Women as Victims: Domestic Violence, Intimate Partner Violence, and Stalking

VAWA

1029: ________ is reauthorized and upgraded to prohibit those convicted of prior abuse, assault, or stalking of a partner to own a firearm.

Erotomania

________ stalking: a delusional obsession with a public figure or someone out of the stalkers reach.

Normalization

________ can make it harder for victims to identify the harm theyre experiencing.

IPV

________ accounts for 15 % of all reported violent crime.

substantial emotional distress

Stalking: engaging in a course of conduct directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to fear of their safety or the safety of others and suffer ________.

Cases of domestic violence

1962: ________ were handled in family court, making it nearly impossible for perpetrators to be convicted.

Domestic Violence

any criminal offense involving violence or physical harm committed by one family or household member against another

ex

parent and child, siblings, roommates

Intimate Partner Violence

involves the physical, verbal, emotional, economic, and/or sexual abuse against a romantic partner

1962

Cases of domestic violence were handled in family court, making it nearly impossible for perpetrators to be convicted

1976

first domestic violence shelter opens

1984

Martial rape is criminalized

1994

Violence Against Women Act is created

1999

Stalking is redefined as a form of abuse and recategorized as a felony

1029

VAWA is reauthorized and upgraded to prohibit those convicted of prior abuse, assault, or stalking of a partner to own a firearm

Stalking

engaging in a course of conduct directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to fear of their safety or the safety of others and suffer substantial emotional distress

erotomania stalking

a delusional obsession with a public figure or someone out of the stalkers reach

love obsessional stalking

stalking someone, often a complete stranger, with whom the stalker delusionally thinks they are in love

simple obsessional stalking

stalking someone the stalker has a prior or existing personal or romantic relationship with