Dating Violence and Victimization.

Dating violence and dating abuse are broad terms that include any form of violence or threat of violence that occurs between two people in the context of an ongoing romantic relationship. This does not include such behavior between married persons, as this is characterized instead as domestic violence. A considerable amount of research has been devoted to determining a profile of a typical offender and a typical victim, but repeated studies have shown that dating abuse occurs among all racial and ethnic groups, all age categories, and in relationships between same-sex and opposite-sex partners.