Week 12-Lecture 21 (Aggression in the family)

Question 1

making someone engage in sexual activities against their will through a range or coercive strategies. it also includes unwanted sexual attention in the form of sexual harassment, stalking, and obscene phone calls

Answer 1

sexual aggression

Question 2

is any deliberate or repeated sexual behavior that is unwelcome to the recipient, as well as other sex related behaviors that are hostile, offensive, or degrading

Answer 2

sexual harassment

Question 3

being slapped or having something thrown at you that could hurt you, being pushed or shoved, being hit with a fist or something else that could hurt, being kicked, dragged or beaten up, being choked or burnt on purpose, and/or being threatened with, or actually, having a gun, knife or other weapon used on a person

Answer 3

physical violence

Question 4

being physically forced to have sexual intercourse when you did not want to, having sexual intercourse because you were afraid of what your partner might do, and/or being forced to do something sexual that you found humiliating or degrading

Answer 4

sexual violence

Question 5

sexual acts involving penetration of the body

Answer 5

rape

Question 6

acts that do not involve penetration

Answer 6

sexual assault or coercion

Question 7

involves an adult having sex with a minor

Answer 7

statutory rape

Question 8

an attack in the dark by a stranger on an unsuspecting victim who puts up physical resistance against her attacker

Answer 8

real rape

Question 9

what percent of cases of forcible rape and what percent of cases of drug or alcohol facilitated rape were committed by strangers

Answer 9

11%
18%

Question 10

1 in __ women worldwide have been subjected to physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence or non partner sexual violence in their lifetime

Answer 10

1 in 3

Question 11

globally over 1 in __ women aged 15-49 years who have been in relationship report that they have been subjected to some form of physical and/or sexual violence by their intimate partner

Answer 11

1 in 4

Question 12

what is the most under reported violence crime

Answer 12

rape

Question 13

the real rate of rape is __ times the number reported

Answer 13

5 times

Question 14

• explanation of aggression toward women at the societal or social group level
• (Sociocultural approach): aggression is shaped by societal and cultural norms and practices

Answer 14

macro level explanations

Question 15

• explanation of aggression toward women at the dyad level
• low marital satisfaction is a risk factor
• alcohol use by one or both partners

Answer 15

micro level explanations

Question 16

• explanation of aggression towards women at the individual level
• sexually aggressive men:
  *show higher sexual arousal to nonconsensual sex that to consensual sex
• less able to deliberately suppress sexual arousal
• leck impulse control
• experienced sexual abuse as a child
• higher levels of psychopathy
• associate sex and power
• believe in rape myths

Answer 16

individual level explanations

Question 17

stereotypical beliefs about rape that deny, downplay, or justify mens sexual violence against women

Answer 17

rape myths

Question 18

• address low conviction rates for rape
• change how police officers treat rape victims
• change how doctors/nurses treat rape victims
• broad social movements might also help change societal attitudes about violence against women

Answer 18

Societal Level measures to stop rape

Question 19

• court mandated treatments–somewhat effective
• rape prevention programs–have short term effects (only last a few weeks)
• use a social norms approach to correct overestimates of the extent to which peers accept and use sexual aggression

Answer 19

Individual Level measures to stop rape