Sexual Assault
Sexual assault is any type of sexual contact or behavior that occurs without the consent of the recipient, including any time a person is forced, coerced, and/or manipulated into unwanted sexual activity. Force can be physical or threatened.
Dating Violence
Dating violence is violence committed by a person who is or has been in a social relationship of a romantic or intimate nature with the survivor. This includes, but is not limited to, sexual or physical abuse or the threat of such abuse, including actions designed to influence another person.
Dating violence behaviors on campus can include:
Resources
Love is Respect
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Do Something
National Institute of Justice
That’s Not Cool
Domestic Violence
Domestic violence is a pattern of abusive behavior used to gain or maintain power and control over an intimate partner. Domestic violence can be sexual, emotional, economic, or psychological actions or threats of actions that influence another person. This includes behaviors designed to intimidate, manipulate, humiliate, isolate, frighten, terrorize, coerce, threaten, blame, or injure.
Resources
The Kentucky Coalition Against Domestic Violence (KCADV)
The National Domestic Violence Hotline
The Center for Women & Families
Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women (DOJ OVW)
Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC)
Stalking
Stalking is a pattern* of repeated & unwanted behavior directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to feel fear for their own safety or the safety of others. Behaviors can include unwanted attention, harassment, contact, gift giving, or any other actions that cause a reasonable person to feel fear. Stalking can include repeated, unwanted, intrusive, or frightening communication by phone, email, mail, and/or social networking.
The most common behaviors experienced by college aged victims of stalking include unwanted voice or text messages, unwanted email or social media contact, and being approached or having their stalker show up uninvited.
*Pattern: two or more behaviors. Behaviors can vary or be repeated.
Resources
The Stalking Prevention, Awareness, and Resource Center (SPARC)
Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women (DOJ OVW)
National Domestic Violence Hotline- Stalking Safety Planning
Rape, Abuse, & Incest National Network (RAINN)- Stalking
Cyberbullying Research Center- Cyberstalking