DOMESTIC VIOLENCE QUESTIONS
Define domestic violence?
(PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE) - answer Battering within an intimate relationship as a
systematic pattern of physical, sexual, economic, emotional and/or psychological abuse
primarily utilized by men against women. Rather than a series of independent acts or
events, it is most often part of a process by which the batterer establishes and
maintains control and domination over the victim/partner.
List 3 myths about domestic violence?
(PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE) - answer1. It's not against the law to slap your own
spouse.
2. "Battering" means beating someone to the point of bleeding or broken bones
3. Alcohol and drug abuse cause domestic violence
4. Battering is passed from generation to generation
5. Men being injured by women is just as big a problem as women being injured by
men.
6. Rarely are victims of family violence seriously injured.
7. If a battered woman were to leave her abuser, she would be safe.
8. The police can't do much about domestic violence.
9. Arresting batterers and putting them in jail will end the family violence.
10. Violence in someone else's family is not my business.
List 8 tactics of power and control used by batterers?
(PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE) - answer1. Coercion and threats
2. Intimidation
3. Emotional abuse
4. Isolation
5. Minimizing denying and blaming
6. Using children
7. Economic abuse
8. Male privilege
Identify the characteristics of a batterer?
(PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE) - answer1. Come from all ages, ethic, social economic
and cultural backgrounds
2. Witnessed violence between their parents or were victims of child abuse
3. Believe in concepts of male supremacy and sterotypicl male/female roles
Define domestic violence?
(PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE) - answer Battering within an intimate relationship as a
systematic pattern of physical, sexual, economic, emotional and/or psychological abuse
primarily utilized by men against women. Rather than a series of independent acts or
events, it is most often part of a process by which the batterer establishes and
maintains control and domination over the victim/partner.
List 3 myths about domestic violence?
(PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE) - answer1. It's not against the law to slap your own
spouse.
2. "Battering" means beating someone to the point of bleeding or broken bones
3. Alcohol and drug abuse cause domestic violence
4. Battering is passed from generation to generation
5. Men being injured by women is just as big a problem as women being injured by
men.
6. Rarely are victims of family violence seriously injured.
7. If a battered woman were to leave her abuser, she would be safe.
8. The police can't do much about domestic violence.
9. Arresting batterers and putting them in jail will end the family violence.
10. Violence in someone else's family is not my business.
List 8 tactics of power and control used by batterers?
(PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE) - answer1. Coercion and threats
2. Intimidation
3. Emotional abuse
4. Isolation
5. Minimizing denying and blaming
6. Using children
7. Economic abuse
8. Male privilege
Identify the characteristics of a batterer?
(PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE) - answer1. Come from all ages, ethic, social economic
and cultural backgrounds
2. Witnessed violence between their parents or were victims of child abuse
3. Believe in concepts of male supremacy and sterotypicl male/female roles
