SOC 603 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Conflict Tactics Scale, Bsc Young Boys, Domestic Violence Against Men
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Women are more likely to be represented among the poorest and most downtrodden citizens. Men are overwhelmingly more violent than women. Violence is the most obdurate, intractable behavioural gender difference. Gender alone is a highly significant predictor of violent behaviour. Masculinity and violence: men"s greater tendency toward risk-taking behaviours and rule-breaking in general, almost always younger male police officers who do the chasing o o. Two innate biological variables that are predictors of violence are youth and maleness. The hormone does not cause the aggression but rather facilitates an aggressiveness that is already present: violence causes increased testosterone levels, and hormonal increases enable violence. Androgens, and biological factors in general, thus provide a partial but insufficient explanation for male violence o. Following freud, some psychoanalysts have looked for the roots of masculine violence in the oedipal drama: the frustration of the young boy"s sexual desire is translated into aggression n (the frustration-aggression hypothesis)
