Exam Revision Flashcards
(31 cards)
Why is it important to understand the dynamics of situations of psycho-social captivity?
It helps prevent victim-blaming
What is the key concept in understanding why people often feel emotionally attached to those who abuse them?
The alternating experience of fear and relief.
In applying the reading “Trauma and its Challenge to Society” to the film “The Hunting Ground”, what is the key problem you identify at the universities concerned?
They fail to provide effective protection and support systems for vulnerable and victimized people.
Of the previous ideas covered in the course, which one links most closely with the reading “Trauma and its Challenge to Society”
Secondary victimization
The ‘trauma membrane’ refers to
The way in which society protects and supports vulnerable people and victims.
In Deliver us from Evil, what term best described the parents response to their children’s abuse?
Vicarious trauma
In Deliver us from Evil, which term best describes the survivors experience of the church protecting the offenders?
Secondary Victimization
In working with victims, is empathy a positive quality or a risk factor?
Both positive quality and risk factor.
What do we call the cluster of reactions which includes nightmares, flashbacks and overwhelming memories.
Intrusion
What to we call the cluster of reactions that includes numbing, feeling disconnected, and loss of interest in things that used to bring happiness.
Constriction
Corporations can be both victims and perpetrators of crimes. True or False?
True
Violent assaults cause more deaths than corporate crime. True or False?
False
Why are pollution related deaths unlikely to result in prosecution?
Received large corporate bonuses paid from government bailouts
A key strategy of perpetrators of domestic abuse is to create a continuous system of fear and submission. T or F?
False
Which answer best explains why hidden forms of victimization are so dangerous to survivors, according to the reading “Trauma and its Challenge to Society”?
Social support is less likely to be mobilized.
In what sense do victims of violence present a psychological threat to the rest of society?
Awareness of their experiences undermines other people’s sense of safety.
What is restorative justice?
Restorative justice is a system of criminal justice which focuses on the rehabilitation of offenders through reconciliation with the victims and the community at large.
Restorative Justice conferences is the…
application of the restorative justice system process in response to offences committed by a child.
Positive of restorative processes conferences:
It brings those those harmed by crime or conflict, and those responsible for the harm, into communication, enabling everyone affected by a particular incident to play a part in repairing the harm and finding a positive way forward.
It focuses on repairing harm, be a voluntary process, safe and accessible, with impartial facilitators, and respect for all participants.
Negative for restorative justice conferences:
- The safety of victims
- The perpetrator does not have to take responsibility; the judge decides
- The victim often feels guilty if a sentence is passed
- The perpetrator blames the victim
- The victim can be re-victimised by the process
When does repeated trauma happen?
It happens in captivity when the prisoner or ‘victim’ is unable to escape.
In domestic captivity, physical barriers preventing escape are
rare. In most homes the barriers to escape are invisible and extremely powerful.
The three stages in the psychological control of the victim is:
captivity, psychological domination and total surrender.
People subjected to prolonged, repeated trauma develop an
insidious, progressive form of PTSD that invades and erodes the personality.
