Law Enforcement
Question: Following proper procedures is not necessary when handling violent calls, using official presence is enough to diffuse a situation, True or False
Answer: False
Question: Every day in the United States, more than three women are murdered by their husband or boyfriend
Answer: True
Question: What refers to the language and behavior which damages a child's mental well being and self esteem?
Answer: Emotional abuse
Question: Child abusers can only be family
Answer: False
Question: Approximately how many elders are abused yearly?
Answer: 5 million
Question: What is the intended purpose of court ordered protective orders when issued to an individual?
Answer: To protect an individual involved in any form of violence
Question: Besides sexual, physical,emotional and elder abuse what is the last form of abuse?
Answer: Financial
Question: What are three reasons for child abuse ?
Answer: -high expectations of the child
– lack of knowledge and skills in raising a child
– alcohol or drug abuse
– work pressures
– past experience with abuse
– mental or physical illness
poverty
– lack of education
– marital problems
– family violence
– lack of family support
– loneliness and social isolation
– unemployment
– inadequate housing
Question: When a parent abuses a child, most people think what type of abuse?
Answer: Physical
Question: More than _____ percent of neglect accounts for elder abuse ?
Answer: 50%
Question: What are the two common types of protective orders?
Answers: Temporary Ex Parte Protective Order / Magistrate’s Order for Emergency Protection
Question: Why do family members or adults have abusive behaviors in an intimate relationship
ANswer: In order to gain or maintain over the other
Question: What are the common forms of child abuse?
Answer: Sexual, physical, emotional, neglect
Question: A common misconception is:
Abuse happens only in bad families
Abusers are mostly family members or others close to the family
Neglect and emotional abuse is also a form of abuse
Answer: A
Question: Pressuring adults to sign legal documents they do not fully understand is a form of elder abuse? True Or False?
Answer: True
Question: What are three factors that affect the outcome of legal punishments for child and family abuse cases?
Answer: State in which the abuse took place, age of the victim, criminal history of the offender
Question: Besides the first four Legal Punishment for Family Violence what is the last punishment?
Answer: Harm inflicted
Question: The failure to provide necessary medical care is what ?
Answer: Physical neglect
Question: What are the three main misconceptions of family violence?
Answer: Men are never victims of abuse, family violence occurs only in poor, uneducated and minority families, family violence is always physical.
Question: What are the main reasons for financial abuse?
Answer:
-taking money or property without permission
- withholding or limiting money
– forcing an individual to sell items or change a will
– pressuring an individual to sign documents
Question: Comparing the consequences of child/family abuse cases, what consequence in a child abuse case is not common in a family violence case?
Answer: Register as a offender
Scenario: Sally and Tom were fighting over something small and out of nowhere Tom hit her and beat her till she died. What was the cause of the violence.
Answer: Disagreement with intimate partner
Question: What percent of the United States prison population were abused as children?
Answer:78%
Question: Fill in the bank: While men are less likely to be harmed, _____________________________
Answer: it does not mean that they are never victims
Question: What is the most common type of abuses that abuse 37% of elders experience?
Answer: Financial abuse