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In its everyday use, “violence” refers to “acting with or characterized by great physical force, so as to injure, damaging or destroy; [or] ... force unlawfully or callously used” (Webster’s New World Dictionary of the American Language, second college edition, 1979). Violence is therefore the use of great physical force oriented at producing damage. In the same vein, the classical social science definition of violence refers to “behavior designed to inflict physical injury on people or damage to property” (Graham & Gurr, 1969:XVII), or “any observable interaction in the course of which persons or objects are seized or physically damaged in spite of resistance” (Tilly, 1978:176).
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della Porta, D. (2003). Violence and the New Left. In: Heitmeyer, W., Hagan, J. (eds) International Handbook of Violence Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-306-48039-3_21
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