What is domestic violence
Forms of Domestic Violence
There are many different forms of domestic violence including physical, sexual, emotional and psychological, financial and socially isolating abusive types of behaviour.
- Physical violence and abuse refers to any physically abusive or violent behaviour and may include the following:
Kicking, punching, slapping, pulling hair, assaulting with weapons, throwing and breaking objects, strangling, burning, pushing, murder and attempted murder and violence towards pregnant women (which can result in miscarriage, stillbirth or premature labour/birth).
- Sexual violence and abuse refers to any sexually violent or abusive behaviour and may include the following:
Using force to have sex (rape), pressurising a partner to have sex when they don't want sex (rape), using threats or coercive behaviour to make someone participate in unwanted sexual acts, degrading treatment, obsessively jealous behaviour, unreasonable accusations of infidelity, verbal put downs about partner's sexuality and not allowing someone to practice safe sex or birth control.
- Emotional and psychological abuse refers to all emotionally and psychologically abusive behaviour and may include the following:
Verbal abuse, name calling, constant criticism, constant put downs, deliberately undermining and/or embarrassing someone in front of others, playing "mind games", blaming the victim/survivor for the abuse, telling someone they "ask for it", denying that the abuse is happening, acting one ("nice") way in public and another ("nasty") way in private, using threats to make someone do something or to prevent them from doing something, saying it will never happen again and continuing the abusive behaviour and lying to others about what is really going on in the relationship.
- Financial abuse refers to the way in which perpetrators use finance to abuse their (ex) partners and/or family members and may include the following:
Using and/or taking someone's money, not allowing someone to work or access money, accruing debts in someone's name, only giving money to someone when they do what the perpetrator wants, not allowing someone to work, making someone "account for" spending, not consulting/informing someone about financial issues/decisions which affect them.
- Socially isolating abusive behaviour refers to the way in which perpetrators socially isolate their partners/family members (i.e. cut them off from social networks) and may include the following:
Not allowing someone to go out, never letting someone go out on their own, preventing someone from seeing friends or family, preventing someone from working, preventing someone from having enough money to go out, preventing someone from learning English.
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