I need an original post that is at least 200 words responding to Part A. Then I need two student responses to post, at least 100 words, that can be found in Part B. Please respond to student response like you are talking to them directly. Do not say “ I agree with this student….this student’s use of …..etc…” Side note: my family drinks very casually.
PART A
Subsequent to completing this weeks readings:
Describe your life experiences (personal, family, social, or media) of alcohol and violence. Discuss your observations referencing the association between alcohol and violence.
Please remember to respect the UMUC limits to confidentiality as noted in the syllabus referencing abuse and mandatory reporting of information disclosed by students in the online forum.
PART B
1
“Alcohol and violence go hand in hand, It is no surprise that alcohol and violence are related since alcohol consumption can cause one to act differently. It is not uncommon to hear about fights or assaults that happen at the bar or parties where people are drinking alcohol. I have definitely witnessed some drunken fights between friends and family that have both verbal and physical violence.
A common form of violence fueled by alcohol is domestic violence. According to the Department of Justice, there are 1,500 instances of homicide and manslaughter between intimate partners each year with more than 1,200 of these involving women as victims (Barnwell, 2006). Both acute and chronic use of alcohol can have an effect on partner violence. In relation to this subject, one personal experience stands out to me. I have a close friend that was in a mutually abusive relationship. Her and her boyfriend would drink almost every night and I have witnessed them physically abuse each other and get in fights that I have had to break up. The impacts of alcohol would cause them to become angrier than they probably would if they were sober. My friend would come to work with bruises or a black eye and only remember bits and pieces from the night before.
Barnwell, S. S. (2006). Alcohol-aggression expectancies and dispositional aggression moderate the relationship between alcohol consumption and alcohol-related violence. Aggressive Behavior, . Intimate Partner Violence and Alcohol/Substance Use, 32(6), 517–525.”
2
“Each time I hear or read the topic alcohol and violence it takes me back memory lane, and it brings me bitter and bad memories about my death aunt. Sometimes I ask myself why some people will decide to choose to drink alcohol to an extend that it will cause nothing but pain and sorrow to them and the people around them? I realized that life is a choice, and everyone has the right to choose whatever life they think is good for them depending on their surroundings, believes, culture and socioeconomic background. Hence talking about my experiences of alcohol and violence in my family is one that has stayed with us and will stay with us forever.
I remember when I was growing up, my uncle usually to practice binge drinking. He used to sell alcohol. At the same time, he himself use to consume a lot of this drinks. Each time he consumes it, he gets drunk and will render abuses to every one of us at home, he will become so aggressive and will always cause be violent and get his wife seriously injuries. He will always be violence on everyone and his wife. Just like Barnwell said “the one longitudinal study (Leonard & Quigley, 1999) did not find that expectancies regarding alcohol and aggression were predictive of later partner violence. One implication of the excuse position is a placebo beverage should result in increased aggression. The two studies assessing the effect of a placebo on marital behaviors found that whereas alcohol reliably increased verbalizations that might lead to partner violence, the placebo beverage did not, a finding that is consistent with the meta-analyses of laboratory studies of alcohol and aggression conducted by Bushman and Cooper .” (Barnwell, 2006)
He will beat his wife up in front of us. Justas Barnette said “men in treatment for partner abuse have higher rates of alcohol problems in contrast to appropriate comparison samples (e.g., Barnett & Fagan, 1993). Similarly, men seeking treatment for alcoholism manifest higher rates of domestic violence than do comparison groups drawn from the general population (O’Farrell & Murphy, 1993” (Barnett, 1993)Some days during such episodes, he will be acting like a monster. This terrible domestic violence of his that was caused by his alcoholic habit continued until one unfortunate day, he got come late all drunk, and became violence and abusive to his wife until he she died even before she was rushed to the hospital. This violence and abusive episode have stayed in my mind forever.
Bibliography
Barnett, O. W. (1993). . Journal of Family Violence. Alcohol use in male spouse abusers and their female partners, 8(1), 1–25.
Barnwell, S. S. (2006). Alcohol-aggression expectancies and dispositional aggression moderate the relationship between alcohol consumption and alcohol-related violence. Aggressive Behavior, . Intimate Partner Violence and Alcohol/Substance Use, 32(6), 517–525.”
