Non-Intimate Partner Violence
Domestic Violence isn't limited to Intimate Partner Relationships.
Violence as a whole is the process of a perpetrator targeting an unsuspecting person or group and commencing to inflict a mix of physical, psychological, emotional, physiological, spiritual and financial harm, with the intent to cause prolonged injury, damage and destruction in an effort to procure and maintain power and control.
Unlike isolated incidences of violence, NON INTMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE(NIPV) isn't a sudden, secluded or unexpected incident. It may involve years of emotional and psychological trauma as well as physical injuries.
There is a strong correlation between the lack of healthy structural support groups in NIPV prevalence, as those who lack the social attributes necessary to strengthen their survival efforts, are most likely to fall victim to predatory social groups and the maleficent behaviors of others.
NIPV can be cloaked in false claims of developing friendships, training exercises, or under the guise of someone being inducted or initiated into groups to minimize the chances of defensive responses to abusive behavior, while the levels of abuse increase in severity over time.
Non-Intimate Partner Violence Can Include:
Individual Violence - Violence carried out by an individual against someone, as in a lone stalker or a lone perpetrator targeting and engaging in acts of violence on their own accord.
Collective Violence - Violent actions committed or carried out by small or large groups of people. Collective Violence is usually carried out to advance a particular agenda and can include prolonged incidences of discriminatory behavior, acute or severe acts of terrorism and other forms of organized violence against someone.
5 Main Types Of Non-Intimate Partner Violence.
Frenemies
When a friendship has the tenets of violating a person’s individual autonomy, restricting their rights to make decisions for themselves or act in their own best interest, or when violent actions are carried out against someone, whether overtly or covertly to cause them harm, either by a person or group the victim deems to be a friend, they are involved in an abusive relationship. Frenemy behaviors can include sabotaging a “friend’s” survival efforts, using triangulation to cause conflicts, framing and rigging scenarios to diminish favorable outcomes, or even forcing harmful friendships through maleficent acts of manipulation or threats. Usually there is an underlying or fundamental dislike for or rivalry hidden within the dynamics of the relationship and is carried out by subtle or severe acts of violence, sabotage, and financial or economic hindrances, while denying any wrongdoing. Frenemies may even openly profess affection for their target or provide benevolent gestures of help, while acting in the opposite behind closed doors. Less recognizable forms of frenemy violence include insulting, making fun of or embarrassing the “friend” in public places, or other clandestine acts of betrayal.
Family Members
Families with patterns or histories of engaging in acts of violent behavior against other members within the same group, fall within this category.
Violent dynamics within families can distort the ideological concepts of what acceptable social behavior constructs are. These dynamics can be far more damaging for victims, as most of them have been imbued with violent behavioral patterns over lengthy periods of time, making the recognition or modification of destructive socialization habits much harder to eradicate.
Familial violence can encompass any variation of physical, psychological, emotional, and economic violence, as well as neglect - especially within young victims, as most aren't getting their needs met within the relationship.
Almost all victims and perpetrators of violence have reported experiencing some form of childhood violence, either in the form of a caretaker or other familial violence growing up.
As a result of the trauma caused within these relationships, generational cycles of violence are more likely to persist. Children who grow up in abusive households are far more likely to either become abusers themselves or fall victim to abusive relationships.
Violence In The Workplace
Acts of intimidation, threatening behavior, unfairly assigning workloads or overworking and overloading employees, sabotaging productivity applications or tools used to successfully complete work assignments, reprimands of retaliation, physical violence, and sexual harassment, are all examples of workplace violence, and can range from subtle threats or threatening behavior to physical assaults, and can even result in homicide.
Under the duress of workplace violence, productivity and creativity can significantly decline, and in some instances, even regress, as a result of the trauma involved in trying to function within a hostile environment.
Around half of all employees in the U.S. have reported some form of workplace violence, including racial discrimination and explicit acts of violence, such as shoving, pushing or threats of reprimand or termination if the worker failed to acquiesce to unfair or harmful practices or demands.
Workplace violence costs industries billions of dollars each year, resulting from injuries, discrimination or harassment claims, lost wages, and the costs of replacing volatile employees or restructuring volatile work cultures.
Examples Of Workplace Violence
Criminal Intent - Crime syndicates or contractors who might hire someone under fraudulent claims, or someone targeting an organization, seeking to engage in counterfeit behavior fall within this category.
Customer or Client or Inmate - A worker who is repeatedly assaulted or threatened by a client, inmate, or customer.
Worker On Worker - A worker who is repeatedly assaulted or threatened by a co-worker, boss or contractor within the organization they work in.
Elder Abuse
Predators seek out those who might prove to be easy targets. This is especially true for elderly people, as it can be a struggle to care for themselves as they age.
Elder abuse is abuse, neglect, or financial exploitation carried out on those over 60 years old.
While elder abuse can happen anywhere, assisted living facilities and nursing homes are notorious for incidences of elder abuse with around 30 percent of elders becoming victims of violent crimes each year.
Many elders face the threat of financial abuse scams, as they are most vulnerable to predatory behavior, resulting from health decline or other similar factors.
The Sting Of NIPV
Non Intimate Partner Violence effects millions of people each year, and can be very difficult to recognize, as it's contextual applications transcend intimate relationships and can be cloaked in the auspices of many things.
And while socialization and the support we recieve from healthy familial and friendly relationships are the quintessential factor in determining how well we progress ourselves in the world, Non Intimate Partner violent relationships can cause us inconceivable suffering and can prevent us from living healthy, productive lives - as they destructively drain us of our vital life force.
In recognizing when someone or a group of people are harmful towards us or towards the objectives we choose for ourselves, we can take subversive actions early enough in the relationship to protect ourselves from harm.
Likewise in knowing the signs of volatile or abusive relationships outside of intimate partner dynamics we broaden our understanding of the constructs of abusive behavior.
Together we can fight the good fight in protecting ourselves and our loved ones from the sting of violent relationships. Knowledge is and action are the keys to breaking free from these volatile structures...Learn them and use them...ALWAYS.