CRIM 104 Study Guide - Final Guide: Intimate Partner Violence, Command Responsibility, Ethnic Succession Theory
13 May 2014
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Chapter 8 crime and the family and household: family. Setting is the household: social organization. Coherences and continuity in the social environment. Canadian families are quite varied: family violence. Other forms of physical coercion that are contextualized by domestic living arrangements. Men are a lot more likely to be kicked, bit, hit with something. Interfamily violence is most likely to occur at: Against adolescent children rather than young ones. During holiday times: most distinct characteristics of family violence is its repetitive and cynical (distrustful of human sincerity) nature, context in which it occurs. Victims may not have access to extended family members or friends for support. Women who flee abusive relationships may be at a greater risk of violence. Courts have begun to consider that violence may cause violence (battered wife syndrome) Routine activities theory focus on crimes against the household in terms of how offenders encounter opportunities for offending. Characteristics for higher risk include: urban, socially disadvantaged area.
