Domestic violence definition

Domestic violence means physical harm, bodily injury, assault, or the infliction of fear of imminent physical harm, bodily injury, or assault, between family or household members as defined in RCW 26.50.010; sexual assault of one family or household member by another family or household member; or stalking as defined in RCW 9A.46.110 of one family or household member by another family or household member.
Domestic violence means a “felony or misdemeanor crime of violence committed by—
Domestic violence means felony or misdemeanor crimes of violence committed by a current or former spouse or intimate partner of the victim, by a person with whom the victim shares a child in common, by a person who is cohabitating with or has cohabitated with the victim as a spouse or intimate partner, by a person similarly situated to a spouse of the victim under the domestic or family violence laws of the jurisdiction receiving grant monies, or by any other person against an adult or youth victim who is protected from that person’s acts under the domestic or family violence laws of the jurisdiction.

Examples of Domestic violence in a sentence

  • Domestic violence against women in Egypt–wife beating and health outcomes.

  • Future of Children, Special issue: Domestic violence and children, 9(3), 21-32.


More Definitions of Domestic violence

Domestic violence means that term as defined in section 1 of 1978 PA 389, MCL 400.1501.
Domestic violence means the same as that term is defined in Section 77-36-1.
Domestic violence means felony or misdemeanor crimes of violence committed by a current or former spouse or intimate partner of the Complainant, person with whom the Complainant shares a child, person who is cohabitating with or has cohabitated with the Complainant as a spouse or intimate partner, person similarly situated to a spouse of the Complainant under the domestic or family violence laws of Michigan; or any other person against an adult or youth Complainant who is protected from that person’s acts under the domestic or family violence laws of Michigan.
Domestic violence means any assault, aggravated assault, battery, aggravated battery, sexual assault, sexual battery, stalking, aggravated stalking, kidnapping, false imprisonment, or any criminal offense resulting in physical injury or death of one family or household member by another family or household member.
Domestic violence means domestic violence, as defined in s. 714.28, or any crime the underlying factual basis of which has been found by a court to include an act of domestic violence. s. 741.313(1)(a), FS.
Domestic violence means abuse by one or more of the following acts between family and household members:
Domestic violence means the occurrence of any of the following acts by a person that is not an act of self-defense: