AMMAN — At least 91 percent of Jordanians believe that community violence is
widespread in the Kingdom, a survey has found.
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The survey by the Center for Strategic Studies at
the
University of Jordan said 14 percent of Jordanians attributed this violence
to the prevalence of drugs, a notion endorsed by some experts.
Sociologist
Hussain Khuzaie told
Jordan News that a drug addict “turns into a violent person when he needs drugs and does
not have enough money to buy them”.
“He will turn into a thief, abuser, or fraudster in
order to meet his need,” he said.
“Some people start consuming drugs because of the
influence of bad companions”, he pointed out. Socialization, specifically the
home environment, is the first building block of an individual’s personality,
and then comes the surrounding environment of friends.
Hussein Al-Mahadin, a professor of sociology and
criminology at
Mutah University, said that Jordan is situated in an “inflamed
and violent region, and even bullying is widespread on social media platforms”.
“These conditions play a major role in the increase
of violence,” he told
Jordan News.
Mahadin noted that some drug addicts “mistakenly
believe that they could overcome reality through a fictitious sense of drug
effects”.
“When people feel that they cannot adapt with the
environment or are less adjustable to life’s challenges, this pushes them more
towards delinquency and drug abuse,” he explained.
According to the professor, “the availability of
drugs, despite their illegality, has increased”.
He said there are two reasons for the spread of
violence. “The first is attributed to drug abuse, but there is no scientific
study to confirm this belief,” he said. “The second is that violence is the
result of the patterns of education upon which an individual was raised since
childhood.”
Psychologist Ali Mohammed told
Jordan News:
“The phenomenon of community violence is widespread in clear proportions in
cases of domestic violence, university violence, and bullying through social
media platforms.”
Mohammed added that
such wrong behaviors “may be caused by upbringing in an environment in which
the individual grows up and is surrounded by some wrong societal concepts that
promote the culture of violence and magnify power without setting controls and
limits”.
On the proliferation of drugs, he noted that “drugs
are one of the forms of deviation of individuals’ behavior and are frequent in
adolescence and early youth due to a lack of awareness and control on the part
of parents, dissatisfaction with reality, and the clear impact of bad
companions.”
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