Essays on Violence

The social reaction or labelling theory focuses on the negative linguistic characterisation or tendency embraced by a majority group to a minority group based on the deviance from social norms. According to the theory, self-identity, as well as the behaviours of individuals, may be influenced or determined by the perspective...

The past centuries have been characterized by violence in huge scale which has sparked debates as to whether this trend is still present in modern times. In the first half of the twentieth century, both the first and second world war led to the death of millions of people. On...

Violence and its Different Forms Violence is a significant, universal political occurrence. There is hardly any difference between the history of violence and the history of politics Abuse can take different forms such as physical, economic, psychological, political, social, and identity-yielding (Siroky, 2012, P 350). It is vital to differentiate between...

The term sexism refers to the disadvantages experienced by individuals as a result of their association with a particular gender (Genoways et al., 2003). Males and females are both victims of sexism in their personal and professional lives. Raising voice against sexist behavior will end the daily life miseries experienced...

Rape culture is a phrase that was made in the United States by feminists in the 1970s. It refers to how society holds the victims of sexual harassment accountable and support male sexual violence. The term has numerous definitions and its role in everyday life. The rape culture is created...

In the past 18 years, more people have died or been injured in mass shootings compared to the entire 20th century. School shooting is an event where a student at an education facility such as a university, college, or high school shoots and injures or kills a fellow student at...

Mass shootings have become an alarming trend in the United States. There have been mass shootings in schools, movie theatres, shopping centers, and public places leading to several deaths and injuries. Today, mass shootings have been on the rise with innocent people being shot and killed making it a challenge...

Crime and its Socioeconomic and Political Gains Crime and criminal related activities have dominated the socioeconomic and political atmosphere since man became in existence. Adverse policies have been formulated and implemented, to include capital offenses, but the vice proves dominant. Even though the society associates crime with negative connotations, they have...

Interactionalism and the Halo Effect Interactionalism is a theoretical perspective that uses human interaction to derive social processes; the halo effect is a cognitive bias where ambiguous judgment is deduced from concrete information. Chambliss uses the theories to analyze different experiences of the saints and the roughnecks in accordance with the...

The Problem of Sexism Against Men The term sexism has been used for a long term to mean a tendency of discrimination or stereotyping against women based on their gender, but in my opinion, this definition has left out an important aspect of male sexism. Apparently, in the current world, the...

In the world today, imprisonment rate has gone up. Anyone can be imprisoned no matter the age or gender. The principal reason for a prison sentence is to punish the offender. Rather than being a punishment, imprisonment can be of decisive impact once the prisoner has practical, financial, social, and...

Control balance theory (CBT) is a practice of deviant behavior established by Charles Tittle. Tittle’s theory is rooted in the social control perspective and it integrates strands of labelling and social learning. Rather than viewing criminality in the perspective of lack of self-control, Tittle’s central concept explains criminality in a...