Summary of Thomas Abt's Bleeding Out

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The cost of street violence in America is staggering. It involves, for the most part, young men killing or wounding other young men in tragic and brutal cycles of retribution.
#2 Urban violence is best understood as a grievous injury, a gushing wound that demands immediate attention in order to preserve life and limb. The treatments I propose address urban violence right now, without further delay.
#3 Urban violence is largely the domain of young men. It is typically committed with hands and feet, but firearms are the most frequently used weapon. It occurs in the course of other street crimes, such as robbery, but is often triggered by disputes or rivalries between groups known as gangs, cliques, sets, and crews.
#4 The most urgent and fundamental human need is to be secure, free from the dangers that might suddenly end our lives. We all need food, water, and air to survive, but we can live for roughly three weeks without food, three days without water, and three minutes without air.

Sujets

• Droit privé
• Droit privé
• Droit privé
• Droit privé
• Criminal Law
• Droit et juridique
• General officer
• General
• Law
• Droit pénal
• droit pénal
• Droit pénal
• Droit pénal
• Droit pénal

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 10 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822504813
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Thomas Abt's Bleeding Out
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4 Insights from Chapter 5 Insights from Chapter 6
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The cost of street violence in America is staggering. It involves, for the most part, young men killing or wounding other young men in tragic and brutal cycles of retribution.

#2

Urban violence is best understood as a grievous injury, a gushing wound that demands immediate attention in order to preserve life and limb. The treatments I propose address urban violence right now, without further delay.

#3

Urban violence is largely the domain of young men. It is typically committed with hands and feet, but firearms are the most frequently used weapon. It occurs in the course of other street crimes, such as robbery, but is often triggered by disputes or rivalries between groups known as gangs, cliques, sets, and crews.

#4

The most urgent and fundamental human need is to be secure, free from the dangers that might suddenly end our lives. We all need food, water, and air to survive, but we can live for roughly three weeks without food, three days without water, and three minutes without air.

#5

Murder is the most serious form of violence, and the most direct threat to personal safety. It is the pinnacle of social injustice, and it is simply the worst thing one person can do to another.

#6

There is a strong case for addressing urban violence, as it is the most prevalent form of violence in America. By focusing on urban violence, we can save lives and keep families and communities intact while bringing the nation into parity with its wealthy peers.

#7

The academic and community perspectives on violence are not as different as they seem. I have found that social scientists and the street are largely in agreement on urban violence, and each perspective is necessary but not sufficient for a full understanding of the issue.

#8

The book begins with triage, which is the process of treating the most urgent injuries and illnesses first. It then goes on to diagnosis, which determines the origin of a patient’s symptoms. Finally, it predicts the patient’s future progress.

#9

We must start with violence itself, and not just focus on the manifestations of it. High rates of violent crime are the structural linchpin of urban poverty, and reducing poverty requires working backward, beginning with the violence we experience today.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

Kim Odom, a cofounder of Operation Lipstick, a Boston-based organization that helps women refuse to buy or store guns for the men in their lives, struggled to maintain her faith after the murder of her son, Steven, in 2007.

#2

The first thing that must be done to help the urban poor is to keep them safe from lethal violence. We must start by stopping the bleeding.

#3

Urban poverty is generational. It passes from parent to child, and while each individual deprivation is difficult, the combination of multiple deprivations put on the same people in the same place is what makes concentrated poverty so devastating.

#4

Segregation, which is the separation of races in a society, leads to high rates of violence in cities. While segregation does not cause violence directly, it produces communities of concentrated poverty and disadvantage, which are the conditions under which violence thrives.

#5

Urban violence is a cycle that is deeply rooted in America’s cycle of concentrated poverty. In poor neighborhoods, violence begets violence, which in turn begets even more poverty.