I found this article to be pretty interesting. Here are some highlights of it:
-aggression involved behavioral terms/assualt/emotional outbursts
-conflict- incompatibility of interests/goals/etc
-violence- infliction of emotional/physical/sexual/psychological damage
-Killing with a knife is different than killing with a gun
-the meaning behind it varies...
Ways to study violence
-genetically-hard to do, but was found that violence is more prevalent in people who had head injuries
-evolutionary- men were hunters/women were gatherers; competition among men in sexual selection
-personality trait approach--good but not enough results yet.
Men and Women define violence (for themselves) differently. For men violence is a way to assert control, but for women violence is a failure of self-control.
The article discusses some pretty horrific personal stories of violence. The public reaction is important in creating the general attitude towards violence. If somebody was raped and killed by several people, the investigation into that should be thourough and intense. Insead the police met resistance from the community. This leaves the impression that you can get away with rape and murder, and may lead to further problems.
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