Exam 14: Violence in Families

Who is susceptible to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)?

There are a number of additional challenges that immigrant women face alongside domestic violence problems such as ________

________ involves denying a woman knowledge of, or access to, the family finances.

The term "________" is defined in Canadian criminal law as the voluntary agreement to engage in an activity.

It was members of the ________ movement that created the first safe houses or shelters for Canadian women fleeing from violent boyfriends, partners, and spouses in the early 1970s.

Proponents of _______ theory claim that domestic violence is primarily perpetrated by individuals who have psychological problems, negative personality characteristics, or forms of mental illness that cause them to act violently.

Brownridge and Halli (2003) indicate that immigrant women from industrialized countries have higher rates of domestic violence compared to Canadian-born women.

Discuss the effects of financial abuse.

The "________" comes from an old English law in which a husband was allowed to hit his wife in order to discipline her but he was limited to using a rod or stick that was no longer in diameter than his thumb.

Describe the difference between violent physical acts and sexually violent acts.

Levels of education are not barriers to family violence; however, research has shown that socio-economic standing is a significant barrier.

In 2002, the federal government introduced It's Time: Canada's Strategy to Prevent and Address Gender-Based Violence which includes the establishment of a national gender-based violence knowledge centre and new survey programs.

________ data is often collected through survey questionnaires, administered to a representative sample of the population.

Patriarchal institutions rely on violence of the threat of violence to maintain male power and control over women.

The terms 'violence' and 'abuse' cannot be used interchangeably as they are terms that describe different types of aggressive acts between spouses.

A quarter of those individuals who had experienced domestic violence in 2014 indicated that they had been _______

Of those women who experience domestic violence, many indicated that they had been sexually assaulted, beaten, choked, or threatened with a gun or knife.

Donald Dutton (2005) argues that psychological trauma experienced by men during their childhood leads to the development of personality disorders.

Since 1993, ________ rates for domestic violence in Canada have been determined using a combination of data from Statistics Canada's General Social Survey on Victimization and crime data collected by police.

According to Amnesty International (2009), Indigenous women are ________ as likely as non-Indigenous women to report experiencing physical or sexual violence at the hands of their spouses or common law partners.