Bystanders Affecting Young People

Bystanders Affecting Young People
Why do some young people watch another young person being beaten or raped and do nothing to assist that victim? The purpose of this annotated bibliography is to conduct a research to why young people/ bystanders don't intervene in a situation, where someone is being victimized/ violated. In order to complete this paper, three sub-questions will be used to successfully answer the main topic. Why don't bystanders intervene? Are bystanders any different from a victim or a bully? Why do men tend to intervene when women are being violated and not men? A YouTuber did a social experiment on domestic violence in a public area. Where he tested the reaction of bystanders when a man is violently abusing a female, he also tested the reaction of bystanders …show more content…
In today's society, not very many people like to intervene in a crisis. Many people are scared that if they interfere in the situation, it will place their safety at risk. Nobody cares about anyone else, but themselves, unless they are good friends or family members. People are usually scared to intervene in these type of behaviors because they don't want to get involved. Young children in middle school, and high school, usually look at this behavior as entertaining. Instead of preventing these behaviors, they end up pulling out their phones and post it on social media. Some bystanders do not want to intervene because the person that is causing such a behavior has greater weight or height, which causes them to fear that the person would be able to take on both of them, and back out of the situation. It also depends on how the person has been taught from their childhood. Some children are scared of being judged for helping others. As Sierksma, J., Thijs, J., & Verkuyten, M indicated "helping behavior is based on inferred expectations about what others think or