week 14

Learning about our prison system has been really eye opening, i never knew that prison was so overcrowded and how many people are repeat offenders or mentally handicapped and sent to prison for random things. the video about 30 days in prison had a lot of cool statistics and helped to show me how different prison is. in the video a lot of the people who where in jail had been in there previously, some had drug addictions, and some had mental handicaps that should have been in a mental institution. all these facts really surprised me that prison really isn't helping to stop crime as much as it should. if our society helped inmates to become a better member of society and actually turn their life's around lots of peoples lives could be better off. while not all people will be reformed it may help reduce the overall crowding and other problems with our prison system.

week 13

i thought the possitive deviance story was very interesting how a person was able to take a dangerous scenerio and make the attacker see the error of his ways without any conflict and probably better the attackers life. it is much like the ikido fighting style that you dont want to hurt people you just want them to stop their negative ways without huring you so you take a nonviolent approach to others violence. I also think that everyone performs many random acts of kindness every day and dont realize it, like paying for a friends meal if they dont have money on them at that time.

week 12

many men in America are constantly pummeled with thing like aggression violence and brutality are normal for men and those men who fail to fall into this average man persona are usually left behind. this is very similar with women in society. at a young age many young male boys watch wrestling and it only progresses from their throughout life, to violent movies,etc. Violence effects all those in a society so we need to alter our views of masculinity to hopefully prevent future violence, I'm not really sure how this can be accomplished because our views of masculinity have been around for a long time.