Gender-Based Violence Terminology Contact Us: vawlearningnework.ca [email protected] twitter.com/learntoendabuse facebook.com/TheLearningNetwork TABLE OF CONTENTS Abandonment ................................................................................................................................. 7 Ableism............................................................................................................................................ 7 Abuse .............................................................................................................................................. 7 Abused Partner ............................................................................................................................... 8 Acid Attack ...................................................................................................................................... 8 Advocate ......................................................................................................................................... 8 Ageism ............................................................................................................................................. 9 Agency/Autonomy .......................................................................................................................... 9 Aggravated Sexual Assault ............................................................................................................ 10 Ally ................................................................................................................................................. 10 Animal Abuse ................................................................................................................................ 10 Anti-Black Racism .......................................................................................................................... 11 Anti-Oppression ............................................................................................................................ 11 Anti-Racism ................................................................................................................................... 12 Anti-Semitism ................................................................................................................................ 13 Armed Violence ............................................................................................................................. 13 Assault ........................................................................................................................................... 13 Audism .......................................................................................................................................... 14 Barrier ........................................................................................................................................... 14 Batterers’ Intervention Programs (Programming Responses for Intimate Partner Violence) ..... 15 Best Practices ................................................................................................................................ 15 Bi-Directional Violence .................................................................................................................. 16 Biphobia ........................................................................................................................................ 16 Bullying .......................................................................................................................................... 16 Caregiver Violence ........................................................................................................................ 17 Child Abduction ............................................................................................................................. 17 Child Exposure to Domestic Violence ........................................................................................... 18 Child Maltreatment ....................................................................................................................... 18 Cisnormative ................................................................................................................................. 19 Classism ......................................................................................................................................... 19 1 Coercive Control ........................................................................................................................... 20 Collective Violence ........................................................................................................................ 20 Colonialism .................................................................................................................................... 21 Community Policing ...................................................................................................................... 21 Compassion Fatigue ...................................................................................................................... 22 Complex Trauma ........................................................................................................................... 22 Consent ......................................................................................................................................... 22 Consent Culture ............................................................................................................................ 23 Coordinated Community Response .............................................................................................. 23 Coping Strategy/Mechanisms ....................................................................................................... 24 Criminal Harassment ..................................................................................................................... 24 Cultural Humility ........................................................................................................................... 25 Cyber Misogyny ............................................................................................................................. 25 Cyberstalking ................................................................................................................................. 26 Cycle of Violence ........................................................................................................................... 26 Dating Violence ............................................................................................................................. 27 Discrimination ............................................................................................................................... 27 Dissociation ................................................................................................................................... 28 Domestic Homicide ....................................................................................................................... 28 Domestic Violence Court (DVC) Program ..................................................................................... 29 Domestic Violence Intervention ................................................................................................... 29 Domestic Violence Prevention ...................................................................................................... 29 Domestic Violence Screening ........................................................................................................ 30 Drug Facilitated Sexual Assault ..................................................................................................... 30 Economic Abuse/Financial Abuse ................................................................................................. 31 Elder Abuse ................................................................................................................................... 31 Emotional Abuse ........................................................................................................................... 32 Environmental Racism .................................................................................................................. 32 Equality/Equity .............................................................................................................................. 33 Ethnocentrism ............................................................................................................................... 33 Eurocentrism ................................................................................................................................. 33 2 Failure To Protect .......................................................................................................................... 34 Faithism ......................................................................................................................................... 34 Family Violence ............................................................................................................................. 34 Female Genital Mutilation ............................................................................................................ 35 Femicide 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