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Degrees of Severity

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The fourth key component of the PAR Model is the concept of the degrees of severity – the level of harm done to a physical, emotional, mental, environmental, and/or spiritual body.

Violence can be divided into three degrees of severity of injury to one or more of the five bodies:

1. First degree — nonmaterial harm.

2. Second degree — material harm that is not disabling or lethal.

3. Third degree — material harm that is disabling and/or lethal.

Since violence is an unhealthy strategy to exercise power and control, the way we respond to violence differs with each degree of severity.

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