What I Didn't Know That I Didn't Know...

By researching and reading some of the articles in scientific journals, I've found some theories behind increased violence in society today that I had never considered before.

http://www.ijcv.org/docs/2007/thome.pdf
Statistics show that the number of homicides and violent crimes have increased in advanced western countries with democracy over the last 50 years or so. An idea presented in this article is the increase in private security forces that are contracted out by the government and organizations. This leads to differences in economic inequality that translate into inequality in terms of available security. The articles goes on to argue that making security a commodity in effect normalizes security which in turn leads to violence sifting more society.

Another theory proposed that because peaceful requests are often ignored or punished and responses occur only after the reasonable pleas turn into violence. Thus, the article concludes that society and the laws of behavior make violence the reward in a sense.

These were just some new theories that I didn't even know that I didn't know about and I thought that they introduced some interesting new possibilities for the causes of violence. Most of the journals and articles seem recirculate the same main ideas of causes of violence, but an one theory that I hadn't considered before but was demonstrated by someone was the belief that people in need of attention realize that violence can be a means to draw attention to themselves. Hopefully, these new possible will open my eyes a little more and enable to me to look at the situation from all sides equally so I can make my conclusion with the least amount of bias possible.