Family Violence Exam 1 questions well
answered to pass
Domestic Violence - correct answer ✔✔- social justice/human rights issue
- not a gendered issue
Istanbul Convention - correct answer ✔✔- defined the term violence against women
- a violation of human rights + form of discrimination against women
- shall mean all acts of gender-based violence that result in (or likely to result in) physical,
sexual, psychological, or economic harm, or suffering to women
- including threats of such acts, coercion, or arbitrary deprivation of liberty whether occurring in
public or private life
- most takes place in home behind closed doors
Main Ways Violence Against Women Plays Out - correct answer ✔✔physical, sexual
psychological violence occurring:
1. in the family
- including battering, sexual abuse of children in household, dowry-related violence, marital
rape, FGM + other traditional practices harmful to women, and violence related to exploitation
2. within the general community
- including rape, sexual abuse, sexual harassment/intimidation at work/educational institutions
+ elsewhere, trafficking in women + forced prostitution
3. perpetrated or condoned by the state (wherever it occurs)
- laws
Global: Most Common Form of Violence - correct answer ✔✔- physical abuse inflicted by
intimate partner
, - (avg) at least 1/3 women is beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused by intimate partner
Global: 1/? women will become a victim of rape/attempted rape - correct answer ✔✔- 5 (in her
lifetime)
Refugee and Asylum Protections - correct answer ✔✔- 1951 Convention relating to the Status of
Refugees and its 1967 Protocol defined the international "Refugee"
Refugee - correct answer ✔✔- individual w/ a "well-founded fear of being persecuted for
reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group or political group
Refugee Status - correct answer ✔✔- applies to persons who are outside of US at the time of
application, when considered for entry
Asylum Status - correct answer ✔✔- applies to someone who is already in the US or at a US port
of entry at the time of application
Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) - correct answer ✔✔- established 3 forms of immigration
relief
- self-petitioning, U visa, T visa
VAWA: Self-Petitioning - correct answer ✔✔- for survivors of family violence
- filed without partner's knowledge
VAWA: U Visa - correct answer ✔✔- for victims of violent crime
- noncitizen that suffer physical or mental abuse
VAWA: T Visa - correct answer ✔✔- for victims of sexual assault or trafficking
answered to pass
Domestic Violence - correct answer ✔✔- social justice/human rights issue
- not a gendered issue
Istanbul Convention - correct answer ✔✔- defined the term violence against women
- a violation of human rights + form of discrimination against women
- shall mean all acts of gender-based violence that result in (or likely to result in) physical,
sexual, psychological, or economic harm, or suffering to women
- including threats of such acts, coercion, or arbitrary deprivation of liberty whether occurring in
public or private life
- most takes place in home behind closed doors
Main Ways Violence Against Women Plays Out - correct answer ✔✔physical, sexual
psychological violence occurring:
1. in the family
- including battering, sexual abuse of children in household, dowry-related violence, marital
rape, FGM + other traditional practices harmful to women, and violence related to exploitation
2. within the general community
- including rape, sexual abuse, sexual harassment/intimidation at work/educational institutions
+ elsewhere, trafficking in women + forced prostitution
3. perpetrated or condoned by the state (wherever it occurs)
- laws
Global: Most Common Form of Violence - correct answer ✔✔- physical abuse inflicted by
intimate partner
, - (avg) at least 1/3 women is beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused by intimate partner
Global: 1/? women will become a victim of rape/attempted rape - correct answer ✔✔- 5 (in her
lifetime)
Refugee and Asylum Protections - correct answer ✔✔- 1951 Convention relating to the Status of
Refugees and its 1967 Protocol defined the international "Refugee"
Refugee - correct answer ✔✔- individual w/ a "well-founded fear of being persecuted for
reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group or political group
Refugee Status - correct answer ✔✔- applies to persons who are outside of US at the time of
application, when considered for entry
Asylum Status - correct answer ✔✔- applies to someone who is already in the US or at a US port
of entry at the time of application
Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) - correct answer ✔✔- established 3 forms of immigration
relief
- self-petitioning, U visa, T visa
VAWA: Self-Petitioning - correct answer ✔✔- for survivors of family violence
- filed without partner's knowledge
VAWA: U Visa - correct answer ✔✔- for victims of violent crime
- noncitizen that suffer physical or mental abuse
VAWA: T Visa - correct answer ✔✔- for victims of sexual assault or trafficking
