Essays on Community Violence

All throughout history, there has been this notion of violence. Likewise, in numerous textbooks, novels, movies, TV shows, video games, news stations, and different platforms on social media, violence has been glorified or used for the sole purpose of our entertainment. However, violence has a...

According to UNICEF (2017), almost a billion of children from around the world are vulnerable to violence. Full prohibition of corporal punishment, necessary for discipline, at home is implemented only by 60 countries, including the Philippines, which still leaves more than 91% or 600 million...

Human Trafficking The present world has accorded human beings control over others resulting in unexplainable trade and enslavement of humanity in the 21st century. This situation has depicted a deteriorating position of affairs, which further stamps that human trafficking is far from ending. The trade...

As Carole Goguen wrote in her fact sheet for A National Center for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, community violence includes predatory violence, which involves a stranger being violent or making threats of violence, and violence arising from non-family interpersonal conflicts. Both of these types of...

In the recent years, the conversations of gun violence are increasing dramatically because of some homicide cases. Truly, the gun violence has been the one of biggest elements which threat both personal safety and national security in the United States. According to one of the...

Measuring public violence is complicated by the difficulty of developing a suitable definition that adequately describes the phenomenon in all its various forms. Moreover, the nature of public violence can shift or expand, with, for example, a protest starting over inadequate housing but resulting in...

Every twenty minutes an American is victim to gun violence ending in death. The current theme of gun control is a very sensitive and controversial topic which is now in the spotlight of discussion. In the wake of recent tragic mass shooting governmental agencies from...

In today’s age social media is becoming more and more instantaneous and keeping up with it all is our youth. The days of seeing your fifth grade best friend until summers over, is now over. Adolescents are communicating daily with their peers. If there was...

There are many key concepts discussed throughout the semester that stood out to me. These concepts include the differences in family violence and how each race and culture is a different scenario, the different types of child maltreatment, and how easy it is to become...

Family violence is a common type of mistreatment or abuse experienced by a child or an adult from a close member of the family or from someone with whom they have an intimate relationship. According to the article, family violence refers to women abused by...

Certain social norms including religion and culture-based norms affect the attitudes, beliefs and behavior related to violence and can lead people to behave in harmful ways. Gender based violence is another big issue to be discussed. It encompasses a large variety of crimes committed based...

Mass shootings have unfortunately been on the rise in the United States over the past decade. According to the article “Preventing Mass Shootings Like The Vegas Strip Attack,” published by The New York Times, action is needed to lower the toll of gun violence in...

In Africa, strained relations within and between communities can easily escalate to intense polarisation, including violence during election periods. Kenya and South Sudan are characterised by intense politicization along ethnic divisions. Dercon and Gutierrez-Romero (2010) observe that election-related violence in Kenya and Zimbabwe have been...

In this essay, I will be discussing gun control in America and where I stand on the issue of its regulations. I want to start off by saying that death by guns is out of control and it’s ridiculous how easy it seems for anyone...

Gun control is a topic that has been exhausted over the years due to many mixed beliefs. Our country has been divided on the topic due to mass murder rates and the basis of holding true to the United States Second Amendment. The Second Amendment...

A political issue that the U.S. is facing is whether the government should have stricter gun control laws. This subject has been a topic of debate in recent years due to prevalent mass shootings, especially in school. On one side, citizens are expressing the need...

Throughout the decades, constant series of mass shootings occurring in the United States have been rampant, widespread, and continue to increase as times moves on. There have been numerous of causes derived from the results of these tragedies of some which include mental illnesses, hate...

The discussion of direct violence, structural violence and cultural violence in this chapter is relatively straightforward, focusing on the direct violence of the killings, the structural violence of the Nazi occupation and the restrictions placed on the farmer and the cultural violence in Landa’s descriptions...

Social Injustice: Torture A social injustice, as defined by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, is an unjust act that violates the rights of another. As society changes, groups of individuals experiencing injustice often shift as well. As one thing becomes accepted, something new becomes a target. The...