Plague Of Violence

For thousands of years, humans have been valiantly attempting to stop the most detrimental and limiting factor on our civilization. This plague has been unrelenting since before humans first stood on two legs. Violence has been studied by hundreds, if not thousands of psychologists, economists and other social workers and after all this work experts homicides have decreased by up to 100 times from Oxford in the 1300s. However violence is still deeply rooted in our society and people are increasingly accepting of the murders, rampages, and terrorist attacks that frequently occur around the world, and we still know very little about how violent behavior manifests because of environmental and biological factors.
The Social Learning Theory, credited
This is because once people have a stable job they have self-esteem, the fourth stage of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. They feel accepted and hopeful, something that will never drive anyone to commit a suicidal act. Terrorism, gang violence and militias have risen in relatively isolated places on earth. For example, the IRA, IRB, and RIRA carried out hundreds of mortar attacks, car bombings, and other brutal assaults on British rulers, as well as innocent Irish citizens. Strife in Ireland had been a constant reminder of British rule since 1845, when the Potato Famine wiped out lower class food supply for more than 6 years. It killed over a million Irish citizens and forced another million to leave on the perilous journey to
Very few people with a stable, well-paying job will commit acts of terrorism for any reason because they feel industrious and have hope and purpose. Without purpose and a way to raise a family, men and women have nothing to lose. Everyone knows that it is impossible to control someone with nothing to lose. These people are often the people with nothing to gain either. When people have given up on themselves, or feel as if others have given up on them, they reach out for the next best thing: attention, or dignity. “Indeed, it was a prison psychiatrist of 25 years standing who said:I have yet to see a serious act of violence that was not provoked by the experience of feeling shamed and humiliated, disrespected and ridiculed, and that did not represent the attempt to prevent or undo this “loss of face”—no matter how severe the punishment ... ”(Charlesworth, Gilfilan, Wilkins, 2004).
The fourth of eight crises in Erik Erikson’s crises is Industry vs. Inferiority. If people succumb to feeling inferior they never develop their sense of purpose and direction in life. This stage of life occurs during adolescence and failure to develop purpose during these years can lead to lasting effects that can be extremely detrimental to future development. Teens are willing to go to drastic lengths to seek approval, identity, and attention during these