Violence Andrea Santos, André Pacheco, Fernando Anaya & Esteban Solares.
What is violence ?
Aggressive & violent
Aggression is not violence. An aggressive person may not be violent. Aggression is a behavior characterized by physical attack, yet it may be appropriate and self-protective or destructive and violent.
Why do people practice violence?
- Makes them feel better
- It's part of their culture
- Mental illness
- For them is the "only or the best " way to solve problems.
- Factor of a person's life or make up can affect and be affected by another factor. (Poverty, drugs,etc)
Causes of violence...
Violence has many causes, including frustration, exposure to violent media, culture violence, violence in the home or neighborhood and a tendency to see other people's actions as hostile even when they're not. Certain situations also increase the risk of aggression, such as drinking, insults and other provocations and environmental factors like heat and overcrowding.
Factors that determine our behavior and whether a person is at risk for developing violent tendencies. These factors include biological traits, family bonding, individual characteristics, intelligence and education, child development, peer relationships, cultural shaping and resiliency.
Ways of thinking
Violence culture
Is the one that in some places the violence is seen as normal and as the only way to solve problems.
War is good"
This is the sermon preached by "the judge", one of the central characters in Blood Meridian, a visionary novel by the American writer Cormac McCarthy. in Europe and America - we tend to think of violence as an interruption of civilised existence. It is hard to square this with the history of the 20th Century, when Europe was a site of mass killing on an unprecedented scale and vicious colonial wars were fought in Africa and South East Asia. Today images of carnage most recently in Syria, and also in Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan and other places, are broadcast continuously in the 24-hour media.
Also Thomas Hobbes ( philosopher ) thought like this
Other opinions
Many people want to believe that human beings are essentially peaceable creatures, who turn on one another only when they have no other alternative. Violence, these people insist, is contrary to our strongest needs and impulses, which lead us to live and work together - in other words, humans are naturally predisposed to be civilise
Violence and your brain
The human brain mediates all human behavior.Yet certain principles of brain organization and function can lead to insights regarding neurological factors involved in violence and aggression. Any factors which increase the activity or reactivity of the brainstem (e.g., chronic traumatic stress, testosterone, dysregulated serotonin or norepinephrine systems) or decrease the moderating capacity of the limbic or cortical areas (e.g., neglect) will increase an individual's aggressivity, impulsivity, and capacity to display violence.
Also it is proved that violent media like video games or movies activate and makes alterations to some parts on the brain that predispose to violent behavior.
Consequences
Bullying, murders, economic crisis, homicides,terroridm, wars, suicides, are some results of violent acts.
Different types of violence
Violence can be divided into three broad categorized:
- self-directed violence - a person inflicts in himself
- Interpersonal violence- inflicted by another individual
- Collective violence- violence inflicted by larger groups such as state
Some violent acts..
- Physical
- Sexual
- Psychological
- Emotional- symbolic
Forms of violence
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: That against women by a household member, regardless of physical space where it occurs, to harm the dignity, welfare, physical, psychological, sexual, economic
WORKPLACE VIOLENCE: One that discriminates against women in the areas of public and private work and hindering their access to employment
VIOLENCE AGAINST REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM: One which violates the right of women to decide freely and responsibly the number of pregnancies or spacing
MEDIA VIOLENCE:That publication or dissemination of stereotyped images and messages through any mass medium that directly or indirectly promote the exploitation of women or their pictures,
What can we do?
- Increase education
- Give more opportunities to succeed
- Poverty reduction
- Organization that supports victims and help reducing violence
- Don't be an expectant or accomplice
Resourses
- http://www.apa.org/topics/violence
- https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/reading-between-the-headlines/201309/violence-the-media-and-your-brain
- https://www.cugh.org/sites/default/files/62_Causes_Of_Violence_and_Violence_%20Effects_on_Community_and_Individual_Health_FINAL.pdf