Violence In El Salvador

Majority of the countries crime and violence can be connected to the social domain of psychology. The social and cultural aspects of the country have brought up most of the violence that El Salvador sees today. As stated above the gangs create majority of El Salvador’s violence. The members of the gangs in almost every case come from poor families and neighborhoods. The government through out the years has always taken advantage of the poor in El Salvador. El Salvador has resulted in a critical dissipation of domestic class relations, and a renewed and expanded condition of estrangement both resulting in, and further driven by, the massive exodus of 25 percent of the population. While the elites of Salvadoran society embraced neoliberal restructuring
The law provides criminal penalties for corruption by officials; however, the government did not implement the law effectively, and officials often engaged in corrupt practices with impunity. The NGO Institute for Social Democracy stated that officials, particularly in the judicial system, often engaged in corrupt practices with impunity (Global Security). Much of the government’s flaws and corruption has lead to a huge part of El Salvador’s crime today. There is another social domain that has affected El Salvador’s violence. El Salvador is a culture built around “machismo”. The women in El Salvador is overlooked and isn’t valued or seen as equal as the men. This usually leads to a lot f domestic violence in the country. However for it’s masculine views and cultures domestic violence is often ignored. One woman explained that on the one occasion she had reported her husband, the police had criticized her for leaving her children alone to go out and call them from a public telephone (Hume, Mo). Domestic violence is almost seen as normal in El Salvador because of its cultural beliefs and