NCJ Number
191656
Journal
Injury Control and Safety Promotion Volume: 8 Issue: 1 Dated: 2001 Pages: 1-12
Date Published
2000
Length
12 pages
Annotation
This paper provides an overview of the current knowledge of youth violence and the prevention of youth violence in the United States. With this knowledge base, practice, research, and policy implications are suggested.
Abstract
In the United States, youth violence continues to pose a serious problem and is one of the issues of most concern to the American public. Evidence suggests that high levels of mortality are connected to access to guns by youth and that youth violence happens in multiple forms suggesting different prevention strategies. This overview summarizes the current state of knowledge on youth violence and offers suggestions on needed steps to further the decline in youth violence. The paper provides a review of the extent of lethal and non-lethal violence among youth, four types of adolescent violence (situational, relationship, predatory, and psychopathological), causal models, risks, and protective factors, prevention strategies, and major policy and program implications. References