Black on Black Crime: Compensation for Idiomatic Purposelessness

Abstract

This paper examines black on black crime and views it as a means to compensate for idiomatic purposelessness. Idiomatic purposelessness is operationally defined as a state in which persons have a vacuous sense of self: persons whose sense of significance and importance is extremely marginal and persons whose development is deviod of, or at best insufficiently grounded in, constant positive affirmation. To exchange idiomatic purposelessness for idiomatic pur-posefulness is to remove a major contributing factor leading to black on black crime.

Keywords:

• Idiomatic purposelessness
• compensatory violence
• disunification of essence
• behavior transformation
• human oppression