The Interrupters PBS Frontline: The Cost Of Domestic Violence

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Violence occurs everywhere in the world. Although there are different reasons why violence is present in a community, its effects are the same. Violence can be described as the mistreating of others with physical force, but there are different types of it. There is domestic violence, intimate partner violence when it comes to a household and a relationship, but it’s called gang violence when it comes from a community. When people choose to go down the path of physical force in order to settle a dispute, many conflicts can arise. In domestic violence, if the offender is a man, he will most likely get convicted and sent to prison, but we as a society find it difficult to incriminate a women of domestic violence because of the standards forced …show more content…

In “The Interrupters PBS Frontline”, we meet several people who commit to not end killings. Although it is a big mission, they have steps to move towards this goal. The members are previously convicted gang member who are fighting to end the violence in their city. They are people who have suffered from violence, some not upon them, but have witnessed first-hand what violence can do to a person. One of the major cost of violence is murder. One guy in the video mentioned how in his part of the city there was a motto that everyone lived to; “death before dishonor”. When a person in that community was assaulted or comfronted for a certain reason, it was justified in that place in particular to fight the person who disrespected you. Living up to this motto ended the lives of many and destroyed families, which is why there is a group dedicated to end this. The way that they approach the problem is through having conversations with people. They explain to them what they are doing is wrong, but they don’t end there. They find their soft spot and make them see their actions through humor. This way, the members show the gang members their errors but not directly. Another cost of violence is

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