Intimate Partner Victimisation
Definition
Violence or abuse committed by a current or former spouse, partner or dating partner, a relationship category with markedly lower reporting rates than stranger violence.
Related terms
- Completely Innocent Victim
- Mendelsohn's first category: a victim selected by chance or by an offender's premeditation, with no contribution from the victim's own conduct, such...
- Provocative Victim
- A victim whose own conduct, such as an insult, a threat or a first strike, triggered the offender's response; positioned midway along...
- Strangers vs Acquaintances
- The relationship-distance axis used across victimology and criminal justice statistics to separate offences between people who did not know each other from...
- Victim Blaming
- Attributing moral responsibility for a crime to the victim's character or conduct rather than to the offender's decision to act, a normative...
- Victim Precipitation
- The discredited idea, associated with Von Hentig and Mendelsohn, that victims bear some responsibility for their own victimisation through their behaviour or...