Crossword clues for brutalization
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Brutalization \Bru`tal*i*za"tion\, n. The act or process of making brutal; state of being brutalized.
Wiktionary
alt. 1 (context uncountable English) The act or process of making brutal 2 An instance of being brutalized. n. 1 (context uncountable English) The act or process of making brutal 2 An instance of being brutalized.
WordNet
n. the condition of being treated in a cruel and savage manner [syn: brutalisation]
the activity of treating someone savagely or vicisouly [syn: brutalisation]
an act that makes people cruel or lacking normal human qualities [syn: brutalisation, animalization, animalisation]
Wikipedia
In criminology, brutalization refers to a hypothesized cause-and-effect relationship between executions and an increase in the homicide rate. This hypothesis proposes this relationship occurs because executions diminish the public's respect for life. Such an effect represents the opposite of a deterrent effect.
Usage examples of "brutalization".
By the beginning of 1915 they had accumulated a sufficient mass of evidence from the belligerent countries to convince them that great masses of people in these countries were as amazed and as anxious to end the widening bloodshed and brutalization as the neutral onlookers.
Interiors deal with degrees of intentions, not extensions, and trying to convert all evolutionary changes into physical size is simply part of the flattening of the Kosmos, part of the brutalization of qualitative distinctions, that has marked the instrumentalism of all flatland ontologies.
The confirmed brutalization, if not the extermination of this race in our America, is therefore to form an additional chapter in the English history of the same colored man in Asia, and of the brethren of their own color in Ireland, and wherever else Anglo-mercantile cupidity can find a two-penny interest in deluging the earth with human blood.