So i'm doing a research paper on Violence in America would anybody like to help me or give me some ideas, which part has the most violence and does race,age, and gender have to do anything with it give me your input on this subject please.
Define "violence."
Are we talking about violent crime?
In which case, I'd direct you to the FBI's various statistical publications on that issue. I recommend starting with the standards used to gather the statistics, first:
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That way, you can have an idea of what the various terms and criteria are behind each reported category.
You can also research various criticisms of their statistics and data collection methods to include those points in your research paper.
Finding solid statistics on violence outside of crime is fairly difficult since violence is a somewhat relative term. Some people would call my brothers wrestling on the trampoline and my parents allowing it "violent culture."
Violence in media is also somewhat difficult to nail down. Some people consider movies about war to be 'violent media' while rap songs about smacking hos is 'expression.'
I would recommend that you start your paper off by exploring the different concepts of violence and what they mean to different cultures, since violence is a somewhat subjective concept. While I was in the military and training alongside Marines, they would stand around and kick each other in the shins or other places for 'bone hardening.' They would also break out into spontaneous wrestling matches without much warning or prompt.
It wasn't 'violent' in that they weren't intending to harm each other, but they were engaging in a contest of power (or a mutual quest to make themselves more durable in the case of bone hardening). I don't consider it 'violent' - but it is admittedly a culture bred to be able to enact extreme violence against a designated objective.
The closest standard I think you're going to get is what the FBI categorizes as violent crime - but it's still a good idea to explore the subjective nature of violence from a cultural perspective.