High Levels Of Domestic Violence

Regarding the Dewan Smith-Williams case they’re goal to me is to protect the brand and not to protect the husband from himself and his high risk behavior to his wife and family because they didn’t want her to go to the police and keep it silent. I think Mrs. Williams made the right call to come forth and let it be known that spouses and/or partners are being treated unfair and something needs to be done. In my opinion, maybe if fans, anti-violence groups and women’s rights organizations get together and organize a plan that could force the owners to enact stronger and lasting reforms to improve the NFL actions and response to domestic abuse. They should make some amendments to the personal conduct policy. This topic relates to the discussion on human behavior because we want to know what causes the domestic abuse from the spouse especially if the abuser is in the NFL, a super star, and fame is growing and so forth. Find out what area of treatment and theory practice could be used to help the

Although there are numerous different sports around the world, but often the sports that are considered the most popular tend to be the ones that hold the most aggression. For instance, in America the last 30 years straight, professional football has been the most popular sport (Rovell). Since football is the most popular sport, it is also one of the most aggressive sports, along with hockey, mixed martial arts, and soccer. Part of how American football is played is by being very hands on against the opponent, such that, the players have to tackle and knock down the other team’s players. As a result, at times during a game, serious injuries or accidents can occur, particularly, concussions. Unfortunately, there are instances where the aggression, such as in football, takes a toll on all the players’ bodies. Leaving professional football players injured, changing their whole life. For instance, “Earl Campbell was one of the NFL’s most prolific running backs to ever suit up” (Diaz &

NFL injuries can cause domestic violence. In fact "In 2012 Kansas City Chief player named Jovan Belcher shot and killed his girlfriend and then ended up killing himself and doctors believe it is from too many head injuries in the NFL(Gregory)".With head injuries in the NFL it can cause long term effects and after retirement can cause dementia and memory loss. Some players it has got to the point that they end up killing themselves from such bad head injuries or they take the aggression on their families or even kill the ones they love. Many families have gone to the point to sue the NFL after the family member killed themselves or hurt their families. "Family of

In the short article “ Man Up “ by Brian Phillips, the text talks about NFL ‘s warrior culture through Miami Dolphins bullying scandal between Richie Incognito and Jonathan Martin. Phillips said “

Over the past few months, our TV screens and newspapers have been flooded with stories of domestic violence in the world of sports. Most of these domestic violence cases have come from the National Football League's athletes. Over the past couple of months, the NFL has been under fire by its fans in response to domestic violence cases involving stars in the National Football League like Adrian Peterson, Ray Rice, Greg Hardy, and Jonathan Dwyer. Could these assaults all be connected to constant blows to the head? Have they experienced concussion like symptoms without even noticing? This could be entirely true hence three of the names above are running backs and endure the most punishment. All of these cases were brought to public news all within

The NFL has never really cared about domestic violence, and has never taken real action on any case. “Actually, no NFL Commissioner disciplined a convicted domestic abuser prior to 1997, even though fifty-six players were reported to the police for domestic violence between 1989 and 1994” (Brown). The list of cases of domestic violence in the NFL could go on for a while, and almost all of them got away with just a slap on the wrist. The problem isn’t just the amount of cases, but how little the NFL cares about the problem. “Professional sports need to do a

In the arena of sports today there is a continuous subject in every sport hostility and violence. Aggression can be revealed in a lot of dissimilar methods in sports. In baseball hostility can be chucking a pitch inside to a player or gliding into second base and captivating the other basemen. In basketball it can be a foul that is hard and shoving someone to the ground. And in NASCAR it can be somewhat as little at bouncing another vehicle at a race track. Over the past few years aggression and violence in sports is growing bigger and bigger. It seems like you can not go a week or two without the news talking about a fight or argument that has occurred at a sporting event between a couple of players or teams.

55.4% of the arrests were domestic violence cases, and 48% of arrests for violent crimes in the NFL accounted for are domestic abuse cases. Such high of numbers would tend to say that it is not just a coincidence and maybe there is a correlation between the nature of the game and domestic violence.

Due to high player visibility, there is a perception that players in the National Football League (NFL) have a higher arrest rate than the general population. Furthermore, NFL players are often active members of their respective communities and are held to a higher level of conduct. Most importantly, children often view NFL players as role models for this reason a higher level of scrutiny is received.

When athlete misconduct if first brought up I immediately associate it with football and domestic abuse. As I conducted my research for this topic that is generally the most common sport and crime which supported my initial reaction to hearing “athlete misconduct off the field”. Now this brought me to thinking why is that and what has the most common on field punishment been for these athletes? Many different article such as the espn article “The NFL is finding out just how complicated domestic violence punishments can be” address why football players seem to be the usual suspects. There is no pinpoint answer but the article addresses that one possibility is that these men are raised there entire life playing a sport of violence where the goal is to hit another player as hard as possible. They are basically modern day gladiators. To expect these men to just have a switch where they go play and practice and hit things then turn that switch off go home and are completely peaceful is somewhat absurd. As sad as it is to think about the athletes have somewhat of an expectation to be violent off of the field, because of how they are breed to play on the phone. Since they are made this way on the field it is quite reasonable to think would think that they would be punished off of the field for those

This memo serves the purpose of discussing the next step in my research project, after sifting through many papers already written on the subject. Through my research, I realized where the current professionals were targeting their questions on the subject: domestic violence. Today, many people look at the National Football League as if it is on a pedestal; people worship the players from their home team. However, this can cause problems with those emulating their characteristics. This topic has been covered in the pieces of writing I evaluated, but nothing further ever came up. If we are worried about the influence the players have over the fans, I would like to see how much of an effect they actually have.

Violence, a normality factor of today’s society, is also an item in certain jurisdictions that is unequally penalized. Violent crime accounts for 63.6 percent of crime reported and makes up an estimated 1.1 to 1.2 million crime according to the FBI 2015 uniform crime report. Violent crime also accounts for 11,205,833 arrests. Despite violence as an act of defense, there is a possibility that violent sports are related to violent crimes and domestic violence. Professional sports teams continue to be the talk of media and there has been more emphasis on the violent crimes that continue to occur in professional sports, specifically in the National Football League (NFL). Professional athletes who commit violent crimes are not held to the same

The NFL started A NO MORE campaign (Mease). This campaign has a moral statement of Domestic Violence is unacceptable regardless of the situation. This campaign was headlined by the likes of Eli and Peyton Manning , Cris Carter, and Jerry Jones. That is the widest of variety of people that the NFL could give to depict their actual sincere feelings of this subject. This reaches a broad spectrum as the kids from impoverished places (Cris Carter). To the kids who grow up “Swimming” in Money (Jerry

The number of cases of abuse is growing, and growing drastically at that. With the number of cases growing, sports

The prevalence of violence in sports is not simply a modern American problem. There has probably never been a society anywhere on earth without some degree of sports-related interpersonal violence. Roman gladiators, many of whom were volunteers, risked death every time they stepped into the arena. The ritual ball games of Aztec and Mayan culture ended in human sacrifice. The chariot races of ancient Constantinople were accompanied by spectator violence that, on one occasion, left 30,000 dead. The brutal and obscene behavior of English “football hooligans” has become legendary. To explain the apparently universal occurrence of some degree of sports-related violence, we need to look beyond the American military and the modern corporation (Allen). According to Silva (1981), aggressive behavior is an overt verbal or physical act that can psychologically or physically injure another person or oneself. The aggressive behavior must be non-accidental and done with the intent of injuring the opponent. Aggression can be divided in two different categories according to Buss (1961). Hostile aggression and instrumental aggression are differentiated based on the intention of the aggressor and the primary reinforcement sought by the acts. For individuals engaged in hostile aggression, the primary goal is to inflict injury to another human being; the intent is to make the victim suffer. Individuals engaged in instrumental aggression also