Criminal Justice

Posted by Winnie Melda on October 16th, 2018

1.    Based on your understanding of the research article, what correlations do you believe exist between childhood exposure to violence and future aggression?
Victimization or adversity that results from being made a victim, according to Jencks is very common amongst the youth (Jencks, 2012). The way this affects a person, however, varies. Some people who have been the subject of serious victimization when they were youths respond to that victimization in negative ways. According to Jencks (2012), “around two-thirds of the adolescents in psychiatric or juvenile justice populations that participated in the research have experienced serious victimization.
2.     How would you describe the influence trait anxiety has on the precipitated aggressive behavior and violence?
It is observed from the article that those with low self-esteem and high trait anxiety have a more likelihood of conforming to their peers regardless of whether their peers are violent or aggressive. Also, according to Jencks, the degree of childhood trauma has a high correlation to their level of anxiety, and their level of anxiety highly affects the relationship between trauma and precipitated aggressive behaviors and violence. From the article, trait anxiety contributes to petty tyranny; that is to say, it contributes to aggressive as well as dominant over the line behavior. The people with high trait anxiety are hypersensitive to negative events, and this is what leads to aggressive behaviors.
3.    Identify and discuss two factors that affect the relationship between childhood exposure to violence and future aggression.
The two factors that affect the relationship of child exposure to violence and future aggression are:  witnessing violence and victimization. The violent behavior that children witness with their parents or community members has been associated with the development of future aggressive behaviors. Additionally, victimization from community-based violence contributes to the development of future aggressive behaviors.  The behaviors of children highly rely on the behavior of their parents, peers, or community members. Therefore, when they get exposed during their childhood, they are also likely to develop the behaviors that they had witnessed.  
References
Jencks, J. W., & Burton, D. L., (2012), The Role of Trait Anxiety in Reducing the Relationship between Childhood Exposure to Violence/Victimization and Subsequent Violent Behavior among Male Delinquent Youth. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 57(8), 985-995.

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