Lecture 1 Allan Wade commences his presentation with a brief description of himself. He also takes the opportunity to introduce his colleagues whom he has worked with for a long time. Next, Mr. Wade talks about an article written by himself. The article is about Ann Hanbert who was arrested for illegal money distribution of an amount of 500000kr from the Stockholmsbank. After talking about the article, the lecturer goes on to raise the point about '' social responses’’ which is about how others, like families and acquaintances act against victims and perpetrators during and after the violence council. He points out that the research has evinced that positive social reactions are beneficial to victims as they tend to recover rapidly and fully. …show more content…
In the book it is described how Colm O ‘Gorman has been raped by a priest. By speaking about the book, Allan Wade conveys that the language which is used in general to reconcile, complies with the language used by perpetrators to entrap their victims. The last thing that Mr. Wade notes that when the offenders have trapped their victims, they finally shift the responsibility to the victim with the aid of the language. Lecture 2 In the second lecture, the orator devotes careful attention to why it is essential to comprehend in what manner human beings resist and respond to violence, but also what differences it can make. He also articulates that it is important with the details in all contexts as in that way everybody acquires a clearer noticeable depiction of how individuals reply to ferocity. Initially, the speaker takes up an example about a child who has witnessed how his mother has been mistreated by her husband. Meanwhile, the folks fought, the boy attempted to evade caring by holding his ears and listening to very loud music which made his parents annoyed. By highlighting this example, Mr. Wade clarifies that children do not elect to be in the role of observers in such situations. They harness their approaches instead in order to intervene and protect
Believers of the Old and New Testaments claim that violence is a sin and can only lead to more brutality and death; poet Tony Barnstone firmly agrees. In his poem “Parable in Praise of Violence” Barnstone lambastes the American obsession with violence-- that it is often triggered by inevitable events which could be handled in different manners. The speaker in “Parable in Praise of Violence” reflects on all parts of his “sinful” culture and comes to the realization that people often use violence as a way to deal with emotions of grief and anger caused by events and concepts they cannot explain.
A unique word choice introduces this essay, causing readers to be misguided. Staples begins by saying “My first victim was a woman…”(383). This choice of words obligated our minds to perceive this man as a criminal who was about to tell us his story. Staples allows himself to be portrayed as such a horrible person because that is exactly what people viewed him as. He uses self-blame as though he has accepted the fact of reality that he was viewed as a criminal and always will be. It seems as though he wanted to mislead us as readers so we would make the same mistake others did. A feeling of great guilt is created for judging this man that we barely knew. In such a simple way, Staples creates an ...
In Harry Mulisch’s novel The Assault, the author not only informs society of the variance in perception of good and evil, but also provides evidence on how important it is for an innocent person experiencing guilt to come to terms with their personal past. First, Mulisch uses the characters Takes, Coster, and Ploeg to express the differences in perspective on the night of the assault. Then he uses Anton to express how one cannot hide from the past because of their guilt. Both of these lessons are important to Mulisch and worth sharing with his readers.
“Friend by Day, Enemy by Night” shares an in depth look into the lives of the Kohistanis who live in Thull, Pakistan. The author of the text, Lincoln Keiser, goes into great depth in explaining the life of these people before and after mar dushmani. Mar dushmani can be directly translated as “death enmity.” This social relationship between the Kohistanis causes for many problems. As a general principle death enmity allows men to retaliate whenever another man wrongs them, though the act of revenge itself should not exceed the original wrong. The example stated in the book is, “a blow should answer a blow and a death answer a death.” For such offenses as attacks on men through their wives, sisters, and daughters retaliation usually occurs in deadly violence. Killing the offender is considered the most appropriate response. Although violence usually takes place during retaliation, it is not the only way to handle it.
Now that we have seen the shortcomings of two popular views of violence, Coady proposes his positive account; namely, that we ought to adopt a restricted definition. He begins with a dictionary definition (physical force with intent to damage/injure another), but he then observes that this is too restrictive and that we ought to include some psychological considerations. A restricted definition, Coady argues, is less morally loaded than the other two views given that it allows us to call an act a violent one without being committed (at least not as committed as the other views) to a certain ethical
For the purpose of this essay it must be stated that in relation to the discussions of violence that reference is made not to individual or interpersonal act of violence such as domestic violence. But rather violence which is structured into society, in a way in which to organise, make change and influence society through either legitimate or illegitimate force, such as state violence, military violence, riot and protest. In the time that Arendt was writing On Violence (1970) evidence of all these forms of violence were heavily taking place, in the forms of the fallout from the Vietnam war, Anti-Colonial struggles of the then third world, immensely violent student revolts within Europe and the United States, the invasion of Cambodia at the hands of the United States and most notably the Cold war which involved the nuclear stand-off betw...
Anyway, this research will focus only on three aspects - conscience crisis, violence, and fate and destiny. These aspects will be discussed in three separate chapters under the umbrella of the selected novels of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men(1937) , The Grapes of Wrath(1939) , and The Pearl (1947) and Cormac McCarthy ’s Blood Meridian (1985) , No country for old men( 2005) , and The Road (2006) . The investigator has adopted the sociological methodology throughout the thesis. Furthermore , the second chapter - conscience crisis, will be divided into two parts ( man’s inhumanity to man and greed ).
Our community has rapidly increased in violence, people don't recognize it as much because of the fact that it occurs in rare situations. When people spot cruelty they run away from it. John Steinbeck, in his novel Of Mice and Men has the reader experience the violence that the characters go through, even being smaller and weaker than all.
... The people that surround the reader, whether it is their parents or friends, and the historical events that have taken place may cause these acts of violence due to the exploitation of situations. This text shows many conceptual ideas about exploitation and violence. Therefore, this is vital in the fact that everyone understands each person has their own view on what is justifiable and what is not. Doctorow shows us how to see different views of what is justified or not and gives us a better understanding on what other people may be thinking when it comes to their own moral system. Therefore, having all the knowledge as why the relationship of exploitation and violence is present and what teaches a person their own moral system could help others around these types of situations defer much of the exploitation and violence that occurs by not repeating past mistakes.
Das’ insistence on the contingencies of the individual and the collective, the self and the other, and the everyday and the event makes the Life and Words essential reading for students and scholars of collective violence. It reminds us that the devil of “world-annihilating violence” really is in the details and, correspondingly, that understanding how an event and violence resides the everyday and within the self must also be a matter of particular and painstaking analysis.
Generally, the study of crime mainly focused on the offender until quite recently. In fact, Shapland et al (1985) described the victim as ‘the forgotten man’ of the criminal justice system and ‘the non-person in the eyes of the professional participants’. A new perspective was brought with victimology, an expanding sub-discipline of crimin...
... growth where a child is forced to start looking for solutions for everything that is wrong instead of simply being a child. This analysis prove that children have their own way of seeing things and interpreting them. Their defense mechanisms allow them to live through hard and difficult times by creating jokes and games out of the real situation. This enables then to escape the difficulties of the real world.
In today’s society there still exists many injustices, whether it be freedom of speech or equality amongst races. In order to make a change in relation to such issues, one must put themselves forward and inevitably cause conflict. This conflict could be something as large as a war between two countries or simply a debate amongst peers. Whether it be in the form of arguments or gunfire, people are given the opportunity to step forward and demonstrate their true strength. It may have been unnoticeable before, but during moments of great conflict, the admirable traits of strength and determination rise to the surface for all to see.
"Did people who committed acts of violence think their victims and their victims' relatives would just forget? Didn't people see? How violence went on and on like a terrible wheel? Could you stand in front of a wheel to make it stop?" (235).
Once we have determined who is a victim and how that determination is applicable to them we must determine the victim reaction after the crime. Will they seek help and report the crime? How will they react to the community’s response? The latter which leads to the fourth broad question of general victimology which is how society will, in turn, react to the victim after the crime (Doerner & Lab, 2012).