Essays on Violence

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...

Koch, C. . (2015). Movement of Female's Rights in the World. International Journal of Multicultural and Multireligious Understanding, 2(6), 26-32. According to Koch, the world of today is not realizing the principles of democracy because women's rights are still being violated. Women play an essential role in our society, and...

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...

Crime is the violation of a law or specific norm in society. Deviance refers to the violation of a social norm. Based on the definition, all crimes are viewed to deviant behaviors by the society. The rate of crime declined steadily in the United States in the 1990s. The homicide...

The behaviors of characters in the film Menace II Society perfectly bring out the concept of deviance as they violate many social norms. The central character Caine Lawson and others carry around guns, swear incessantly, carry drugs and commit street crimes and kill people unscrupulously on a regular basis. Deviance...

i. What is the broader context of society that must be considered when assessing the task environment of organizations that offer shelter services for intimate partner violence (IPV)? The broader context of society that must...

Violence Among and Towards American Youth: The Role of Violent Video Games It seems now, more than ever, that violence among and towards American youth is seeing a rising trend. In 2018 alone, 28 school shootings occurred with instances of injury and/or death to innocent civilians (Gun Violence Archive). This is...

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...

As attributed by the authors, media is known for framing femicide stories within domestic violence context. Focusing on the victims' behavior is one of the media frames employed in domestic violence (Gillespie et al., 2013). It incorporates excusing of the perpetrator and to some extent blaming the victim. Focusing on...

Any sexual activity or contact that takes place without the recipient's express permission is referred to as sexual violence. There has been a noticeable increase in the number of sexual assault instances that have been reported to the authorities on college campuses across the country. However, because so few of...