The article also discusses how sexual aggression plays a very large role in violence overall, due to an inmate who is a sexual aggressor who uses violence on their victim and then the victim retaliating against the aggressor using violence, a type of behavior that is comparable to the eye for an eye ideal. Furthermore the article explains some of the other reasons that inmates get into fights, including, “accidental, real, or imagined insults combined with hypersensitivity, homosexual activities, pressuring for possessions, racial conflict, informant activities, and retaliation for past assaults.” Lockwood illustrates that there are several reasons that inmates are violent and that these are only a few of the reasons. Then the article states a study on when and how the violent acts were instigated, stating that of the 114 incidents observed 42 of them begun by “sexual overtures accompanied by offensive gestures and remarks,” 36 of them started with “polite propositions,” 21 of them starting with physical attacks and 15 of them beginning with verbal threats.
When aggression and anger are accurately addressed modern society could avoid events such as
The death of Nex Benedict’s is a tragedy, but unfortunately increasing with today’s youth due to negative attitudes and hostility. While this can be attributed to the ideals of American leaders and citizens, it is unfortunately a global issue. Nevertheless, the culture of not only the country but also the state that Benedict resided in played a crucial role. According to the general aggression model, factors such as culture, genetics, evolution, biology, and construals all play key roles in creating feelings of frustration, which are then suggested to lead to aggressive behaviors. While this makes it easy to understand why Benedict’s peers held their prejudiced views towards them, this bullying occurred a year before the fight without physical responses.
FDR, a former President of the United States, once said “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself”. This famous quote was used in a time of distress among the citizens. The people of the United States were out of control because they didn’t know what was happening or how bad it was. Roosevelt satisfied the people of his country by telling them that the only thing they had to worry about was the fear that they make up themselves. Lord of the Flies by William Golding is about an abundance of schoolboys who get in a plane crash and get stuck on an island with no adults.
Our society is responsible for aggression. Many people argue that aggressive people were born with a predisposition to perform violent acts, but that does not settle with many psychologists’ studies. Other people believe that violent people were made from exposure to aggression during childhood. Both of these perspectives represent points of a larger argument started by Francis Galton 150 years ago most commonly known as “Nature versus Nurture”. After 150 years, and the founding of a new branch of science, epigenetics, scientists now have viable proof that that nurture is more influential in the case of aggression because epigenetics show that environments are responsible for gene expression.
“Studies have shown that violent media does produce an increase in aggression (Anderson and Bushman, 2001; Browne and Hamilton-Giachritsis, 2005; Reiner, 2007; Rocque, 2012, p. 308). “Research has found a correlation between the amount of time school children spend watching television and using video games and aggressive behavior such as fighting, the early use of alcohol and other illegal drugs, and even trouble sleeping” (Macionis, Tiemann, McNeal, Lucal, Ender 2014, p. 127). Along with video games, other say bullying can impact one’s motive to commit violence. “Research by Vossekuil, Fein, Reddy, Borum, and Modzeleski (2002) finds that a large majority of school shooters are the victims of bullying (Larkin, 2007; Newman et al., 2004; Rocque, 2012, p. 308).
There are many journal articles on the internet that consist of journalists that try to report what is going on in the research world. Many articles are written to inform the public of possible cause-and-effect relationships that are being observed. However, the problem with many articles in the media is that results are not always reported accurately. Often, facts are left out that cause the reader to be misled. In the article, Soda and Violence, written by Elizabeth Gudrais in 2012, she writes about how new studies have found that large consumptions of soda are causing violence in adolescents.
In conclusion, the California hunger strike, led by Todd Ashker, was brought on by the harsh conditions that inmates face while indefinitely imprisoned in solitary confinement. The unfair practice, decided by Judge Thelton Henderson in 1995, was something the prisoners couldn’t do outright to stop, so they turned to non-violent hunger strikes. This is concrete example on why the inmate-balance theory was present in the California hunger strike of 2013- giving confirmed gang members indefinite life sentences in solitary confinement was too harsh, thus needing
This program will be based on the fundamental principles of harm reduction. Harm reduction is a pragmatic approach to reducing individual and social harms associated with drug use, especially the risk of HIV infection. This approach accepts that certain interventions focused on diminishing the harmfulness of a substance, even if they increase the extent of substance use, may be able to reduce the total adverse consequences on the individual, as well as society (Meulen & Ka Hon Chu, 2015). In regards to high risk behaviour for the transmission of HIV in prison (e.g., needle-sharing), harm reduction approaches acknowledge that there are no known effective solutions for completely eliminating drug-use or drug-related problems in the community
In the filed of biology psychology, it is said that there are 3 areas of the brain that are mainly involved in our aggression and violence behavior, which are the hypothalamus, the frontal lobes, and the limbic system. Morley and Hall(2003) have investigated o how the human genes have an influences on their criminal behavior. In their research, they have found a positive relationship between criminal behaviors and genes. Brunner et al(1993) conducted an research on a Dutch family, the result showed that some of the family members from the Dutch family with tendency of aggressive behavior turned out to have mutation occurring in their monoamine oxidase A, a type of neurochemical in the brain. Therefore, we tell say that aggressive behavior is somehow related to human brain structure.
In the article “Everyday Aggression Takes Many Forms” the researchers conducted an experiment to see how aggression affects people’s everyday lives. People from different age groups were used to answer many questions pertaining to aggression and conflict. This experiment talks about what aggression is, the types of aggression, and the people affected by aggression. The researchers started this experiment by explaining the meaning of aggression and how it is sometimes misunderstood with the word assertiveness.
This essay will give a clear overview of the concept and theories of structural violence and how the idea can be used to encourage more attention on the fundamental cause of poverty and disease. It will as well look at how structural violence has an impact on illness and health. Furthermore, how clinician can lessen the effect of structural violence. The term violence conveys an image of physical or emotional assault on a person.
Esbensin, Peterson, Taylor and Freng (2010) implies that “ young people who have committed serious violent offenses have the highest level of impulsive and risk-seeking tendencies.” Moreover, extreme violent criminal activity being performed in front of youth increases the risk of them performing acts of extreme violence themselves. Because youth see those acts as acceptable so committng those violent activities make youths to become ruthless. Smith and Green (2007) assert that violent activities becoming ruthless and the perpetrators even more ruthless.
In addition to mastering the material the learner, develop other essential skills that will help them to become more rounded individuals. For example, the teacher wants to teach the student about germination would guide the students in the steps to planting and nurturing the seed then ask them to write each day on what they see happening. The writer agrees with this view because real life experiences can build further individualism within children which would help them to make life connections as they
(sources used) i. Violence (criminal behavior) ii. Aggression iii. Mental
