Violence

Violence refers to acts —typically connotative with aggressive and criminal behaviour —which intend to cause or is causing of injury to persons, animals, or (in limited cases) property. Harm to non-human animals may be considered violence, though this depends on the social mores related to animal cruelty, and the situational context in which such acts take place. The concept of "violence" can also be extended to any abuse, including even non-physical verbal abuse. Damage to property is typically considered minor relative to violence against persons.

Law

One of the main functions of law is to regulate violence (indeed, the sociologist Max Weber famously stated that the state is a monopoly on violence).

Related Topics:
Law - Max Weber - Monopoly on violence

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Certain forms and degrees of violence are socially and/or legally sanctioned, while others constitute crimes within a specific society. Different societies apply different standards relating to sanctioned and non-sanctioned forms of violence. Degrees of violence that are not accepted by a society's norms are commonly regarded as cruel, and may be termed extra-normal violence. Violence used in terrorism is often extra-normal in terms of degree.

Related Topics:
Crime - Society - Norms - Cruel - Terrorism

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Violence can be unilateral, while fighting implies a reaction, at least a defensive one.

Related Topics:
Fighting - Defensive

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Here are some forms/conceptions of violence condemned/conceived by various legal entities :

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• Abuse
• Aggravated assault
• Assault
• Assault and battery
• Battery
• Cruelty to animals
• Domestic violence
• Murder
• Property damage
• Rape