Violence

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Violence is a general term to decribe behaviour, usually deliberate, that causes or intends to cause physical injury to people, animals, or non-living objects. Violence is often associated with aggression, but the two are not necessarily bound together. There are essentially two kinds of violence, violence, which describes small-scale acts of random or targeted violence, and coordinated violence, which describes actions carried out by sanctioned or unsanctioned violent groups.

Certain forms of violence are socially and legally sanctioned, others consists of crimes within a society. Different societies apply different standards relating to approved and non-approved forms of violence. Sometimes violence that is not accepted by a society's norms is called cruel.

violence

Random violence, is a term which connotes an act of violence committed by an individual

Coordinated violence

War, terrorism.

James W. Prescott was someone who performed a study about the cause of violence in the anthropological sense.

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