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Violence can be divided into three broad categories according to characteristics of those committing the violent act:
1. Self-directed violence: These are acts of violence directed to self or with the aim of harming oneself.
a. Suicidal behavior (suicidal thoughts, attempted suicide or deliberate self injury)
b. Self-abuse (Acts such as self mutilation)
2. Collective violence: These are acts of violence aimed at harming a group of people.
a. Social: Committed to advance a particular social agenda includes, for example, crimes of hate committed by organized groups, terrorist acts and mob violence.
b. Political violence includes war and related violent conflicts, state violence and similar acts carried out by larger groups.
c. Economic violence includes attacks by larger groups motivated by economic gain – such as attacks carried out with the purpose of disrupting economic activity, denying access to essential services, or creating economic division and fragmentation. Acts committed by larger groups can have multiple motives.
3. Interpersonal violence: Family and intimate partner violence: It is violence largely between family members and intimate partners, usually, though not exclusively, taking place in the home. It includes forms of violence such as child abuse, intimate partner violence and abuse of the elderly. As part of interpersonal violence communal violence is violence between individuals who are unrelated, and who may or may not know each other, generally taking place outside the home. It includes youth violence, random acts of violence, rape or sexual assault by strangers, and violence in institutional settings such as schools, workplaces, prisons and nursing homes.
Titany answered the question on December 7, 2021 at 09:20
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