Category: Youth Violence

The perception of youths as troublesome has led to the belief that young people are criminals rather than being victims. The graffiti portrays the situation of the aftermath of the 2011 London riots in local areas where people have had enough. Youth and children services were affected. Access to those free spaces where children developed…

Over the past few decades, a series of school shootings as well as street shootings by the youth has been on the rise in the United States leading to an extensive exploration of the reasons why the youth indulge in such violent behavior. In the youth violence article, quantitative data mining procedures are used. Here,…

Lim Jeong-yeo (2017) reported there was serious school violence in Busan, the Republic of Korea, in 2017 called Busan Teen Girl Attack. Four assailants, who aged 14 to 15 years old girls, hit a 14 years girl with steel pipe, chair, and glass bottles for one and a half hours. The victim was bloody over…

Annotated Bibliography This is my own work, based on my own ideas and I state that it is not the work of any other person. I declare that I have fully referenced the works of others in my paper. In my Annotated Bibliography I am focusing on crime among young people in United States, I…

To date, researchers are increasingly interested in deciding whether sport-based approaches can be successful in the prevention of criminality among youth (Spruit, Van der Put, Van Vugt, & Stams, 2018). Statistics Canada defines youth violence as any deliberate physical, sexual or psychological assault on another person (or persons) by one or more young people between…

Using one criminological theory, explain why people engage in acts of violence and provide specific research examples. Introduction The criminological sociological theory of socialisation is used to underpin why people engage in acts of violence; identifying the definition of violence and placing the specific context of interpersonal violence will be the focus of this essay.…

Introduction In the years past, youth violence has increased dramatically and has become a major epidemic in American society. Especially among young people in today’s atmosphere, violence is a daily occurrence. Its almost impossible to avoid seeing or partaking in what most consider as violent acts. Bullying is the leading cause of youth violence as…

Summary In 2016, the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) released AOTAs Societal Statement on Youth Violence to address the prevalence of youth violence in society today. David-Ferdon and Simon (2014) state that violence is the second leading cause of death among youth. AOTA defines violence to include bullying, verbal threats, physical assault, domestic abuse, use…

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