12/5-C8 Vocabulary

2. a policy that makes no exceptions for anybody for any reason.
4. any behavior that causes physical or psychological harm to a person or damage to property.
6. any individual who suffers injury, loss, or death due to violence.
7. the killing of one human being by another.
9. the buying or selling of drugs.
11. the physical, emotional, or mental mistreatment of one person by another.
16. Uninvited and unwelcome sexual conduct directed at another person.
17. The failure to meet a person’s basic physical and emotional needs.
18. purposely frightening another person through threatening words, looks, or body language.
19. singling out or excluding a person based on gender.

1. A person forces another person to participate in a sexual act against his or her will.
3. any kind of sexual intercourse with a person against her or his will.
5. Pattern of repeating abuse from one generation to the next.
8. A toll-free telephone service where abuse victims can get help and information.
10. a group whose members often use violence or take part in criminal activity.
12. physical abuse that occurs within a family.
13. ongoing conduct that offends another person by criticizing his or her race, color, religion, physical disability, or gender.
14. the unlawful beating, hitting, or kicking of another person.
15. an unlawful threat or attempt to do bodily injury to another person.