CRM 601 Chapter Notes - Chapter Articles: Domestic Violence, Foot Binding, Simple Explanation
4 Nov 2016
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Two assumptions clouding definitions are that violence is motivated by hostility and that violence is deviant; when violence is positively motivated no attention is paid to it. Reiss & roth: restricts violence to interpersonal behaviors that inflict or threaten physical harm and are motivated by harmful intent; excluded are injuries that are self inflicted or inflicted by the state. Non-violence: says some forms of mental or psychological harm are as severe as physical, that people can be terrorized without physically being harmed. Wolff: violence is the illegitimate or unauthorized use of force against others. All neglect material and social injuries, and reflect biases and inconsistencies in definitions. Range of injurious outcomes: psychological, physical, material and social. Physical including any physical harm done to body, psychological including anxiety and shame, material including destruction or defacement of property, social including humiliation and stigmatization.
