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What is the out come of violence?

Domestic violence survivors can face ongoing and challenging effects after enduring physical, mental, and emotional abuse. It can take time for a survivor to adjust to living in a safe environment, especially if a perpetrator was severely violent and/or committed the actions over an extended period of time.While addressing this pain can be overwhelming, the healing process can help survivors develop inner strengths and lessen their fear of safety for themselves and their families. On the journey to recovery, survivors and those who support them should understand that healing takes time. The effects of this trauma can vary widely person to person due to individuals’ responses to stress, age, and the frequency and severity of abuse.
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How many deaths are caused by violence?
Injuries and violence affect everyone, regardless of age, race, or economic status. In the first half of life, more Americans die from violence and injuries — such as motor vehicle crashes, falls, or homicides — than from any other cause, including cancer, HIV, or the flu. This makes injury the leading cause of death among persons 1-44.  Injury and violence also has an alarming economic toll. The total costs of injuries and violence in the United States was $671 billion in 2013. The costs associated with fatal injuries was $214 billion while nonfatal injuries accounted for over $457 billion.³

Key Data and Statistics|WISQARS|Injury Center|CDC. (2019). Retrieved March 19, 2019, from https://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/overview/key_data.html

Violence and Abuse in Rural America Introduction - Rural Health Information Hub. (2016). Retrieved March 20, 2019, from https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/topics/violence-and-abuse

Stop The Violence – We Can –  We Shall – We Will. (2019). Retrieved March 20, 2019, from http://www.stoptheviolenceok.com/

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How does violence effect the world?
The impact on behavior is predictable. Two prominent Surgeon General reports in the last two decades link violence on television and aggressive behavior in children and teenagers. In addition, the National Institute of Mental Health issued a 94-page report entitled, "Television and Behavior: Ten Years of Scientific Progress and Implications for the Eighties." They found "overwhelming" scientific evidence that "excessive" violence on television spills over into the playground and the streets. In one five-year study of 732 children, "several kinds of aggression-- conflicts with parents, fighting and delinquency--were all positively correlated with the total amount of television viewing."

Long-term studies are even more disturbing. University of Illinois psychologist Leonard Eron studied children at age eight and then again at eighteen. He found that television habits established at the age of eight influenced aggressive behavior through childhood and adolescent years. The more violent the programs preferred by boys in the third grade, the more aggressive their behavior, both at that time and ten years later. He therefore concluded that "the effect of television violence on aggression is cumulative."

Twenty years later Eron and Rowell Huesmann found the pattern continued. He and his researchers found that children who watched significant amounts of TV violence at the age of 8 were consistently more likely to commit violent crimes or engage in child or spouse abuse at 30.

They concluded "that heavy exposure to televised violence is one of the causes of aggressive behavior, crime and violence in society. Television violence affects youngsters of all ages, of both genders, at all socioeconomic levels and all levels of intelligence

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French violence flares as yellow vest protests enter fourth month. Retrieved March 20, 2019, from https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-protests/french-violence-flares-as-yellow-vest-protests-enter-fourth-month-idUSKCN1QX0B1

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How does violence start?

Experts in crime, mental health, education, and social sciences have all been trying to understand the pathways to school violence. A few common observations emerge. The first, and most disturbing, is that human beings, like few other species, are pervasively aggressive, violent and murderous to each other. The major predators of humans are other humans.

The second important point is that all violence is not the same. Some violence is due to impulsive behavior, some due to the disinhibition by drugs or alcohol, some due to serious mental illness, some to hate, revenge, or retribution. How any individual comes to kill is a complex combination of circumstances, and it is almost impossible to know exactly "why" for any given act of violence. We will never really know the full answer to "why" for the murders at Columbine.

Yet this should not stop us from trying to understand and prevent violence. We know that not all humans kill. And some societies are more violent than others. So what do we know about the conditions that increase violence? What observations are common across cultures and through history when violence emerges?
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Team, G. (2012). Lesson 9 Violence in School and Community: diary, leisure, personal, templates | Glogster EDU - Interactive multimedia posters. Retrieved March 20, 2019, from https://edu.glogster.com/glog/lesson-9-violence-in-school-and-community/22m24wmqn6o

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What can you do to help violence?
Preventing violence must involve the opposite: making sure people feel safe, cared about, and connected, while ensuring they have a healthy and realistic sense of self-esteem and self-worth. So how can we prevent children from becoming violent? And how can we treat people who’ve already demonstrated violent tendencies? Here are some of the Do’s of stopping violence among children, adolescents, and adults. This list is addressed to parents, but it truly applies to any influential figure in a child’s life.

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Why is violence a problem?
The problem I have is that we only seem to be captivated and passionate about the issue of gun control when mass murder occurs, but we are seemingly silent about the thousands of homicide deaths that happen each year. This is not to say that there aren’t community leaders, civic organizations, and even national public figures who are passionately concerned about daily gun violence in this country, and yet real calls for action seem to happen only after acts of mass violence.

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‌The Local. (2018, December 6). Tourists urged not to cancel trips to Paris over “yellow vest” violence fears. Retrieved March 20, 2019, from https://www.thelocal.fr/20181206/tourists-told-not-to-cancel-trips-to-paris-over-protest-fears

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