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DOMESTIC ABUSE

Domestic abuse is an incident or pattern of incidents of controlling,
coercive, threatening, degrading and violent behaviour, including
sexual violence, in the majority of cases by a partner or ex-partner,
but also by a family member or carer. It is very common.
Domestic abuse can include, but is not limited to, the following:
• Coercive control (a pattern of intimidation, degradation,
isolation and control with the use or threat of physical or
sexual violence)
• Psychological and/or emotional abuse
• Physical or sexual abuse
• Financial or economic abuse
• Harassment and stalking
• Online or digital abuse
solation
Physical Violence Isolation
Being violent to you Preventing or
and others: making it difficult
slapping, punching, for you to see
grabbing, hitting. friends or relatives.

Financial Control Physical Abusing Trust
solation
Interfering with Violence Isolation Lying, withholding
your work or not information, cheating
letting you on you, being
work. Financial Abusing overly jealous.
Control
Trust
Verbal Abuse Verbal Threats
Abuse
Name-calling, Threats Making and/or
mocking, accusing, carrying out
blaming, yelling, Sexual threats to hurt you
swearing. Violence Intimidation or others.
Sexual Violence Intimidation Making
Using force, threats angry or threatening
or intimidation to gestures, use of
make you perform size to intimidate,
sexual acts. punching walls.
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