Vocabulary CHAPTER 8
Across
- 3. Purposely frightening another person through threatening words, looks, or body language.
- 6. Uninvited and unwelcome sexual conduct directed at another person.
- 7. A toll-free telephone service where abuse victims can get help and information.
- 11. The buying or selling of drugs.
- 12. The killing of one human being by another.
- 13. A group whose members often use take part or take part in criminal activity.
- 14. Ongoing conduct that offends another person by criticizing his or her race, color, religion, physical disability, or gender.
- 16. Physical abuse that occurs within a family.
- 17. The physical, emotional, or mental mistreatment of one person by another.
- 18. Any behavior that causes physical or psychological harm to a person or damage to property.
- 19. Unlawful beating, hitting, or kicking of another person.
Down
- 1. Discrimination—singling out or excluding a person based on gender.
- 2. Pattern of repeating abuse from one generation to the next.
- 4. An unlawful threat or attempt to do bodily injuryto another person.
- 5. Any kind of sexual intercourse with a person against her or his will.
- 8. A person forces another person to participate in a sexual act against his or her will.
- 9. A policy that makes no exceptions for anybody for any reason.
- 10. Any individual who suffers injury, loss,or death due to violence.
- 15. The failure to meet a person’s basic physical and emotional needs.