### action | violence:

Family violence
* All family violence has the potential of inflicting psychological and physical harm.
* Most family violence is committed against women.
* affects children from every income level, race and religion.
* can happen anywhere, to anyone
  - at any time, to anyone
* complex issue with a diverse set of causes
  - problem for which there appears to be many casual factors
* crime against all family members.
* crosses all racial, ethnic, geographic, religious, and socio-economic boundaries.
* does violence to our hopes and dreams.
* exists, and the danger to victims of family violence is exacerbated in a separation.
* human development issue
  - rights issue
* impacts everyone.
* includes both physical assault and emotional abuse
  - child abuse, domestic violence, and elder abuse and neglect
  - emotional, psychological, physical, sexual and financial abuse
* is another indicator of youth violence
  - any violence by one family member against another family member
  - believed to be the most common, yet least reported, crime in the country
  - more traumatic for most children than street violence
* is often a learned behavior from childhood
  - well-kept secret
  - on the increase in all segments of society, and affects everyone
* is one of the most insidious forms of violence against women
  - serious social problems today
  - the mistreatment of one family member by another
* is the most common and least reported crime in America
  - unreported crime in our nation
  - transmitted through generations of learning
* leadership issue.
* leads to delinquency and other societal problems.
* learned behavior that can be prevented.
* manifests itself in a number of ways.
* occurs at least one in two-thirds of marriages, and among all races and classes
  - in all ethnic, economic, racial and social groups
* problem that pervades all of society.
* result of power imbalances within the family, community, and society.
* serious problem in our society.
* spills over into the community and affects all of our families.
* tends to be repeated over many generations.
* touches one-fourth of all American families.

Gender violence
* can occur throughout a woman's lifecycle.
* is endemic in South Africa.
* makes women targets of violence simply for being women, nothing else.

Interpersonal violence
* is rare, although there is some domestic violence.
* major problem in many countries around the world.

Juvenile violence
* can occur in every community, but it remains concentrated in major cities.
* flourishes around certain types of businesses and blocks.
* stems in large part from a breakdown of family and community.
* tangible problem that affects every community.

### action | violence:

Media violence
* broad target and an easily accepted excuse for societal ills.
* can be addictive
  - desensitise children to real world and fantasy violence
  - desensitize children to real-world and fantasy violence
  - encourage children to learn aggressive behavior and attitudes
* creates a mind set - the mind set that it is okay to commit violence.
* desensitizes children.
* helps form the nature of the hands that hold the guns.
* indicates that society values profits over children.
* is as pervasive as television itself.
* teaches who can get away with what against whom.

Passive violence
* can include prejudice, hatred, and economic oppression.
* causes anger and anger leads to physical violence.
* fuels the fires of physical violence.

Physical violence
* can be severe and life-threatening
  - erupt from words
  - result in murder and often leads to serious physical injury
* causes pain and injury.
* is by definition, assault and it crime
  - just one form of abuse
  - more common in today's prisons that in prisons of the past
* is the basis of authority
  - second most common reason for wives to seek a divorce