CRM/LAW C118 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Stepfamily, Dating Abuse, Social Group
16 Jun 2018
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C100: Domestic Violence
Spring 2017
Professor Kirk Williams
Midterm Study Guide
From the Lectures:
Terms:
Family-like and Intimate relationships (features and examples):
-Time together or time at risk
-Broad range of activities and interests
-Intensity of reactions
-Right to influence
-Ascribed roles (age and gender) and involuntary membership
-Privacy
-Stress due to changing circumstances
-Normative beliefs that those who love you can hurt you
-Vulnerable identities
Types of Relationships: Legally married, current or former; cohabiting; related by blood or
marital ties; share a child in common; pregnant woman and father; dating or engagement
relationship; biological or stepchildren; biological or stepparents
Closeness: Low - Medium - High. Stranger - Acquaintance - Null - Friend - Best Friend - Family
Privacy:
Conflicts of Interest: People living in any social group strive to live their lives according to their
own live their lives according to their own personal agendas that personal agendas that inevitably
differ. Individual and collective interests are often incompatible, with the realization of one
impinging on the realization of another.
Conflict Management Skills: Strategies and actions carried out in response to conflicts of
interest. These are the means use by people in an attempt to advance their own interests in the
context of competing or divergent interests.
Coercion: The use or threat of force with the intent or with the perceived intent of advancing
individual or collective interests.
Aggression: Physical or psychological harm may or may not occur, but such harm is not the
motive behind the coercive action.
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Assertiveness: Non-forceful attempts to pursue individual or collective interests without the
intent of doing harm to others (e.g., standing up for one’s rights).
Violence: Threats or acts of physical force, verbal or emotional humiliation carried out with the
intent or with the perceived intent of physically or psychologically harming another person.
Nonviolent behavior:
Dimensions of Violence: Violence is not an either/or concept. It is a continuum of actions that
vary according to a number of dimensions.
-Seriousness - the potential or actual harm done, the extent to which it is viewed as morally
wrong, and the frequency and persistence of the behavior.
-Legitimacy - whether violent actions are or are not approved or required in specific social
settings.
-Instrumental or Expressive Nature of Violence - whether actions are a means to and end or an
end in themselves.
-Proactive versus Reactive Violence
Prevalence of violence: percentage
Incidence of violence: frequency
Reliability: consistency observations
Threats to reliability: same 5 as for validity
Validity: methods real, true
Threats to validity:
-Failure to identify (cognitive confusion about the meaning of the act)
-Failure to recall (lapse in memory)
-Failure to report (refused cooperation with agencies or survey researchers)
-Failure to place incident accurately in time frame (bring those of past into present or vice
versa – forward or backward telescoping)
-Failure to identify involvement accurately (who was really the perpetrator and who was the
victim?)
Levels of Analysis: Micro and Macro
Micro-level Theories: Identity, Social Bonding, Attachment, Social Learning
-Identity Theory: 1. Social group affiliations, such as ethnicity, gender, political identity. !
2. Social Roles in Specific Social Settings: mother, father, husband, son, daughter!
3. Personal Identity: what kind of a person you are, beyond social roles and group affiliations
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-Social Bonding Theory: 1. Attachment - Effective ties to significant others. !
2. Commitment - Personal Investments in conventional lines of conduct.!
3. Involvement - Expenditure of time and energy in conventional activities, lowering the time
and energy to do otherwise. !
4. Belief - The moral validity of and respect for the dominant culture’s norms for behavior
-Attachment Theory: John Bowlby - secure attachment has survival value. Threats of
separation from someone you are attached to (strong wise, nurturing), will produce strong
emotional responses such as terror, grief, or anger.
-Social Learning Theory: 1. Observational - role modeling, imitation !
2. Active - positive reinforcement (violence gets you power, your way), negative (removing
aversive stimulus - neglect), punishment (hurt those who offend you)
Macro-level Theories: Patriarchy and Legitimization of Violence
-Patriarchy: male dominance and female subordinance in society. Kimmel - “Aggrieved
Entitlement” - reinforces male authority, privilege when it is threatened.
-Circumstances under which violence is tolerated and normalized increases the chance of
violence spilling over into other social settings (death penalty, war, intergenerational).
How do we determine whether a violent act is domestic or family in nature?
-The degree of closeness associated with the person (Time spent together)
-Shared interests and activities
-Ascribed Roles
-Normative beliefs
What terms do we use to describe violence between adult intimates?
How do we measure prevalence and incidence of family violence?
What is the difference between official and unofficial sources of data on family violence?
-Official sources of information are the procedures used for recording identified cases reported
to agencies having the responsibility of responding to and/or collecting information on
intimate violence.
-Unofficial: Population or clinical samples of persons who are interviewed or fill out a
questionnaire about their involvement (or the involvement of their significant others) in
intimate violence, as a perpetrator, a victim, or both.
What are examples of official sources on family violence?
-The FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program
-National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System, NCANDS; Reports from State Child
Protective Services Agencies
-Hospital and emergency room records, and National Center for Health Statistics; National
Vital Statistics System Mortality Statistics System Mortality data.
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Document Summary
Ascribed roles (age and gender) and involuntary membership. Normative beliefs that those who love you can hurt you. Types of relationships: legally married, current or former; cohabiting; related by blood or marital ties; share a child in common; pregnant woman and father; dating or engagement relationship; biological or stepchildren; biological or stepparents. Stranger - acquaintance - null - friend - best friend - family. Conflicts of interest: people living in any social group strive to live their lives according to their own live their lives according to their own personal agendas that personal agendas that inevitably differ. Individual and collective interests are often incompatible, with the realization of one impinging on the realization of another. Conflict management skills: strategies and actions carried out in response to conflicts of interest. These are the means use by people in an attempt to advance their own interests in the context of competing or divergent interests.
