TDH Booklet4 - Texas Association Against Sexual Assault

Glossary
Glossary
Batterers Intervention and Prevention Programs
(BIPPs) – Programs targeting batterers and former batterers
designed to intervene in patterns of violence and prevent future acts
of violence toward intimate partners. Participants may be court
ordered or self-referred to the programs.
Community Based Organization – Formal or informal
network or organization formed to further a specific mission in the
community.
Ecological Framework – An approach to social problems
suggesting that causal factors are embedded in several levels of
causality including the individual level, the relationship level, the
community level and the societal level.
Faith Based Organization – A formal or informal
organization or network formed to support communities of people
subscribing to a particular religion or genre of religion.
Domestic Violence - Violence between intimates (e.g. spouses,
domestic partners, boyfriends and/or girlfriends). Domestic
violence usually involves a pattern of coercive behaviors including
physical, sexual and psychological attacks used by one person to
gain control and dominance over another person. Such behaviors
can include degrading remarks, cruel jokes, economic exploitation,
punches, kicks, false imprisonment, sexual abuse, suffocating
actions, maiming assaults, stalking and homicide.
Interpersonal Violence – violence inflicted by another
individual or by a small group of individuals where there is no
clearly defined political motive. The World Health Organization’s
World Report on Violence and Health divides interpersonal violence
into two categories:
• Family and intimate partner violence - that is, violence
largely between family members and intimate partners,
usually, though not exclusively, taking place within the
home.
• Community violence - violence between individuals who
are unrelated and who may or may not know each
another, generally taking place outside the home.
A STRATEGIC PLAN TO PREVENT VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN TEXAS
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