"Violence is the use of physical force to cause harm to people, animals, or property, such as pain, injury, death, damage, or destruction."
The use of physical force to harm or injure people, which can take many forms and lead to severe social problems.
Types of Violence: Understanding the different forms of violence such as physical, emotional, sexual, and economic.
Causes of Violence: Exploring the various factors that contribute to violent behavior including poverty, inequality, cultural norms, and mental illness.
Effects of Violence: Understanding the short- and long-term impacts of violent experiences on individuals, families, and communities.
Prevention of Violence: Examining the strategies and interventions that can be used to prevent violence in different settings such as schools, homes, and communities.
Response to Violence: Understanding the legal and justice system responses to violence, including punishment and rehabilitation.
Domestic Violence: Understanding the dynamics of intimate partner violence, including power and control tactics, and the impact on victims.
Rape and Sexual Violence: Examining the prevalence and effects of sexual assault and harassment, as well as interventions to prevent and respond to these crimes.
Gang Violence: Examining the underlying causes of gang-related violence, as well as prevention and intervention strategies.
Mass Violence and Terrorism: Understanding the root causes of mass violence, including domestic and international terrorism, and exploring ways to prevent and respond to these types of incidents.
Youth Violence: Examining the causes and consequences of violence among young people, as well as prevention and intervention strategies.
Workplace Violence: Understanding the types of violence that occur in the workplace, including interpersonal violence and violence associated with natural disasters or other emergencies.
Violence against Marginalized Groups: Examining the violence that is directed against marginalized groups, including racial and ethnic minorities, and exploring ways to prevent and respond to hate crimes.
International Violence: Understanding the various forms of violence that occur on a global scale, including war, genocide, and other forms of political violence.
Media and Violence: Examining the role of media in shaping public perceptions of violence, and exploring ways to promote media literacy and responsible reporting.
Trauma and Resilience: Understanding the impact of violence on individuals and communities, and exploring ways to promote resilience and healing.
Physical violence: Involves intentional use of physical force that results in harm or injury to another person. Examples include hitting, kicking, punching, slapping, pushing, and strangling.
Sexual violence: Involves any form of sexual act or behavior that is forced upon or coerced against someone's will. Examples include rape, sexual assault, molestation, and harassment.
Emotional or psychological violence: Involves verbal or non-verbal actions that are intended to control, humiliate, intimidate or harm another person's emotional well-being. Examples include threats, insults, verbal attacks, shaming, and gaslighting.
Financial or economic violence: Involves using control over financial resources to exploit or manipulate another person. Examples include denying access to money, preventing a partner from working or earning a living, and forcing someone to work against their will.
Cyber violence: Involves using technology, such as social media, to harass, humiliate or threaten someone. Examples include cyberbullying, stalking, and revenge porn.
Institutional or systemic violence: Involves the ways in which policies, laws or cultural norms perpetrate harm or discrimination against particular communities or social groups. Examples include racism, homophobia, and sexism, as well as structural forms of violence like poverty or lack of access to healthcare.
State violence: Involves the use of force or power by government authorities against individuals or groups, often through the police or military. Examples include police brutality, torture, and state-sponsored terrorism.
Environmental violence: Involves harm caused by environmental degradation, pollution or climate change, often impacting marginalized or vulnerable communities. Examples include toxic waste dumping, destruction of natural ecosystems, and displacement due to rising sea levels or natural disasters.
Cultural or symbolic violence: Involves the ways in which cultural norms or narratives shape individual and collective attitudes towards certain groups, leading to social exclusion, marginalization or discrimination. Examples include cultural appropriation, hate speech, and stereotyping.
Structural violence: Involves the ways in which social, economic, and political systems create and perpetuate conditions of inequality, oppression, and disadvantage for certain groups. Examples include income inequality, lack of affordable housing, and discrimination in education or employment opportunities.
"The intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against oneself, another person, or against a group or community, which either results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm, maldevelopment, or deprivation."
"Violence resulted in deaths of an estimated 1.28 million people in 2013, up from 1.13 million in 1990, while the global population grew by roughly 1.9 billion during those years."
"Of the deaths in 2013, roughly 842,000 were attributed to self-harm (suicide), 405,000 to interpersonal violence, and 31,000 to collective violence (war) and legal intervention."
"For each single death due to violence, there are dozens of hospitalizations, hundreds of emergency department visits, and thousands of doctors' appointments."
"Furthermore, violence often has lifelong consequences for physical and mental health and social functioning and can slow economic and social development."
"Assault by firearm was the cause of 180,000 deaths, assault by sharp object was the cause of 114,000 deaths, and the remaining 110,000 deaths from other causes."
"Violence in many forms can be preventable."
"Concentrated (regional) poverty, income and gender inequality, the harmful use of alcohol, and the absence of safe, stable, and nurturing relationships between children and parents."
"Strategies addressing the underlying causes of violence can be relatively effective in preventing violence."
"Mental and physical health and individual responses, personalities, etc. have always been decisive factors in the formation of these behaviors."