passive violence

Something that I have been thinking about lately in class is my original conception of violence. On the first day of class I defined violence as the action of negatively affecting a person society or being that results in harm or the deterrence of ones happiness. Now although I do agree with the fact that all of this is violence I have also come to a few new realizations about what violence means to me. When I previously thought of violence I thought about it in terms of an action, more of an aggressive form. However now through certain movements I have learned about passive violence.
During the civil war one of the tactics was to fill the jails so that the police could not jail anyone else. In one particular incident the police chief prepared for this by making space and alerting all of the surrounding jails in the area. That way when someone was arrested they were transported to a different jail that was out of town, so that the local jail was never filled. This I feel like is a form of passive violence.. They were directly harming them, however they were stopping any means that the civil rights demonstrators had to mobilize, by jailing everyone. All though this may not be violence on the individual people it was a violent act towards the movement. This I feel also is what makes it a passive act of violence rather than an aggressive.
I still believe that violence is most prevalent in the way that I originally defined of it and though of it, however this is not to say that passive violence is not just as affective.