CRM/LAW C118 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Intimate Partner Violence, Violence Against Women Act, Abusive Power And Control
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Great deal of disagreement over what counts as ipv. Ipv: any threatened or completed acts of physical, sexual, or psychological abuse committed by a spouse, ex-spouse, or current or former boyfriend or girlfriend. Definitions complicated by variations in domestic violence laws from state to state. Violence against women act (vawa): components intended to reduce. Ipv, as well as other forms of violence that disproportionately affect women largely through criminal justice remedies. Passage of vawa did not produce uniform state laws on ipv though did make certain behaviors like crossing state lines a federal crime with serious penalties. Interstate domestic violence = crossing state lines to commit ipv. Chapter 8 intimate partner abuse in adult relationships: focusing on victims. National family violence survey, national violence against women survey, & the national intimate partner & sexual violence survey. Survey method results in large ranges in victimization rates.