Domestic Violence

Domestic violence includes:
1. Physical abuse (punching, kicking, hitting, choking, weapons)
2. Psychological, emotional and verbal abuse (threats and insults)
3. Sexual assault and abuse (force sexual activity)
4. Financial or economical abuse (no access to or control of money)
5. Social abuse (not allowed to see family friends, stalking)

The abuse from domestic violence is a pattern of behaviour that one person uses against another to intimidate, dominate and control them. Fear and undermining of self esteem are usually the start followed by assaults; which the victim then believes they either deserve, or, cannot change.

Domestic violence is a crime which ...