chapter 2 family violence
-cts2 added two subscales to the original three (injury and sexual coercion) and better accounted for minor and several degrees of violence.
- -psychometrics consistently indicate that these scales accuratley relfect family violence the behaviors they claim to measure
• poor problems
- solving skills, - vulnerability, - inadequacy, - and loneliness.
self- reports-limitations
i. -memory recall= do they remember, frame it over a timeframe (but this must to hone a memeory but risk the non reporting of that act). ii. -differential interprentational of question= people might have a differfent understanding. iii. -biases: family vs stranger, normative vs non normative, violence as a perpetuator vs violence as a victim, men vs women. (might have diffefrent meaning of vairiables).
• Social disorganization
o Crime is more prevalent in nieghboorhoods containing social disorganization o A fntion of poverty, ethnic heterogeneity
• learning thoeries (operant conditioning)
o engaging in behaviors based on the rewards/punishments of that same behavior in the past. • these behaviors often become habitual or automatic for example, people are more likley to engage in ipv when that behavior has consitently led to compliance from a partner in the past.
• attachment disorder
strong predictor of family violence, ability to develop secure attachment with people youre intimate with.) • jealousy is a consequence for a relationship, might believe partner is betraying you when they are not.
lack of collected efficacy
the feeling that you're cut off from the neighboors but cut of from mainstream society.
Clinical assessment:
use of multiple measures to accurately assess problems and behaviors.
conflict tacctics cts1 and cts2
• -early research founda that men and women engage in equally in ipv
-non-representative samples
• -if the national surveys do not have mesures you are intrested in. • -if the national surveys do not have a large representative of a particular population of a particular niche population one.
-nationally representative samples
• -ncvs, national family vioence survey, and national violence against women survey • -allow for generalization
clinical and forensic samples
• -samples of people directly impacted by domestic violence drawn from shelters, prisons, etc • -allow for analytical depth not provided by traditional populations. - -issues for statistical control
Macro theories explanations
• Cultural values endorse/ neutralize corporal punishment or ipv • Patriarchy o Menb hold greater power o Right to dominate women o No more than 30 does patriarchy explain men ever abuse women
Deterrence theory
• People more likey to be deterred when: o Celerity of punishment is greater o Severity of punishment is greater • the swiftness of the punishment is greater • (note: soemtimes people go in and act through emotional
academics, diversity of approach which vary by.
• Theory • Methodology • Disciplinary and inter disciplinary approaches o Vary by theory, methodology, and activist vs expert orientation
o earning theories (modeling)
• much labratory research suggest that violence is modeled. • where behavioral norms are uncertain, we will model the behavior of others- especially, legitimated authorities.\
-measurement control(surveys) vs experiemental control (experiments).
• need a randomly assign control and experimental group, groups must be the same. • so cant study family violence becuase you cant have people abuse each other, • so instead we do measurement control= does the control still continue, but what if thier is a third variable.
• psychological traits
• psychological traits
individual traits that predict perpetrating and being victimized
• psychopathology (mental disorder) • -narcissm, • antisocial personality disorder, • clinical depression.
learning theories (classical conditioning).
• the emotional response to a nuetral stimulus after the repeated pairing of the nuetral stimulus with a potent stimulus • pavlos dog • basis of trauma theory- eg ptsd and revictimization