Chapter 8 Vocab

3. A group whose members often use violence or take part in criminal activity.
4. Ongoing conduct that offends another person by criticizing his or her race, color, religion, physical disability, or gender.
6. The killing of one human being by another.
8. Physical abuse that occurs within a family.
9. Any kind of sexual intercourse with a person against her or his will.
12. The pattern of repeating abuse from one generation to the next.
16. Singling out or excluding a person based on gender.
17. When a person forces another person to participate in a sexual act against his or her will.
18. An unlawful threat or attempt to do bodily injury to another person.
19. Any individual who suffers injury, loss,or death due to violence.

1. A policy that makes no exceptions for anybody for any reason.
2. The buying or selling of drugs.
5. The failure to meet a person’s basic physical and emotional needs.
7. Behavior that causes physical or psychological harm to a person or damage to property.
10. The unlawful beating, hitting, or kicking of another person.
11. The physical, emotional, or mental mistreatment of one person by another.
13. A toll-free telephone service where abuse victims can get help and information.
14. Uninvited and unwelcome sexual conduct directed at another person.
15. Purposely frightening another person through threatening words, looks, or body language.