Factors that Influence Violence
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- Created on: 18-11-19 10:13
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- Factors That Influence Violence
- 1. Family
- Primary Socialisation
- Learning of language and basic skills
- Physical and emotional abuse can be learned and normalised
- Pressure Cooker
- Dark Side of the Family
- Domestic Violence
- Physical and emotional abuse can be learned and normalised
- Adult control over children can take the extreme form of physical neglect or physical, sexual or emotional abuse
- 2013: 43,000 children were subject to chilld protection plans
- ChildLine recioeves over 20,000 calls a year from children saying that they have been sexually or physically abused
- Domestic Violence
- Toxic Childhood
- Sue Palmer (2007;2010)
- Rapid technological and cultural changes have damaged children's physical, emotional and intellectual development
- Junk food, computer games, intensive marketing to children, long hours worked by parents, gorwing emphasis on testing in education
- Rises in obesity, self harm, drug and alcohol abuse, violence, early sexual experience and teen preganacies
- UNICEF survey ranked UK 16th out of 29 for children's wellbeing in 2013
- Rapid technological and cultural changes have damaged children's physical, emotional and intellectual development
- Sue Palmer (2007;2010)
- Emphasis upon different values
- Sewell
- Lack of positive male role models leads young black boys to find father figures in gangs
- Primary Socialisation
- 2. Mental Health
- Can be triggered by other factors
- Changes perspetion of right and wrong
- Columbine Massacre, both suffered from mental health issues
- Can be isolating
- Difficult to recieve proper help
- If not treated, can accelerate
- Sees violence as only option
- Is not aware of consequences
- 3. Education
- Secondary socialisation
- Inadequate education may lead to finding success in other ways
- Strain Theory
- Gangs
- Cultural Deprivation
- Working-class place less value on education, children will find other ways to impress parents
- Material Deprivation
- May steal if they have a lack of resources/ funds
- Anti-school subculture
- Gain status through peers through violence?
- 4. Peer Pressure
- Gangs
- Online groups with specific viewpoints
- Encouragement and daring to go further
- Columbine Massacre
- Cohen
- Individuals do not carry out vandalism/ violence on their own, but rather as a group to gain status and excitement
- 5. Internet
- Can easliy get around parental blocks
- Can search anything and everything
- Blue Whale online trend
- Momo
- Can introduce predators to childhood
- Postman
- Society used to keep secrets of violence and abuse from children as they tended to have low reading levels and could not read newspapers
- Internet has opened up the violent world of children who can access videos and imagery tat is believed to influence behaviour
- Children are becoming media savvy
- 6. Cartoons
- Violence is praised and seems to be without consequences
- High levels in violence in cartoons such as Scooby Doo make children more aggressive
- Animated movies and shows contain more violence that programmes for the general public
- Children look up to these characters and are incredibly influencial in early life
- Children tend to mimic negative behaviour
- 7. Video Games
- Can actually play as violent characters
- Violent actions ave no consequence to real life
- Desensitised to violence
- 2007: study showed that college students had been desensitised to real life violence after playing violent video games
- Catharis or increaing levels of aggression in young children?
- Dietz 1998
- 33 popular viedo games, 80% of which contained aggression
- Heroic gaming characters are often reinforced by aggression
- Violence is justified for the 'greater good'
- 8. Films
- Violent imagery
- Hyper realistic
- Age ratings were not taken seriously until the Jamie Bulger case
- Rumoured that Venables and Thompson has watched Chucky before carrying out the murder
- Violent imagery
- 9. Music
- Between 1979 + 1997, violent content in rap music rose from 27% to 60%
- Johnson et al (1995)
- Young people who watched violent rap video were more accepting of violent actions, particularly aginst women
- 1994
- Two 17year olds were arrested for killing a police officer after listening to Tupac's lyrics, "dropping a cop"
- Violent imagery leads to having own interpretations
- 10. Soap Opera's
- Before watershed so percieved to be 'safe' to watch with younger people
- Frequently have violent storylines and justification for violent characters
- Violent imagery that is carried over multiple nights
- Used to spread awareness
- Drip fed, little and often
- 11. Religion
- Less and less impact over the years
- Does provide moral code, however this can be seen in the family and education
- Secularisation
- 12. Children's Rights
- Aries (1960)
- In the Middle Ages, 'the idea of childhood did not exist'
- Children seen as 'mini adults'
- Modern notion of childhood began to emerge after 13th Century
- Cult of childhood
- Child obsessed society
- Child protection and welfare legislation
- 1889 Prevention of Cruelty to Children Act
- The Children Act defines parents as having responsibilities rather than rights in relation to children
- United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989)
- Lays down basic rights such as the entitlement to healthcare and education, protection form abuse and the right to participate in desicions that effect themj
- United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989)
- Cult of childhood
- Aries (1960)
- 1. Family
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