Vocabulary CHAPTER 8

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.

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.