{"id":172,"date":"2020-04-21T14:46:18","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T14:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/womenscenter\/?page_id=172"},"modified":"2021-10-30T15:25:32","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T15:25:32","slug":"interpersonal-violence","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/thecenteree\/definition\/interpersonal-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Interpersonal Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>What is Sexual Violence?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Definition: Sexual violence is any unwanted sexual activity done against someone&#8217;s will and without their consent. This can involve force and\/or coercion, and is based in power and control.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Exposure to inappropriate materials (pornographic pictures or videos, flashing, or\u00a0exhibitionism)<\/li>\n<li>Sexual contact (unwanted touches)<\/li>\n<li>Sexual harassment<\/li>\n<li>Rape: actual or attempted vaginal, oral, or anal penetration by an object, body part, or ejaculated bodily fluid.<\/li>\n<li>Non-consensual image sharing<\/li>\n<li>Child sexual abuse<\/li>\n<li>Sex trafficking\/sexual exploitation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>What is Sexual Harassment?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Definition: Sexual Harassment is any unwanted or unwelcome\u00a0behavior that is sexual or sexist in nature, is severe or pervasive, and\/or creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive educational or employment environment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This can include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sexual flirtation, touching, advances or propositions<\/li>\n<li>Verbal abuse of a sexual nature<\/li>\n<li>Pressure to engage in sexual activity<\/li>\n<li>Graphic or suggestive comments about an individual&#8217;s dress or appearance<\/li>\n<li>Use of sexually degrading words to describe an individual<\/li>\n<li>Display of sexually suggestive objects, pictures or photographs<\/li>\n<li>Sexual jokes or stereotypical comments based upon gender<\/li>\n<li>Threats, demands or suggestions that retention of one&#8217;s educational status is contingent upon toleration of or acquiescence in sexual advances.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>What is Dating Abuse?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Definition: The intentional use of a pattern of destructive behaviors, in an intimate relationship, by one person to exert power and control over their partner.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Also known as, &#8220;dating violence,&#8221; &#8220;intimate partner violence&#8221;, &#8220;domestic violence,&#8221; or &#8220;family violence.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Types of Abuse:\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Emotional abuse<\/strong>: manipulation, guilt tripping, possessiveness, controlling behaviors, gaslighting, lying\/cheating, blaming, threats (to oneself or their partner), etc.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Physical abuse<\/strong>: kicking, punching, shoving, slapping, restraining, hitting, driving recklessly with the intent to scare, threats of violence, etc.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Verbal abuse<\/strong>: belittling, mocking, insulting, shouting, cursing, etc.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Financial abuse<\/strong>: controlling finances, monitoring spending, pressured spending, restricting access to finances, stealing, etc.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sexual abuse<\/strong>: pressuring, reasoning, manipulating, guilt tripping, blaming, forcing, blackmailing, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Assaulting, threatening, or stalking an intimate partner is a crime in the state of Connecticut.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>What is Stalking?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Definition: A course of conduct directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to feel fear or experience emotional distress. Stalking is serious, often violent, and can escalate over time.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It involves repeatedly contacting another person when the contacting person knows or should know that the contact is unwanted.<\/li>\n<li>Contacting includes communicating with or remaining in the physical presence of the other person.<\/li>\n<li>Stalking behaviors include unwanted communication in person, through technology (social media, texting, phone calls, etc) or through a third party (family, friends, etc).<\/li>\n<li>It can also include contacting third parties in an attempt to connect to the victim (contacting friends\/family\/roommates, etc. of the victim)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-319 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/thecenteree\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/142\/2021\/10\/long-logo-300x70.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"70\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/thecenteree\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/142\/2021\/10\/long-logo-300x70.png 300w, https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/thecenteree\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/142\/2021\/10\/long-logo-1024x240.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/thecenteree\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/142\/2021\/10\/long-logo-768x180.png 768w, https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/thecenteree\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/142\/2021\/10\/long-logo.png 1112w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is Sexual Violence? Definition: Sexual violence is any unwanted sexual activity done against someone&#8217;s will and without their consent. This can involve force and\/or coercion, and is based in power and control. This includes: Exposure to inappropriate materials (pornographic &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"parent":8,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"parent-page-list-children-pages.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-172","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/thecenteree\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/thecenteree\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/thecenteree\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/thecenteree\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/thecenteree\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/thecenteree\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/172\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/thecenteree\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/thecenteree\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}