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The issue of violence in the present society will be discussed while making comparison within countries, and political

regimes. This concern would be analyzed on the ground of ethnic, gender, age differences and environmental factors as part of the process that was an attribute in developing the aggressive behaviour. The issues that arise are which of these grounds influence more the violent personalities and what is the link between violence and them. Violence was defined by Krug et al. (2002) World report on violence and health as the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against oneself, another person, or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm, maldevelopment or deprivation. Violence can be classified by the direction that it is processed: physical ( according to David Canter (2008) Criminal Psychology Infliction of physical pain and/ or injury, for example: biting, chocking), psychological (use of
verbal violence for intimidating and for making the victim feel diminished or embarrassed), sexual ( a sexual act that is perpetrated against someone's will, like touching, exhibition, rape), financial or economic violence ( the offender is controlling the victims money or personal belongings, as clothes, food or medication necessary for surviving). The second classification of violence is made by the direction that it is designed to go: self-directed, inter-personal

or collective. Interpersonal violence is seen as aggression between persons, subdivided in partner, family or community violence. Domestic violence is integrated in this category, because it represents the type of aggression between partners or family members regardless of their gender or age. One social explanation that came in helping the understanding of it was acknowledged as a matter of historical view over men. They were expected to be dominant with their families, this matter is still accepted in some parts of the world as Afghanistan. Also, there is a psychological approach of it, according to David Canter (2008) Criminal Psychology Some examples are social learning, psychopathology models, impulse-control personality, and the role of attachment, and for example men tend to be aggressive while they are jealous, or they could experience rejection during childhood so they tend to maintain what they have by forcing the other person. Also, as Elie Godsi relates the ones that are distressed and disturbed by abuse in childhood, or that are taken away from home in order to be protected become offenders because of the absence of love and caring in their early ages and the dominance of abuse, neglect and chaos. Elie Godsi also established that while living in a disturbed family it is extremely difficult to develop a sense of right and wrong in the adulthood, because of the lack of parental control and life models. There is another category of young men that are only violence as teenagers, but as they become adults they have no more need of power over another persons life, having no more violent impulses. Darnell F Hawkins shows that domestic violence is not only one-directional because there are families in which both partners use aggression in order to maintain control of the other. In the same time the feminist model of domestic violence relates how women are not aggressive and that it is a big discrepancy of power in the male-female couples. Although, they establish that sexual inequalities are a source of tension and that is one cause of why they thought that men use violence upon women. In contraire with that theory, the Conflict Tactics Scale (CTS), a National Family Violence Survey in 1976, came to the result that African Americans are 4 times more likely to use violence in comparison with the others. When they were asked why they did so, their answer was that it is more simple and efficient method of reaching the goal that they were looking for. Rape can also be classified as interpersonal violence because it is defined by the UK Sexual Offences Act (in 2003) as the intentional penetration of vagina, anus or mouth of another person, so it is the offend that involves violence upon another person. A study have shown that most victims of rape assaults are females with male offenders, this fact was interpreted in a socio-biological way by Thornhill and Palmer as the result of males wish of passing of their gens to the next generation. Thus, this act is determinate from the animal instinct of reproduction, it was also argued that rapists are not devolved on the evolutionary scale. Although, studies have shown that in addition to this physical contact there are also verbal violence

used in the act of rape. Jones described that unknown rapists are more likely to be physically violent and get the victim more injuries than the known offenders (as neighbours, ex-partners, relatives). Admir (1971) found that 82% of the offenders lived in the same neighbourhood and that rapists do not travel to far from home to do the crime. The feminist view on this act is that men tend to seek punishment and control over women, so it is a result of male domination in our society rather than an uncontrolled will of sexual urges. According to David Canter (2008) Criminal Psychology The feminist Brownmiller (1975: 5) insists it is nothing more or less than a conscious of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear . This argument can also be used for domestic violence because of the need of domination of men over women. As for the racial differences in the rape percentage, Darnell Hawkins distinguished that because of the racist comments and the feeling of being diminished, some black male turned t o sexual dominance as an alternative route to manhood. There is also a matter of race perspective on this type of crime because in some countries as Afghanistan and in parts of China, men have full power of the women in the society. Rose and McClain used in 1990 a set of stress scores in order to distinguish the association between stresses, poverty and violence. They took in calculation the percent of salaries below poverty, the percent of divorced women, or single parents, the percentage of overcrowded housing and also the median rent in relation with the median family income. They found that in the poor neighbourhoods the rate of violence and criminality is more increased than in the other, without depending on the race, ethnic or religious believes. Collective violence is defined as the acknowledge use of violence by people that are identified as being a group, this type of aggression in identified in war, terrorism and genocide. Terrorism is defined Russil Durrant The unlawful use of force and violence against persons or poverty to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objections. This act is also referred to as a typological doctrine that the g roup thinks that should be integrated in the whole system. It is also very important to take the social, cultural and contextual factors of terrorism in consideration when trying to understand their psychological motives of doing so. Although, (PT) emphasized two mechanism that people use in their trying to escape from loneliness: authoritarianism and destructiveness. These two can simply be associated with the members of a terrorist group because by authoritarianism is understood the trying of getting control of the others through force and destructiveness is the desire of eliminating the others. In other words, people that are in these type of groups could be seen as a minority, trying to fit in a group, wanting to express their religious, cultural or ethnical believes through violence. War is defined as the an act of violence intended to compel our opponents to fulfil our will and thus was simply
the continuation of politics by other means. It is argued that most wars begun because of some economic disturbances, but there are also others that have begun because of religious factors, culture, or because of the need of power of one population over another. A lot of theories showed that there is a link between economic difficulties and collective violence. The World Health Organization (2002) have seen that economic inequalities can lead to inter-group conflict. This statement can be motivated by the economically deprivation of a part of population and by the unequally distributions, so it might seem logic that some groups engage in armed conflicts within the country or outside it. CONCLUSION To sum up, the violent personalities are developed in an abusive, neglecting and chaotic family, in which there

are not strict rules or moral models within the family. Although, it was shown that poor neighbourhoods tend to be more violent than the others also the same rule is applied for the African American ones.

In conclusion, the environment that a child grows in is very important for his future personality development and for his future adulthood behaviours.

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