entry 2

We usually associate violence to alcohol and all kind of drugs to violence. I see most of the time when a woman is abused by her husband or boyfriend, or a child is abused by his or her parents, people question about if they are not influenced by any of these. Sometime it does and sometime it does not. In this article: “association Is Not Causation”, Richard J. Gelles and Mary M. Cavanaugh believe that “alcohol and other drugs do not cause violence”. However, it they claim that “ there is a little scientific evidence to support the theory that alcohol and drugs such as cocaine and crack have chemical and pharmacological properties that directly produce violent and abusive behavior.”    

I believe that it is a cultural manner and they explain, it depends of how people see within a cultural. If a society believes that we are violent after drinking then people who belong to that culture will act violent when drunk or using other drugs. My country is part of country that relate drugs and alcohol to violent and that cause that almost all the people that uses drugs and alcohol there are abusive to everyone, they lead violence of any kind there especially when they need the money to buy it.

This article is related to chapter 2 in the way that these writers collect data from different sources to show us explain their theory about alcohol and other drugs and violence. Also they connect it to culture. In their research, they perform different kind of method such as survey to demonstrate the evidence and to be able to largely what is their theory.