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About Domestic Violence
About Domestic Violence
Domestic violence does not discriminate against gender, race, religion, or financial status. Colloquially known as intimate partner violence or relationship abuse, domestic violence comes in different forms that can range from physical abuse, verbal abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, financial abuse, and stalking. Abuse is life-changing to the person that is being abused and those around them.
What Is Domestic Violence?
What Is Domestic Violence?
Domestic violence is a pattern of abusive behavior and coercive control that can happen in a marital, dating, live-in intimate partner relationship, or between family members. Domestic violence is primarily an issue of power and control. In an abusive relationship, one partner tries to maintain control over the other person by using physical, verbal, emotional, psychological, financial, and sexual violence and/or abuse.
An abuser may use fear, guilt, shame, and intimidation to control their partner. Although factors such as drug and alcohol use, stress, or a family history of abuse may contribute to the problem, it does not excuse the abusive person from their actions or behavior resulting in domestic violence.
Note: Perpetrators are manipulative and strategically pick their victims.
Types of Domestic Violence
Types of Domestic Violence
Physical Abuse is easier to recognize because it usually leaves visual evidence that it has occurred. Physical abuse is clearly intended to render the victim powerless. Physical Abuse can result in lacerations, internal injuries, broken bones, disability, disfigurement, and can lead to a woman having a miscarriage. Physical Abuse can result in death as an accidental or intentional outcome due to the violent nature.
Statistics:
At least 86 people were killed in domestic violence related homicides in Arizona in 2018.
The following are examples of Physical Abuse:
- Slapping, hitting, pushing, punching, scratching, biting, kicking
- Choking/Strangling
- Threatening with weapons
- Spitting on, near or at partner
- Utilizing objects to harm
Verbal Abuse is any abusive language used to denigrate, embarrass, or threaten the victim.
- Name-calling (stupid, b****, ugly, dumb etc.)
- Words verbally stated with the intention to diminish self-esteem.
Sexual abuse is using sex in an exploitative fashion or forcing sex on another person. Having consented to sexual activity in the past does not indicate current consent. Sexual abuse may involve both verbal and physical behavior. This may include, but is not limited to:
Using force, coercion, guilt, or manipulation or not considering the victim’s desire to have sex. This may include making the victim have sex with others, have unwanted sexual experiences, or be involuntarily involved in prostitution.
Exploiting a victim who is unable to make an informed decision about involvement in sexual activity because of being asleep, intoxicated, drugged, disabled, too young, too old, or dependent upon or afraid of the perpetrator.
Laughing or making fun of another’s sexuality or body, making offensive statements, insulting, or name-calling in relation to the victim’s sexual preferences/behavior.
Making contact with the victim in any nonconsensual way, including unwanted penetration (oral, anal or vaginal) or touching (stroking, kissing, licking, sucking or using objects) on any part of the victim’s body.
Exhibiting excessive jealousy resulting in false accusations of infidelity and controlling behaviors to limit the victim’s contact with the outside world.
Having affairs with other people and using that information to taunt the victim. Withholding sex from the victim as a control mechanism.
Emotional Abuse
Emotional Abuse
- Insulting or criticizing
- Undermine the victim’s
- Public humiliation
- Threatened rejection.
- Threatening or accusing, (directly/indirectly) with intention to cause emotional or physical
Financial abuse is a way to control the victim through manipulation of economic resources. This may include, but is not limited to:
- Controlling the family income and either not allowing the victim access to money or rigidly limiting their access to family funds. This may also include keeping financial secrets or hidden accounts, putting the victim on an allowance or allowing the victim no say in how money is spent, or making them turn their paycheck over to the perpetrator.
- Causing the victim to lose a job or preventing them from taking a job. The abuser can make the victim lose their job by making them late for work, refusing to provide transportation to work, or by calling/harassing/calling them at work.
- Spending money for necessities (food, rent, utilities) on nonessential items (drugs, alcohol, hobbies.)
- Material from Women’s Center and Shelter of Greater Pittsburgh Volunteer Training Manual, AMEND, and the ACESDV safety plain manual were used to develop this section.