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Need Help? :: Information On Domestic Violence
Domestic Violence is any abusive or coercive behavior used to gain control of an intimate partner. Domestic Violence is a pattern of manipulative and/or violent acts where the victim is forced to change behavior in response to abuse or feels fearful, frightened and threatened. Domestic Violence occurs in current or former dating, married or cohabitating and same-sex relationships. Batterers seek to gain and maintain power and control over their intimate partners by the use of actual and assumed power. Power takes the form of strategic, abusive tactics to reinforce this control.
Forms of Domestic Violence include:
- Physical Abuse
- Verbal Abuse
- Sexual Violence
- Isolation
- Coercion
- Harassment
- Economic Control
- Abusing Trust
- Threats and Intimidation
- Emotional Withholding
- Destruction of Property
- Self-Destructive Behavior
Idaho Statutes
Click Here to Access Title 39 Health and Safety, Chapter 63 Domestic Violence Crime Prevention
