Domestic violence (DV)

Domestic violence (DV)

Behaviour by a person (the first person) towards another person (the second person) with whom the first person is in a relevant relationship that is: physically or sexually abusive, emotionally or psychologically abusive, economically abusive, or is threatening, coercive, or in any other way controls or dominates the second person to fear for the second person’s safety or wellbeing or that of someone else.

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