Essay On Violence In America

The author argues that violence is not on the rise here in America and it’s in fact on the decline. He or she has brought up many key points about the violence situation of our country. Many of which can be backed up by hundreds if not thousands of research studies and factual analysis done over the years. The questions for why American’s have such a great fear of violence has ambiguous answers. The author gives us concrete information and numbers indicating that crime rates have indeed decreased and it does bring up questions as to why we have this increased fear. The UCR’s and the victimization studies both either underestimate or overestimate the problem. So why is it that we have this growing fear?
Evidently, our rates be it in murder, arson, or robbery, are far higher in the United States than in other first world countries. But that is not uncommon in America, where …show more content…
No doubt the media has a great influence on how we perceive violence especially our young. News outlets often exaggerate violent conflicts. Things like television, videogames, or magazines almost always have some kind of violent content and we are exposed to it every day of our lives and is giving us a preconception of how large violence is in the world. The up and down cycles of violence very much relate to the social world today, seeing as there have been several shootings which have been the main source of the commotion recently. Gun violence seems to be on the rise, yet it is not as large as people think it is. This ties with how the media are delivering the news and people’s preconception about violence and how dangerous they see the world after so many years of seeing violent content from things like entertainment mediums. The author also acknowledges the problem of the long-standing cultural value that we have that kind of serves as the backbone of this growth of