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    The issue of violence in these media products has been a highly-debated issue for the past few decades. Recently it has become extremely popular in the subject of violence in video games. It is rumored that games such as “Call of Duty, Mortal Kombat, Battlefield, Halo and many more have been the culprit behind a recent spike in childhood aggression. Many people have their own views on the subject, but it has been most commonly deduced that aggression is caused by the games, but violence does not always

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    Domestic violence is a pattern of behavior that involves violence and/or abuse to another individual in one’s family. Domestic violence is commonly associated with the mistreatment against women, but there are also other forms of domestic violence. It is human nature to react a certain way based upon pre-existing notions, past experiences, or previous traumatic events towards a specific thing. People find it hard to look past certain actions and patterns of behavior because they are emotionally destroyed

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    Domestic violence is a widespread epidemic. Every 15 seconds a woman is beaten by their husband or partner in the United States alone. Destructive and abusive behaviors in intimate relationships may start as something of not much importance and escalate from there on. An incident of domestic violence is very rarely ever isolated and will more than likely be repeated. These violent incidents tend to happen more frequently and become increasingly more violent over time until they eventually spin out

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    Intimate Partner Violence Introduction Intimate partner violence (IPV) is defined as sexual, physical or psychological abuse by a current or past spouse or partner and is one of the largest public issues the Unites States faces today. It is estimated that roughly 15.5 million children live in a household effected by IPV in the United States (Gustafsson, Coffman, Cox 2014). Children who are effected by IPV are more likely to have behavioral issues along with their development being negatively

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    the media. Media and violence are both very wide and broad concepts that have massive impacts in our society, and it is important to distinguish their relationship with each other. The types of media are things such as violent video games, films, newspapers, magazines and television. One particular type of media that is often very problematized is violent video games. Different studies have shown convincing and unconvincing correlational in regards to the media and violence, but to whom do we believe

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    Illegal drugs can cause violence and crime in many different ways. It can come from a user who is desperate for their drug of choice or money. It can come from the dealers who may feel disrespected. It can also come from a history of abuse as a child that continues in an older age. The article The Drugs/Violence Nexus: A Tripartite Conceptual Framework by Paul J Goldstein brings up many great points about how illegal drugs can cause violence and crime. When talking about the psycho-pharmacological

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    programming contains some violence, there should be more and more violent crime after television is available” (Freedman). Many suggest the violence in media is causing violence in society but then how is it that violent crimes are actually decreasing in the United States. The violence that is occurring is actually due from the mentally ill, poor parenting, and the location of where one lives in society. Violence has actually decreased over the decades even though media has more violence than ever before

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    Intimate Partner Violence According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), intimate partner violence (IPV) is a serious, preventable public health problem that affects millions of Americans and is described as a type of harm caused by a current or former partner or spouse and may consists of physical, sexual, or psychological abuse; it does not discriminate, can occur among heterosexual or same-sex couples, and does not require sexual intimacy. The CDC administered a survey in 2010

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    What is violence and how can it affect humans in their actions? Violence has always been a recurring ideal around the world. In fact, it's a constant factor in the world's history. Theoretically, there is a violent half within each and every person, but it arises from human frustrations, goals, and desires. In a recent debate a controversial topic has been brought up: gun control. Because of the random shootings within the past years, many citizens believe that there should be a stricter law on

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    Teen Violence Effect

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    most is teen violence in schools. Teen violence is all cover the world and a lot of people say it can not be stopped but there is always a way to stop something bad. Teen violence is hurting people a lot people are getting into fights at school getting beat up after school and that is putting them into hospitals and why the victim did nothing to deserve a beating and now kids are most often at hospitals because of teen violence. Teen violence has stopped only when there are anti violence groups. Percentage

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