Children Are Victims Of Violence And Violence

Violence affects a healthy family’s relationship, state of mind and well-being, in other words, it’s normal functions. Because of violence, children are forced to endure and cope with mental, physical and emotional trauma leading to a display of impacts on health, development, and wellbeing. The effects build up over time and can impact on every aspect of their life.  How many children and innocent lives must suffer from something unnecessary? Imagine walking into a home late at night to find a child hiding in a corner, with a bloody face and cuts all around their body saying they were self-inflicted or making up other silly excuses like falling down the stairs out of extreme fear. Up to 75% of all acts of domestic violence occurs between the ages 18-24. No child should ever see domestic violence as normal because the moment that happens a future perpetrator has been born. We need to take a stand and refuse to let domestic violence become something we ignore.

Many children are victims of violence; this violence may be physical, or emotional, direct or indirect. In certain situations, the child’s experience

For example, in Orange Country Florida, where black students only make up 27% of the public school’s population, black students represent over 50% of the students getting suspended (Lynch, 2016). This can be the effect of discrimination in the school system as young black males are already viewed as “trouble makers.” This alone can also create violence in black males because they recognize the unfair treatment which leads to resentment and anger. This soon manifests into even bigger problems within the self. "Exposure to aggressive experiences, in school and outside school, can profoundly affect mental health, including adjustment at school,” (Basch, 2011). Also found in this article, a recent study showed more than 42,000 11-17-year old’s that were affected by school violence were associated with having experienced internalizing behaviors such as depression, anxiety, sadness and more. Depression, anxiety, sadness are all ways for a child to cause aggression behavior because that's the only way they know to express themselves. This all stems back to the environment in which these young African American males are subjected to (Farrell et al, 2010) as well as their place in society and how they are viewed. If all they see and experience is negativity in their communities, homes and schools, it is what

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Moreover, in this study Voisin, Bird, Hardestry, & Shiu noticed that community violence exposure among urban youth has caused them psychological distress, anxiety, depression, aggression, low academic functioning, and delinquency (Voisin, Bird, Hardestry, & Shiu, 2011). The researchers used a grounded theory approach that helped them understand how African American youth live in a high-violence Chicago neighborhood (Voisin, Bird, Hardestry, & Shiu, 2011). The methodology used by these researchers included 16 boys and 16 girls which are equal to 32 participants (Voisin, Bird, Hardestry, & Shiu, 2011). They found out that participants were exposed to community violence by either hearing about it, witnessing it, or as direct victim (Voisin, Bird,

There are many factors that can be changed within a child be witnessing violence, and black children more likely to deal with these issues, due to the fact the black women would rather keep their violence within their families than to bring the outside world involve, especially the police— “the family secret”.

Many citizens believe that there is more and more crime occurring in the United States each year. However, evidence suggests that, for the most part, the United States’ crime rate is decreasing while the rest of the world’s crime rates are increasing. The rate of both violent crimes and property crimes have significantly decreased in the past two decades. In 2014, there were 9.4 million crimes reported, which is a drastic improvement from the 13.8 million crimes that were reported in 1995. Even though these are only statistics for the number of crimes that were reported to the authorities, the trends of victimization also support the idea the crime rates are declining.

According the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Uniform Crime Report and the contrasting Department of Justice’s National Crime Victimization Survey, both reports show a steady reduction in violent crimes over the past two decades. Both reports are released annually and are comprised of statistical data of reported crime or victimization surveys of sample populations from across the country (Karmen, 2016). Though the information contained in both reports as statistically accurate as possible, a figurative spin can be placed on the information and data can be skewed to misrepresent the true picture of crime, so according to (Karmen, 2016), all statistical data but be viewed with some scientific scrutiny. Even though the data from both annual

For the past 25 years in Chicago, an average of one child has been killed per week (Ansari, 1), but the violence does not stop with children. In 2016 alone, there were, “762 murders, 3,550 shooting incidents, and 4,331 shooting victims” (Caputo, 2). While the murder rate has remained exceedingly high over the decades, and spiked in recent years, the willingness of witnesses to provide police with information remains at an all-time low, and approximately 80% of all cases have no workable leads (Shaper, 2). Which begs the question, “Why will no one help put away the perpetrators?” Theorists, and especially the police, explain that witnesses of crimes pretend they see nothing because of the culture of “do not snitch” (Simon, Exploring).

According to the Judiciary Committee of Violence Americans live in the most violent, self-destructive nation. Even with crime having always been a serious issue that occurs across the world, crime rates in the United States have drastically increased over the last decade. With factors such as age, social class, and gender affecting

In 2012, the Attorney General’s Task Force on Children Exposed to Violence reported that about two out of three children in the United States have been exposed to some type of violence (Listenbee, Torre, et al., 2012). That report stated that of the 76 million youth currently living in the United States, about 46 million have been affected by trauma in the form of violence, crime, and/or maltreatment. In addition, many of these youth experience multiple forms of victimization, sometimes referred to as polyvictimization.

First, not only is it important to study the cycle of violence, it should be a mandatory course in all law enforcement curriculums. Violence is the root of all evil, and in many cases, like family violence it is a silent killer. Many victims especially women, silently carry the shame of allowing themselves to be the recipient of mental and physical abuse, not realizing when children are part of this equation they become unwilling participants in this violent cycle. Widom & Maxfield (2001) stated that

I think that not only do children face victimization of conventional street crimes, they also endure victimizations to crimes that are specific to being a minor. Such as, exposure to adult domestic violence, child neglect, and child maltreatment. The unique aspect of this population being victimized is that many of the crimes go

Through a closer observation of current research, one discovers the scope of violence, the signs to detect its presence in a person’s life, and what programs are in place to help people to protect them and be in better and

For many years the question of whether or not children were capable of having the same mental understanding as adults when it comes to crimes they commit. There are so many arguments from both sides and whether or not children who commit violent crimes should be tried in a court of law as adults. Personally, as a mother of two boys and pregnant with a third child I want to believe that if my child does commit a crime under the age of adulthood that they would be given a chance to try and be rehabilitated. I believe that children do not have the mental capacity to be housed in the same facility as adults. They are not mature enough, they will come out with more problems, and lastly these are children and we as adults are responsible for teaching them right from wrong so how can we ship them off with adults the minute they do something wrong. I, therefore, believe that children who commit violent crimes should not be tried as adults.