Domestic and intimate partner violence

Domestic and intimate partner violence is a broad category that covers violence between people who are in an intimate relationship, people who are related and people who live together. While the definition varies by jurisdiction there has been a tendency for the definition to grow since the 1960s. Domestic and intimate partner violence can be abbreviated DV/IPV.

Whereas DV/IPV and was originally seen as physical violence it now encompasses many behaviours including, most recently in many countries, coercive control. The growing definition has been accompanies by increasingly harsh penalties that disproportionately impact men.

Many references to domestic violence in public discourse are actually references to intimate partner violence.

The category of Intimate Partner Violence includes articles where an accusation has been made but no conviction has been recorded.