sentences: "The most extreme form of such violence may be termed "battering", "intimate terrorism", "coercive controlling violence", or simply "coercive control", in which one person is violent and controlling; this is generally perpetrated by men against women, and is the most likely of the types to require medical services and the use of a women's shelter.Subsequently, resistance to intimate terrorism, which is a form of self-defense and may be termed "violent resistance", is usually conducted by women.