Victims Assistance Center of Jefferson County, Inc.
Serving the community since 1979 as a comprehensive victims services agency, our mission is to assist and provide direct services to victims/survivors of violence and crime in Jefferson County, NY.
Domestic violence is when one person does a variety of things to control another person in an intimate relationship. The shift in power can happen very slowly, over a period of time, so that the other person cannot even remember when it happened. Or it can happen very quickly after there is some sort of commitment or some change in the level of intimacy.
Many people wonder if what is happening to them is domestic violence because their partner has never hit them. Physical abuse is probably what most people think of when they think about domestic violence, but it is just one of the many ways that your partner might try to gain power and control in your relationship.
For a text version of the following Power and Control wheel, click anywhere on the image.
The Power and Control Wheel was developed by battered women in Duluth, Minnesota, who had been abused by their male partners and were attending women’s educational groups sponsored by the women’s shelter. This wheel is meant specifically to illustrate men’s abusive behaviors toward women. For more information visit: www.duluth-model.org.
(The above information was retrieved from the New York State Office for the Prevention of Domestic Violence website on November 11, 2010. For further information, please visit their site at:http://www.opdv.state.ny.us/index.html)
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