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