Intentional Injuries: Suicide and Parasuicide

• Intentional injuries happen as a result of violence.
• Intentional injuries are classified as self-inflicted or assault.
• Self-inflicted injuries involve a person harming themselves.
• Assault involves a person or persons harming another on purpose.

Suicide and Parasuicide

• Suicide and parasuicide are intentional, self-inflicted injuries.
• Assault has four classifications.
• Assault classifications include those committed within the family, by peers, by other groups, and by family/peers/other groups.
• Suicide is the intentional taking of one's own life.
• Mental health counseling is often avoided by families of individuals who attempt suicide resulting in repeated suicide attempts.
• Parasuicide is a suicide attempt where the person does not intend to die.
• Parasuicide is a cry for help.
• Clues to recognize someone with suicidal tendencies includes talking about suicide or death, writing farewell letters/giving away possessions, and showing changes in behavior/mood/feelings.

Domestic Violence

• Domestic violence includes physical assault (hitting, pushing, shoving), sexual abuse (unwanted or forced sexual activity), and verbal abuse.
• These behaviors are used by one person in a relationship to control the other person.
• The people in the relationship may or may not be married.
• Domestic violence actions includes name-calling, preventing contact with family/friends, controlling finances, preventing them from getting/keeping a job, threatening violence, sexual assault, stalking, intimidation, etc.

Bullying

• Bullying is unwanted, aggressive behavior that is repeated over time.
• Bullying can cause serious and lasting problems.
• Types of bullying are verbal, social, physical, and cyberbullying.
• Verbal bullying uses saying or writing mean or nasty things such as teasing and name-calling.
• Verbal bullying also includes making inappropriate sexual comments, taunting, and threatening harm.
• Social bullying (relational bullying) is hurting someone's reputation or relationships by telling others not to be friends with someone, spreading rumors, and embarrassing them in public.
• Physical bullying involves hurting someone's body or destroying their possessions.
• Examples of physical bullying include hitting/kicking/pinching, spitting, tripping/pushing, taking/breaking things, and making mean/rude gestures.
• Cyberbullying is using technology and electronic means to do verbal and social bullying.
• Cyberbullying uses social media (Facebook, Twitter), mobile devices, and e-mail.
• Stalking is a pattern of behavior that makes you feel afraid, nervous, harassed, or in danger.
• Stalking behaviors are often invasive and threatening.
• Stalking actions include knowing your schedule, showing up where you go, sending you things, contacting you, and tracking you.
• Stalking also includes writing letters, damaging property, creating a website, sending gifts, stealing and anything else that contacts, harasses, tracks, or frightens you.

Gang and Youth Violence

• Extortion is using force or threats to force people to hand over money, properties, or favors and can happen near schools.
• A gang is defined as a tough, mostly street-based group of young people.
• Gang members engage in a range of criminal activity and violence.

Illegal Fraternity-Related Violence

• A fraternity is a group of people with similar backgrounds, occupations, interests, or tastes.
• Fraternities are represented by Greek letters on campuses and universities.

Kidnapping and Abduction

• Kidnapping is taking away or forcefully moving a person against his/her will and holding him/her in unjust captivity.
• People who kidnap usually have a motive include getting a monetary reward/ransom or some sort of benefit.
• Abduction is using deceit or force to take a person or child away from their home/relatives.

Acts of Terror, Verbal and Sexual Abuse, Molestation

• Acts of terror/terrorism are violence for political goals that puts the public in fear.
• The purpose of terrorist groups is to produce terror through violence, fear, and pressure.
• Verbal abuse is cruelty using words to attack, control, and cause harm.
• Sexual abuse includes incest, molestation, rape, and child pornograpy
• Incest is sexual contact between people so closely related that marriage is illegal.
• Molestation is sexual abuse of a person by an adult for sexual pleasure or profit, including fondling, mutual masturbation, sodomy, and coitus.
• Rape is forced sexual intercourse, including vaginal, anal, or oral penetration by a body part or object where one or both people are underage, unable to consent, or did not agree to take part.
• Child pornography portrays children in a explicit subject matter for purpose of sexual arousal in books, photos, etc.
• Child prostitution is children being paid to have sex.