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Abuse <-> Violence Stop the Killing!

Definitions

Psychological Abuse

• What is Abuse? (Women's Rural Advocacy Program)
• Symptoms of Emotional Abuse (Lila Clane)
• Domestic Violence (National Center for Victims of Crime)
• Bureau of Justice Statistics Factbook: Violence by Intimates (US Bureau of Justice; March, 1998; abstract with links for downloading text or PDF file)
• Why She Stays (Abuse Counseling and Treatment, Inc.)
• Why Women Stay: The Barriers to Leaving (Women's Rural Advocacy Programs)
• Why Indian Women Stay (Women's Rural Advocacy Programs)
• Psychology 911 -- Men in Control -- Treatment Components (South Carolina Family Intervention Agencies)

Psychological and Physical Abuse

• Family Violence -- Broken Dreams, Shattered Lives (Victim Assistance Program, Akron Ohio)
• Domestic Violence (South Asian Women's NETwork)
• What is Abuse? (Women's Rural Advocacy Programs)
• What is Partner Abuse? (State Farm Insurance)
• Types of Abuse (Women's Rural Advocacy Programs)
• Intimate Partner Violence Fact Sheet (National Center for Injury Prevention and Control Division of Violence Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Intersecting Inequalities: Immigrant Women of Colour, Violence & Health Care (The FREDA Centre for Research on Violence against Women and Children)
• Problems of Rural Battered Women (Women's Rural Advocacy Programs)
• Battering: The Facts (Women's Rural Advocacy Programs)
• The Wheel of Power and Control (Women's Rural Advocacy Programs)
• Abuse and Women with Disabilities (National Resource Center on Domestic Violence)
• Disabled Women Rate Caregiver Abuse and Domestic Violence Number One Issue (American Delphi survey conducted by Berkeley Planning Associates; All Walks Of Life - Home of STOP the violence to people with disabilities)
• Family Violence Institute: Integrating Responses to All Kinds of Family Violence: Proceedings April 24, 2003 (The Center for Human Services, University of California, Davis; text file)
• Prevalence, Incidence, and Consequences of Violence Against Women: Findings from the National Violence Against Women Survey (National Center for Injury Prevention and Control Division of Violence Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; November, 1998; text file)
• Prevalence, Incidence, and Consequences of Violence Against Women: Findings from the National Violence Against Women Survey (National Center for Injury Prevention and Control Division of Violence Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; November, 1998; PDF file)
• Sexual Assault as an Aspect of Family and Domestic Violence
  (Health Department of Western Australia Family and Domestic Violence Training Package (archive)
• Fact Sheet on Dating Violence (National Center for Injury Prevention and Control Division of Violence Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Exploring the Link Between Violence Against Animals and Violence Against Humans (Doris Day Animal Foundation and Psychologists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals)
• Domestic Violence is Everybody's Business (State Farm Insurance)