1.A model or understanding of violence built upon the assumptions that not all violence is: physical, visible, and/or valued equally. 

2. An acknowledgement that there are many types of violence in the world and not all of these types of violence are acknowledged or responded to equally. 3. Beginning with Community Violence, the  spectrum, goes clockwise, ordering types of violence from the most “visible” to the least “visible” (noticed in the mainstream). However, each point on the spectrum has “visible” and invisible aspects.