Physical violence
- Hitting, punching, kicking
- Withholding medications
- Attempting to force miscarriage
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Using isolation
- Controlling what she does, who she sees, who she talks to and where she goes
- Limiting her involvement with others
- Using jealousy to justify his actions
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Sexual violence
- Forced sexual activities
- Forced prostitution or exotic dancing
- Threatening to sexually abuse children
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Using economic abuse
- Preventing her from getting or keeping a job
- Forcing the victim to work “under the table”
- Taking the victim’s earned income
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Using coercion or threats
- Making and/or carrying out threats to hurt her
- Threatening to leave her, to commit suicide, to report her to welfare or immigration officials
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Using children
- Using children to relay intimidating or threatening messages to her
- Threatening to take children away from her
- Using visitation to harass her
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Using intimidation
- Making her afraid by using looks, actions or gestures
- Smashing things and destroying her property
- Displaying weapons as a threat to harm her
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Minimizing, denying and blaming
- Saying the abuse didn’t happen
- Saying she caused the abuse
- Making light of the abuse
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Using emotional abuse
- Putting her down and making her feel bad about herself
- Making her think that she is “crazy”
- Humiliating her and calling her names including racial slurs
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Using assumed male privilege
- Expecting subservience based on her perceived status as a woman
- Making relevant decisions unanimously
- Being the one to define the male and female roles in their relationship
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