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Questions tagged [violence]

behavior involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something.

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Does getting married prevent violence against women and children?

The American newspaper the Washington Post's PostEverything Op-Ed One way to end violence against women? Married dads. (previously titled "One way to end violence against women? Stop taking lovers and get married") claims that marriage plays a…
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Are annual female rape and male "made to penetrate" rates similar in the US?

In the 2010 Summary Report of the CDC's National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey, there are two figures that are surprisingly similar: In Table 2.1, they claim the 12-month weighted rate of a US woman being raped is 1.1%. In Table 2.2,…
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Does listening to rap music increase violent behavior?

Related (Kind of) Classical music in public places: does it affect violence? Do violent video games cause violent behavior? Can music incite murder? I've heard many people say that listening to rap, which may often contain messages of violence,…
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Did a school or college in the United States ban backpacks after a shooting?

There's a story going around that an unnamed college in the United States banned backpacks after a shooting. The lack of details is suspicious and it looks more like a wrongly-captioned prank at a high-school than anything else. It doesn't look like…
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Does mixed-sex education increase violence in schools?

TSA-Alerie reports [French] that a poster on a conference at the National Library of Algeria has a controversial claim: La mixité sexuelle à l’école est la cause numéro un de la violence scolaire which translates to: Mixed-sex schools are the…
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Is this "whites killed by whites" diagram wrong?

I found the following diagram on twitter: (Sorry for not giving the source: I don't know how to link there.) The diagram gives the impression that if you're a white person (in USA), then you're about equally likely to be murdered by a black person…
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Were the majority of people at the Pulse nightclub killed by police?

At the MTV/BET town hall meeting a person mentioned that Police killed the majority of the people at pulse that night to which the moderators replied "hmmm". On the No Agenda Show, they've analyzed this quite a bit and come to the same conclusion…
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Are police officer's families 2-4 times more likely to experience domestic violence?

I was wondering the accuracy of this claim: Two studies have found that at least 40% of police officer families experience domestic violence, ... in contrast to 10% of families in the general population... A third study of older and more…
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Is there a correlation between mass-murder and use of psychoactive prescription drugs such as SSRIs?

It seems to be a commonly-held belief that there is a strong correlation between the use of prescription drugs such as SSRIs and mass-shooters. For instance, this claim: Every mass shooting over last 20 years has one thing in common... and it's not…
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Are men raped at a higher rate than women, after considering prison rape?

I've seen a number of articles claiming that contrary to what one might expect, American men are raped more often than women when one takes in to account prison rape. Is this accurate? Examples of claim: Via amren.com More men are raped in the…
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Did Saddam Hussein have a secret torture chamber in New York City?

The NY Post reported this week that Saddam Hussein had a secret torture chamber in New York City between 1979 and 2003. The sources the paper cites are two "anonymous officials". The paper does not note whom these anonymous officials allegedly told…
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Are people with depression more likely to commit murder?

Are people with depression more likely to commit murder than people without depression? In Claims about Andreas Lubitz's mental health only serve to stigmatise depression, Pete Etchells writes Depression does not make you want to kill people I…
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Are perpetrators in mass killings more likely to play violent video games?

To be clear: I am not asking if violent video games cause violent behavior. That is covered here. I am more interested if there is any correlation between violent video games and mass killings. I want to know if the killers are any more or less…
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Do certain non-verbal physiological signs always precede the use of violence?

http://nononsenseselfdefense.com/five_stages.html http://nononsenseselfdefense.com/intent.htm The author here makes an interesting claim: No one - not even habitualy violent people - can start acting violently without first taking time to prepare…
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Is domestic violence the leading cause of injury to women between ages of 15 and 44?

In the wake of the 2014 Santa Barbara mass shooting, there's been a justifiable outcry over domestic violence, especially sexual violence. One of the items often cited [e.g.] is the following: Studies by the Surgeon General's office reveal that…
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