Ch. 8 Vocabulary

5. a toll-free telephone service where abuse victims can get help and information.
7. pattern of repeating abuse from one generation to the next.
9. physical abuse that occurs within a family.
11. the unlawful beating, hitting, or kicking of another person.
14. singling out or excluding a person based on gender.
16. any kind of sexual intercourse with a person against her or his will.
17. the failure to meet a person’s basic physical and emotional needs.
18. occurs when a person forces another person to participate in a sexual act against his or her will.
19. a group whose members often use violence or take part in criminal activity.

1. which is uninvited and unwelcome sexual conduct directed at another person.
2. purposely frightening another person through threatening words, looks, or body language.
3. the physical, emotional, or mental mistreatment of one person by another.
4. the killing of one human being by another.
6. a policy that makes no exceptions for anybody for any reason.
8. ongoing conduct that offends another person by criticizing his or her race, color, religion, physical disability, or gender.
10. any individual who suffers injury, loss, or death due to violence.
12. an unlawful threat or attempt to do bodily injury to another person.
13. any behavior that causes physical or psychological harm to a person or damage to property.
15. the buying or selling of drugs.