Domestic Violence midterm

Why study domestic violence?

Awareness, prevention, laws and policies, the outcomes for the individuals, medical and health organizations, identifying vulnerable and special populations.

Domestic Violence

Any abuse that would include physical, emotional, sexual or financial abuse between intimate partners or people living in the same household.

Female Feticide

Killing of a fetus (different from abortions)

Femicide/ feminicide

Gender based killing of women, misogynistic killing of women

Violence against women

Physical, sexual or psychological harm to women. This includes threats, coercion, and deliberate deprivation of liberty in public or private.

Gender-based violence

Apples to people who don’t conform to typical gender stereotypes. This is used to take into account marginalized people. Interchangeable with violence against women

Sexual assault/ violence

A form of sexual abuse in which a person intentionally touches someone sexually with that person giving consent or coerces or physically forces someone to engage in a sexual act against their will.

Patriarchy

System of social structures and practices in which men dominate, oppress and exploit women. If men don’t follow a specific role in society, the experience the pressures of the patriarchy.

Dowry

The price to pay a man to marry a woman. From the bride to the groom. Usually gifts

Coverture

The man is responsible for all of the woman’s actions

Chastisement

Men could disciple his wife and children.

Vulnerability

The state of being exposed to the possibility of being harmed or attacked, either physically or emotionally

Resilience

The ability to withstand or recover quickly from abuse

Coercive control

An act or a pattern of acts of assault, threats, humiliation and intimidation, or other forms of abuse that is used to harm, punish or frighten their victim.

State violence

The use of force, intimidation or oppression by a government against its citizens.

Cycle of violence theory

One generation learns and witnesses violence, then transmit it to the next generation

The phases of a DV relationship

1st phase- tension building; frustration and resentment build

2nd phase- violent episode; when abuse takes place

3rd phase- remorse/ honeymoon phase; makes excuses, apologies and blames the victim

Substance abuse theory

It is drugs and alcohol that contributes to violence.

Deterrence theory

The idea that individuals will refrain from violent behavior because they fear the negative consequences of getting caught and punished

Social psychological model

Explains that external factors can affect the family environment such as stress, financial issues, family structure and interactions.

Conflict theory

Highlights the role of power in family life and contends that the family is often not a haven but rather an arena where power struggles can occur.

Structural functional theory

A dysfunction that arises when the social system, particularly the family, fails to maintain stability and order due to societal structures like traditional gender roles and power imbalances.

Exchange theory

Family violence will occur when rewards outweigh cost; lack of effective social controls in the family decreases costs and makes violence more likely

Ecological theory

Violence is a result of complex interaction at four interconnected levels: individual, relationship, community and societal.

Strain theory

Violence occurs when individuals experience high levels of stress from strain like job loss, relationship problems, or unmet needs and goal, and respond to these feelings of anger, frustration, or failure with violence.

Family violence theory

Men abuse because they had learned violence in their families as children and women sought out abusivo men because they saw their mother being abused.

Feminist theory

Theoretical framework that analyzes gender inequality and power dynamics in society to understand how social structures, cultural norms, and power relationships contribute to the oppression and discrimination of women and other marginalized groups.

Structural violence

Harm cause by social, political, and economic systems that prevent individuals from meeting their needs.

Social learning theory

The integration of differential associations with differential reinforcements. The people with who own interacts reinforce of what is deviant behavior and non-deviant behavior.

Intersectionality

Is a framework for conceptualizing a person, groups of people or a social problem as affected by a number of disadvantages. It takes into account people’s overlapping identities and experiences in order to understand the complexities of prejudice they face.

Quantitative research

Method that uses numerical data, statistical analysis, and objective measurements to study social phenomena.

Qualitative research

Gathers data from emotions and experiences. Gain a better understanding of complex concepts, social interactions and cultural phenomena.

Conflict tactic scale

A tool to measure the tactics people use during conflicts in intimate relationships, categorizing them in negation, psychological aggression, physical assault, sexual coercion, and injury.

Generalizability

The extent to which research finding can be applied to a broader population or different contexts beyond the specific study group

Sampling

The process of selecting a subject of individuals or data points from a larger population to analyze.

Survey research

A method of collecting data by asking questions to a group of people to understand their attitudes, beliefs, behaviors or demographics.

National crime victimization survey

The nations primary source of criminal victimization. They are looking at the frequency of victimization, the characteristics and the consequences.

Uniform crime reports

Generates reliable statistics for the use of law enforcement. They report fatalities, hate crime stats, and police assault.

Bureau of Justice statistics

The main agency for measuring crime, the correlations of crime, criminal offenders, victims, as well as the operations of civil and criminal justice systems.