Youth Violence in the United States

Running Head : Youth Violence

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Youth violence can be referred to as the harmful behaviors that often start from early child hood and continued to young adulthood . The young people can be an offender , victim or a witness of the violence . Violence among the youths includes various behaviors . Violence acts such as slapping , hitting or bullying can result to more emotional harm than the physical harm . Other violence acts such as rape , assaults or robbery can have serious consequences and some times may result

to death . In the year 2000 the department of health and human services in the United State released a report on the youth violence that reflected numerous myths about juvenile violence (Heitmeyer Hagan , 2005 . These misconceptions included the belief that young supper predators posed new form s of threats to the United State , efforts to prevent or treat youth violence does not work and that youth violence can be curbed through prosecuting the juvenile offender as the adults . On the other hand by the end of 1990s youth violence had largely subsided . During this time there was no evidence that youth offenders were callous or vicious than the previous generations but the availability of more lethal and cheaper fire arms has resulted to more homicides (Heitmeyer Hagan , 2005

Research has shown that well run interventions and prevention programs can assist in to reduce criminal recidivism and violent behaviors among the youths . Studies have also shown that youth violence and crimes cannot be...