Examples of sectarian violence in the following topics:
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- Wherever people of different religions live in close proximity to each other, religious sectarianism can often be found in varying forms and degrees.
- In some areas, religious sectarians (for example Protestant and Catholic Christians in the United States) now exist peacefully side-by-side for the most part.
- The ideological underpinnings of attitudes and behaviors labeled as sectarian are extraordinarily varied.
- Sectarian violence refers to violence inspired by sectarianism.
- Some of the possible inputs for sectarian violence include power struggles, political climate, social climate, cultural climate, and economic landscape.
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- School violence is a serious problem in the United States.
- This refers to violence between students as well as physical attacks by students on school staff.
- In part, violence receives more attention because it draws media coverage.
- A home environment may contribute to school violence if, at home, students are exposed to gun violence, parental alcoholism, domestic violence, physical abuse, sexual abuse, or harsh parental discipline.
- Recall the risk factors for school violence in the U:S. and the two types of bullying
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- Sexual violence is any sexual act or sexual advance directed at one individual without their consent.
- The most commonly discussed form of sexual violence is rape.
- Sexual violence has a profound impact on physical and mental health.
- Sexual violence is severly under reported.
- This graphic illustrates the magnitude of the underreporting of sexual violence
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- The relationship between gender and domestic violence is a controversial topic.
- Other sources argue that the rate of domestic violence against men is often inflated due to the practice of including self-defense as a form of domestic violence.
- Determining how many instances of domestic violence actually involve male victims is difficult.
- Male domestic violence victims may be reluctant to get help for a number of reasons.
- Domestic violence also occurs in same-sex relationships.
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- Family violence is defined as a pattern of abusive behaviors by one family member against another.
- 3.3 million children witness domestic violence each year in the US.
- 3.3 million children witness domestic violence each year in the US.
- These are known as the psychological effects of domestic violence.
- These are the financial effects of domestic violence.
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- By the "monopoly on violence," Weber means the state is the only institution within a society who can legitimately exercise violence on society's members.
- Our understanding of formal control is enhanced by social theorist Max Weber's work on the state's use of violence.
- Weber writes of the definitional relationship between the state and violence in the early twentieth century in his essay "Politics as Vocation. " Weber concludes that the state is that which has a monopoloy on violence.
- By this, Weber means that the state is the only institution within a society who can legitimately exercise violence on society's members.
- The formal means of social control and the monopoly on violence serve a similar role in defining the state—they both illustrate the unique relationship between the state and its subjects.
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- Pacifism is the opposition to war or violence as a means of settling disputes or gaining advantage.
- rejection of physical violence to obtain political, economic or social goals
- opposition to violence under any circumstance, including defense of self and others
- Principled pacifism holds that at some point along the spectrum from war to interpersonal physical violence, such violence becomes morally wrong.
- Pragmatic pacifism holds that the costs of war and inter-personal violence are so substantial that better ways of resolving disputes must be found.
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- Max Weber's theory about states and violence can help explain why states would want to enact policies like gun control.
- In order to maintain a monopoly on legitimate violence, states must limit the means by which others may carry out violent acts.
- The right of self-defense is the right by which civilians acting on their own behalf may engage in violence for the sake of defending one's own life or the lives of others, including the use of deadly force.
- The right of self-defense is a private form of legitimate violence that is recognized by the state.
- States may maintain a monopoly on legitimate violence but outsource its execution by contracting with private parties such as Blackwater.
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- Factors that may lead marriages to end in divorce are infidelity, adultery domestic violence, midlife crises, inexperience, and addictions.
- While not conclusive, the predominate factors that lead marriages to end in divorce are infidelity, adultery domestic violence, midlife crises, inexperience, and addictions such as alcoholism and gambling.
- Domestic violence is defined as a pattern of abusive behaviors by one partner against another in an intimate relationship such as marriage or domestic partnership.
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- The reason why the assumption that playing violent video games is not accurate is because it decontextualizes violence.
- Those who claim violent video games lead to violence fail to realize that violence is context dependent and most players of video games are fully aware of this.
- Individuals who play video games recognize that violence in the context of the game is okay and that it is not okay to be violent outside of that context.
- Additionally, many of the studies that have claimed to have found a connection between playing video games and violent behavior have failed to control for other influences on violent individuals, influences that are more likely to translate into violent behavior: neighborhood violence and instability, family violence, and even mental illness.
- There has been a great deal of attention concerning sexual violence on college campuses in recent years.