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  2. How We Define Violent Crime in America Shapes Who Gets ...

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    The blurry line between violent and nonviolent crimes has been an open invitation to racial bias by law enforcement and the criminal justice system. Legislators and the public are more likely to ...

  3. Nonviolent extremism - Wikipedia

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    Nonviolent right wing extremism has been found to "contribute to a climate of fear of and animosity towards minority groups". [8] Left wing extremism is typically nonviolent, but the use of violent rhetoric by nonviolent left wing extremists has been linked to acts of physical violence and evasion of law enforcement. [9]

  4. Nonviolence - Wikipedia

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    ISBN 0-87558-162-5 Waging Nonviolent Struggle: 20th Century Practice And 21st Century Potential, by Gene Sharp with collaboration of Joshua Paulson and the assistance of Christopher A. Miller and Hardy Merriman; ISBN 978-1442217607 Violence and Nonviolence: An Introduction, by Barry L. Gan; ISBN 9780367479237 Violence and Non-violence across Times.

  5. Direct action - Wikipedia

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    Definitions of what constitutes violent or nonviolent direct action vary. Sociologist Dieter Rucht states that determining if an act is violent falls along a spectrum or gradient—lesser property damage is not violence, injuries to humans are violent, and acts in between could be labelled either way depending on the circumstances. Rucht states ...

  6. Why Violent Protests Work

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    A conversation with author and University of Pennsylvania professor Daniel Q. Gillion about the history of protests in America and how they've inspired actual policy change.

  7. Violent crime - Wikipedia

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    A violent crime, violent felony, crime of violence or crime of a violent nature is a crime in which an offender or perpetrator uses or threatens to use harmful force upon a victim. This entails both crimes in which the violent act is the objective, such as murder , assault , rape and assassination , as well as crimes in which violence is used ...

  8. Not prosecuting nonviolent drug offenses hasn’t cut down ...

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    For example: In early July, 2021, Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker wrote a letter to the Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners, asking them to stop sending her office nonviolent ...

  9. Victimless crime - Wikipedia

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    Organized crime in turn tends to diversify into other areas of crime. Large profits provide ample funds for bribery of public officials, as well as capital for diversification. [7] The War on Drugs is a commonly cited example of prosecution of victimless crime. The reasoning behind this is that drug use does not directly harm other people.