ICDVP Test 2 Questions & Answers 2024/2025
What is the Common Scold? - ANSWERStroublesome and angry women who break the public peace. It was a crime that consisted of speaking one's mind and could only be committed by women.
When was the Common Scold Law declared obsolete in England by the Criminal Law Act ? - ANSWERSIn 1967
When was the last women convicted of being a common scold in the U.S.? - ANSWERSin 1829, but the last women accused of being a scold in the U.S. was in 1971 in New Jersey.
What is Riding the Stang? - ANSWERSrituals of public shaming by community sanctions
What is abuse? - ANSWERSrepeated attempts to control, manipulate, or demean another individual using physical, sexual, or emotional tactics.
What is physical abuse? - ANSWERSany use of size, strength, or presence to hurt or control someone else. Ex.) pushing, slapping, choking, biting, kicking, etc.
What is emotional abuse? - ANSWERSany use of words, voice, action, or lack of action meant to control, hurt, or demean another person.
Emotionally abusive relationships are defined as what? - ANSWERSinvolving repeated hurtful exchanges with a disregard for the partner's feelings.
What are some types of verbal abuse? - ANSWERSthreatening to kill , accusing partner of unfaithfulness, name calling, criticizing, yelling, etc. What is sexual abuse? - ANSWERSany sexual behavior meant to control, manipulate, humiliate, or demean another person.
Sex in abusive relationships is often used as what? - ANSWERSas means to exert power over the female partner and to further shame and humiliate her. Frequently women are raped after a beating.
What are some types of sexual abuse? - ANSWERSunwanted touching, unfaithfulness, forced sex, hurtful sex, forcing partner to watch others have sex.
What are some myths about domestic violence and victims? - ANSWERSthat victims provoke their abusers, battered women are helpless, passive, fragile, and have little to no education, battered women enjoy abuse, batterers are inappropriate in all their relationships, abusive relationships will not change for the better, and alcohol and drug use cause battering
What are some realities of domestic violence? - ANSWERSBatterers chose to be violent instead of choosing a nonviolent alternative, domestic violence crosses all socioeconomic, ethnic, racial, educational, and religious lines, victim blaming is another way taking the blame away the batterer, the victim cannot control the batterer, batterers choose to act violently in select relationships as a means of dominating
What does the feminist theory propose the cause of domestic violence is? - ANSWERSThe theory suggest
that economic, social, and historical processes operate both directly and indirectly to support male dominated (patriarchal) social order and the family structure itself. Patriarchy has led to the subordination of women and domestic violence is a way of maintaining this subordination.
What is the "choice theory"? - ANSWERSthis theory states that men abuse women because they can or choose too. They choose to behave abusively toward their female partners because they can get away with it and because doing so gets them what they want.
What are the effects of domestic violence on victims? - ANSWERSlowered self esteem, accepting responsibility for the partners actions, guilt, feelings of helplessness that affect how the women think, feel, and act. Also they may be in denial which is used as a survival strategy.
What are some the defense mechanisms a batterer may use to justify the abuse? - ANSWERSRationalization("I just wanted her to listen to me")
