Question 1

Campbell et al. reported that there is a greater decline in the deaths of male partners than that of female partners.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

Because prospective studies of intimate partner femicide are generally infeasible for practical reasons, research on
Lethality assessment has had to rely on:

Accepted Answer

A) prospective research using proxy informants 
B) retrospective research using other outcomes (e.g., incidents of severe violence) 
C) researchers coding instruments from available records 
D) all of the above

Question 3

Structured professional judgment (SPJ) risk assessment instruments are thought to be a compromise between
Unstructured professional judgment (UPJ) and actuarial risk assessment (ARA) instruments because:

Accepted Answer

A) they use fixed and explicit procedures 
B) they allow administrators to integrate their judgment 
C) they were developed using statistical techniques to select and weight risk factors 
D) all of the above

Question 4

According to the text, in the UK in 2010, there were:

Accepted Answer

A) 7,500 places available for abused women 
B) no spaces available for abused men 
C) a total of only 5,000 spaces available for abused women and men 
D) 25% as many places for abused men as for abused women

Question 5

According to Rosenfeld (2012), a central tenet of the DVHRT (Newburyport, MA) model of femicide prevention is
That Campbell's DA-Revised makes femicide so:

Accepted Answer

A) predictable as to be preventable 
B) preventable as to be predictable 
C) predictable but not so preventable 
D) preventable but no so predictable

Question 6

Structured professional judgment (SPJ) risk assessments do not lend themselves to calculation of a total or final "score."

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

Bowker (1983), in interviews with women who were free from abuse for over a year, found that shelters were:

Accepted Answer

A) most effective at preventing abuse 
B) not as effective as restraint orders 
C) valuable 
D) both 1 and 3

Question 8

According to the text, abused women may return to the abusive relationship because:

Accepted Answer

A) they run out of places to stay safely 
B) they may still have some attachment to their spouses 
C) both 1 and 2 
D) neither 1 nor 2

Exam 8: Preventing Intimate Partner Homicide and Femicide

Campbell et al. reported that there is a greater decline in the deaths of male partners than that of female partners.

Because prospective studies of intimate partner femicide are generally infeasible for practical reasons, research on Lethality assessment has had to rely on:

Structured professional judgment (SPJ) risk assessment instruments are thought to be a compromise between Unstructured professional judgment (UPJ) and actuarial risk assessment (ARA) instruments because:

According to the text, in the UK in 2010, there were:

According to Rosenfeld (2012) , a central tenet of the DVHRT (Newburyport, MA) model of femicide prevention is That Campbell's DA-Revised makes femicide so:

Structured professional judgment (SPJ) risk assessments do not lend themselves to calculation of a total or final "score."

Bowker (1983) , in interviews with women who were free from abuse for over a year, found that shelters were:

According to the text, abused women may return to the abusive relationship because: