Action that injures or destroys that to which it is applied. Structural violence is that which is inherent in a situation whose intentional or unintentional result is injury and destruction, and to which the authors of the situation are indifferent. In this sense coalmines, or family life, may conceal structural violence. The main social thinker to recommend or glorify violence as a political means was Sorel.
Philosophy dictionary. Academic. 2011.