IPV is Interpersonal Violence, also known as Domestic Violence.

 

IPV can happen: 

• within a marriage, common-law or dating relationship

• regardless of the gender and sexual orientation of the partners

• at any time during a relationship and even after it has ended

• whether or not partners live together or are sexually intimate with one another

IPV can include:

• coercive control

• criminal harassment 

• stalking

• emotional/psychological abuse 

• economic abuse

• physical abuse

• reproductive coercion

• sexual violence

• spiritual abuse

• technology-facilitated violence (also referred to as cyberviolence