Problem
A. Describe how attention to respondent safety is critical from an ethical point of view, and how it can affect the reliability of prevalence estimates.
B. Which is the greater threat to the reliability of prevalence estimates on surveys designed to measure violence against women, fabrication (exaggeration) or under-reporting? Explain your answer?
C. Discuss ways in which survey research can improve techniques for integrating gendered motives and impacts, thereby contributing to the gender symmetry debate.
D. Surveys are divided on their use of screening questions, known as the one-step process, and combined screening and incident reports, known as the two-step process of measuring violent victimization. Describe the advantages and limitations of each method.
Feminist researchers have made important contributions to the field of survey research and to methods of measuring sexual assault and intimate partner violence. Describe the major methodological contributions of feminist researchers as well as the advantages of dedicated violence against women surveys.