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.

Psychology and sociology

The causes of violent behaviour are often a research topic in psychology and sociology. Violence is often, but not always, a deviant behaviour.

Related Topics:
Psychology - Sociology - Deviant behaviour

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The psychologist James W. Prescott performed a study about the cause of violence in the anthropological sense, which he mainly attaches to lack of mother-child bonding. He links repression of sexuality and punishment of children as a cause of violent societies.

Related Topics:
James W. Prescott - Anthropological - Sexuality - Punishment

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Some writers (Riane Eisler, Walter Wink, Daniel Quinn) have suggested that violence - or at least the arsenal of violent strategies we take for granted - is a phenomenon of the last five to ten thousand years, and was not present in pre-domestication and early post-domestication human societies.

Related Topics:
Riane Eisler - Daniel Quinn

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See also :

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• Violentization
• Structural violence