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Violence is a very difficult concept to define. It is changeable and elusive; the word violence is commonly used in everyday language to describe a series of very different social facts, so that there are differences in the use of this term and in the meanings that are attributed to it.
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Ferrari, B. (2019). Gender Violence: Risk Factors and Social Vulnerability. In: Tarricone, I., Riecher-Rössler, A. (eds) Health and Gender. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15038-9_3
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