Types Of Violence

1. A mostly hidden, mostly unacknowledged form of violence having to do with the everyday, normal functioning of institutions and policies of society.

Violence

Cultural Violence

Direct Violence

Indirect/Structural Violence

2. The intentional use of physical force against oneself, another person, or against a group or community, that either results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm, maldevelopment or deprivation. - WHO

Cultural Violence

Direct Violence

Indirect/Structural Violence

None of the above

3. A way of describing social arrangements that put individuals and populations in harm's way. The arrangements are embedded in the political and economic organization of our social world and cause injury to people. Neither culture nor pure individual will is at fault for the effects of these arrangements; rather, historically given (and often economically driven) processes and forces conspire to constrain individual agency. -Dr. Paul Farmer

Violence

Direct Violence

Indirect Violence/Structural Violence

Cultural Violence

4. The normal workings of America's economic institutions ensure that poor people have significantly increased risks for cancer, heart disease, AIDS, depression, environmental threats and premature death.

Indirect/Structural

Cultural

Direct

All of the above

5. Direct or structural violence that is legitimized by culture.

Cultural Violence

Direct Violence

Indirect Violence

All of the above

6. "Anything that denies human integrity, and leads to hopelessness and helplessness." - MLK

Violence

Direct Violence

Indirect/Structural Violence

Cultural Violence

7. Sex crimes sore in the US military.

Cultural

Direct

Indirect/Structural

None of the above

8. On the highways of America -- even in sparsely populated Blaine County -- police use racial profiling to determine which automobiles to pull over and search for drugs.

Direct and Indirect

Direct and Cultural

Indirect and Cultural

All of the above

9. Canada Tar Sands linked to cancer in Native Communities.

Indirect/Structural

Cultural

Direct

Structural and Cultural

Types Of Violence

1. A mostly hidden, mostly unacknowledged form of violence having to do with the everyday, normal functioning of institutions and policies of society.

2.

What first name or nickname would you like us to use?

2. The intentional use of physical force against oneself, another person, or against a group or community, that either results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm, maldevelopment or deprivation. - WHO

4. The normal workings of America's economic institutions ensure that poor people have significantly increased risks for cancer, heart disease, AIDS, depression, environmental threats and premature death.

5. Direct or structural violence that is legitimized by culture.

6. "Anything that denies human integrity, and leads to hopelessness and helplessness." - MLK

7. Sex crimes sore in the US military.

8. On the highways of America -- even in sparsely populated Blaine County -- police use racial profiling to determine which automobiles to pull over and search for drugs.

9. Canada Tar Sands linked to cancer in Native Communities.