1. Intimate Violence and Sexual Abuse Key Terms
Chapter 13
Intimate Violence and Sexual Abuse
Key Terms

2. Intimate partner violence or intimate partner abuse The full scope of violence among intimate couples. Date rape (acquaintance rape) Sexual intercourse with a dating partner that occurs against his or her will with force or the threat of force. The most common form of rape.

3. Common couple violence Violence that results from disputes and disagreements that go too far.
Intimate terrorism Occurs in relationships characterized by the desire of one partner to dominate and control the other. Along with violent episodes that frequently escalate, there is often emotional abuse in intimate terrorism.

4. Violent resistance Encompasses what is often meant by “self-defensive” violence.
Mutual violent control Refers to relationships in which both partners are violently trying to control each other and the relationship.

5. Marital rape A form of battering inflicted by husbands on wives.
Rape Legal definitions include unwanted sexual penetration, perpetrated by force, threat of harm, or when the victim is intoxicated. Rape may be perpetrated by males or females and against males or females; it may involve vaginal, oral, or anal penetration; and it may involve the insertion of objects other than the penis.

6. Battered child syndrome The patterns of injuries commonly observed in physically abused children.
Extrafamilial sexual abuse Abuse conducted by nonrelated individuals.

7. Intrafamilial abuse Abuse conducted by related individuals, including steprelatives.
Pedophilia An intense, recurring sexual attraction to prepubescent children.

8. Battering Includes, but is not limited to, slapping, punching, knocking down, choking, kicking, hitting with objects, threatening with weapons, stabbing, and shooting.
Child sexual abuse Defined as any sexual interaction (including fondling, erotic kissing, or oral sex, as well as genital penetration) between an adult or older adolescent and a prepubertal child.

9. Incest Defined as sexual intercourse between persons too closely related to marry legally (usually interpreted to mean father-daughter, mother-son, or brother-sister intercourse).