Southern Subculture Of Violence

“The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is to a more violent world” (Arendt pg 80). Violence is contagious, like a disease, which will destroy nations and our morals as human beings. Each individual has his or her own definition of violence and when it is acceptable or ethical to use it. Martin Luther King Jr., Walter Benjamin, and Hannah Arendt are among the many that wrote about the different facets of violence, in what cases it is ethical, the role we as individuals play in this violent society and the political aspects behind our violence.

This paper analyzes the subculture of violence in Mexico from the study of five cities located in one of the most violent areas of Mexico. The results from this study demonstrate the existence of a social acceptance of crime as standard part of behavior. The study uses the learning process about behavior and negotiation as a framework. Primary sources are used throughout the paper which includes interviews with youth. This source will be useful for my final project because it is qualitative research, it gives an explanation on the social tolerance of violent crimes in Mexico.

The Condemnation of Blackness: Analysis of Black Criminalization in America. Khalil Muhammad’s analysis of black criminality in the history of The United States provides a stunning perspective on our world today. His work is an invaluable gift for all individuals who are interested in understanding the racialization of crime in America. From the first chapter to the last chapter, Muhammad dissects numerous information and draws conclusions regarding black lives before, during and after the civil war. As he puts it “The Condemnation of Blackness demonstrates and explains how ideas of racial inferiority and crime became fastened to African Americans by contract to ideas of class and crime that shaped the

In Cohen’s article,“Culture, Social Organization, and Patterns of Violence,” he examined a study, based on the use of violence. Whether it was seen as more culturally appropriate within South and West communities as opposed to less violence seen in tighter, more organized states within the North, he stated that it is a trend of commonplace within these areas and communities following this norm as it is part of that area 's

Brent staples takes an interesting position on the stigma of black males in America, in his 1980 's recount of his life as a black male in the city of New York he mentions a deep yet simple cause of violence upon black life’s. In our day to day life lives in the us in urban America "when fear" particularly racial fear of a person of group of people arises “and weapons", either by registered individuals or by police mix “(staples 1) there is always the possibility of death". It is an imminent consequence when

For decades, Americans have been associating young black men with stereotypes that affiliate them with violence. These stereotypes, which are based purely off of appearances, have caused many young black males to face violent, unnecessary, as well as unjust encounters with white police officers. As the number of deaths among young black men increase because of police brutality, society should change how they perceive these men in order to prevent inflicting more harm to them. Specific cases, such as the cases of Freddie Gray, Oscar Grant, Trayvon Martin, and several others, will be presented in order to display how the distortion of the stereotypes can cause incredible harm to young black men due to police violence in addition to how stereotypes affect society’s perception of all young black men.

With time violence may become such a commonplace that even seemingly sane people will see no problem murdering a store clerk, opening fire on someone that cut them off on the highway, or killing a disobedient child. "A society that chooses violent death as a solution to a social problem gives official sanction to a climate of violence." (Prejean, 57)

the culture. This violence is invisible but there is a clear intention to harm or even

jim crowAlthough Media reports that blacks commit most of the violent crimes, the center that collects and research statistics shows in fact that black on black murder crimes has decreased significantly since the early 90 's and is in fact by great numbers below whites when it comes down to violent crimes being committed. The whole black on black crime is a political strategy, a gimmick and propaganda used by the Illuminati/Bohemian Media elites to control people thoughts using media mind control. Most people, whether White, Black, Asian and Latino all have an idea, a mindset of who a criminal is and usually always the stereotypes of a criminal is associated to Black People. In America, Black people are 30-40% more likely to be exploited by the New World Order Society through a wide range of media outlets;commercials, movies, shows, reality shows, and music internationally. The

Galtung, (1990) taxonomic view of violence and pragmatic solutions address cultural violence as “any aspect of a culture that can be used to legitimize violence in its direct, or

The subculture of southern violence theory is just one of many cultural transmissions theories discussed in Miller’s text. Cultural transmission theories determine that the values, beliefs, and norms of subcultures (deviant or no) contrast with the dominant culture. Therefore, it is possible for a subculture to justify criminal behavior as normal or necessary when it comes to one’s reputation and self-defense. Because the southern region of the United States is known to have high crime rates than other regions of the United States and as a whole, the subculture of violence theory was hypothesized by Wolfgang and Ferracuti during the late 1960s. Other researchers: Ball-Rokeach, 1973; Erlanger, 1974; and Hartnagel, 1980 theorized what factors may be the cause of the high crime rates in the southern region as well. This discussion will explore the implications of whether or not their findings adequately support the existence of the subculture of southern violence theory.

American sociologists of the early twentieth century viewed blacks as a “pre-modern people, culturally backward by modern standards, and still isolated from the socializing currents of modern life” (McKee 2006, 2111). Given the normative underpinnings of America’s push for a post–Civil War national identity, these views of a black cultural heritage became part of the ideological landscape that American criminology inherited during its emergence as a discipline near the turn of the twentieth

People let us get real: There is no such thing as Black-On-Black Crime. It is a catch. An oxymoron. Nearly all injured parties of a brutal atrocity are attacked or killed by people they associate with. All races harm and cause violence against one another. Nearly every analysis displays the largest prognosticator of brutality are of the socioeconomic conditions and the corresponding seclusion of the perpetrators’ communities. However, when Caucasian males get violent in movie theaters or school campuses, it is not identified as “Caucasian -on- Caucasian violence” although eighty-four percent of the Caucasian casualties of homicides are murdered by their own race. Although fifty-three percent of gang related killings are done by

Pop culture has enlightened and exposed the world to the good, the bad, and the ugly under every circumstance, and people tend to be more provoked, influenced, and intrigued by the bad and the ugly rather than the good. One topic of pop culture that never fails to gain attention is violence in its many forms. While at a state of constant social change and adaptation, the population finds more and more disagreements on the ever-changing and conflicting views and beliefs of each individual, which can lead to violence in some, if not most cases. Hate crimes are crimes or actions motivated by certain disagreements among groups that typically involve some form of violence. This essay will discuss the violence in racial hate crimes against African Americans, because the violence in these hate crimes, both past and present, will help educate individuals about different racial perspectives on the claimed “unfair” or “unequal” treatment of the African American race compared to the treatment of whites in all aspects of society and life. In the United States, African Americans as a race haven been one of the main targets for violent racial and hate crimes. Racial violence and hate crimes against African Americans have been a part of the United States since the very beginning, with a spike in conflict around the 1960s era of the African American Civil Rights Movement, and are even portrayed now in current pop culture sources. Violence against African Americans in films like The Help (a

A cultural theory of violence states that among certain groups or sub culture there are norms and cultural values that approves of violence rather than define it as deviant. This theory of violence locates these pro-violent norms among individuals and groups in lower strata, and thus this group comprises a subculture of violence. These pro-violent norms accelerate the individual to commit violence for maintaining his authority and power. Hayes and Lee (2005) conducted a research to test the assumption that using violence was a sub-cultural specific phenomenon in a certain region and races. The study focused on the culture of violence among Southern white males belonging to rural of the United States.