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ABUSE PERPETRATOR [2 records]

Record 1 2022-08-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Social Problems
  • Family Law (common law)
  • Penal Law
CONT

Once a perpetrator of abuse has appropriated the power to verbally restrict his partner's day-to-day life choices, physical violence then serves as both the abuser's means of enforcing that control and the punishment for attempts to resist it.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Problèmes sociaux
  • Droit de la famille (common law)
  • Droit pénal
OBS

auteur de maltraitance; auteure de maltraitance; autrice de maltraitance : désignations normalisées par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 2 1995-09-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sociology of the Family
  • Social Problems
  • Human Behaviour
DEF

A person who treats others harshly, even to the point of being injurious.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie de la famille
  • Problèmes sociaux
  • Comportement humain
DEF

Personne qui commet des actes de violence envers autrui.

OBS

Le terme «agresseur» peut se référer à un homme ou à une femme. Dans le premier cas, on peut préciser «homme agresseur».

Spanish

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