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.
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a subset of domestic violence (DV) which involves violence between people who are in an intimate relationship. Some jurisdictions do not count people below the age of 15 as being in an intimate relationship.
Many references to DV in public discourse are actually references to intimate partner violence.
Governments and feminist organisations are increasingly using the term family violence rather than DV and/or IPV.
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The category of Intimate Partner Violence includes articles where an accusation has been made. Inclusion in this category does not imply guilt.