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Violence is often defined as the use of physical force or power by humans to cause harm and degradation to other living beings, such as humiliation, pain, injury, disablement, damage to property and ultimately death, as well as destruction to a society's living environment.
Other scholars have defined "collective vigilantism" as "group violence to punish perceived offenses to a community." [2] Les Johnston argues that vigilantism has six necessary components: [3] it is planned or premeditated; it is carried out by private volunteers; it is a social movement; it involves or threatens the use of force
Massacre derives from late 16th century Middle French word macacre meaning "slaughterhouse" or "butchery". Further origins are dubious, though the word may be related to Latin macellum "provisions store, butcher shop". [4] [5] [6] The Middle French word macecr "butchery, carnage" is first recorded in the late 11th century. Its primary use ...
Torture [a] is defined as the deliberate infliction of severe pain or suffering on someone under the control of the perpetrator. [2] [3] The treatment must be inflicted for a specific purpose, such as punishment and forcing the victim to confess or provide information.
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Gun violence isn’t a one-off tragedy — it’s an epidemic. While that may seem too big to handle, there are things you can do as an individual to help, experts say.
Tolnay, Stewart E. and E. M. Beck, A Festival of Violence: An Analysis of Southern Lynchings, 1882–1930, Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press (1995), ISBN 0-252-06413-5 Trelease, Allen W., White Terror: The Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy and Southern Reconstruction , Harper & Row, 1979.
Regardless of organized acts of political violence, some extremism experts remain very concerned about individual acts of post-election violence by members of the far-left or the far-right.