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"TR" Robert "Shawn" Welling
April 7, 2019
Dr. Rynearson
Like a medical doctor, therapists are cut from a similar cloth, you can either counsel/treat someone or you cannot. You can learn the skills to perform, but if you as an individual have no talent in the subject answering treatment questions becomes a huge struggle. That huge struggle is associated with the bystander effect (Darley & Latané, 1968). Which is, in part, based on several rather horrific events rapes, murders, the holocaust, etc. where plenty of information was available regarding the events before and during but the group/crowd for some reason refused to get involved. To best answer the provided question, how to use the tools to best help a person suffering through two separate criminal acts; first non-consensual intimacy, second a threat of physical violence. First step contact the FBI, let the professionals handle the legal and counseling aspects.
There is a rather famous film created on the streets in eastern Europe circa 1930s, where the NAZI soldier takes a young Jewish girl and performs what everywhere else is illegal, but in the Third Reich was not only not illegal but ignored. The soldier could have just as easily gone on to another young female on the streets and performed the same act on her as his first victim, shot and killed one of both, not a single part of his actions was illegal in the Third Reich. He did not care someone with a movie camera was about 10 feet away recording most of his amoral actions. The fact that his actions were being documented was not even the smallest concern for him. He would face zero repercussions for his actions.
As in the example of a teenager having a similar illegal action done to him and it was in some way documented. Now, the Reich, Manhattan and the young woman being assaulted (while screaming for help and no one responded) in the 1960s,. by enumerable events were people were isolated by strong people and crimes committed where the leaders got away with it. Salem Witch Trails come to mind. The exact same behavior patterns are present minus a few minor secondary community action changes are present in each case. But the overall, someone is assaulted, and the whole respond in 3 predictable ways.
One they jump on the assault band wagon; to humiliate, criticize, etc. the victim. Different social structures the alpha will sometimes and or occasionally depending on their morals, ethics, character, etc. will pick out a beta from the crowd and punish that beta in whatever way the alpha wants (Plotkin, Mazer, & Loewy, 1976). It is sociologically speaking a group loyalty test (Bodenbafer, 1921). The alpha of the group or a group of alpha’s who surround and support a super alpha will for enumerable reasons pick a time and perform a group togetherness, test of loyalty, unity of the group, etc. that person will find a weak member of the group and “perform” an assault or a group of assaults on said beta. The entire exercise is to allow the alpha to reassert dominance over the group and demand not only loyalty but fidelity from the group. Support me or I will hurt you the same or worse than I hurt that beta (Frazier, 2015). It is not outside the application of society structures that leaders/alpha’s who gather enough power can and or will elevate their mental status from being a human to being in part divine, based on how much power they have over their community.
Two they support and help the victim of the crime, but are mostly powerless as to what to do. The larger group have already decided that what the alpha did was ok, and this is just what happens sometimes to beta’s in a social structure. There will always be lesser alphas in a group. The more the alpha knows about the lesser alphas the more the alpha knows what they can get away with. In some groups the lesser alphas are large and strong enough they keep most alpha’s from committing too many bad actions. But in other groups the lesser alphas have been mostly pushed out of the group, which then allows for the alpha’s free reign over the community they are in. Punishing a beta is not about punishing the beta as the fun the alpha’s enjoy performing the assaults. It is not about the assault; it is about finding who is loyal and who is not to the alpha. Then over time between various and assorted beta tests, the lesser alphas are identified and usually pushed away from the group for being disloyal.
Third group are people who refused to get involved at all. They are usually afraid their ranks will be culled next and one of them will be the next beta the alpha wants to assault. So they stick together and pretend to be supporting the alpha by not being involved with efforts to help the victims of the alpha. The past, present, and future victims.
Another question in the subject line was how to help the victim/beta with the current situation.
First contact the FBI, since the alpha has threatened a future criminal act. A future criminal act which involves cyber, which is a federal crime. The FBI will get involved and pursue criminal actions against the alpha and the supporters of the alpha. Mostly the supporters will turn and run because obviously a small group of people in a small community can only be so strong to the FBI. The FBI takes the alpha beta concept to a level most alpha’s cannot deal with.
The FBI being involved will bring in the professionals in most aspects of the situation. Counselors for the victims/beta’s of the alpha, law enforcement and person who committed the assault based on the written documentation in the cyber world will be arrested for the assault. Those who witnessed the event and “filmed it” can also look forward to being questioned and even arrested for participation. This changes the power dynamic entirely, for the victims and of course the community. That change in power dynamic removes the power from the alpha/abusers and places it back into the victims hands.
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Reference
Darley, J.M. & Latané, B. (1968). Bystander interview in emergencies: Diffusion of responsibility. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 8(4), 377-383.
Bodenbafer, W. B. (1921). The comparative R&Ocric;LE of the group concept in Ward’s dynamic sociology and contemporary American sociology. American Journal of Sociology, 26(6), 716–743. https://doi-org.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/10.1086/213248
Plotkin, W. B., Mazer, C., & Loewy, D. (1976). Alpha enhancement and the likelihood of an alpha experience. Psychophysiology, 13(5), 466. Retrieved from https://ezp.waldenulibrary.org/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edb&AN=11728848&site=eds-live&scope=site
Frazier, K. (2015). New and notable. Skeptical Inquirer, 39(2), 58. Retrieved from https://ezp.waldenulibrary.org/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edo&AN=101082586&site=eds-live&scope=site