CRJS 2009 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Content Analysis, Actual Size, Uniform Crime Reports
13 Sep 2016
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Violence: behaviours by persons against person that intentionally threatens, attempts, or actually inflicts physical harm. Corporate violence: behaviour that produces an unreasonable risk of physical harm to employees, the general public and consumers resulting from deliberate decisions by corporate managers or executives. Bp oil spill that killed 11 and injured dozens. Occupational related deaths from exposure to dangerous chemicals. Psychological violence: persistent negative attributions to others, particularly those emotionally close to the speaker. It can be emotionally damaging to one intimate partner if the other steadily threatens, denigrates, or verbally abuses him or her. Controlling another person in a way that provides opportunity to criticize and denigrate. Few of those responsible are ever criminally prosecuted. Violence may or may not be criminal. The law turns the threat, attempt, or use of physical force by one or more people towards others into criminal violence. Without law, the violence can be outrageous, immoral, depressing, demoralizing and lamentable but not a crime.
