Intimate Violence Definitions
Physical force used purposely to cause harm, disability and even death.
What is Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)?
To use the perpetrator's body or an object to control their victim's actions
Another type of Physical Violence?
A Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) report compiled from police reports that have to with Intimate Partner Victim
What is Uniform Crime Reporting?
To insult or criticize in order to undermine the victim's self-confidence
What is humiliation and criticism
The coined term that was an article published in 1962 by the Journal of the American Medical Association to publicize the problem.
What is the battered-child syndrome?
An act attempting to cause, or resulting in, pain and/or physical injury
What is Physical Violence?
A person or group of people are attacked or threatened with attack, using physical force
What is physical force violence
Data that is more specific than the data in Uniform Crime Reports. It includes other offenses that police departments are not mandated to report.
What is the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS)
Abusers tell their victims that they were provoked by the victim because they 'like' and 'want' what is being done to them.
What is control and shame
1974 Congress implemented under the US Department of Health, Education and Welfare
What is the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act?
Any sexual act, attempt to obtain a sexual act.
What is Sexual Violence?
Hitting, punching, kicking, slapping, strangling, smothering, burning, and shoving.
What are acts of physical violence
A required backgroung check for people applying to receive firearms from a firearm's dealer.
What is National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS)?
To cause someone to doubt their sanity, perceptions, or memories
What is Gaslighting
Making reasonable efforts to keep families together and try to avoid separating children from their family nucleus.
What is the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980?
Any act of psychological harm to an individual
What is Psychological Violence?
Using or threatening to use weapons, interrupting your sleep, destroying property, hurting or killing pets, and denying medical treatment.
Additional acts of physical violence
A national survey conducted by the United States Center for Disease Control and Prevention to measure IPV and rape and sexual assaults against males and females (18 and over)
What is National Intimate Partner Violence Survey (NISVS)?
Withholding affection or not showing affection, even when requested
What is neglect
The mandatory expansion of services to help strengthen families and to give additional support to have to be placed outside the home
What is the Family Preservation and Support Services Act of 1993?
When a person chooses from ignorance or deliberately not acting when their (victim) needs help
What is Neglect?
Relationship difficulties, financial problems, work demands, drugs and alcohol, job insecurity and physical threats
What is stress
One of 3 surveys that nationally represent the estimated annual rates of IPV
What is the National Family Violence Survey (NFVS)?
Starts to remove you from them (family and friends) and using manipulation, jealousy, guilt and other emotional techniques
What is Isolation
The criminal justice system getting involved in cases managed by social services system when a case of child abuse or neglect is detected
What is Child Protective Services?