We need a new crime on the books in New Jersey.

INTIMATE PARTNER PSYCHOLOGICAL VIOLENCE.

Violence is more than the use of physical force. It is any action intended to kill another.

When the physical manifestations of domestic violence shows a person beaten within an inch of their life, there is always psychological violence: emotional, mental, spiritual, and verbal abuse. Yet, when each of the these elements are present without a physical or sexual assault, why do we put it into another category?

Well, we need another "bucket" for men and women to have language that articulates their experience.

In domestic relationships INTIMATE PARTNERSHIP PSYCHOLOGICAL VIOLENCE is the "white collar" crime of homicide. Perpetrators, unwilling to get their hands dirty, recruit their hitmen to execute the attempt to take your life. To beat you into submission through relentless invalidation and deprivation of your basic your needs and human rights. The goal is to make you submit to their control or take your own life. With a callus inability to empathize, the abuser does not care, as long as they can get their way or can walk away with clean hands.

Now more than ever, this fissure has been revealed to be a crack so deep and so profoundly evil that victims can no longer stay silent under its criminal weight.

In addition to turning your family and friends against you, these white collar criminals infect every man-made system. Law enforcement, the courts, mental health professionals, and religious leaders. Institutions are weaponized to beat us within an inch of our lives. Perpetrators take pleasure in human suffering and wait to see if you'll finish the job for them.

A. Abuse by proxy. Either by mutual relationships or community.

B. Institutional abuse. Use of law enforcement, justice system, mental health and legal professionals to inflict physical and mental cruelty. 

C. Attempted parental alienation. Interfering and undermining with the parental role. This not the same as parental alienation syndrome (PAS). More on this later.

Please sign this petition by June 8, 2021 (New Jersey Primary) to begin the conversation among all stakeholders. Help this initiative become the pivotal issue at the General Election on November 2, 2021.