The violence is a general term employed to describe a Comportement aggressive, nonfriendly, nonpacifist, belligerent, enemy, in other words an imposed constraint, which cause the pain, the sorrow.

Typology

Violence can be:

• sexual: a person, conscious of having an ascending (hierarchical, parental, physical, psychology) imposes on another nondesired sex acts;
• symbolic system: a situation of domination legitimates or not person on another, of a group of people on another, but badly lived by one of the two parts. Examples: Authoritarianism of a Hierarchy of company or army, political organization of a country, family life badly lived by a family member;
• marital: when the behavior of a spouse is identifiable with the one of the violences described above on other unites;
• specist: when violence is turned against another significant species that the Man like the animals;
• cold: term sometimes used to oppose it to hot”, aggressive violence “. Consist in forcing others to remain in a situation of suffering (sequestration, for example);
• on oneself: action not to take account of all its need in its actions. Thus to accept tasks which crush us. (By ex: to go to a barbecue whereas the week was hard and that one would prefer to spend the afternoon in family and not with the barbecue).
• educational: one understands by " violence éducative" violences on children perpetrated at ends known as of education.

Legitimation and ethical point of view

The use of the force can be legitimated. The self-defense, when the victim of violence is defended by the force, or when an army in war causes violent deaths under the responsibility of a State, within the framework of the international treaties of war.

It can be not legitimated like the free violence, which is an act moved by internal psychic causes with the belligerent and, juridically admissible for a possible grace; in which case a psychiatric treatment of the violent one becomes necessary. Not still legitimated when the actor of violence knowingly acts with premeditation in order to make an offense: flight, Kidnapping; in which case a legal treatment and Social of the violent one become necessary.

The question of violence, and in particular of the Homicide, the Rape and the Torture, is so recurring in the human history which the religions were brought to decide about it.

• sometimes for the to prohibit (“you will not kill” in the the Ten Commands),
• sometimes for the instrumentaliser (human sacrifices)
• sometimes finally for the to codify in well defined formal cases: war (of which legitimacy does not seem disputed by any religion (except the Quaker S), possible Capital punishment, etc

They emitted sometimes also positions on the Suicide.

See too

• Violence symbolic system, Marital violence, Violence homophobe, Urban violence, Police violence, verbal Violence
• Anger
• Ill-treatment
• Sociology of the deviance

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