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Information about MC's sexual harassment policies and procedures

Warning Signs of Abusive or Potentially Abusive Relationships

The abuser is controlling and possessive.

  • The victim is restricted in communicating with others; their use of phone, e-mail, or Internet is monitored. 
  • The victim is forbidden to see friends or family, or limited in contact with them. 
  • The abuser is intensely jealous of the victim’s interactions with others. 
  • The abuser invades the victim’s privacy – their home or room, walks or drives, diary, mail, e-mail, Facebook page, possessions. 
  • The abuser grills the victim about what they did at work or at school. 
  • The abuser controls finances and decision-making. 
  • The abuser refuses to accept the victim’s termination of the relationship. 

The abuser seems to be two different people.

  • The abuser has a Jekyll-and-Hyde personality, often showing a charming, charismatic side to others. 
  • The abuser seems deeply penitent, sorrowful, and loving after an emotionally, verbally, or physically violent episode.    
  • The abuser is desperate and extreme.
  • The abuser may push for commitments too early in the relationship. 
  • The abuser threatens to kill the victim or themselves if the victim leaves them. 
  • The abuser says they cannot live without the victim or the victim cannot live without them. 
  • The abuser seems obsessed with having the victim for themselves. 
  • The abuser is verbally abusive.
  • The abuser puts the victim down, privately or publicly. 
  • The abuser plays on the victim’s guilt or their past love for them. 
  • The abuser makes the victim question the victim’s sanity or accuses the victim of being crazy. 
  • The abuser insults the victim’s intelligence, body, or looks. 
  • The abuser is unable or unwilling to communicate verbally without shouts, curses, or insults. 
  • The abuser speaks disparagingly of the opposite sex.
  • The abuser denigrates the victim’s friends. 
  • The abuser talks about the inferiority of the other sex, or the need to keep them in line.

The abuser is violent.

  • The abuser loses their temper easily over small things; their anger seems frightening or out of proportion. 
  • The abuser grabs the victim, twists their arm, pushes them, pulls them into the car, otherwise uses physical force. 
  • The abuser is violent toward the victim’s pets or cruel to animals in general. 
  • The abuser was physically violent to a former partner. 
  • The abuser throws things, kicks things, breaks things. 
  • The abuser demands sex, forcing the victim or persistently urging them to perform sex acts without their consent. 
  • The abuser disowns responsibility.
  • The abuser denies being verbally or physically abusive. 
  • The abuser blames the victim or someone else for the abuse. (The victim "made them do it" or "drove them to it.") 
  • The abuser excuses the abuse on grounds of their great love for the victim. 
  • The victim shows signs of physical, sexual, or psychological abuse.
  • The victim excuses the abuser’s actions to themselves or others. (So the victim cannot name what is happening to them.) 
  • The victim speaks of the inferiority of their sex or of their responsibility to keep relationships or homes intact. 
  • The victim accepts responsibility for the abuser’s abuse, verbal or physical. 
  • The victim wants to end the relationship but fears what it will do to the abuser or that they will retaliate. 
  • The victim has recurring, non-specific aches, pains, or ailments, which can signify stress. 
  • The victim’s self-esteem suffers. They speak poorly of themselves, especially in relation to the abuser. 
  • The victim makes significant lifestyle or appearance changes to benefit or appease the abuser. 
  • The victim has bruises or seems physically hurt. 

Based on “Warning Signs of Abusive or Potentially Abusive Relationships” copyright 1999, 2010, 2011 Gail Griffin.
All rights reserved. Please use with attribution.

On-campus resources

Title IX Coordinator

Dr. Kristena Gaylor
Associate Professor, School of Business
Self Hall 200B
601.925.3415
kgaylor@mc.edu

Deputy Title IX Coordinator

Jonathan Nutt 
Director of Student Engagement
Student Life Center, Back Patio BCR 
601.925.3248 
nutt@mc.edu

Deputy Title IX Coordinator

Seth Brill 
Director of Residence Life
Student Life Center, Back Patio BCR 
sbrill@mc.edu
601.925.7844

Deputy Title IX Coordinator

Susan Musselwhite 
Assistant Athletic Director
A.E. Wood Coliseum 
601.925.3362

Associate Vice President for the Student Experience & Chief Conduct Officer

Dr. Jonathan Ambrose
Nelson Hall 313 
601.925.3275 
jwambrose@mc.edu

MC Security

Mr. Mike Warren 
Director of Public Safety

Mr. Brent Perkins 
Associate Director of Public Safety
Alumni Hall 1st Floor 
601.925.3834
mjwarren@mc.edu
perkins@mc.edu

 

On-campus confidential resources:

Student Mental HEalth Services

Jenny Crutchfield, LPC, BC-TMH
Director of Mental Health Services
Alumni Hall 4th Floor 
601.925.7790 
jcrutchfield@mc.edu

Health Services

Lindsey Thompson, FNP-C
Baptist Healthplex, 1st Floor 
601.924.9005

 

Off-campus resources:

Clinton Police Department

305 Monroe Street 
Clinton, MS 39056 
911 
601.924.5252

Rape Crisis Center (Central Mississippi)

601.982.7273
Website

Mississippi Baptist Medical Center Emergency Room

1225 North State Street 
Jackson, MS 
601.968.1000

Hotlines

24-Hour Hotline (local)

The Center for Violence Prevention
601.932.4198 or 1.800.266.4198
http://www.mscvp.org

The National Domestic Violence Hotline

1-800-799-SAFE (7233)
24 hours a day, 7 days a week in many languages.

National Sexual Assault Hotline

1.800.656.HOPE (4673)
Free & Confidential,  available 24/7

National Child Abuse Hotline

1-800-4-A-Child (1-800-422-4253)
24/7, Anonymous and confidential, interpreters in 170 languages
http://www.childhelp.org

Mississippi Resources

Websites

Federal Government

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