The primary context of victimization of young children is the family household. Children who have been abused and/or neglected by parents or other caregivers have higher odds of ending up in prison than children who haven't been, and the risk goes up with the number of different kinds of abuse the children have experienced in their homes.
See research on Adverse Childhood Experiences, originally conducted by Kaiser-Permanente:
Children in large, lower income black neighborhoods also experience more violence from peers in their neighborhoods than do children in other circumstances. The ACE Scale used for measuring exposure to childhood trauma does not measure violence outside the family environment. What is remarkable about the ACE results is that mental health issues, physical health issues and illegal behavioral problems are so strongly associated just with familial abuse and neglect.
This means that if incarcerated people are viewed as victims, then there should be a major amount of focus on what they experienced within their families. There is in fact evidence that children growing up in black homes in low income black neighborhoods are exposed to more domestic violence than children growing up in other situations. Black children more likely than other children, relative to their percentage of the population, to be killed by an abusive adult living within their family home.
That is a different perspective from the one that attributes incarceration of black men primarily to "racism." Unfortunately, it is a perspective that has been resisted when child trauma specialists (such as Bessel van der Kolk) have tried to get funding from the government to study child abuse in black families.
I would add that familial abuse in childhood is of course not the only reason why men end up in prison as adults. There is some evidence (from the Minnesota Twin Study) that some personality traits found in people diagnosed as "antisocial personality disorder" (sociopathy) are heritable.
There is also the fact that many ethnic groups in the U.S. and elsewhere have developed crime cultures in ethnic neighborhoods. Ethnic neighborhoods that are on lower rungs of the socioeconomic ladder have been prone to this, with some notable exceptions (immigrants from some Asian countries). Young men in these neighborhoods who lack other job skills and opportunities seek a way to earn a living and a sense of pride where money and status are not easily available from legitimate employment. Creating a job selling illegal products and services could be seen as resourceful from this perspective.
All that being said, however, we do not know much about how to rehabilitate young men who have become established in a criminal career by the time they are eighteen. And we do have to prevent them from hurting and killing more people. So whether they got into jail by being victims or by being opportunists, what else are we going to do with them?
I really appreciate your deep and thoughtful comments. The problem of child abuse certainly deserves much more attention and funding. Let's remember, too, that there are many Black children who are brought up in foster families where they can face abuse, so it is not a "Black family problem".
The role of "crime cultures" and of harmful masculinity models in poor neighbourhoods should also be considered. I am glad that you have also mentioned the fact that poor men can see e.g. drug trade as an attractive "career" compared to the available legal job opportunities. In the same way poor women can be interested in various types of "sex work" despite its dangers.
As to the role of genetic factors, I think that one has to be very careful. Genetic explanations for all kinds of things are very popular because of their seductive simplicity. There is the risk of jumping much too quickly to the assumption that a man is breaking the law because he has inherited an "antisocial personality disorder". It can lead to excessive pessimism.
There are psychological and sociological reasons why poor men are much more likely to display "antisocial" behaviour than middle-class men. The poor may feel forced to break the law by their life circumstances. They also often see the law as a force serving the interests of the powers that be. Finally, they can feel that breaking the law can benefit them e.g. in the form of increased social status among their peers.
I personally tend to trust police officers and I am not afraid of them. My attitude is completely different from the visceral mistrust and often hatred boys and men from poor backgrounds - and especially poor Black boys and men - frequently feel towards the police. This difference in attitudes is largely (if not mainly) caused by a difference in experiences. The poor can also see the law itself as an alien and oppressive force.
First off, it’s ALL about OPENLY setting the rules and making the consequences known to everyone from birth! What comes as a result of abhorrent behavior must be ingrained into the American psyche from the very first stages of life.
That understood, then after a citizen commits these crimes and after being tried and legally convicted in a just court of law, we publicly, on broadcasted television, punish them physically via caning or lashing. After both the physical pain they endure coupled with the humiliation suffered knowing all their friends/family witnessed them being caught and punished we then shitcan, poleaxe and banish them to our very own Gulag of brutally hard labor commensurate with their crimes/repetition of their crimes.....
If they’ve raped, they have their testicles chopped off. Simple as.
Look at the utter lack of any relevant crime in Singapore! They Government doesn’t fuck around there and guess what? The known repercussions for breaking the law are so mortally frightening to even the most hardened of evil-doer that any dregs of society think twice before committing these atrocious acts. As has been righteously stated for thousands of years - “Violence, or threat thereof, solves 99.9% of the world’s problems” !
Until the USA stops being a bunch of gutless, spineless, SJW turds thus constantly turning the, statistically speaking, overwhelmingly black perpetrator into the victim, we’ll be mired in exponentially worsening crime! Glenn himself knows how damaging this inversion of reality is and the toll it’s verifiably taking on the average, honest, tax-paying, law abiding White citizen. It is radicalizing the very people who just so happen to be in the majority and possess by far and away, the most firearms, ammunition and hands-on knowledge/experience with said weapons.
It’s high time WE take our country back!
⬇️ Something to consider ⬇️
“The most terrifying force of death, comes from the hands of White Men who wanted to be left alone.
They try, so very hard, to mind their own business and provide for themselves and those they love. They resist every impulse to fight back, knowing the forced and permanent change of life that will come from it.
They know, that the moment they fight back, their lives as they have lived them, are over. The moment the White Men who wanted to be left alone are forced to fight back, it is a form of suicide. They are literally killing off who they used to be. Which is why, when forced to take up violence, these White Men who wanted to be left alone, fight with unholy vengeance against those who murdered their former lives.
They fight with raw hate, and a drive that cannot be fathomed by those who are merely play-acting at politics and terror. TRUE Terror will arrive at these people’s door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy… but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the White Men who just wanted to be left alone.”
The primary context of victimization of young children is the family household. Children who have been abused and/or neglected by parents or other caregivers have higher odds of ending up in prison than children who haven't been, and the risk goes up with the number of different kinds of abuse the children have experienced in their homes.
See research on Adverse Childhood Experiences, originally conducted by Kaiser-Permanente:
https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/aces/about.html
Children in large, lower income black neighborhoods also experience more violence from peers in their neighborhoods than do children in other circumstances. The ACE Scale used for measuring exposure to childhood trauma does not measure violence outside the family environment. What is remarkable about the ACE results is that mental health issues, physical health issues and illegal behavioral problems are so strongly associated just with familial abuse and neglect.
This means that if incarcerated people are viewed as victims, then there should be a major amount of focus on what they experienced within their families. There is in fact evidence that children growing up in black homes in low income black neighborhoods are exposed to more domestic violence than children growing up in other situations. Black children more likely than other children, relative to their percentage of the population, to be killed by an abusive adult living within their family home.
That is a different perspective from the one that attributes incarceration of black men primarily to "racism." Unfortunately, it is a perspective that has been resisted when child trauma specialists (such as Bessel van der Kolk) have tried to get funding from the government to study child abuse in black families.
I would add that familial abuse in childhood is of course not the only reason why men end up in prison as adults. There is some evidence (from the Minnesota Twin Study) that some personality traits found in people diagnosed as "antisocial personality disorder" (sociopathy) are heritable.
There is also the fact that many ethnic groups in the U.S. and elsewhere have developed crime cultures in ethnic neighborhoods. Ethnic neighborhoods that are on lower rungs of the socioeconomic ladder have been prone to this, with some notable exceptions (immigrants from some Asian countries). Young men in these neighborhoods who lack other job skills and opportunities seek a way to earn a living and a sense of pride where money and status are not easily available from legitimate employment. Creating a job selling illegal products and services could be seen as resourceful from this perspective.
All that being said, however, we do not know much about how to rehabilitate young men who have become established in a criminal career by the time they are eighteen. And we do have to prevent them from hurting and killing more people. So whether they got into jail by being victims or by being opportunists, what else are we going to do with them?
I really appreciate your deep and thoughtful comments. The problem of child abuse certainly deserves much more attention and funding. Let's remember, too, that there are many Black children who are brought up in foster families where they can face abuse, so it is not a "Black family problem".
The role of "crime cultures" and of harmful masculinity models in poor neighbourhoods should also be considered. I am glad that you have also mentioned the fact that poor men can see e.g. drug trade as an attractive "career" compared to the available legal job opportunities. In the same way poor women can be interested in various types of "sex work" despite its dangers.
As to the role of genetic factors, I think that one has to be very careful. Genetic explanations for all kinds of things are very popular because of their seductive simplicity. There is the risk of jumping much too quickly to the assumption that a man is breaking the law because he has inherited an "antisocial personality disorder". It can lead to excessive pessimism.
There are psychological and sociological reasons why poor men are much more likely to display "antisocial" behaviour than middle-class men. The poor may feel forced to break the law by their life circumstances. They also often see the law as a force serving the interests of the powers that be. Finally, they can feel that breaking the law can benefit them e.g. in the form of increased social status among their peers.
I personally tend to trust police officers and I am not afraid of them. My attitude is completely different from the visceral mistrust and often hatred boys and men from poor backgrounds - and especially poor Black boys and men - frequently feel towards the police. This difference in attitudes is largely (if not mainly) caused by a difference in experiences. The poor can also see the law itself as an alien and oppressive force.
First off, it’s ALL about OPENLY setting the rules and making the consequences known to everyone from birth! What comes as a result of abhorrent behavior must be ingrained into the American psyche from the very first stages of life.
That understood, then after a citizen commits these crimes and after being tried and legally convicted in a just court of law, we publicly, on broadcasted television, punish them physically via caning or lashing. After both the physical pain they endure coupled with the humiliation suffered knowing all their friends/family witnessed them being caught and punished we then shitcan, poleaxe and banish them to our very own Gulag of brutally hard labor commensurate with their crimes/repetition of their crimes.....
If they’ve raped, they have their testicles chopped off. Simple as.
Look at the utter lack of any relevant crime in Singapore! They Government doesn’t fuck around there and guess what? The known repercussions for breaking the law are so mortally frightening to even the most hardened of evil-doer that any dregs of society think twice before committing these atrocious acts. As has been righteously stated for thousands of years - “Violence, or threat thereof, solves 99.9% of the world’s problems” !
Until the USA stops being a bunch of gutless, spineless, SJW turds thus constantly turning the, statistically speaking, overwhelmingly black perpetrator into the victim, we’ll be mired in exponentially worsening crime! Glenn himself knows how damaging this inversion of reality is and the toll it’s verifiably taking on the average, honest, tax-paying, law abiding White citizen. It is radicalizing the very people who just so happen to be in the majority and possess by far and away, the most firearms, ammunition and hands-on knowledge/experience with said weapons.
It’s high time WE take our country back!
⬇️ Something to consider ⬇️
“The most terrifying force of death, comes from the hands of White Men who wanted to be left alone.
They try, so very hard, to mind their own business and provide for themselves and those they love. They resist every impulse to fight back, knowing the forced and permanent change of life that will come from it.
They know, that the moment they fight back, their lives as they have lived them, are over. The moment the White Men who wanted to be left alone are forced to fight back, it is a form of suicide. They are literally killing off who they used to be. Which is why, when forced to take up violence, these White Men who wanted to be left alone, fight with unholy vengeance against those who murdered their former lives.
They fight with raw hate, and a drive that cannot be fathomed by those who are merely play-acting at politics and terror. TRUE Terror will arrive at these people’s door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy… but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the White Men who just wanted to be left alone.”