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| types of violence with strangers |
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| less likely to use weapon. injuries less serious. judge it on situation to situation basis. |
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| intentional unconsented bodily contact. |
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| difference between battery and assault |
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| battery is contact and assault is the attack |
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| most violent time of year |
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| Saturday day in december. summer nights. more people are out and drinking. |
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| likely victims of robbery |
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male
young
black or hispanic
single (more often alone)
low income(less security and people more likely to be robbed near house because that is where they are most of the time)
well dressed and nervous fast walk |
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| judgement call on police on incident by incident basis, if violence was enough to constitute a robbery. for instances pick pockets are not considered robbery |
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| is it better to resist robbery? 60percent tried to resist and only 20percent said it helped |
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| routine activities theory |
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for any crime to happen, 3 things:
motivated offender
suitable target
lack guardianship or people around to witness crime |
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| higher rates for black, Hispanics males and weapon used |
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| violence is the same but difference is in death of victim in homicide. with fatality more likely because of weapon. increase in 90s of homicide rate |
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| 2 days of hospitalization |
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| majority of assaults are... |
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| majority of aggravated assaults use... |
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| victim still involved in majority of violent acts |
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| reason for violence can respectable for sake of... |
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| more crime in the same instance=more... |
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| punishment. rape with murder is bumped to first degree murder. a person goes in knowing a murder could happen |
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| isn't automatically excused must still go to court. |
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serial murder-several victims over three of more separate incidents over weeks or longer
mass murder- more than four people in a location
spree murder- over short time with more than one location |
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| how do classifications of multicide help |
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| help theorists in there study using there own set of terms to compare and contrast with other theorists |
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| reasons hard for cops to catch serial killers |
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| hard to see pattern of murders especially when killer kills in different jurisdictions due to the way police systems are fragmented. man unidentified and missing victims. |
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| 3500-5000 death related to multicide a year |
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| amount of serial killers in u.s |
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| effects of media on amount of serial killers |
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| make it seem like there is more |
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| types of serial murderers |
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visionaries
mission-oriented
hedonistic
power/control |
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| hear god telling them to kill and not able to sustain long sprees of killings |
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| serial killer demographics |
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| middle aged white male with juvenile record or other assault record. |
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| bed-wetting, pyromania, cruelty towards animals people tend to enjoy |
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| dehumanizes victim so not to feel guilt. kill strangers so won't be identified. aware of right and wrong just don't care. |
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| prostitutes don't deserve to live so must kill them to help society because of their belief system |
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| kill for thrill and pleasure being profit or comfort or lust |
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| power/control serial killer |
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| enjoy watching victim suffer and controlling when they die. most gruesome serial killer. |
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amount and age of rape victim
(not sure if that important) |
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| 250,000 people age 12+ raped annually with some estimates going to 900,000 |
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| consent...and if not able to consent it is still rape |
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| most accurate stats of rape |
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| national crime victimization survey |
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| age of consent in most places |
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| reason rape laws haven't changed over time |
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| difficult to get accurate stats |
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| underrated. 6 time higher rate of women due to males not reporting. rape is higher for single poor young black with age drop for rate of rape at age 35 |
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-replace a single code of rape with series of offenses, with neutral gender and relationship neutral
-eliminate requirement for showing resistance in form of physical abrasions
-eliminate requirement for victim to have a witness to the rape
-rape shield law, prior sex life cannot be used to justify defendant as more guilty
-allow for longer period of time to report rape incident
-not allowing judges to put ideas of victim's wavering honesty into their heads |
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| why family violence hidden |
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| due to shame on family. if in small town no where for victim to retreat to |
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| includes elders and there caretakers |
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| abuse that isn't elder abuse |
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physical abuse
psychological abuse
material/financial exploitation
neglect of care |
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| more elder abuse because... |
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| most difficult family violence to uncover due to... |
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| elder's isolation and may not have someone on "outside" to be able to see the problem. they feel they are burden and ashamed they are getting victimized. |
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| adult protective services |
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| program comes in and helps person when they can't take care of themselves and may do weekly checkups to make sure they are being properly cared for |
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| difficulty to calculate rates of child abuse |
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| more difficult than intimate partner violence |
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| change in acceptable discipline for children |
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| from more aggressive spanking to talking it out with changes based on culture and states |
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| rates of child abuse by gender |
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| boys more apt to receive abuse than girls by either mom or dad. boys act out more are socialized to be more aggressive |
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| how severe injury or assault. and intent of spanking must be in relation to parenting |
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| risk factors for physical child abuse |
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-child are "property"
-cycle of violence
-poverty
-lack of social support
-drug abuse
-bad bonding btw child and parent
-disability or health problems like premature birth
-postpartum depression |
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| before age 6. and under 3 vulnerable to violence |
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| reason for one culture more violent than another on 12 year old |
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| some places a child is defined as a child at different ages |
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| what was recognized before child abuse with organization |
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| percent of men vs women abused as child |
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| why do we find more cases of child abuse these days? |
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| xrays able to show remnants of abuse long after surface abrasions fade |
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| percent of college women experiencing sexual attack |
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| college age sexual attacks |
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| usually know the offender. drugs are there and happens in victims home. college women more likely to be out and around strangers more often. |
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| every college must publish annual security report which are crime stats |
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| response to college rape. basic rights of victims of sexual assault. more specific policies for sexual assault and prevention of college must be published |
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| why aren't reports posted for men |
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| men are socialized to take care of themselves |
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| rule of thumb intimate partner violence |
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| as long as stick to hit woman was thinner than the thumb, but woman aren't allowed to hit men |
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| 1970s and 1980s and intimate partner violence |
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| rarely make arrests for ipv |
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| has ipv been recognized as a social problem |
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| more private making intervention hard |
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| conflict with police and ipv |
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| say social services should handle it and not police |
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| spousal abuse was once considered |
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| only about...report because of fear of offender retaliating |
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| percent of women and men on receiving end of ipv |
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| 22percent(women) and 7.4 percent(men) |
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| why percentages of ipv for men and women more similar |
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| men don't report for shame and pride and because they may have hit first. and women can't hit as hard so there is no reason to report |
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| why female perpetrated homicide against intimate partners going declining |
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| women have more shelters to go to and aren't pinned back in the corner so much. they actually have an option to leave rather than just fight back and kill |
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| black vs white women in relation to ipv |
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| black women more aggressive and more likely to report to police |
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power and dominance from Patriarchy
poverty, stressful
alcohol use/binge drinking in particular
cycle of violence |
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| why some risk factors don't work for ipv |
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| homosexuals do not have the power dynamic between the genders |
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| violence against women act |
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| improve nature of response to this violence. like how to deal in court. lowering re arrest rates with mandatory arrest rates. |
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| how domestic violence is different |
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| don't have to see it to make arrest |
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| bad things from mandatory arrest rate |
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| offender angry from arrest and causes more violence. and usually make arrest of victim as well because hard to tell who is victim in first place so make dual arrest. more trivial arrests and so less people will actually call in the first place |
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| temporary restraining order |
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Definition
| helps to stop abuse while victim is waiting for divorce or trial to go through. |
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| problems with temporary restraining order |
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Definition
| hard to enforce because police have to see issue. |
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| why hard to estimate glbt relations |
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Definition
| no national study . they don't even know how many actual relationships exist. |
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| what they do know about glbt relations |
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Definition
| happens more between gay men |
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| problems for gay men and domestic violence |
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Definition
| aren't allowed in women's shelter so where do they go |
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