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The Iowa Coalition Against Domestic Violence

The Iowa Coalition Against Domestic Violence

The Iowa Coalition Against Domestic Violence

 515 - 421 - 4658
www.icadv.org

Iowa Coalition Against Sexual Assault

The Iowa Coalition Against Domestic Violence

The Iowa Coalition Against Domestic Violence

515 - 244 - 7424
www.iowacasa.org



Iowa Coalition for Collective Change

The Iowa Coalition Against Domestic Violence

Iowa Coalition for Collective Change

515 - 442 - 5217
www.iowachange.org



National Human Trafficking Hotline

National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence

Iowa Coalition for Collective Change

1-888-373-7888
www.humantraffickinghotline.org



National Sexual Assault Hotline

National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence

National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence


1-800-656-HOPE
www.rain.org  



National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence

National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence

National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence

www.ncdsv.org 



NAMI IOWA

IOWA CIVIL RIGHTS COMMISSION

IOWA CIVIL RIGHTS COMMISSION

515-254-0417

HTTPS://NAMIIOWA.ORG



IOWA CIVIL RIGHTS COMMISSION

IOWA CIVIL RIGHTS COMMISSION

IOWA CIVIL RIGHTS COMMISSION

515-281-4121

HTTPS://ICRC.IOWA.GOV



DISABILITY RIGHTS OF IOWA

IOWA CIVIL RIGHTS COMMISSION

DISABILITY RIGHTS OF IOWA

515-278-2502

HTTPS://DISABILITYRIGHTSIOWA.ORG



IOWA LEGAL AID

DES MOINES CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION

DISABILITY RIGHTS OF IOWA

515-243-2151

https://www.iowalegalaid.org



DES MOINES CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION

DES MOINES CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION

DES MOINES CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION

515-283-4284

https://www.dsm.city/departments/civil_and_human_rights/index.php



FIND YOUR LEGISLATOR

DES MOINES CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION

DES MOINES CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION


HTTPS://WWW.LEGIS.IOWA.GOV/LEGISLATORS/FIND



ipv fact sheet

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examples of COERCIVE CONTROL

 

SIGNS OF COERCIVE CONTROL


Coercive control describes an ongoing and multi-pronged strategy, with tactics that include manipulation, humiliation, isolation, financial abuse, and stalking. It can also include mental, physical or sexual abuse of the victim. The perpetrator’s actions are carried out in clever increasing and intensifying increments. This insidious and calculated controlled assault on the victims are often described as “death by a thousand cuts."


  • ·Being isolated from your family and friends.
  • Being deprived of your basic needs (i.e. Food, medication and comfort).
  • Being financially deprived of your own money, and having to account for the money you do spend.
  • Losing control of your everyday life (i.e. where you go, whom you can see, what you wear, what you can buy, etc.).
  • Being threatened with violence if you do not behave in a certain way (i.e. how you clean the house, cook the meals, perform in the bedroom, etc.).
  • Controlling your reproductive choices and sexual health (i.e. forbid the use of contraception from protecting you from STD’s or unwanted pregnancy, etc.).
  • Being controlled as to where you work, and what type of work you do.
  • Being stopped from working or going to school/college/university, etc.
  • Having no authority over your accounts.
  • Controlling everything within the household (i.e. deeds of the house, telephone, utilities, passport, etc.).
  • Monitoring your activities, movements and communication (i.e. emails, social media, spyware on mobile phone & computer, etc.).
  • Threatening to publish information about you to everybody, the police and authorities.
  • Insisting you answer their phone calls within a certain number of rings.
  • Being deprived of sleep.
  • Subjected to constant criticism, humiliation, intimidation and degrading name-calling.
  • Being repeatedly put down, telling you that you are worthless.
  • Enduring mental, emotional, physical and sexual violence.
  • Having your property or household damaged.
  • Forcing you to be part of their criminal activities or child abuse.
  • Threatening to harm or kill you and your children.


These are just a few examples of coercive control tactics, but the list is endless. This subjugation of the victim occurs against a background of entitlement and inequality.

Examples of DISTURBING THE PEACE

  • "Disturbing the peace of the other party” refers to conduct that, based on the totality of the circumstances, destroys the mental or emotional calm of the other party. This conduct may be committed directly or indirectly, including through the use of a third party, and by any method or through any means including, but not limited to, telephone, online accounts, text messages, internet-connected devices, or other electronic technologies. This conduct includes, but is not limited to, coercive control, which is a pattern of behavior that in purpose or effect unreasonably interferes with a person’s free will and personal liberty. 




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