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Chart of Dangerous Behaviors |
Danger
Level
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Physical Abuse
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Emotional/ Psychological
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Social/ Environmental
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Sexual Abuse
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Potentially Dangerous
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- Pinch-squeeze
- Push
- Shove
- Restrain
- Jerk
- Pull
- Shake
- Slap
- Bite
- Pull hair, etc.
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- Ignores woman�s feelings
- Withholds approval as punishment
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- Jokes about the roles of women
- Denies victim her history, heritage
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- Looks at and makes jokes about women as sex objects
- Jealousy may become extreme
- Minimizes her feelings and needs regarding sex
- Sexual criticism
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Dangerous
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- Shaking, with bruises
- Hit
- Punch
- Kick
- Choking
- Objects thrown
- Targeted or repeated hitting as punishment
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- Threatens violence and/or retaliation
- Puts down abilities as worker, mother,lover
- Threatens her with abusing children
or getting custody of children
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- Isolates victim by allowing no friends and/or repeated moves
- Economic dependency (takes her money, gets her fired, etc.)
- Threatens to hurt her family
- Man stays isolated and demands control of environment
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- Forces victim to touch or look at genitalia
- Withholds sex and affection
- Forces victim to strip in front of others - maybe children
- Forces victim to watch or have sex with others
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Highly Dangerous
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- Uses household objects as weapons; restraining and hitting
- Broken bones, internal injuries, medical treatment needed
- Use of knives, guns, poisons for disabling or disfiguring
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Provokes following reactions in victim:
- Powerless (learned?)
- Unpredictable consequences of actions.
- Nervous breakdown, depression, mental illness
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- Hits, punches or kicks walls, not her
- Deprives victim of food, sleep, medicine, medical attention, etc.
- Destroys pets
- Incest or child abuse
- Man threatens suicide
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- Demands sex with threats
- Forces uncomfortable sex
- Forces uncomfortable sex after an emotional or physical battering
- Sadism; sex for the purpose of hurting, uses objects and weapons
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LETHAL
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HOMICIDE
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SUICIDE
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DEATH
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MURDER |