2012
D) The name of the 2001 sentencing of three Bosnian Serb soldiers standing trial on charges of rape and torture

Question 11

A successful social movement to address domestic violence took place in the U.S. in _________ and was responsible in large part for reforming police procedure, changing laws, and establishing resources and shelters for abused women.

A) the 1960s
B) the 1970s
C) the 1980s
D) the 1990s

Question 12

_______ refers to the killing of women and girls out of gender-based hatred.

A) Genocide
B) Besharmi Morcha
C) Honor killing
D) Femicide

Question 13

What proportion of incarcerated men in the United States are believed to be victims of rape in prison?

A) 5-10%
B) 8-17%
C) 20-33%
D) 40-45%

Question 14

Hegemonic masculinity scholars identify war-making as a masculinity resource. What does this mean?

A) War provides economic opportunities to men through military service.
B) War disproportionately takes the lives of men, leaving societies with fewer men than women.
C) Most wars are fought to protect economic interests. War primarily protects the fortunes of men.
D) Waging war is a way that a leader can show his strength, dominance, and other masculine qualities.

Question 15

In 2014, Columbia University student Emma Sulkowics began protesting Columbia's handling of students' sexual assault allegations by _________.

A) carrying a mattress to class everyday
B) creating an event called Take Back the Night
C) organizing a SlutWalk, where victims of sexual assault challenge rape myths by dressing in lingerie
D) drafting the language of the federal Violence Against Women Act

Question 16

What is the Thomas Theorem?

A) A formula for predicting the relationship between violence and unemployment rates
B) The sociological idea that our ideas shape our realities and that we will act in accordance with what we believe to be true
C) The idea that the likelihood of a domestic violence victim to leave a batterer is reliant on the resources she has available to her
D) The idea that women and men are equally capable of committing domestic violence

Question 17

Which of the following do domestic violence advocates cite as evidence that policing is an inadequate solution to battering?

A) Resources offered by police are not useful if victims are unable to access them due to poverty, legal status, language barriers, or other social factors.
B) Some victims who call the police on a batterer are arrested themselves causing others to fear police involvement.
C) Many police offers still believe stereotypes about "learned helplessness" which may cause them to take victims less seriously.
D) All of the above.

Question 18

Which of the following refers to cultural ideas that blame women for sexual assault and hold women responsible for preventing victimization.

A) Men's rights logic
B) Rape myths
C) Gender symmetry arguments
D) The caveman mystique

Question 19

Among which of the following groups is perpetration of domestic violence higher than average?

A) Police officers
B) Lower-income men
C) Wealthy men
D) Both a. and b. are correct.

Question 20

In comparison to heterosexual couples, rates of domestic violence among same-sex couples are _______.

A) Much lower
B) Two to three times higher
C) About the same to slightly higher
D) Unknown