Definition Essay: Is Violence Justified?

According to our class discussions and notes, violence is defined as any action or structural arrangement that results in physical or non-physical harm to people or living things. It can be willful and deliberate, it may be intended or not intended, and it could also be justified or not justified, such in the cases of capital punishment, wars and self-defense.
Violence effects all forms of wellbeing, and often times it’s not even recognized as violence by the recipient or victim. Violence operates in multiple spheres that are all linked to each other by intrapersonal, interpersonal, institutional, and societal. The use and threat of violence are forms of power that is used to control people and things. Violence is more likely to occur in hierarchical