Violence

Violence
Violence is the kind of human interaction that is manifested in those behaviors or situations that would deliberately cause or threaten to do so, a serious injury or submission (physical, sexual or psychological) to an individual or a collectivity, or so affecting that limit their potential present or future.
Globally, violence takes the lives of more than 1.5 million people annually:just over 50% due to suicide, some 35% due to homicide, and just over 12% as a direct result of war or some other form of conflict. For each single death due to violence, there are dozens of hospitalizations, hundreds of emergency department visits, and thousands of doctors' appointments. Furthermore, violence often has lifelong consequences for victims' physical and mental health and socialfunctioning and can slow economic and social development.
Violence, however, is preventable. Evidence shows strong relationships between levels of violence and potentially modifiable factors such as concentrated poverty, income and gender inequality, the harmful use of alcohol, and the absence of safe, stable, and nurturing relationships between children and parents. Scientific research shows thatstrategies addressing the underlying causes of violence can be effective in preventing violence. Examples of scientifically credible strategies to prevent violence include nurse home-visiting and parenting education to prevent child maltreatment; life skills training for children ages 6–18 years; school-based programmers to address gender norms and attitudes; reducing alcohol availability and misusethrough enactment and enforcement of liquor licensing laws, taxation and pricing; reducing access to guns and knives; and promoting gender equality by, for instance, supporting the economic empowerment of women.
In the above definition of violence ("the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against oneself, another person, or against a group or community, that eitherresults in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm, mal development or deprivation) the inclusion of the word ‘‘power,’’ in addition to the phrase "use of physical force," broadens the nature of a violent act and expands the conventional understanding of violence to include those acts that result from a power relationship, including threats and intimidation. The"use of power" also serves to include neglect or acts of omission, in addition to the more obvious violent acts of commission. Thus, "the use of physical force or power" should be understood to include neglect and all types of physical, sexual and psychological abuse, as well as suicide and other self-abusive acts.

Domestic Violence

Domestic violence, family violence or domestic violenceencompasses all acts of violence, from the use of physical force, to bullying, harassment or intimidation, occurring within a home and perpetrated, at least, to one family member against another familiar.
Terminology of domestic violence
The terms relating to domestic violence include those relating specifically to domestic violence or intimate partner and thus obviating that exerted on othervulnerable members of the family as children and the elderly. Within the intimate partner violence, most cases are man-made violence against women. Expressions such as "violence against women" and "gender violence" are very frequently used. It was not until 1960, when it was recognized that violence and abuse in the family were a social problem. Previously, violence against women was regarded asabnormal and is attributed to people with mental diseases or mental problems.
The existence of such violence indicates a cultural lag in the presence of securities as consideration, tolerance, empathy and respect for others, regardless of gender. Domestic abuse includes physical, psychological or sexual carried out at home by a family that make vulnerable the freedom of another person causing...