Domestic Violence / Intimate Partner Violence
-NJ Domestic Violence Hotline 800-572-7233/SAFE (24/7)
-Videophone for deaf survivors: 1-855-1001 or Text LOVEIS to 2522.
-Passaic County Domestic & Sexual Violence Services: 973-881-1450 (24/7)
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Domestic violence is abusive behavior in any relationship used by one partner/person to gain or maintain power and control over another partner/person committed by someone 18 years or older, or an emancipated minor, with whom you have one of the following relationships:
- current or former spouse
- current or former household member
- a person with whom the victim has a child in common
- a person with whom the victim anticipates having a child in common if one of the parties is pregnant
- a person with whom the victim has a current or former dating relationship
Domestic violence can be physical, sexual, emotional, economic, psychological, or technological actions or threats of actions or other patterns of coercive behavior that influence another person within an intimate partner relationship. This includes any behaviors that intimidate, manipulate, humiliate, isolate, frighten, terrorize, coerce, threaten, blame, hurt, injure, or wound someone.
Domestic Violence includes the following acts:
| Homicide | Assault | Terroristic Threats |
| Kidnapping | Criminal Restraint | False Imprisonment |
| Sexual Assault | Criminal Sexual Contact | Lewdness |
| Criminal Mischief | Burglary | Criminal Trespass |
| Harassment | Stalking | Criminal Coercion |
| Stalking | Robbery | Contempt of a DV Restraining Order |
| Any other crime involving risk of death or serious bodily injury | Cyber Harassment |
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