why is there so much violence in the USA?

Question

A group of teenagers keeps beating people up for entertaiment about 11 times in two months.

I am not talking about world violence, I am talking about people getting mugged and beat up on a constant basis within a mile radius.

Answer 1

I think it has always been there. Violence is a huge part of World History. The reason you sense it more now, is because you have access to the whole world via television, the internet, etc.
I would like to see TV get back to more situation comedies and less violent shows, like the CSI series for example.

Answer 2

I think every human being in every age has some needs. One of these, could be freeing their internal pressure, which is too high these days, all over the world.
If you can not find the good way to manage your soul, and free your extra energy, then you do strange things, cause in violence. This is my definiation from the word : violence.
In next step, if a good preventing system is not present (Law, family, etc.) you can harm the society.
My believe, with a very limited knowledge, is that in USA, the borders of freedom and dicipline are mixed.
If you do what ever you want to do, anything, then this could not be considered as freedom for you, as it could be violence from others point of view.
I think this is the point.

Answer 3

There are several to many sociological opinions on this issue. The ones that I think are most likely stem from examining deviant behaviors in society, one of which is crime and violence. Thru common sense we know that the mass of society growing up today is exposed to more violence via mass media such as television, music, games, and internet than ever before history. We are seeing the consequences with prisons and courts busting at their seams. One of the issues is access to these medias. The parental rating system is much to leniant because strict rating prohibit sales and viewings then the raters are more likely to notch it down when they should notch it up.

Secondly, and much harder to prove than the above is the notion that parents today are much more interested as a group in being friends with their kids first and parents second. The extreme lack of discipline, responsibility, and accountability create a culture of "anything goes" including acting out in violence.When you have people that fear no consequences for their behavior then you ignite entire generations to do as they please. The only regret most of these violent people have are getting caught. If this were false we wouldn't see repeat offenders or high recidivism rates in juvenile levels to adulthood because the remorse and correction would create a change, however, it doesn't.

Third, interesting work has been done in what is called deviant subcultures. The notion supplementing traditional sociology of conflict, structural functionalism, and symbolic interactionism is emergence of cultural theories such as this one. The argument in the theory is that lower levels of economic society create new values that are reachable within their culture. This being said, we can see why gang members claim status with jewlery, cars, cash, and crimes of violence...These are achievable to them while attending school and graduating college seem miles away. Of course, pushing these new values in culture of violence are peers and even parents/families who also partake in the deviance.

In short, the combination of media, parental responsibility lacking, and subcultures of deviance presses us toward violence.

Answer 4

There is violence everywhere. The Human animal is a violent creature.

That is the feature behind the best religions,..to keep the Human under control.

The best religions preach peace, the satanic religions teach violence.

Violence is no greater in the USA than every where else, it just seems that way because this is where you live.

Answer 5

The media. It tells us that we need all those things....nice cars, big house, lots of money. This creates a lot of jealously and havoc in the US. In addition, social problems within the US, such as racism, inequality , etc contribute to the violence as well.

Answer 6

1. Freedom [we have lots, it seems, including the indulgence in immediate gratification, pleasure, acting out]
2. Violent culture [entertainment, music, video games] dipicting & glorifying violence
3. Lack of discipline and morality in upbringing [parents too busy, parents not caring or defending children lacking social skills or acting out in schools, lack of respect for the older set]
4. Perhaps drug-taking by parents, which may affect DNA in their children.

Answer 7

I guess that same reason so many parts of the world is violent. Evil desire for something. Look at what is happening in the Sudan.

Answer 8

Society is failing. When you have over 1 million people locked in prisons that is a clear sign that society is failing.

Answer 9

I'm sorry to say that its not just in the USA it's the whole world. I believe that it's 'cause of the sin nature in all of us. It makes us do evil things.

Answer 10

greediness, selffishness, arrogant, too much sex and violence on the media, junk food that contains toxin and poisons, dirty air, dirty words and languages, dirty money, artificial environment, no moral system, and of course the act of destroying other people countries, what goes around comes around