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• Intentional injuries


  Injuries resulting from violence
• Types of intentional injuries

  • Self-inflicted
  • Assault
• Self-inflicted


  When a person harms him/herself on purpose
• Assault


  When person/persons harm another on purpose
• Suicide


  The intentional taking of one's own life
• Parasuicide


  A suicide attempt in which a person does not intend to die
• Parasuicide


  It is often a cry for help meaning, the person wants others to know what s/he is feeling
• Domestic violence


  An act that includes physical assault, sexual abuse, and verbal abuse. These are behaviors that are used by one person in a relationship who tries to control the other
• Domestic violence may occur to partners who may be married or not married
• Bullying


  An unwanted, aggressive behavior that is repeated, or can be repeated, over time
• Types of bullying


  • Verbal bullying
  • Social bullying
  • Physical bullying
  • Cyberbullying
• Verbal bullying


  Saying or writing mean and nasty things. It includes teasing, name-calling, making inappropriate sexual comments, taunting, and threatening to cause harm
• Social bullying


  Hurting someone's reputation or relationships. It includes telling other children not to be friends with someone, spreading rumors about someone, and embarrassing someone in public
• Physical bullying


  Hurting a person's body or destroying his/her possessions. It includes hitting/kicking/pinching, spitting, tripping/pushing, taking or breaking someone's things, and making mean or rude hand gestures
• Cyberbullying


  Verbal and social bullying done through use of technology and electronic means. It includes using social media, using mobile devices, and using electronic mails
• Stalking


  Getting notes and gifts at your home, in your locker, or other places that you don't want, and phone calls, messages, letters, or e-mails that you don't want
• Extortion


  The act of using force or threats to force people to hand over their money or properties, on favors
• Extortion can happen outside or near schools wherein children are victimized to give up their allowances, in exchange for the promise that they will not be beaten up
• The act of extortion is different from robbery, as in robbery there is a very real and very immediate violence, while in extortion, a person may only suffer from the fear of harm if he/she gives in to the demand/s of the one who extorts
• Gang and youth violence


  A gang is defined as a relatively tough, mostly street-based group of young people who regard themselves and may be seen by others as a group that engages in a range of criminal activity and violence. Oftentimes, they are in conflict with other similar gangs
• Gang members are responsible for majority of serious crimes, like extortion, theft and robbery. They are also likely to be involved in selling drugs and are more likely to bring weapons to school for fear of attack from rival gangs
• Illegal fraternity-related violence


  Fraternities require applicants to undergo a series of initiation rites to become part of the "brotherhood", one of which is hazing, or activities that involve harassment, abuse, or humiliation
• Hazing can be very dangerous to applicants, as they will be subjected to physical and psychological suffering like being beaten with wooden paddles and may cause them a lot of injuries. Some even die in the process
• Hazing and other forms of initiation rites in fraternities, sororities and organizations are now being regulated under the Republic Act 8049, known as the Anti-Hazing Law, which prohibits physical hazing
• Kidnapping


  Taking away or forcefully moving a person against his/her will and holding him/her in unjust captivity, usually for a motive like getting a monetary reward/ransom or getting some sort of benefit from the person or their family
• Abduction


  The use of deceit or force in order to take a person or a child away from their home or relatives, usually by someone the victim knows or has some sort of relation with, and not for profit or any monetary gain
• Types of acts of terror

  • State terrorism
  • Bioterrorism
  • Cyberterrorism
  • Ecoterrorism
  • Nuclear terrorism
  • Narcoterrorism
• State terrorism


  States or governments can use force or the threat of force, without declaring war, to terrorize their citizens and achieve a political goal
• Bioterrorism


  The intentional release of toxic biological agents to harm and terrorize civilians, in the name of a political or other cause
• Cyberterrorism


  The use of information technology to attack civilians and draw attention to the terrorists' cause, such as disabling networked emergency systems or hacking into networks housing important financial information
• Ecoterrorism


  The use of violence in the interests of environmentalism, such as destroying property to inflict economic damage on industries or actors they see as harming animals or the natural environment
• Nuclear terrorism


  The use of nuclear materials as a terrorist tactic, such as attacking nuclear facilities, purchasing nuclear weapons, or building nuclear weapons
• Narcoterrorism


  The use of violence by drug traffickers to influence governments or prevent government's efforts in stopping the drug trade, such as the assassination of influential persons who are against drug trafficking or killing a government official who leads an anti-drug trafficking agency
• Verbal abuse


  A form of cruelty that involves the use of words to attack, control, and cause harm on another person, such as angry outbursts, screaming rage, and name-calling
• Incest


  Sexual contact between persons who are so closely related that a marriage between them is considered illegal, usually an older family member having sexual relations or sexually abusing a child or an adolescent
• Molestation


  The sexual abuse of a person (whether a child or adult) by an adult for sexual pleasure or for profit, such as fondling, mutual masturbation, sodomy, coitus, child pornography, and child prostitution
• Rape


  Forced sexual intercourse, including vaginal, anal, or oral penetration. Penetration may be by a body part or an object
• Fondling


  To handle, stroke or caress lovingly or erotically
• Mutual masturbation


  Two people touching each other's sexual organs for pleasure
• Sodomy


  Sexual intercourse that involves inserting of the penis of one person into the anus of another person