Examples of domestic abuse

Examples include intimidation, coercion, ridiculing, harassment, treating an adult like a child, isolating an adult from family, friends, or regular activity, use of silence to control behavior, and yelling or swearing which results in mental distress. Signs of emotional abuse.

Physical abuse

direct assault on the body (choking, strangulation, shaking, eye injuries, biting, slapping, pushing, spitting, burning, punching, kicking, pulling hair) use of weapons including objects. hurting the children. locking the victim in or out of the house or rooms. forcing the victim to take drugs.

Stalking is also:

A terrorizing crime with no real identified beginning and seemingly no end; A crime that can cause tremendous fear without the slightest physical injury; A behavior with a high correlation to physical and sexual violence¹; A crime that can be lethal; and.

Violence can be broadly divided into three broad categories—direct violence, structural violence and cultural violence.

There are many causes of violence including “frustration, exposure to violent media, violence in the home or neighbourhood and a tendency to see other people’s actions as hostile even when they’re not.

Domestic violence

It encompasses all physical, sexual, emotional, economic and psychological actions or threats of actions that influence another person. This is one of the most common forms of violence experienced by women globally.