Anthropology, Education, Sociology, and Social Phenomena

Intimate Partner Violence

Abuse that occurs between two people in a close relationship, including current and former spouses, and dating partners. A pattern of assault and coercive behavior by an individual against their partner or spouse that may include physical injury, psychological abuse, sexual assault, progressive isolation, stalking, deprivation, intimidation, and reproductive coercion.

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Abuse that occurs between two people in a close relationship, including current and former spouses, and dating partners. A pattern of assault and coercive behavior by an individual against their partner or spouse that may include physical injury, psychological abuse, sexual assault, progressive isolation, stalking, deprivation, intimidation, and reproductive coercion.

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  • Intimate Partner Abuse
  • Abuse, Intimate Partner
  • Partner Abuse, Intimate
  • Partner Violence, Intimate
  • Violence, Intimate Partner
  • Dating Violence
  • Violence, Dating

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Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, ethnology, history, legislation & jurisprudence, prevention & control, psychology, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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2016

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  • Spouse Abuse (1997-2015)

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Intimate Partner Violence. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D000066511. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D000066511
  2. Intimate Partner Violence. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intimate_partner_violence
  3. Intimate Partner Violence. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5153528