Young people are overrepresented as both victims and perpetrators of violence. Indeed, some commentators have suggested that recent cohorts of youth have been composed of "superpredators" who have little regard for human life. The evidence, however, suggests that other factors are responsible for recent increases in youth gun violence. This article analyzes the extent and causes of youth violen...

Policy makers have several complementary approaches at their disposal with which to address crime and violence. Sector-specific approaches—such as criminal justice, public health, and conflict transformation/human rights—have a role to play, as do cross-sectoral approaches, such as crime prevention through environmental design and citizen security. The criminal justice approach is the most wide...

this article is a study about investigation of relationship between social support and youth's crime. the comparison of viewpoints and different definitions of social support (ratous, kessler and heller) and crime (hirschi's social control and strain's agnew) has been performed in order to examinie and compare enjoyment level of criminal and non-criminal of ilam city youth from s...

BACKGROUND Youth violence is a major global public health problem. Three UK and Swedish studies suggest that low resting heart rate predicts male youth violence, but this has not been tested in other social settings nor for females. METHODS A prospective, population-based birth cohort study was conducted in Pelotas, Brazil. Heart rate was measured using a wrist monitor at ages 11, 15 and 18 y...

BACKGROUND AND STUDY AIMS There is a large body of literature examining the determinants of juvenile crime, which highlights economic, family, peer, and educational factors associated with delinquency and recidivism, and the important roles of social service and educational systems. Two factors, substance abuse and mental illness are also potentially important. The observed high correlations be...

We study the interplay between parental and peer socialization in shaping criminal behavior among adolescents. develop a simple cultural transmission model where parents affect how society influences their children's decisions. The predicts that are substitutes development of juvenile crime. then take to data using information on representative sample adolescents United States. Using geographic...