PPN 302- Week 4-Study Guide with
Solutions.
Why is violence a public health issue? - Answer Has wide social, economic, health, and
psychological consequences as it relates to witnessing violence, incurred injuries, and death
from violence
What is structural violence? - Answer refers to systematic ways in which social structures harm
or otherwise disadvantage individuals
the premise of social inequality is an act of violence as it exerts power and control over
groups/individuals and stifles their ability to reach their full potential
There is reportedly an increase in interpartner violence during the pandemic in young parents.
What are the intersecting determinants of violence? - Answer trauma
gender
age
sometimes: generational transmission of violence, race, poverty, incarceration
How does "neighbourhood/gentrification" enforce structural violence? - Answer Living in a
disadvantaged vs well resourced neighbourhood
Gentrification pushes out groups from previously affordable neighbourhoods. These
communities may try to move to other affordable neighbourhoods and can create clashes (we
saw/see this with the genitrification of Regent Park and folks moving to North etobioke --
mentioned by Priscilla in class)
What is the cycle of violence outlined in the Community-based Violence model? - Answer
Violence causes trauma, trauma comes from violence
How does the Community-based Violence cycle model theorize breaking the cycle of trauma
and violence? - Answer systemic empathy and self empathy
Caring, belonging, and mattering: empathy for one's self comes from demonstrated empathy by
systems and structures: BLM is a good example as the movement demands for this empathy
How does the Community-based Violence model understand classism as form of structural
violence? - Answer Classism is denying individuals and grouops of class power through
Solutions.
Why is violence a public health issue? - Answer Has wide social, economic, health, and
psychological consequences as it relates to witnessing violence, incurred injuries, and death
from violence
What is structural violence? - Answer refers to systematic ways in which social structures harm
or otherwise disadvantage individuals
the premise of social inequality is an act of violence as it exerts power and control over
groups/individuals and stifles their ability to reach their full potential
There is reportedly an increase in interpartner violence during the pandemic in young parents.
What are the intersecting determinants of violence? - Answer trauma
gender
age
sometimes: generational transmission of violence, race, poverty, incarceration
How does "neighbourhood/gentrification" enforce structural violence? - Answer Living in a
disadvantaged vs well resourced neighbourhood
Gentrification pushes out groups from previously affordable neighbourhoods. These
communities may try to move to other affordable neighbourhoods and can create clashes (we
saw/see this with the genitrification of Regent Park and folks moving to North etobioke --
mentioned by Priscilla in class)
What is the cycle of violence outlined in the Community-based Violence model? - Answer
Violence causes trauma, trauma comes from violence
How does the Community-based Violence cycle model theorize breaking the cycle of trauma
and violence? - Answer systemic empathy and self empathy
Caring, belonging, and mattering: empathy for one's self comes from demonstrated empathy by
systems and structures: BLM is a good example as the movement demands for this empathy
How does the Community-based Violence model understand classism as form of structural
violence? - Answer Classism is denying individuals and grouops of class power through
