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Types of Interpersonal Violence. Women with disabilities experience rates of emotional, physical, and sexual abuse that are comparable to, if not greater than, women without disabilities. In addition, women with disabilities experience unique vulnerabilities to interpersonal violence.
27 paź 2017 · Globally, the three primary forms of violence are interpersonal violence; self-directed violence, including suicide; and collective violence, including war, terrorism, and state-perpetrated violence in the form of genocide or torture (Dahlberg and Krug 2002). This chapter focuses on interpersonal violence.
Together, these 24 studies urge us to embrace complexity and context in research on interpersonal violence and mental health rather than sideline them. This editorial argues that efforts to unravel this complexity would benefit from the application of a social justice theoretical framework.
Violence Info provides scientific data and evidence on the main types of interpersonal violence, such as homicide, child maltreatment, sexual violence, and intimate partner violence. It also shows what countries are doing to address violence and how it relates to the Sustainable Development Goals.
27 paź 2017 · Exposure to interpersonal violence increases individuals’ lifelong vulnerability to a broad range of emotional, behavioral, and physical health problems. Interpersonal violence directly affects health care expenditures worldwide; indirectly, it affects national and local economies—stunting development, increasing inequality, and eroding ...
Self-directed violence refers to violence in which the perpetrator and the victim are the same individual and is subdivided into self-abuse and suicide. Interpersonal violence refers to violence between individuals, and is subdivided into family and intimate partner violence and community violence.
Type of interpersonal violence , i.e. child maltreatment , youth violence, intimate partner violence, abuse of older people and crosscutting categories such as sexual violence, violence against children, violence against women and homicide (see Section 2.2).
