POWER-BASED VIOLENCE/SEXUAL MISCONDUCT

What is Power-Based Violence?

 

Any form of interpersonal violence intended to control or intimidate another person through the assertion of power over the person, to include the following: 
 
  1. Dating violence (R.S. 46:2151(C)).
  2. Domestic abuse and family violence (R.S. 46:2121.1(2) and 2132(3)). For the purpose of this Part, domestic abuse shall also include any act or threat to act that is intended to coerce, control, punish, intimidate, or exact revenge on the other party, for the purpose of preventing the victim from reporting to law enforcement or requesting medical assistance or emergency victim services, or for the purpose of depriving the victim of the means or ability to resist the abuse or escape the relationship.
  3. Nonconsensual observation of another person's sexuality without the other person's consent, including voyeurism (R.S. 14:283.1), video voyeurism (R.S. 14:283), nonconsensual disclosure of a private image (R.S. 14:283.2), and peeping tom activities (R.S. 14:284).
  4. Sexual assault (R.S. 14:41, 42 through 43.5, 89, 89.1, and 106).
      1. Sexual Battery (14:43.1)
      2. Misdemeanor sexual battery (14:43.1.1)
      3. Second degree sexual battery (14:43.2)
      4. Oral sexual battery (14:43.3)
      5. Female genital mutilation (14:43.4)
      6. Intentional exposure to HIV (14:43.5)
      7. Crime against nature (14:89)
      8. Aggravated Crime against nature (14:89.1)
      9. Obscenity (14:106) 
  5. Sexual exploitation means an act attempted or committed by a person for sexual gratification, financial gain, or other advancement through the abuse of another person's sexuality including prostituting another person (R.S. 14:46.2 and 82 through 86).
      1. Human trafficking (14:46.2)
      2. Prostitution (14:82)
      3. Prostitution of person under 18 (14:82.1)
      4. Purchase of commercial sexual activity (14:82.2)
      5. Solicitation for prostitutes (14:83)
      6. Inciting prostitution (14:83.1)
      7. Promoting prostitution (14:83.2)
      8. Prostitution by massage (14:83.3)
      9. Sexual massages (14:83.4)
      10. Pandering (sexual) (14:84)
      11. Letting premises for prostitution (14:85)
      12. Enticing persons into prostitution (14:86)
  6. Sexual harassment means unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal, physical, or inappropriate conduct of a sexual nature when the conduct explicitly or implicitly affects an individual's employment or education, unreasonably interferes with an individual's work or educational performance, or creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive work or educational environment and has no legitimate relationship to the subject matter of a course or academic research. 
  7. Stalking (R.S. 14:40.2) and cyberstalking (R.S. 14:40.3). 
  8.  Unlawful communications (R.S. 14:285). 
  9.  Unwelcome sexual or sex- or gender-based conduct that is objectively offensive and has a discriminatory intent.