Peer on peer abuse can take on many forms this can include:
- Domestic Abuse – an incident or pattern of actual or threatened acts of physical, sexual, financial and/or
- Child Sexual Exploitation – children under the age of 18 may be sexually abused
in the context of exploitative relationships and situations by peers who are also under 18.
- Harmful Sexual Behaviour – Children and young people presenting with sexual
behaviours that are outside of developmentally ‘normative’ parameters and harmful to themselves and others
- Serious Youth Violence – Any offence of the most serious violence or weapon
enabled crime, where the victim is aged 1-19′ i.e. murder, manslaughter, rape, wounding with intent and causing grievous bodily harm. ‘Youth violence’ is defined in the same way, but also includes assault with injury offences.
- Sexual violence can include rape, assault by penetration and sexual assault
- Sexual Harassment -unwanted conduct of a sexual nature
The term peer-on-peer abuse can refer to all of these definitions and a learner may experience one or multiple facets of abuse at any one time.