Rogerian

Randall Aikins

Lisa Crumit-Hancock

Comp 1

May 2, 2017

Community Violence

                        Violence in the community could cause a big conflict in a community. Violence could be a divider and break up people’s relationships.  Violence in a community has been proven to be one of the main conflicts that goes on in it (Duffany, 2017). There are many ways to solve violence in a community.  Bridging the Response to Mass Shootings and Urban Violence: Exposure to Violence in New Haven, Connecticut, Organizational Justice Perceptions and Views on Violence of Branch Teachers Working in Primary Schools, Mental ill health in structural pathways to women’s experiences of intimate partner violence have prime examples of solutions for ending violence.

            In the article Bridging the Response to Mass Shootings and Urban Violence: Exposure to Violence in New Haven, Connecticut, a nonviolent protest was the solution mentioned (Duffany, 2017). This is a good replacement for the violent riots that were taken place beforehand. For example the LA riot was a violent act that could have been easily replaced by a nonviolent protest of a community. Instead of coming peaceful, the people in the LA riot watched their community go up to flames as ciaos travels through the city. The nonviolent protest is a movement that bring people together and help them get more involved of what’s going on in their community. “The exposure to gun violence has reported 73% gunshots heard and out of that neighborhood some are close friends or family members 29% have gotten hurt and 18% got killed. They all differ by race and ethnicity and social class but they are low income neighborhoods. For black males the ages are among 18-34 years old” (Duffany, 2017). This fact alone made people realize that it was a huge problem and made them come together and protest. Another solution suggest in the article, Organizational Justice Perceptions and Views on

Violence of Branch Teachers Working in Primary Schools, they talked about how violence start when children are young and in school. The solution they had to stop this was to increase the influence teachers have on the young children to put a in to violence. (Koc, 2016).

            In my opinion a nonviolent protest is a good suggestion but, there is not enough precaution to prevent an outbreak. This being said communities should be more equipped by having more police cars roam the area to prevent a lot of the violent activities taking place. They also try to increase the members of the neighborhood watch and somebody to report to that could handle things quickly and efficiently. Another suggestion is that violence can be in kids at an early age, but if they had more people to influence their life other than teachers that could be prevented. To increase it, they should create special programs such as a big brother or a big sister program to have people in their lives to help guide children in the right direction.

            The articles share many similarities such as violence in their communities and what they can do to stop this unhealthy outbreak of forcefulness. My opinion is also similar due to the fact that I mentioned how violence in a community needs to be put to an end. All together the solutions listed above are all good ideas that could end violence in a community. If these suggestions were utilized violent communities could become a healthier, more suitable place.

Annotated Bibliographies

Duffany, Kathleen O'Connor Carroll-Scott, Amy Thomas, Jordan Greene, Ann Arora, Anita

            Agnoli, Alicia Gan, Geliang Ickovics, Jeannette Santilli, Alycia “Bridging the Response

            to Mass Shootings and Urban Violence: Exposure to Violence in New Haven,

            Connecticut.” American Journal of Public Health. March 2017:

            This Article they talk about the self-reported exposures to gun violence in the urban community. They are taken action to a movement to prevent the gun violence in New Haven, Connecticut. The exposure to gun violence has reported 73% gunshots heard and out of that neighborhood some are close friends or family members 29% have gotten hurt and 18% got killed. They all differ by race and ethnicity and social class but they are low income neighborhoods. For Black males the ages are among 18-34 years old.

Koç, Mehmet Akçay, Cengiz Akyol, Bertan “Organizational Justice Perceptions and Views on

Violence of Branch Teachers Working in Primary Schools.” Journal of Education and Training Studies. October 2016.

In this article, the author, Koc, discusses the perceptions towards violence in primary

school. At first the article discusses how teachers play a big part on the violence in children during their younger years. However, by the end of the article, it is stated that there are negatively and low level relationships between the two topics.

Machisa, Mercilene T. Christofides, Nicola Jewkes, Rachel “Mental ill health in structural

            pathways to women’s experiences of intimate partner violence.” PLoS ONE. April 2017.

            This article discusses how violence is derived from alcoholism and PTSD. It then continues to touch briefly on how these are common disorders that cause a connection to an unhealthy community. The author, Machisa, then discusses how child abuse, mental illness, and intimate partner violence, or IPV, are also underlying pathways that relate to unhealthy communities as well.