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What is institutional violence? |
Violence carried out by institutional agents within the context of their societal institutions. |
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What is an institution? |
Different groupings that are important to us. They represent a collective response to common problems in society. The 5 institutions are: education, religion, family, economy, and government. |
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Why are institutional and structural violence given less attention in the media than other forms of violence? |
Institutional violence is legitimized and acts of interpersonal violence are illegitimized. |
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What is family violence? What are the different forms of family violence? |
Acts by family in the context of their institutional roles such as child abuse by parents, spousal abuse, elder abuse, and marital rape, sibling abuse |
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What are some patterns of family violence? Victims and offenders? |
Many battered women are often offenders in domestic violence. Men are offenders in marital rape, children of elders are often the offenders. |
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Why is the family considered an "institution" in our society? |
The family is one of the most important institutions because family has a profound impact on our lives from the day we are born. |
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What is educational violence? What are the different forms of educational violence? |
Violence enacted by members of a school acting within the context of school roles. Examples include corporal punishment, bullying, sexual relationships, and abuses of power. |
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What are some of the patterns of educational violence? victims and offenders? |
Offenders are people who usually have authority roles such as administration. Violence amongst students is usually bullying. Abuse of power and corporal punishment carried out by teachers to students. More recently, there is violence from students to teachers. middle school student and aunt beat teacher in hempstead. |
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Why are there such high levels of violence in our educational institutions? Causes of violence in education. |
-corruption -poverty within school system and community -violence overflows and is reproduced in schools -inequality which stems from the community -lack of resources in schools |
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What is state violence? |
All forms of violence committed by the government, and all forms of politically authorized violence. Violence is used in order to maintain the status quo. used to maintain order. |
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Forms of state violence |
conducting assassinations torture executions wars against foreign nations genocide chemical warfare experiments police brutality capital punishment |
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Agents of the state |
police officers military government officials |
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Max Weber's definition of state violence |
The modern state was characterized by territoriality, legitimacy, and violence. Only the state has a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence. |
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What is structural violence? |
Refers to all acts of violence that have been accepted as being necessary for the maintenance of the pattern and organization of society |
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How is structural violence manifested? |
This form of violence is used to protectand reinforce the hierarchical patterns of society, which determine the powerrelationships across all spectrums of society. Manifested at an interpersonal level.
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Examples of structural violence |
poverty income inequality hate crimes |
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what is the relationship between violence and inequality? |
Inequality affects one's life chances |
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What are hate crimes? |
Represent the problem of interpersonal violence at maintaining ethnic hierarchy. People are targeted according to race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic class, religion |
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Hate Speech |
A person can say what they want and are protected under the first amendment. Anyone can express hatred toward another group. Hate speech becomes a hate crime when someone commits an illegal act that is motivated by hate |
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Targets of hate crimes. |
Japanese-Americans were the targets of hate crimes during world war 2 when they were placed in internment camps because Americans feared invasion after the pearl harbor attacks. Matthew Shepard was tortured and left to die after he as attacked because of his sexual orientation. 1998 Today immigrants are being targeted by Americans |
