Violence is understood to be those acts that have to do with the exercise of verbal or physical force on another person, animal or object and that result in the generation of damage on that person or object voluntarily or accidentally. Violence is one of the most common acts of human beings (although this is not exclusive to him but also occurs among other living beings) and it is difficult to determine for sure if human beings are capable of living in society without exercising any kind of violence. Violence can also be exercised by a person on himself.
Violence is considered to be the act of exercising some type of aggression on another or on oneself. This act of aggression involves damage or destruction through many different methods that can range from the physical and bodily to the verbal and emotional. Although in most cases the violence is explicit and visible, many times, the presence of violence can be tacit or implicit. In these cases, it is exercised from actions such as subliminal persecution, implicit censorship and self-control that is expected to generate in different individuals.
The recourse to violence can be related to the action of an individual or a group of individuals, but also, and in many cases it is here when it reaches its greatest reach, it can be exercised by organizations or institutions from which violent messages are transmitted, discriminatory and aggressive towards the population. Normally, the results of such violence (as carried out by authoritarian states throughout history) are clearly evident in societies that can enter into serious conflicts and struggles with each other.
There are different types of violence that are generally exerted on some more vulnerable social groups or individuals such as women, children, young people, the elderly, some ethnic groups traditionally despised in some environments, religious groups and minorities of various kinds.
