There are many reasons that can cause violence; some of those are mental illness, brain damage, child abuse, and social deprivation. It actually takes many various forms. One of the simplest definitions is the infliction of injury upon one person by another person. But this definition is just a beginning. For example, World Health Organization characterizes violence in some way including homicide, suicide, reckless risk-taking behaviors (that could be drunk driving), and both collective and political violence meaning war, genocide, and terrorism. Another definition that is more common includes the everyday acts of bullying and neglect that engender violent behavior; this could be as well structural violence in the form of economic, political, or social discrimination.The same as disease epidemics, societal violence appears from the interplay of social, psychological, and biological factors. Having taken a look at the whole history, violence prevention has relied on different moral edicts and the main threat of punishment. Speaking critically, all school shootings and gang warfare directly point to the strong use of lethal violence among young people. As a result, violence kills mostly the young, and it brings a more serious threat to the well-being of young people than most diseases. Consequently, in the whole world many people, especially young people, have died from violence than both from cancer and heart disease.
In spite of these alarming statistics, a huge number of researchers still believe this trend can be reversed. However, that could be done not with school metal detectors and stiffer prison sentences, but by treating violence as a common public health problem. It is also important that the main focus should be on youth where this prevention will be the most effective. Researchers’ opinion is that it is time to apply those types of different interventions that one could actually use to overcome heart disease or cancer.
In fact there are a lot of environmental factors which also lead to violence. Family discord, abuse, peers, and various sexualized environments are those examples of possible factors that can cause an individual learning or being conditioned to be very violent or even sexually aggressive. Yet, this theory does not concern every person that is raised in a violent atmosphere and later they may not become violent.
