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| an act carried out with the intention or perceived intention of causing physical pain of injury to another person |
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[situational couple violence]
- heat of the moment, rarely escalates |
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one partner tries to dominate & control the other
- often escalate, emotional abuse, recur
- less likely to be mutual |
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| "self-defensive", more commonly perpetrated by women |
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| both partners violently trying to control each other & the relationship |
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| individualistic model of family violence |
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abuser's violence related to personality disorder, mental illness, or substance abuse
- particularly appeal to abusers |
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| ecological model of family violence |
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| systems perspective, lack of community support for family |
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| feminist model of family violence |
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gender inequalities, cultural concepts of masculinity
- but capacity for violence not limited to men |
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| social stress model of family violence |
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1 - structural stress [e.g. low income/illness]
2 - cultural norms [e.g. "spare the road & spoil the child"] |
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| social learning model of family violence |
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| people learn to be violent from society & their families |
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| exchange-social control model of family violence |
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exchange: weigh rewards against costs, "people hit b/c they can"
- what reduces costs of violence?
1 - inequality - 2 - private nature of the family - 3 - "real man" image |
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| same # of women report expressing violence towards male partners as male-to-female |
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Men: to get what they want, control/gain power over partners
women: self-defense, retaliation, expression of anger, attention-seeking, stress, jealousy, loss of self-control |
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| characteristics of male perpetrators of violence |
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1 - believes in "Traditional" home, family, gender-role stereotypes & in moral rightness of his violence
2 - low self-esteem & may use violence to demonstrate power or adequacy
3 - may be sadistic, pathologically jealous, or passive-aggressive |
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| - + likely to be precipitated by jealousy or rejection |
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| why women stay in violent relationships |
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| 1 - economic dependence - 2 - religious pressure - 3 - children's need for a father - 4 - fear of being alone - 5 - belief in the american dream - 6 - guilt, pity, and shame - 7 - duty & responsibility - 8 - fear for her life - 9 - love - 10 - cultural reasons - 11 - nowhere else to go - 12 - learned helplessness |
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| costs of intimate violence |
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1 - neglect
2 - physical abuse
3 - sexual abuse
4 - emotional abuse |
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| types of emotional child abuse |
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1 - spurning [ridiculing/belittling]
2 - terrorizing
3 - isolating
4 - exploiting or corrupting
5 - denying emotional responsiveness
6 - neglect of child's mental or medical health or educational needs |
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- 52% girls
- children under 1 year had highest rate
- 60% of cases = neglect |
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| psychological aggression towards children |
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1 - shouting/yelling/screaming at
2 - threatening to spank or hit
3 - swearing or cursing at
4 - threatening to send child away/kick him out
5 - calling one's child dumb or lazy, making some other disparaging comment |
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| most common form of family violence - annually 2/3 commit violence |
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| - in 90% of cases, abuse is by a family member |
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| ~ 8 million days lost a year |
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| mandatory arrest policies |
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| discretion removed from police responding to a DV call |
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| compels prosecutors to proceed in the prosecution of an intimate violence case as long as evidence exists |
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| a multi-stage rehabilitative approach for batterers which emphasizes helping batterers develop critical thinking skills around themes of nonviolence, respect, partnership and negotiation |
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| the process in which a sexually abused child's sexuality develops inappropriately and the child becomes interpersonally dysfunctional |
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