aggressor

The term aggressor comes from the Latin word aggressor. It's about a adjective that alludes to who performs a aggression: an attack, either physical or symbolic. For example: "The aggressor has already been identified thanks to the security cameras", "The police are on the trail of a sex offender", "The club's regulations indicate that the aggressor of an athlete or of an authority must be punished with expulsion".

The aggressor is a subject who has a tendency towards hostility. For psychological or sociocultural reasons, a person may develop behaviors that are linked to aggressiveness, causing damage to third parties. Suppose a man goes to a bank to apply for a loan. The bank employee, when analyzing the financial history of the individual and the documents he presents, is forced to reject the request. Faced with this decision, the man becomes enraged and assaults the worker. In this case, the subject becomes an aggressor by not being able to handle the frustration he experiences with the rejection of the loan he requested.

It is common for aggressions to arise in the field of sport. The emotional state that play actions provoke in athletes and spectators often lead to violent behaviors. A young man, maddened by the defeat of his favorite soccer team, can become an aggressor of rival players, throwing stones and bottles onto the field of play with the intention of hurting opponents.

Looking at the definition of the term aggression, we note that it is an act that arises independently of the actions of those around the aggressor, or that at least does not usually appear in spontaneous response to a form of abuse. On the contrary, the most appropriate use of this word focuses on those samples of violence, physical or verbal, that directly aim to cause a hurt.

In the example of the subject who goes to a bank to request a loan, we can say that the people present at the scene were not expecting the explosion of violence, since everything seemed to be proceeding normally until the employee rejected the request. In other words, since in these procedures no entity assures its clients a 100% admission, refusing to grant a loan does not represent a attack and, therefore, it is not worthy of an act of aggressiveness.

Returning to the situation in which the young man reacts aggressively to the victory of the opponents, once again we can point out that this does not represent any form of violence against him or his favorite team: it is one of the normal possibilities of any sports showdown, and no one should be enraged by a defeat, especially if you have not participated directly in the competition.

A sexual offenderFinally, it is one who violates the sexual freedom of another individual through the use of violence physical or threats. Unlike what many people believe, the sexual offender can be a man or a woman and, in the same way, attacking men or women, adults or children. His goal, however, is always the same: to dominate his victim in a sexual way.

In this context, there are two types of sexual assault that have certain similarities:

* sexual abuse, any sexual activity that is carried out without the consent of all the parties, in which practices are carried out that directly or indirectly involve the victims (that the aggressor touches them, penetrates them or forces them to witness other people's sexual scenes );

* rape, an assault in which the victim has sexual intercourse without giving his consent, either due to mental incapacity, having lost consciousness or being subjected to certain manipulation techniques by the aggressor.