Empowerment is the process of increasing the capacity of individuals or groups to make choices and to transform those choices into desired actions and outcomes. Central to this process are actions which both build individual and collective assets, and improve the efficiency and fairness of the organizational and institutional context which govern the use of these assets.
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Throughout every culture, every country, crime occurs. And creates victims.
Who are they? How do we stop it?
Both very good ideas that many people will never think clearly about.
Victims: are the person who has suffered the crime, not only that but community the crime has been committed in, family members, friends, partners, work and school mates and fellow country people. There will be very few of us in this world crime has not touched in some way.
For every action there is a reaction, crime is something that promotes the worse emotion of them all FEAR.
Fear drives us to commit acts once we thought was impossible, acts that we falsely believe will magically create a garden of Eden.
All behaviour is controlled by triggers, environment, and learnt responses.
Victims of crime suffer from post traumatic stress, this is active because of the 3 keys to behaviour are not taken into account.
We first look at Triggers. Triggers are some que we take to act out of behaviour.
We find the trigger we then can work on ways to diminish the effects of us acting on the ques.
Every persons ques are different some are easy to understand, such as we hear a backfire of a car, we process that as a gun shot..... and we create a behaviour such as grabbing a gun and hidding ready to shot anything that they perceive as a danger.
We then can target a trigger, and then create a new set of behaviors to go with that, to allow a normal functioning life.
Environment, plays a huge role in a set behaviour pattern. Such as if a person is depressed, you don't spend your lunch time in a graveyard.
If a person has a behaviour of violence, creating a war like enviroment would only increase the chance of violent behaviour.
Or if someone has a fear or dislike for weapons, you don't place them in a situation where they are attacked for their beliefs, creating a negative behaviour.
Learnt responses: this is the knee jerk behaviour people have used to create a safety net for their own being.
Near drowning person, never goes near water again. Car cash victim hates cars.
How do we help and prevent this.............Empowerment. Understanding. Empathy.
Are the three main weapons against a life time of being a victim.
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