Poverty & Violence

• Define violence. (WHO definition)

  The intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against oneself, another person, or against a group or community, that either results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm, mal-development or deprivation
• What are the 2 types of self-directed violence?

  Self harm

  Suicide
• Vulnerable teenagers are being targeted by gangs.
• What are the risk factors for gangs & youth violence?

  Family poverty

  Family violence & abuse

  Anti-social parents

  Low commitment to school

  Delinquent peers

  Commitment to deliquent peers
• Define child sexual exploitation.

  A form of child sexual abuse

  Occurs where an individual or group takes advantage of an imbalance of power to coerce, manipulate or deceive a child or young person under the age of 18 into sexual activity

  Does not always involve physical contact, can also ocur through use of technology
• What can collective violence be subdivided into?

  Social violence

  Political violence

  Economic violence
• What is social violence/agenda?

  Social violence/agenda refers to the use of violence or the threat of violence to achieve a specific social or political goal.
• What is political violence?

  War & related violent conflicts, state violence & similar acts carried out by larger groups
• What is economic violence?

  Attacks by larger groups motivated by economic gain
• What is structural violence?

  Any avoidable impairment of access to resources

  A form of violence wherein social structures & institutions harm people by preventing them from meeting their basic needs
• What is symbolic violence?

  A type of non-physical violence manifested in the power differential between social groups

  Symbolic violence is meant to injure or destroy the recognition of mutual personhood
• How does symbolic violence functions function?

  3 components acting simultaneously

  • ignorance of dominations
  • recognition of this dominantion as legitimate
  • internalisation of domination by the dominated