There are a number of harassments that fall into this category.
- Bullying
Harassment that can occur on the playground, school, in the workforce or any other place. Usually physical and psychological
harassing behavior perpetrated against an individual, by one or more persons.
- Psychological harassment
This is humiliating or abusive behavior that lowers a person’s self-esteem or
causes them torment. This can take the form of verbal comments, actions or gestures. Falling into this category is workplace
mobbing. Community Based Harassment - stalking by a group against an individual using repeated distractions that the individual is
sensitized to, such as clicking an ink pen. See the following website: http://www.c-a-t-c-h.ca/
- Racial harassment
The targeting of an individual because of their race or ethnicity. The harassment's include words, deeds, and actions,
that are specifically designed to make the target feel degraded due to their race of origin or ethnicity.
- Religious harassment
Verbal, psychological or physical harassment's used against targets because they choose
to practice a specific religion. Religious harassment can also include forced and involuntary conversions.[1]
- Sexual harassment
Harassment that can happen anywhere but is most common in the workplace, and schools. It involves unwanted and unwelcome,
words, deeds, actions, gestures, symbols, or behaviors of a sexual nature that make the target feel uncomfortable. Gender
and sexual orientation harassment fall into this family.
- Stalking
The unauthorized following and surveillance of an individual, to the extent that the person's privacy is unacceptably
intruded upon, and the victim fears for their safety.
- Mobbing
Violence committed directly or indirectly by a loosely affiliated and organized group of individuals to punish or
even execute a person for some alleged offense without a lawful trial. The 'offense' can range from a serious crime like murder
or simple expression of ethnic, cultural, or religious attitudes. The issue of the victim's actual guilt or innocence is often
irrelevant to the mob, since the mob relies on contentions that are unverifiable, unsubstantiated, or completely fabricated.
- Hazing
To persecute, harass, or torture in a deliberate, calculated, planned, manner. Typically the targeted individual is
a subordinate, for example, a fraternity pledge, a first-year military cadet, or somebody who is considered 'inferior' or
an 'outsider'. Hazing is illegal in many instances.
- Police Harassment
Unfair treatment conducted by law officials including but not limited to excessive force,profiling, threats, coercion, and racial, ethnic, religious, gender/sexual, age, or other forms of discrimination.
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