Deck 8: Preventing Intimate Partner Homicide and Femicide

Question 1

In 2011, of the 89 police-reported spousal homicides:

A)there were equal numbers of female and male victims
B)more than 85% were women
C)70% were women
D)60% were men

Answer 1

more than 85% were women

Question 2

According to the text, over the last 25 years, services for battered women are funded:

A)completely by government funds
B)completely by non-profit groups
C)completely by local government and charities
D)none of the above

Answer 2

none of the above

Question 3

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

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

Answer 3

7,500 places available for abused women

Question 4

The most dangerous time for abused women is:

A)two years after separation
B)within 12 months after separation
C)not related to time after separation
D)after a legal divorce

Question 5

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

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

Question 6

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

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

Question 7

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

Question 8

The effectiveness of POs (protective orders) depends on:

A)the questions asked
B)how specific and comprehensive they are
C)how well they are enforced
D)all of the above

Question 9

Post-shelter advocacy intervention programs are not successful in improving conditions for the women.

Question 10

The trend of re-assaults by men on their partners, show that at the 2.5-year follow-up:

A)a minority of the men sustained a cessation of violence (for a year or more)
B)the majority of the men sustained a cessation of violence (for a year or more)
C)20% of the men repeatedly assaulted their partners
D)both 2 and 3

Question 11

Domestic violence courts (DVCs) and other programs are very successful in reducing lethal violence.

Question 12

Predicting homicide is extremely difficult because:

A)coroners confuse homicides with suicides
B)it is a very rare phenomenon
C)there are no witnesses
D)you can't obtain evidence from victims

Question 13

Police statistics indicate that males arrested for using violence against their female partners are more likely to
kill them than males who had never been arrested for domestic violence.

Question 14

The Maryland LAP uses Campbell's Danger Assessment-Revised to identify male partners who are most likely to:

A)escalate the seriousness of injuries they inflict
B)hit their wives during conflicts
C)hit wives who want to leave them
D)to stop abusing their wives

Question 15

Users of the Maryland's LAP femicide prevention model found that the percentage of wives with
"high-risk" male partners who actually contacted domestic violence protection services recommended
By police officers was:

A)40%.
B)60%
C)30%
D)40%

Question 16

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:

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 17

In the DVHRT model of femicide prevention, the effect of prediction on prevention varies with the local availability of:

A)shelters for abused women
B)domestic violence high-risk teams
C)hotlines for abused women
D)domestic violence courts

Question 18

Dobash, Dobash & Cavanagh found that learning pro-feminist attitudes, beliefs, and values was more effective
In preventing further male partner violence than:

A)being arrested
B)pretrial detention
C)imprisonment
D)all of the above
E)none of the above

Question 19

The British DASH checklist is used by police and practitioners to predict the escalation of domestic violence to femicides.

Question 20

The imprisonment of male perpetrators who have been arrested for domestic violence before they have been convicted of the offense in court is central to one of the following models. Which one?

A)DVHRT
B)LAP
C)DASH
D)UCR

Question 21

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:

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 22

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

Question 23

The Danger Assessment is intended primarily:

A)as a means of empowering women in abusive relationships to make self-care decisions
B)as a tool to aid police officers in fully documenting and investigating domestic violence situations
C)to predict future lethal violence
D)none of the above

Question 24

Campbell et al (2003) found that women whose partner threatened or assaulted them with a gun or other weapon
Were found to be:

A)twice as likely to be killed than other women
B)four times more likely to be killed than other women
C)15 times more likely to be killed than other women
D)20 times more likely to be killed than other women

Question 25

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

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 26

The predictive efficacy of the Danger Assessment was found to be considerably higher in the Department of Justice RAVE study than it was in the retrospective 11-city case control study.

Question 27

The Department of Justice RAVE study followed 1,307 women over a one-year period. The Danger Assessment was found to predict severe abuse significantly better than chance and better than the other instruments evaluated.

Question 28

Until predictive efficacy of risk assessment instruments can be improved, Messing & Thaller (2013) suggest that
Selection of one inventory over another should be based on:

A)intended setting
B)availability of community resources
C)use should be suspended until predictive validity is ascertained
D)none of the above