How many family violence cases did you come up with
Read the activity below. How many family violence cases did you come up with? And, why did you include or not include certain ones? Post your responses.
FAMILY VIOLENCE EXERCISE
You work at the police department in a research unit. Your supervisor has told you that you will be calculating rates of family violence, and she wants you to conduct a pilot study to see how high the rate is likely to be.
Your first assignment is to read a sample of police incident reports and count the number of family violence cases. Listed below are summaries of some of the sample incidents. Review what is here and come up with a total number of family violence cases.
The husband hits wife. Their wife needs hospital attention for cuts on her face.
Mother’s live-in-boyfriend shakes 3-week-old infant hard. No charges pressed. No one else notified.
Same people as in #2, but a different day. Mother’s live-in-boyfriend shakes 3-week-old infant hard. Police notify protective service workers. Child may be removed from the home.
Two adolescent cousins are fighting; one is injured and goes to the ER.
Wife screams at husband and threatens to hit him.
Husband threatens wife with a handgun, but does not fire it.
Husband and wife are both hitting each other. Wife needs hospital attention for cuts on face.
Woman’s ex-husband beats her and causes severe injury.
Cohabiting couple involved in physical violence. Wife receives bruises but does not receive medical attention.
Husband hits his wife and their 8-year-old child. Neither wife nor child receives medical attention.
Dating couple is necking. Boy forces girl to intercourse when she refuses his sexual advances.
TOTAL NUMBER OF FAMILY VIOLENCE CASES? __________________
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