Violence causes and damages

Of the causes of violence

• Poverty and unemployment.
• Feeling of inadequacy and low self-confidence.
• Growing up in a broken family.
• Not getting the attention of others.
• Exposure to social rejection from the surrounding environment.
• Academic failure and leaving education.
• The failure of the individual to form deep and honest relationships.
• Exposure to previous harsh experiences such as neglect and neglect.
• That the abuser was a victim of domestic violence or physical abuse in the past.
• The negative influence of the surrounding people or the individual's peers on him.
• People with hyperactivity and learning difficulties.
• Poor educational and academic achievement.
• Some cases of late mental illness.
• Habitual witnessing and experiencing violence in the home, society and the media.
• Access to weapons of all kinds.
• A way to manipulate others and thus feel in control.
• Difficulty controlling feelings of anger, or being hyperactive or impulsive.
• Increased crime rates in the community.
• Alcohol or drug addiction.
• Belief that violence solves problems.
• Fear of punishment, and therefore violence is a way to protect themselves.
• The misconception that intimidating others will earn you their respect.
• Delayed psychological conditions such as anti-social personality. 

Violence of all kinds is no longer considered only an unfair crime, but it has also become an important cause among the causes of many health, psychological and physical problems that its victims are exposed to. The individual - adolescents in particular - can cause them to act violently or adopt violent behavior in the long term. Another study found that violent games not only generate violent behavior, but also increase thoughts that promote feelings of anger, speeding up the heartbeat and raising blood pressure.

Violence-encouraging content does not only appear in video games, but also includes the Internet, television, magazines and advertisements, and this is evident in the magnitude of the danger resulting from presenting all these forms of violence to children and adolescents, especially adolescents, because of their impulsiveness behind their feelings.

It is also important to understand the impact of the environment and society in this respect, as risk factors appear as a reaction resulting from this impact, such as high crime rates and lost job opportunities. As a result of the absence of police protection and strict laws in some poor residential neighborhoods, violence among young people has become a kind of justice for them.

Harm from violence

• Increase in suicides among children and adolescents.
• Developing feelings of blame and hatred towards others, which may cause him to become an anti-social personality.
• Serious physical injuries can be long-term, or they may be life-threatening.
• Victims suffer from psychological conditions such as depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder.
• Increased risk of chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer and respiratory diseases.
• Alcohol and drug addiction.
• Difficulty forming long-term relationships or emotional attachment to people.
• Feeling guilty and threatened all the time.
• Fear of violence may prevent some people from practicing their normal lives or participating in healthy activities.
• Reducing and hindering the scientific and academic growth of the individual.
• An individual's exposure to severe trauma, especially over a long period, puts the brain in survival mode, which affects focus, attention, difficulty controlling emotions, and also health problems in the long run.

What are the most common types of violence?

• physical violence.
• sexual violence.
• religious violence.
• physical or economic violence.
• Domestic Violence.
• Psychological violence.
• Verbal violence.
• electronic violence.
• Violence directed against the elderly.
• Political and institutional violence.
• Bullying in schools.

Physical violence: Beating is the most prominent form of physical violence, but it is not the only one, for example: depriving the individual of receiving medical care at the time of need, or forcing him to take medications, drugs or alcoholic beverages.

Sexual violence: It means forcing an individual to participate in a sexual act without his consent, and it includes: rape, stalking, sexual harassment and assault, and this happens especially to children and women.

Religious violence: It occurs when fanatics offend others because of their religious belief. They do not allow them to practice their religion freely and may assault them verbally or physically. This racism is also considered a form of cultural violence.

Physical or economic violence: It means depriving the individual of the right to dispose of his money, controlling his bank accounts and taking possession of his money against his will. It also includes forcing children to leave school and any of the parents preventing their children from working or forcing them to do so, and it appears clearly in the suffering of many women. Where she is deprived of her material right and bargained for it, and prevented from disposing of her own money.

Domestic violence: means abuse directed by one family member to another, and includes: physical abuse such as assault, sexual, financial and emotional abuse.

Psychological violence: It can include diminishing an individual's sense of self-worth or self-confidence. It may also be represented in constant criticism, ridicule of one's abilities, and neglect of one's emotional need for care and love.

Verbal violence : It is causing insult to the individual and calling him offensive words and names in what is called verbal abuse.

Cyber violence: using the Internet and social networking to stalk, bully, intimidate or harass others.

Violence directed against the elderly: It means physical and financial abuse of the elderly, especially in institutions. It also means neglecting their needs and refusing to provide health services.

Political and institutional violence: Political violence is what any political party may do against your will, such as using you as a tool to participate in an act of political corruption without your knowledge and to fall victim to them. As for institutional violence, as happens in some medical institutions in terms of ignoring and minimizing the patient’s pain, they deny him his needs.

Bullying in schools: It is considered a type of violence and may lead children and adolescents to long-term psychological conditions, and it may extend to pushing adolescents to isolate social life or commit suicide.

How can violence be dealt with?

• The existence of laws that punish acts of violence in all its forms, no matter how simple they may seem.
• Providing opportunities for girls and women to improve their economic conditions.
• Creating safe environments, especially in schools.
• Implement safe work policies to protect working women.
• Supporting victims and survivors of violence to reduce damages by implementing support and treatment services for victims of physical, psychological and economic violence and providing them with treatment.
• Protecting children exposed to domestic violence by one or both of their parents.
• Increasing penalties for perpetrators of physical and sexual violence.
• Promoting societal norms that protect people from violence.
• Show adolescents who exhibit violent behavior or continue to bully their peers to psychologists.
• Strengthening financial support for poor families.
• Conducting awareness campaigns in schools about the harms of violence and bullying.
• Improving parents' awareness and skills of the importance of providing a safe environment for the child during the early stages of his life.
• Providing educational opportunities from an early age for children from poor families.
• Facilitate access to substance abuse treatment and mental health improvement services.
• Family and community support for victims of violence and not blaming them.
• Training teachers in schools to notice any change in the behavior of students, in order to provide assistance at the earliest opportunity if they are subjected to bullying or violence from one of their colleagues, their families, or another teacher in the school.
• Implementing programs in schools and workplaces to develop the skills of dealing with problems without resorting to violence.
• Teaching children the importance of seeking help if they are exposed to any kind of violence.