Interpersonal violence

Animal/Pet Abuse

  The abuse of animals, including pets, is defined as socially unacceptable, nonaccidental behavior that causes unnecessary distress, pain, or injury to an animal, and, in some cases, the animal’s death. Animal/ pet abuse includes acts of commission, for example, physical or sexual assaults, and acts of omission, for example, severe neglect of basic animal […]

Animal Abuse and Child Maltreatment Occurrence

  Animal abuse and child maltreatment are empirically linked by the greater reported likelihood of perpetrating animal abuse among children who have been physically or sexually abused or who have been exposed to domestic violence. In addition, in homes where child maltreatment exists, animal/pet abuse perpetrated by adult caregivers is more likely. Since children are […]

Anger Management

When applied to intimate partner violence, anger management has been controversial and sometimes misunderstood. When applied generally, the goal of anger management is to reduce overly strong anger, which may be related to a very uncomfortable or frightening sense of loss of control; health problems such as high blood pressure; and some forms of aggression. […]

Armed Forces, Sexual Harassment in

  The Department of Defense (DoD) defines sexual harassment as a form of sex discrimination that involves unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature when (a) submission to such conduct is made either explicitly or implicitly a term or condition of a person’s job, pay, […]

Anti-Rape and Rape Crisis Center Movements

  In the early 1970s, the anti-rape wing of the second wave women’s movement spawned the first rape crisis centers in the United States. A Washington, D.C., center published guidelines for founding a center in 1973 and, in the same year, Seattle’s Rape Relief Rape Crisis Center secured the first Law Enforcement Assistance Administration funding […]

Anti-Abortion Violence

  According to the National Abortion Federation, since 1977 there have been 7 murders, 17 attempted murders, 41 bombings, 143 arson attacks, 89 attempted arsons/bombings, and 375 invasions at health care centers where abortions are performed in the United States. Furthermore, there have been thousands of reported cases of vandalism and trespassing. Health care providers […]

Assault, Aggravated

  Aggravated assault is a form of interpersonal violence that involves either serious injury to the victim or the threat of force by means of a weapon. It is defined in various ways by state statutes and criminal justice agencies, but is usually distinguished from simple assault by the degree of injury to the victim […]

Assault

  In the dictionary rendition, assault means an attack with blows or weapons, as well as by threats, hostile words, and other ways of menacing. Although assault rightly can refer to all forms of physical, psychological, and verbal aggression, its use in the legal system and by criminologists is more specific. First and foremost, assault […]

Asian/Pacific Islander Youth Violence Prevention Center

The Asian/Pacific Islander (API) Youth Violence Prevention Center (also known as the API Center) was developed by the University of Hawaii at Manoa and the National Council on Crime and Delinquency in October of 2000. Funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as one of 10 Academic Centers of Excellence in Violence Prevention, […]

Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence

  The Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence is a national resource center and clearinghouse on gender violence in Asian and Pacific Islander (API) communities. It serves a national network of advocates, community members, organizations, service agencies, professionals, researchers, policy advocates, and activists from community and social justice organizations working to eliminate violence […]

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