Abuse

emotional, physical, sexual or verbal violence against transgender persons

behaviour of an abusive person seeking to gain and maintains power and control

brutal peace imposed after war

unfair and deceptive loan origination

type of aggression

social cycle theory developed in 1979 by L. E. Walker to about behavior in an abusive relationship: Tension building → Acute violence → Reconciliation/honeymoon → Calm → …

humiliation techniques

type of animal collar with electrical shocking abilities

incidence of domestic violence among the male population

Rankism is "abusive, discriminatory, and/or exploitative behavior towards people because of their rank in a particular hierarchy". Rank-based abuse underlies many other phenomena such as bullying, racism, supremacism (often white supremacy), xenophobia, hazing, ageism, sexism, ableism, sanism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, homophobia and transphobia. The term "rankism" was popularized by physicist, educator, and citizen diplomat Robert W. Fuller.

Ragging is the term used for the so-called "initiation ritual" practiced in higher education institutions in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. The practice is similar to hazing in North America, fagging in the UK, in France, in Portugal, and other similar practices in educational institutions across the world. Ragging involves abuse, humiliation, or harassment of new entrants or junior students by the senior students. It often takes a malignant form, wherein the newcomers may be subjected to psychological or physical torture. In 2009, the University Grants Commission of India

form of harassment, usually consisting of invective and potentially intimidating or threatening comments towards the recipient that often contains exceptionally abusive, foul or otherwise hurtful language

form of human-rights violation that includes violence, neglect, coercion or exploitation directed at people with disabilities

circumcision performed without consent

beliefs and actions of people who support or use ideologically motivated violence to achieve radical ideological, religious or political views

mode of political funding in India

personality trait favoring social hierarchies

harsh, gratuitous, prejudicial attack on a person, verbally or physically, or on a topic

abuse of parents by their children

a malicious, usually anonymous letter

thumb|"Taunting with Smoke from a Pipe" by Thomas Rowlandson, 1823 A taunt is a battle cry, sarcastic remark, gesture, or insult intended to demoralize or antagonize the recipient. Taunting can exist as a form of social competition to gain control of the target's cultural capital (i.e., status). In sociological theory, the control of the three social capitals is used to produce an advantage in the social hierarchy, to enforce one's position in relation to others. This can also be used as a tactic to gain advantage of their opponent's irrational reaction. Taunting is committed by either directl

repeated and dangerous acts of violence as a cyclical pattern

leader who abuses the leader–follower relationship

circumstances where financial market investors have been unreasonably disadvantaged by insider dealing or market manipulation

form of harassment

exculpatory situation in law that results from coercion

Conscripting of disabled persons for military service

action or failure to act which causes unreasonable suffering, misery or harm to the patient