TYPES OF VIOLENCE A river Yesterday Today Tomorrow

TYPES OF VIOLENCE

A river Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

TYPES OF VIOLENCE Target: I will be able to identify different types of violence Violence: Intentional use of physical force or power, actual or threatened, against yourself or others Pg.

Types of Violence: Physical Violence: Using a body part or an object to control a person’s actions • Includes: Slapping, hitting, kicking, pushing, punching, grabbing, shaking, burning, and assault or threats with a weapon

Disabled children are over 3 times more likely to be abused than non-disabled children 1 in 14 children have been physically abused

Domestic Violence: Use of force to control and maintain power over another person in the home environment • Can occur between: parent and child, spouses/partners, between siblings, etc.

Sexual Violence: Forcing someone to unwillingly take part in a sexual activity • Includes: touching, intercourse, sexual favors, viewing pornography, and purposeful exposure to HIV • Sexual Harassment: Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, comments/jokes, etc. that creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive environment

Intimate Partner Violence (IPV): Physical, sexual, or psychological harm by a current or former partner or spouse.

Emotional Violence: Saying or doing something to make a person feel stupid or worthless • Includes: Teasing, bullying, threats, intimidation and humiliation

Psychological Violence: Using threats to cause fear in a person to gain control • Includes: verbal aggression, destruction of property, stalking, threatening to harm someone or yourself if they leave, not allowing access to phones, social isolation, and using pressure to sign legal

Ethnoviolence: Harm as a result of practices that are a part of one’s culture, religion, or tradition • Hate crimes: crimes committed against a person, property, or group of people that is motivated by the offender’s bias against a race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, Summary: or ethnicity.

VIOLENCE 101 Create a graphic organizer/chart/diagram to help you identify and distinguish the differences between the 7 different types of violence. *Use a minimum of 4 colors Pg.