0 (of political protest or crime) not involving fighting or the use of physical force:
She called on volunteers to join the nonviolent resistance.
1 not using violent methods, esp. to cause a political or social change:
The protest demonstration was nonviolent, although the marchers were heckled throughout by onlookers.
She took peaceful nonviolent direct action against the destruction of the forest.
They are changing the law to help protect nonviolent offenders from life sentences.
Young children should not be locked up for nonviolent crimes.
Instead, he rants about the fate of drug addicts and nonviolent offenders, doomed to a life in jail.
An innocent victim of the crime can still be rescued, and no nonviolent means to achieve the same end are available.
And is it equally related to violent as well as nonviolent forms of delinquency?
In nonviolent fashion, this will both defeat the repetitions of the machine and humanize the worker.
He also underplays the nonviolent movement's use of coercion, such as boycotts, to try to force change.
