Fighting Domestic Violence

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3. Similarities and differences in terminology
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3.1 Domestic violence
This can be defined as the deliberate infliction of physical and moral damage by persons to others (covered under this law) caused by abuse of close relative relations or current or past cohabitation.[11]
3.2 Stalking
This can be defined as when a person or a group of people adopt a pattern of behavior that leaves another person feeling fearful, harassed or anxious.[12]
3.3 Harassment
This can be defined as any behavior, whether physical, verbal, written or otherwise that is unwanted and unwelcome, and that may offend or humiliate an individual.[13]
3.4 Victim
An "aggrieved person" can be defined as a person who has suffered physically or morally as a result of the deliberate actions against him/her, by a member of a person's family living together, a close relative, a person cohabiting in an informal marriage or a person who has previously cohabited with him/her.[14]
3.5 Abuser
This can be defined as someone who treats another person in a cruel, violent or unfair way or someone who uses something in a way that is harmful or morally wrong.[15]
3.6 Civil protection order
This can be defined as denoting an act of limitations applied on the contingent actions of the person who committed domestic violence against the aggrieved person.[17]
3.7 Causes of action
This can be defined as a set of predefined factual elements that allow for legal remedy. The factual elements needed for a specific cause of action can come from a constitution, statute, judicial precedent or administrative regulation.[17]
3.8 Marital rape
This can be defined as rape committed by the person to whom the victim is married. Spousal rape is illegal, but observers state that the police do not effectively investigate such claims. The Criminal Code does not exclude marital rape from its definition of rape.[18]
3.9 Are there any other important domestic violence terms defined in relevant domestic violence statutes and codes?

Domestic psychological violence

This denotes the deliberate use of psychological pressure or actions aimed at producing an intolerable psychological situation.

Domestic application of illegal limitations of economic character

These are actions by persons toward each other aimed at the deprivation of the right to own, dispose of or use property, or obtain income, or at creating, sustaining and abusing the situation of economic dependency.

Prevention of domestic violence

These are legal, social and deterrent measures performed to remove the threat of domestic violence.

Protected persons

Victims of domestic violence may be classified as "protected persons" according to the definition set forth in Article 3.2 of the Law on State Protection of Persons Taking Part in Criminal Procedure. As such, they would be entitled to a host of security measures.

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