Youth Violence

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or at school-related activities (Anderson et al. 2001). In 1999, juveniles accounted for 16% of all violent crime arrests, including 14% of aggravated assaults, 17% of forcible rapes, and 24% of weapons charges. How are our teens obtaining these weapons? We as parents have to be aware of our surrounding at all times as to what is brought into our homes. In addition, the data about youths as victims are also cause for concern. In 2001, 5,486 young people ages 10 to 24 were murdered, an average of 15 each day (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2004) (Feder et al., 2010). How amazing these statistics are and how true they are! What our kids are felling to realize that there are consequences behind their actions. It is up to us as parents to get involved.
Second-generation youth have often shown higher rates of delinquency and violence than their first-generation counterparts, and this appears consistent across different racial and ethnic groups (Boutakidis et al., 2006)(Le ...

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you as a product of your environment. Learning can occur without a change in behavior. Behaviorists say that learning has to be represented by a permanent change in behavior; in contrast social learning theorists say that because people can learn through observation alone, their learning may not necessarily be shown in their performance. Learning may or may not result in a behavior change (Ormond, 1999).
Control theory is another theory that we can elaborate on when it comes to youth violence. Control theory is the theory of motivation proposed by William Glasser and it contends that behavior is never caused by a response to an outside stimulus. Instead, the control theory states ...

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