Chapter 10: Victimization at the Beginning and End of Life: Child and Elder Abuse

Test Bank

Multiple Choice

1. Which organization was the first to intervene on behalf of a mistreated child in 1875?

A. New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children

B. Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

C. Child Protective Services

D. Guardian ad Litem

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Child Maltreatment

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. Which organization developed after the 1875 child maltreatment case in which an organization not geared toward children had to represent the child?

A. New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children

B. Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

C. Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children

D. Wisconsin Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Child Maltreatment

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. The first juvenile court was implemented in Cook County, Illinois, in ______.

A. 1872

B. 1880

C. 1899

D. 1910

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Child Maltreatment

Difficulty Level: Easy

4. In the 1940s and 1950s, ______ community brought attention back to the issue of child maltreatment.

A. social service community

B. women’s rights community

C. law enforcement community

D. medical community

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Child Maltreatment

Difficulty Level: Easy

5. Which type of child maltreatment occurs when a caretaker has failed to attend to a child’s basic needs?

A. neglect

B. physical abuse

C. psychological abuse

D. sexual abuse

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: What Is Child Maltreatment?

Difficulty Level: Easy

6. ______ represents crime that has gone unreported.

A. Unreported crime

B. Dark figure of crime

C. Absent crime

D. Additional crime

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Measurement and Extent of Child Maltreatment

Difficulty Level: Easy

7. Children in which age range have the highest rates of victimization?

A. birth to age 1

B. ages 3–5

C. ages 8–11

D. teenagers

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Who Are Victims of Child Maltreatment?

Difficulty Level: Easy

8. Which group of caretakers is the most likely to perpetrate child maltreatment?

A. paternal grandparents

B. stepparents

C. biological parents

D. cohabitants of single parents

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Who Perpetrates Child Maltreatment?

Difficulty Level: Easy

9. When children live with a single parent who has a cohabitating partner, the likelihood that they will be maltreated increases by how much?

A. 2×

B. 5×

C. 10×

D. 20×

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Familial Risk Factors

Difficulty Level: Easy

10. Shaken baby syndrome is thought to account for how many deaths per year?

A. 200–300

B. 500–750

C. 900–1,100

D. 1,200–1,400

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Physical, Cognitive, and Developmental Effects

Difficulty Level: Easy

11. The ______ officially defined child abuse and neglect.

A. Justice for All Act

B. Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act

C. Parens Patriae Act

D. Child Victims of Crime Act

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Legislation

Difficulty Level: Easy

12. Which types of laws allow mothers or custodial parents to drop off newborns to approved agencies without the fear of criminal prosecution?

A. safe shield laws

B. safe baby laws

C. parental alternative laws

D. safe haven laws

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Legislation

Difficulty Level: Easy

13. The criminal justice system has conviction rate of what percentage in child maltreatment cases?

A. 27%

B. 48%

C. 62%

D. 94%

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Criminal Justice System Response

Difficulty Level: Easy

14. Courts often assign maltreated children advocates from ______ organization so they can provide protection and guidance in the case as needed.

A. guardian ad litem

B. Child Protective Services

C. Child Advocacy Centers

D. Child Savers

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Criminal Justice System Response

Difficulty Level: Easy

15. Which type of elder abuse occurs when a caretaker illegally or improperly uses an elderly person’s property or funds?

A. power of attorney abuse

B. neglect

C. financial exploitation

D. emotional abuse

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: What Is Elder Maltreatment?

Difficulty Level: Easy

16. ______ occurs when an elderly person fails to care for himself or herself.

A. Neglect

B. Physical abuse

C. Self-neglect

D. Psychological abuse

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: What Is Elder Maltreatment?

Difficulty Level: Easy

17. The Long-Term Care Ombudsmen Program was created to evaluate abuse and neglect perpetrated by ______.

A. familial caretakers

B. the elderly person him or herself

C. on-home nurse’s aids

D. institutional caretakers

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Special Case: Elder Maltreatment in Institutions

Difficulty Level: Easy

18. ______ represents the idea that when children take on care of their parents, there is an increase in the stress in the relationship, which could lead to elder maltreatment.

A. Dependency theory

B. Juxtaposition theory

C. General strain theory

D. Caretaker theory

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Perpetrator Risk Factors

Difficulty Level: Easy

19. When abuse and/or neglect is perpetrated by someone within an institution, the group most likely to perpetrate said maltreatment is ______.

A. doctors

B. psychiatric staff

C. administrative staff

D. nursing aides

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Perpetrator Risk Factors

Difficulty Level: Easy

20. The ______ created the Long-Term Care Ombudsmen Program.

A. Elder Justice Act

B. Older Americans Act of 1965

C. Victims of Crime Act

D. Ombudsmen Act of 1972

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Legislation

Difficulty Level: Easy

21. Examples of physical abuse include ______.

A. hitting

B. burning

C. slapping

D. all of these

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: What Is Child Maltreatment?

Difficulty Level: Medium

22. Examples of emotional abuse include ______.

A. name calling

B. yelling

C. bullying

D. all of these

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: What Is Child Maltreatment?

Difficulty Level: Medium

23. More than ______ of child maltreatment incidents in 2016 were perpetrated by one or both parents.

A. 90%

B. 80%

C. 70%

D. 60%

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Who Perpetrates Child Maltreatment?

Difficulty Level: Medium

24. The very nature of being ______ may place children at risk.

A. curious

B. impulsive

C. talkative

D. a child

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Risk Factors for Child Maltreatment

Difficulty Level: Medium

25. One key factor in the lives of children who are maltreated is that they come from families living in ______.

A. the southern portion of the United States

B. rural communities

C. poverty

D. dangerous neighborhoods

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Familial Risk Factors

Difficulty Level: Medium

True/False

1. Laws that addressed child maltreatment did not exist until 1945.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Child Maltreatment

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. Most child maltreatment cases reported to Child Protective Services were reporting neglect.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Measurement and Extent of Child Maltreatment

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. About 66% of child deaths were attributed to neglect only.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Measurement and Extent of Child Maltreatment

Difficulty Level: Easy

4. Over 70% of children who die from maltreatment were under the age of 3.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Who Are Victims of Child Maltreatment?

Difficulty Level: Easy

5. Abuse and neglect have no influence on the psychological effect of a child.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Psychological Effects

Difficulty Level: Easy

6. Child abuse victims are more likely to be involved in delinquency and criminal behavior than nonabused children.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Effect on Criminality and Other Behaviors

Difficulty Level: Easy

7. Children are allowed to testify through videotape or closed-circuit television in court.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Criminal Justice System Response

Difficulty Level: Easy

8. Elder maltreatment is abuse of a person over the age of 72.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: What Is Elder Maltreatment?

Difficulty Level: Easy

9. Very little elder maltreatment is reported to police.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Measurement and Extent of Elder Maltreatment

Difficulty Level: Easy

10. People over the age of 90 account for close to half of the substantiated elder maltreatment cases.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Reports From Adult Protective Services

Difficulty Level: Easy

11. People abuse or neglect their children because they experienced or witnessed such behavior when they were younger.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Individual Risk Factors

Difficulty Level: Easy

12. Research shows that young fatherhood is a risk factor for child maltreatment.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Individual Risk Factors

Difficulty Level: Easy

13. Parents with addictions often fail to place their children before their addiction and may leave their children alone and unsupervised or in the care of untrustworthy people.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Individual Risk Factors

Difficulty Level: Easy

14. Children who have a disability are more likely to be maltreated than other children.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Individual Risk Factors

Difficulty Level: Easy

15. Children who are neglected may not have their basic developmental needs met and may suffer from developmental delays.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Physical, Cognitive, and Developmental Effects

Difficulty Level: Easy

Essay

1. Why is it difficult to determine the amount of child maltreatment that occurs?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Measurement and Extent of Child Maltreatment

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. Describe at least two familial risk factors for child maltreatment?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Familial Risk Factors

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. What types of psychological effects are common for victims of abuse and neglect?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Psychological Effects

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. What categories of workers are mandated reporters and what is their responsibility?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Responses to Child Maltreatment

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. Why might an elderly victim choose not to report maltreatment?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Who Are Victims of Elder Maltreatment?

Difficulty Level: Medium