1. San Diego State University
School of Nursing
2013

2.  The youngest of three children
 Happy, curious, and outgoing
 A member of church
 She decided not to cheer for basketball
 Friends and family knew the abuser did not want her to
cheer, although she gave them a different excuse
 Their relationship was not a physically
abusive one until the day he killed her
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3.  Women are more likely, then men, to be killed by their
intimate partners
 Every 9 seconds a woman is assaulted or beaten in the US
 Women ages 20 to 24 are at greatest risk of becoming victims
of domestic violence
 Every year, 1 in 3 victims of
homicide are murdered by
their current or former partner
 In San Diego County, there
were more than 17,000reports
of domestic violence made to law
enforcement in 2012

4.  Physical force used against another person
 Causes injury or risk of injury
 Assess the Situation
 Does your partner push, hit, or choke you?
 Does your partner threaten to hurt you with a weapon?

5.  It’s a bigger problem than we think
 Yelling, name calling, blaming and shaming
 Isolation, intimidation, and controlling behavior
 Assess the Situation
 Does your partner continually
criticize you, or call you names?
 Does your partner make
all decisions for you?

6.  Forcing unwanted sexual activity by means of threats,
coercion or physical force
 May occur with or after physical abuse
 Assess the Situation
 Does your partner minimize
the importance of your
feelings about sex?
 Does your partner
force unwanted
sex acts?

7.  May include withholding money
or credit cards, stealing from you,
or using your name to incur debt
 Assess the Situation
 Does your partner force you to work, or refuse to let
you work?
 Does your partner use finances to control you?

8.  ANYONEis at risk for domestic violence
 It occurs among ALL:
 Ages
 Genders
 Backgrounds
 Income levels
 Education levels

9.  Younger than 30 years old
 Previous abusive relationship
 Recent separation from abuser
 Stalked by their partner
 Isolated socially from family and friends or very few
friends

10.  Insecurity or low self-esteem
 Emotional dependency
 Pregnant or unplanned
pregnancy
 Unemployed
 Poor living conditions
 Financial dependency

11. **Not ALL people who meet the Abuser Profile criteria
are abusers
 Abuse alcohol and/or drugs
 Victims of abuse as a child or
witnessed domestic abuse as a
child
 Abused former partners
 Mental illness

12.  Juvenile aggression
 Past conviction of other crimes
 Parenthood at a young age
 Jealous or controlling
 Stalker
 Verbally abusive
 Access to firearms in the home
 Less than high school education

13.  Do you:
 Feel afraid of your partner much of the time?
 Avoid certain topics out of fear of angering your
partner?
 Feel that you can’t do anything right for your
partner?
 Believe that you deserve to be hurt or mistreated?
 Wonder if you’re the one who is crazy?
 Feel emotionally numb or helpless?

14.  Does your partner:
 Look at you or act in ways that scare you?
 Humiliate or yell at you?
 Criticize you and put you down?
 Treat you so badly that you’re embarrassed for your friends
or family to see?
 Ignore or put down your opinions or accomplishments?
 Blame you for their own abusive behavior?
 See you as property or a sex object, rather than as a person?

15.  Does your partner:
 Have a bad and unpredictable temper?
 Hurt you, or threaten to hurt or kill you or your
pets?
 Tell you that you’re a bad parent or threaten to
take your children away or harm them?
 Threaten to commit suicide if you leave?
 Force you to have sex?
 Intimidate you with guns, knives or other
weapons?

16.  Does your partner:
 Act excessively jealous and possessive?
 Control what you do, who you see or talk to or where you go?
 Prevent you from working or attending school?
 Make all of the decisions?
 Keep you from seeing your friends or family?
 Limit your access to money, the phone, or the car?
 Take your money, make you ask for money or refuse to give you
money?
 Constantly check up on you?

17.  Incidents of physical abuse
seem minor
 Incidents of physical abuse
have only occurred one or
two times in the relationship
 Physical assaults stopped
when you became passive
 There has not been any
physical violence

18.  Injuries and Excuses
 Absences from Work
or School
 Low Self-Esteem
 Accusations of Having Affairs
 Fear of Conflict

19.  Personalitychanges
 Notknowing what one
wants or how one feels
 Blamingothers
foreverything
 Self-blame
 Aggressive or care-taking
behavior inchildren

20.  33 years old
 Loving Mother of Lianna (3) and Richard (7 mo.)
 Registered Nurse from San Diego State University
 Enrolled to begin her Masters degree on Aug 27,2012
 She was forced to watch her children die and then was
violently murdered by her husband on Aug 20, 2012

22. Do You Know
Someone Who
May Be Involved
in a Domestic
Violence
Situation?

23.  Safety Issues
 Fear of talking about the
Abuse to others
 Threats of Retaliation
 Breaking Isolation
 Lack of Resources
 Survival Strategies
 Financial Issues
 Children
 Embarrassment

24.  Address Safety Issues
 Validate and support
 Provide Information
 Victims Empowerment

25.  File for Protective Orders
 Seek out a Shelter
 Counseling
 Crime victim compensation
 Community Agencies
 Develop a Safety Plan

26.  Having important phone numbers nearby
 Keeping change for phone calls or getting a cell
phone
 Friends or neighbors knowing about the abuse
 Planning safe places in the home where there are
exits and no weapons
 Knowing how to get out of the home safely

27.  Thinking about ways to get weapons out of the
house
 Thinking of where they could go and how they
might leave
 Doing things that gets them out of the house
 Going over the safety plan often
 Opening a bank account or getting a credit card

28.  Money/ Credit Cards
 Copies of keys
 Prescription medications
 Important papers for you and
your children, including:
 Driver's license
 Birth certificates, social security cards
 Passports, green cards, work permits
 School and medical records
 Divorce papers, custody orders
 Address book

29.  National Domestic Violence
Hotline
 1-800-799-SAFE
 San Diego Domestic Violence Hotline
 1-888-DVLINKS
 24hrs Bilingual, confidential
 San Diego Co. Resource PDF (printout)
 http://www.sdcounty.ca.gov/hhsa/programs/phs/offic
e_violence_prevention/domestic_violence.html#san_dieg
o_county_domestic_violence_hotline

30. Together
We Can Help
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Domestic
Violence
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