What is Domestic Violence?

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 are used by one individual to exert power or control over another individual in the context of [...]

Stalking – Are You a Victim?

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

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

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 [...]