What is Domestic Violence?
February 10, 2010 by admin
Filed under Assault Info - Prevention, Most Common Threats
Domestic violence is a pattern of abusive or coercive behaviors that may include, but are not limited to:
* physical assaults
* verbal abuse
* emotional abuse
* sexual abuse
* harassment
* threat or harm
These behaviors [...]
Stalking – Are You a Victim?
February 8, 2010 by admin
Filed under Assault Info - Prevention, Most Common Threats
In general terms, stalking is when a person becomes fearful of their safety because someone is repeatedly pursuing, harassing, and/or following them, which is unwanted and serving no legitimate purpose.
This definition is much broader than the criminal definition of stalking listed below:
Legal Definition of Stalking
1. Any person who on more than one [...]
Predators: Who Are They And how To Stop Them
January 24, 2010 by admin
Filed under Most Common Threats
An inmate, incarcerated for the rape of seventy-five women, reveals in an interview that if his victims had simply put a pair of old construction boots at the front door, he would have passed by and never even considered them as potential targets. The grieving father of a murdered seventeen-year-old woman admits that he should [...]
Sexual Harassment
January 23, 2010 by admin
Filed under Assault Info - Prevention, Most Common Threats
Sexual harassment is unwanted and unwelcomed sexual behavior. Sexual harassment may result from words or conduct of a sexual nature that offend, stigmatize, demean, frighten, or threaten you because of your sex.
Sexual harassment is defined by the person being targeted. The target of sexual harassment and the perpetrator (the one doing the harassing) do not [...]
