Intimate Violence and Maltreatment MCQs
Intimate Violence and Maltreatment MCQs
The following Intimate Violence and Maltreatment MCQs have been compiled by our experts through research, in order to test your knowledge of the subject of Intimate Violence and Maltreatment. We encourage you to answer these 10+ multiple-choice questions to assess your proficiency.
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1: Why are rates of VMIR so much harder to accurately estimate than other crimes such as homicide?
A. Often, reports of VMIR are unsubstantiated and therefore reported rates of VMIR victimization and actual rates of VMIR victimization are conflated.
B. The dark figure for VMIR victimization is much larger than that of crimes such as homicide, and attempting to estimate the dark figure for VMIR poses various problems including creating definitions of ambiguous concepts such as “child neglect,” difficult variable operationalization, and insurmountable data collection barriers.
C. Child Protection Services agencies in the U.S. that collect this information, are understaffed, and have limited resources to investigate all reports of child sexual abuse and other child abuse reports; therefore, many cases remain unsubstantiated and do not make it into reports.
D. Alleged victims of VMIR may be lying about the abuse, and even when they are not, VMIR is extremely hard to substantiate and prosecute; this results in a very large dark figure for VMIR victimization rates.
2: Which of the following is an example of polyvictimization?
A. A 6-year-old child is physically and sexually abused by his father, while also witnessing his father physically abuse his mother.
B. Three different women have been physically assaulted by the same man while in an intimate relationship with this man at different times.
C. An elderly woman is mugged on the street by a stranger, and then her car is stolen by another stranger.
D. A man in his mid-thirties steals money from several elderly citizens in an IRS telephone scam.
3: According to the authors claims making refers to ___________________.
A. The process by which victims of VMIR report to authorities
B. An attempt to trick people into advocating for a certain social cause
C. The societal reactions of given conditions
D. The process by which Individuals, or interest groups that express concerns about a particular social condition
4: The social constructionist perspective purports that _____________________.
A. Claims makers cause social problems
B. Moral entrepreneurs are responsible for many of the current social problems
C. Social problems come and go as societal reactions to given conditions and responsive behaviors change
D. VMIR is a made-up problem constructed by claims makers or moral entrepreneurs
5: Which of the following is NOT discussed by the authors as a way in which the social constructionist perspective helps us understand VMIR?
A. The social constructionist perspective gives us a theoretical framework within which to understand VMIR.
B. The social constructionist perspective illustrates how research is used in ongoing debates about VMIR.
C. The social constructionist perspective helps us understand what is recognized as a problem and how it came to be recognized as such.
D. The social constructionist perspective aids in understanding what motivates perpetrators of VMIR.
6: The authors use the example of legal infanticide in 4th-century Rome and Greece to highlight which of the following?
A. The condemnation of child abuse, and the idea that children should be loved and nurtured is a relatively modern notion.
B. VMIR has been around for centuries.
C. Child abuse has been traced back to ancient Greek and Roman cultures.
D. Child abuse and neglect have been social problems since at least the 4th century.
7: Which of the following examples do the authors use as contemporary examples of sex-selective feticide?
A. U.S. abortion rates
B. China’s one-child policy
C. Higher ratios of females to males in developing countries
D. The 2015 modification of China’s one-child policy
8: He authors explain The House of Refuge movement as historically important because ___________________.
A. The institutions in which children were housed for refuge from abusive parents were often no better than the homes from which the children came
B. The movement coined the term parenspatriae
C. It represents the U.S. government’s first attempt to intervene in neglect and abuse cases
D. It was the first successful foster home program in the U.S.
9: The case of Mary Ellen Wilson led to which important development in the recognition of child abuse as criminal?
A. The founding of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in 1874
B. The discovery of battered child syndrome
C. The official defining of child physical abuse
D. The widespread use of animal cruelty courts to prosecute child abusers
10: The recognition of sexual maltreatment and abuse can be traced back to _______________.
A. Exploitation of children in ancient Greece
B. Europe’s playful sexual frankness with infants and toddlers
C. Mary Ellen Wilson
D. Sigmund Freud
11: The last forms of child maltreatment to attract attention were which of the following?
A. Child neglect and child sexual abuse
B. Child neglect and child psychological maltreatment
C. Child psychological maltreatment and child physical abuse
D. Child psychological maltreatment and child physical abuse
12: Which historical event was the seed for the women’s rights movement?
A. Women’s suffrage
B. Declaration of Sentiments
C. Seneca Falls Convention
D. Wesleyan Methodist church
13: Which of the following was NOT highlighted by the authors as instrumental in getting domestic violence to be taken seriously at a national level?
A. Violence Against Women Act (VAWA)
B. Intimate Partner Violence Act
C. National Coalition against Domestic Violence
D. National Organization for Women
14: The marital exemption law maintained that ________________.
A. Women could be exempt from their marriage if their husband was abusive
B. Husbands must gain permission from their wives for sexual intercourse
C. It was a wife’s duty to perform sexually for her husband
D. By entering into a marriage contract a wife gives consent to sexual intercourse with her husband
15: The Ms. Magazine Campus Project on Sexual Assault study by Mary Koss found that ____ of college women surveyed had been victims of rape or attempted rape.
A. 27%
B. 6%
C. 50%
D. 12%
16: Research shows that LGBTQ couples experience ________ violence than heterosexual couples.
A. Much less
B. Much more
C. As much or more
D. Slightly less
17: Research that focuses specifically on criminal victimization, suggests that approximately how many victims of IPV are women?
A. 4/5
B. 1/2
C. 3/4
D. 9/10
18: Mandatory reporting laws ____________.
A. Require by law that any citizen that knows of or witnesses a crime, report the crime to the police
B. Apply to individuals who have regular contact with vulnerable populations including children, adults who are dependent due to a disability, and senior citizens or elderly adults
C. Mandate that police report crime statistics for the national Uniform Crime Report
D. Apply only to crimes against children
19: No-drop prosecution policies ____________.
A. Require that victims of IPV that call the police press charges
B. Require that once an order for protection or restraining order is issued it cannot be dropped before it expires
C. Require that all cases of IPV be prosecuted regardless of evidence to substantiate the violence
D. Require prosecutors to move forward with criminal proceedings even if the victim has recanted or asked that prosecution cease
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