Deck 2: Lethal Domestic Violence: Definitions and Motives

Question 1

In this text, three criteria are used to differentiate among different types of intimate partner violence. The criteria are:

A)gender
B)ethnicity
C)social class
D)relationship status
E)perpetrator/victim role
F)perpetrator/victim residence

Answer 1

gender

Question 2

The willful and non-negligent conduct by men that causes the death of past or present female intimate partners is called:

A)homicide
B)femicide
C)familicide
D)parracide

Answer 2

femicide

Question 3

Femicides that are followed by the suicides of male partner perpetrators who are motivated to commit suicide are called:

A)suicide-femicide
B)extended homicides
C)femicide-suicide
D)extended femicides

Answer 3

femicide-suicide

Question 4

The shorter the time between femicide and suicide, the greater the likelihood that femicide and suicide constitute a
Single act by a perpetrator who intended to commit:

A)suicide
B)femicide
C)familicide
D)homicide

Question 5

Findings reported by Harper & Voight indicate that femicide-suicides tend not to be:

A)intentional
B)premeditated
C)motivated
D)perpetrated by male partners

Question 6

Findings on femicide-suicide reported by Easted indicate that premeditation is strongly associated with:

A)ethnicity
B)climate
C)the use of firearms
D)urban residence

Question 7

Death caused by self-directed injurious behavior with any intent to die as a result of the behavior is called:

A)a criminal act
B)homicide
C)suicide
D)femicide

Question 8

A Wingspread Conference committee defines a "pattern of emotionally abusive intimidation, coercion, and control
Coupled with physical violence against intimate partners" as:

A)situational couple violence
B)coercive control violence
C)violent resistance
D)separation-instigated violence

Question 9

"Arguments between partners that escalate on occasion into violence" is defined by the Wingspread Conference committee as:

A)violent resistance
B)coercive control violence
C)separation-instigated violence
D)situational couple violence

Question 10

One reason for defining femicide-suicide as an "extended suicide" is that interventions aimed at prevention will be
Aimed at preventing:

A)depression
B)femicide
C)Borderline Personality Disorder
D)suicide

Question 11

Femicide-suicide is a social problem worth investigating because it accounts for an average of:

A)50% of femicides
B)20% of femicides
C)30% of femicides
D)70% of femicides

Question 12

According to Wilson & Daly, non-lethal violence aimed at settling conflicts and controlling wives differs from lethal
Violence only by:

A)the gender of perpetrators
B)its far greater frequency
C)its far lower frequency
D)its relation to separation

Question 13

Most, if not all, researchers who define intimate partner homicide as self-defense locate non-lethal and lethal intimate
Partner violence:

A)on a continuum
B)in separate categories
C)mainly in urban areas
D)mainly in rural areas

Question 14

The finding that 41% of men who perpetrated femicide had not previously used violence against the female partners
they murdered locates many perpetrators of lethal and non-lethal violence in separate categories.

Question 15

Changing situational and other design conditions eliciting lethal violence by couples most likely to encounter all or
Most of them are called for by findings supporting:

A)a separate categories definition
B)a continuum definition
C)an early interventions strategy
D)a gender-specific strategy