Violence

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Violence
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Violence

• Acts of aggression and abuse that cause or intend
  to cause injury to a person
• Violence is often a crime
• There are 2 types of violence random violence
  and coordinated violence
• Military force is not considered violence

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Violence Related Definitions

• Assault
• An unlawful physical attack upon another
• Aggravated Assault
• Assault with the use of weapons
• Abuse
• To use improperly or misuse

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Definitions Continued

• Assault and Battery
• An assault involving actual body contact
• Battery
• An unlawful attack upon another that includes
  hitting or wounding
• Cruelty to Animals
• A cruel attack upon an animal

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Definitions Continued

• Child Abuse
• Cruelty against people under 18
• Domestic Violence
• Violence between people living in the same
  household
• Homicide
• The killing of another human being

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Definitions Continued

• Murder
• Homicide in certain prescribed conditions
• Property Damage
• Damage to anothers property
• Rape
• Forcing an unwilling person to have sex with
  another

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Violence in Sports

• Involves improvised weapons found inside arenas
  such as beer bottles and sporks
• Caused by Intermittent Explosive Disorder
• Can either be by the athletes, by the fans, or by
  the parents of the athletes
• Occurs predominantly during football, hockey, and
  soccer matches

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1984 World Series Riot
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Gangs
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Gangs

• A gang is a group of individuals that share a
  common identity, even if that identity consists
  of little more than their association with one
  another.
• Gangs often control territories using force and
  intimidation
• Gangs are present all across the United States

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Types of Gangs

• Durable
• Street Oriented
• Youth
• Illegal
• Organized
• Prison
• Immigration

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Durable

• Must last at least 3 months
• Members leave and new members join the ranks
• Commonly located in large cities

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Street

• Dont reside in a fixed location
• Spend time in cars, in parks, and on streets
• Commit petty crimes

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Youth

• Have members either in adolescence or in their
  early 20s
• Circulate through members as they age
• Dont necessarily commit crimes

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Illegal

• Engage in coordinated illegal activity
• Activities include killings, riots, car thefts,
  and thievery
• These gangs are often filled with criminals

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Organized

• Individuals are in the gang for personal gain
• Often work for the grey and black markets
• Take part in drug trafficking, human trafficking,
  piracy, money laundering, extortion, gambling,
  and political assassination

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Prison

• These gangs often start on the streets, but a
  large portion of its members transfer power to
  prisons after arrests
• These gangs are often racially based
• Often commit brutal crimes against other prison
  members

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Immigration Gangs

• These gangs smuggle large amounts of people
  across American borders
• Often times, people join the gangs after sneaking
  across borders themselves
• These gangs led to heightened security on
  Americas borders

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Peer Pressure
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Peer Pressure

• A term describing a person's changes, or
  temptations to change, in attitude, behaviors and
  morals as directly influenced by their peer group
• Peer pressure can impact peoples fashion, taste
  in music and television, and outlook on life
• Peer pressure can be negative or positive

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Types of Peer Pressure

• Youth
• Financial
• Expert

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Youth Peer Pressure

• One of the most frequent forms of negative peer
  pressure
• While youths spend large amounts of time in
  schools together they subconsciously impact
  others decisions
• Youth peer pressure is said to be the cause of
  recent school shootings such as the Columbine
  High School Massacre and the Virginia Tech
  Massacre
• This is similar to bullying in many respects

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Financial Peer Pressure

• More common in adults
• Adults feel that they need to attain a certain
  level of financial success to be successful
• They feel as if they need to be like their other
  peers
• Financial peer pressure leads to risky job
  decisions and can lead to depression

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Expert Peer Pressure

• Peer pressure given by experts
• This pressure is usually positive and benefits
  the persons life
• Can relate to financial decisions as well as
  academic

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DARE

• Stands for Drug Abuse Resistance Education
• Discourage interest in illegal drugs, gangs, and
  violence
• Implemented in 80 percent of the United States
  school districts
• DARE pressures kids to not use drugs by informing
  them of their many negative effects

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Bullying
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Bullying

• Bullying is the intentional tormenting of others
  through verbal harassment, physical assault, or
  other more subtle methods of coercion such as
  manipulation
• Can happen in school, workplace, home, and
  neighborhoods
• Bullying can cause death through torment or
  suicide
• 85 percent of people bullied suffer long term
  physiological damage

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Characteristics of Bullying

• Have the need to control or dominate
• Envy and resentment are common motives for
  bullying
• On a lesser scale, bullying can take place for
  humor
• Bullying often operates through psychological and
  verbal abuse
• Bullying is often associated with street gangs,
  especially in schools

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Columbine High School Massacre

• Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed 15 people
  including themselves
• Experts believe that they were the victims of
  bullying
• Harris and Klebold left journals expressing how
  they were tired of being treated badly
• They were described as social pariahs and goths
• The murder increased the awareness of bullying in
  schools and has led to the creation of
  anti-bullying organizations

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Columbine Continued

• Provoked debates over firearm control and safety
• School security was increased in problem areas
• Increased awareness of the negative affects of
  antidepressants

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Types of Bullying

• School
• Work-place
• Cyber
• Political
• Military
• Hazing

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School Bullying

• Occurs in area of minimal adult supervision
• Often, the bullied student is isolated and
  outnumbered
• Can lead to school shootings and suicides
• Ways to deal with this are intervention and peer
  support groups
• In recent years, past bullies have been sued for
  the emotional damage inflicted to the bullied
  person

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Work-place Bullying

• The repeated mistreatment of one employee
  targeted by one or more employees with a
  malicious mix of humiliation, intimidation and
  sabotage of performance
• 3 times more prevalent than illegal
  discrimination
• Often, work-place bullying is legal and
  encouraged by management because it can lead to
  competition and better job performance
• Some times known as mobbing

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Cyber-Bullying

• Occurs in electronic space
• Sometimes called online bullying
• Willful and involves repeated harm towards an
  individual
• Cyber-bullying can occur in blogs as well through
  email conversations and through identity theft
• Many tools now exist to exterminate
  cyber-bullying such as tracert and nslookup
• These tools help users easily identify a persons
  IP address

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Political Bullying

• Called Jingoism
• When one country imposes its will upon another
• Done with military force or threat
• Often political corruptions, coup d'états, and
  kleptocracies are the solution and response to
  the countries being bullied
• One example of this is when a small country isnt
  allowed to join a trade agreement

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Military Bullying

• The use of physical strength or the abuse of
  authority to intimidate or victimize others, or
  to give unlawful punishments
• Some people argue that during war times, soldiers
  are trained to accept bullying
• In some countries, military hazing occurs and is
  even considered necessary before one can enlist
• Higher generals in the Russian army
  systematically kick and punch lower ranked
  privates

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Hazing

• Hazing is an often ritualistic test, which may
  constitute harassment, abuse or humiliation with
  requirements to perform meaningless tasks
  sometimes as a way of initiation into a social
  group
• Refers to physical or mental harassment
• Hazing was legal until it was decided that a line
  couldnt be draw between acceptable hazing and
  superfluous hazing
• Hazing has been reported on sports teams,
  colleges, secret societies, the armed forces,
  clubs and teams, and in inmats

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Strategies to Reduce Bullying Within Schools

• Make adults aware of the situation and involve
  them
• Make it clear that bullying is never acceptable
• Increase adult supervision in the yard, halls and
  washrooms more vigilantly
• Emphasize caring, respect and safety
• Emphasize consequences of hurting others
• Follow up on all instances of aggression
• Teach cooperative learning activities

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Bloods History

• The United Blood Nation, or Bloods, was formed in
  1993
• New York City jail system on Rikers Islands GMDC
  (George Mochen Detention Center)
• Grew to become very large and powerful

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Bloods Spread

• 1996 thousands joined and were still being
  recruited
• Central American country, Belize
• West Coast and East Coast States located in New
  York, New Jersey, Florida, North Carolina, and
  South Carolina

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Bloods Identification

• Refer to each other as Dawg (DOGS)
• Burn an upside down triangular shape, like a dog
  paw, on their upper arm
• Usually cigarette burns instead of ink
• Tattoos of a bulldog
• Red bandannas

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Traditional Bloods Hand Signal
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Crips History

• Located in Los Angeles
• 1969, Raymond Washington (15) organized a group
  of other neighborhood youths
• Was known as Baby Avenues
• Beat up on the older gangs and became more
  powerful
• 1971 adopted the name Crips

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Crips Spread

• Washington influenced other youth gangs in
  joining the Crips
• Developed in Central America Country known as
  Belize
• Migrated to the US during late 1980s
• West Coast and East Coast States

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Crips Identification

• Wear blue and clear beads or blue and white beads
  around neck
• Blue jeans and white shirts
• Adopted the Folk Nation Symbols
• Blue bandannas

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Traditional Crips Hand Signal
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Harassment
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Harassment

• Types of harassment
• Stalking
• Sexual
• Racial
• Religious
• Disability
• Sexual Orientation

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Stalking

• Most commonly reported
• Involves spying or following
• An individual pestering another person either in
  person, telephone, or electronically
• Distressing the recipient may result in violence
  or fear of violence

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Sexual Harassment

• Unwanted attention of sexual nature
• May be physical- touching, groping, personal
  space invasion, rape or indecent exposure
• May be verbal- usage of personal comments, sexual
  slurs, belittling, suggestive remarks, etc
• None verbal- suggestive looks, leering, explicit
  gestures, etc.

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Racial

• Unwanted behavior based on verbal threats based
  on race, color, comments on racial origins,
  racial jokes, racial slurs, etc.
• Considered politically incorrect but is still
  legal
• Causes social tension

Ku Klux Klan Symbol
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Religious

• Crude behavior based on ones belief
• Ridiculing items worn for religious reasons,
  dismissive treatment of requests for holidays or
  religious cultural events, degrading comments
  about ones belief

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Disability

• Unwanted behavior based on ones need for
  additional help/impairment
• Inappropriate reference to disability, discussion
  on the impact of disabilities, refusal to work
  with a certain person because of ones additional
  needs

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Sexual Orientation

• Inappropriate behavior based on ones known or
  presumed sexual orientation
• Name calling, stereotyping, assault, threatening,
  or interrogating ones sexuality, etc.
• Gay pride parades take place to alleviate the
  stresses of harassment and attempt to gain new
  right

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Violence in Video Games

• The subject of frequent controversy and
  censorship
• The Entertainment Software Rating Board(ESRB)
  rates games based on content on a letter scale
• Controversial games include Mortal Kombat,
  Hit-man 2, and the Grand Theft Auto Series

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SOLs addressed

• 9.1
• The student will apply health knowledge and
  skills to the development and analysis of
  personal goals to achieve and maintain long-term
  health and well-being.
• 9.3
• The student will analyze, synthesize, and
  evaluate the relationship between positive
  health behaviors and the prevention of injury
  and premature death.
• 10.2
• The student will analyze, synthesize, and
  evaluate the protective factors related to
  achieving and maintaining a sound mind and
  healthy body throughout life.
• 10.3
• The student will implement personal injury
  prevention and self-management strategies that
  promote personal, family, and community health
  throughout life.
• 10.5
• The student will evaluate how different types of
  behavior impact the community.

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