Delinquency & Victimization
Children and youth are victims of theft and violent crimes. Some juveniles are victims of abuse and neglect at the hands of their parents or other caregivers. The term “dependent and neglected children” describes those who are not provided with proper shelter, clothing, food, clean and safe living conditions, and medical needs. Child abuse ranges from verbal abuse to physical and sexual abuse.
The term “dependent and neglected children” describes those who are not provided with proper shelter, clothing, food, clean and safe living conditions, and medical needs. Child abuse ranges from verbal abuse to physical and sexual abuse.
Data Sources
The extent of child victimization is reported by the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS) (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2007). Child victimization has been linked to problem behaviors, delinquency, and criminal behavior later in life. An understanding of victimization and juvenile delinquency is, therefore, important for a better understanding of the most appropriate juvenile justice system responses to these problems.
Highlights from the Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 2006 National Report (Snyder & Sickmund, 2006) indicate the seriousness and extent of juvenile victimization in the United States:
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- On average, between 1980 and 2002 about 2,000 juveniles were murdered annually in the United States.
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- In 2002, on average, four juveniles were murdered daily in the United States.
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- Children under 6 years of age who were victims of murder were most often killed by a parent.
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- Nearly one million (906,000) children were victims of abuse or neglect in 2003, a rate of 12 victims per 1,000 children ages 0–17.
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- As juveniles age, they are less likely to be victims of a violent crime by a family member.
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- About two-thirds of violent crimes with juvenile victims occur in a residence.
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- Youth between ages 7 and 17 are about as likely to be victims of suicide as they are to be victims of homicide.
- About half of all violent crimes experienced by male and female students occurred in school or on the way to and from school.
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- Many youths are subjected to inappropriate and potentially dangerous experiences on the Internet.
The extensive national television and news media reporting of school shooting incidents presented the false impression that most schools are unsafe and violent places and that children and youth are more at risk of victimization in schools than elsewhere (Lawrence & Mueller, 2003). In fact, only a small percentage of violent victimization and homicides involving juvenile victims occur in schools. Children and youth are at greater risk of victimization in their own homes and in other parts of their communities. Understanding the true extent and source of juvenile crime and victimization is the first step to responding effectively to the problem.
Homicide tends to receive the most attention in government and news media reports of deaths of children and youth. Deaths by homicide, however, are not the most common causes of deaths of children and young people. According to the Centers for Disease Control, the leading cause of death for children and youth is accidents and unintentional injury; homicide ranks fourth for children ages 5–9, fifth for youth ages 10–14, and second for youth and young adults ages 15–19. More youth aged 10–14 were victims of suicide (244) than homicide (202) in the United States in 2003 (Heron & Smith, 2007).
The rank and frequency of leading causes of death for young people is often studied by researchers, who note, for example, that one reason homicide ranks higher as a cause of death among children and youth is because they are less likely to die of “natural” health-related deaths than older people.
Research reports confirm that suicide is also a leading cause of death of young people. Snyder and Sickmund (2006) reported that between 1990 and 2001, suicide was more prevalent than homicide among white juveniles (p. 25). The statistical reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2008b) note that while homicide is one of the leading causes of death among children and youth, many deaths can be prevented through better education and supervision to prevent accidental deaths and through more comprehensive provisioning of mental health services for young people. Law enforcement and juvenile justice officials are focusing efforts on reducing the number of homicides and nonfatal victimization of juveniles.
Juvenile Crime Trends – Going Up or Down?
Juvenile offending is often perceived to be extensive and serious, despite the fact that most serious property and violent crimes are committed by offenders over 18 years of age.
Violent crimes committed by juveniles less than 18 years of age have been trending down, though they are increasing in some places in recent years. Not surprisingly, violent crimes are reported more often and they generate a disproportionate amount of news coverage, so the public often gets a distorted view of the true extent of juvenile crime.
What Does the Research Say?
In what some have termed to be “high-profile” crimes (Chancer, 2010) a growing number of juveniles are involved in school violence, gang-related violence, and assaults with weapons resulting in fatalities and serious injuries.
A 2013 Vera Institute study notes that of 10,400 cases, 36 percent of status offenses were for skipping school, 22 percent involved liquor violations, 11 percent were related to running away from home, and 10 percent involved curfew violations. These kinds of offenses are essentially “mistakes” that can be handled in ways that do not involve institutionalization with sentences in juvenile facilities.
Intervention programs like those implemented in Ohio and Texas are a more effective and less costly means to rehabilitate or reform juvenile offenders.
Sources
National Report, Juvenile Offenders and Victims, 2014.
Questions
What are the leading causes of death for children and young people (according to the National Report, Juvenile Offenders and Victims….also check the CDC)?
What kinds of changes to the different social policies (i.e. welfare, minimum wage, education, drug policy) do you think might help ease some of the family stress and suffering disadvantaged youth endure? (for in spite of their problems and sometimes poor decisions, they are likely to have endured more than their fair share of hardship growing up)
How might we use an “intersectional” framework to call attention to social problems associated with gun violence ( a framework that takes into account interpenetrating social factors like race, social class, and gender)?
What role might patriarchal social relations play in fostering the conditions for youth violence as well as victimization?
Reports suggests that unintentional injuries, suicide, and homicide are the top causes of mortality for children and adolescents, with accidents regularly ranking first for younger age groups.
Raising the minimum wage, increasing access to childcare and education, bolstering welfare and housing assistance, and moving toward treatment-focused drug laws are some policies that could be helpful. These adjustments lessen the financial burden on families, which reduces pressures that frequently lead to delinquency.
Gun violence disproportionately affects young men, particularly black and low-income boys, because of overlapping disparities in neighborhood conditions, race, and class, as demonstrated by an intersectional approach. This concept emphasizes that rather than focusing solely on individual behavior, remedies must address structural inequity.
Young men may become more aggressive and violent as a result of patriarchal standards that foster concepts of masculine dominance, control, and toughness. However, these norms can also lead to more women and girls being victimized, particularly in situations like dating violence or abuse.
Social media can exacerbate violence by spreading conflicts, encouraging status-seeking behavior, or normalizing aggression. But it can also help prevent violence by spreading awareness, connecting youth to support systems, and documenting incidents that lead to accountability.
Unfortunately I think most of see crimes on social media everyday.
One thing I noticed while reading this is that a lot of the data comes from the early 2000s. While it’s still helpful for understanding general trends, it might not fully reflect what’s going on today. Because things like technology, social media, and even crime patterns have changed, I think it’s important to also look at more updated information from sources like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The reading explains that the leading causes of death for children and teens include unintentional injuries, homicide, and suicide. This still lines up with current data, although today it’s often grouped a little differently, like including firearm-related deaths as a category. Either way, unintentional injuries are still the leading cause, followed by suicide and violence-related deaths.
I think changes in social policies could help reduce some of the stress that families deal with. For example, increasing minimum wage, improving access to education, and providing better mental health and welfare support could make a big difference. A lot of youth who end up in the system come from difficult situations, so addressing those root problems is important.
Using an intersectional perspective also helps explain youth violence better. Factors like race, social class, and gender all connect and can affect someone’s experiences. On top of that, patriarchal norms can play a role by encouraging boys to act tough and not express emotions, which can sometimes lead to violence.
Social media can make things worse by spreading fights or bullying, but it can also help raise awareness or report problems. I’ve personally seen videos of fights online, which shows how quickly these situations can spread.
Overall, I think combining older and newer information helps give a better understanding of youth violence today.
What are the leading causes of death for children and young people (according to the National Report, Juvenile Offenders and Victims….also check the CDC)?
According to the Juvenile Offenders and Victims: Nation Report and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the leading causes of death for children and youth are unintentional injuries (such as car crashes or other accidents), homicide, and suicide. Although homicide receives significant media attention, data show that accidents and suicide are more common causes of death among young people.
How might we use an “intersectional” framework to call attention to social problems associated with gun violence ( a framework that takes into account interpenetrating social factors like race, social class, and gender)?
An intersectional framework helps us better understand gun violence by examining how race, social class, and gender overlap. For example, a young person who is living in an underprivileged and under resourced neighborhood may face greater exposure to violence due to poverty and limited opportunities. Another example is how young males and especially young men of color are disproportionately victims of gun homicide. By looking at these overlapping factors it can shift the focus from blaming individuals to addressing structural inequalities that actually contribute to violence.
The leading cause of death for children and young people according to the National Report, Juvenile Offenders and Victims is accidents and unintentional injury. The CDC also reports that accidents/unintentional injuries are the leading cause of death for children as well. (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/child-health.htm) I believe that the changes to be made to social policies are to have more benefits for parents. I understand that parents do financially benefit partially by receiving tax breaks and other benefits, but I think it should be more. Receiving a tax break often still leaves the parent with such burden and financial struggle, which yes is something that the parent knows going into having a child, but it would help prevent these children from growing up with such hardships. I believe that being harsher on gun violent crimes for children is a great way to call to attention the issue of gun violence as it relates to children. I believe that these numbers are serious and were honestly shocking to me. I believe that we can use this data to urge the legislators to bring down harsher penalties for this because increasing the penalties would be a great way to make it non-targeted towards any race or social class because the laws apply to everyone the same.
The article Youth Delinquency and Victimization explains how many young people experience crime and abuse, and how this can affect their behavior later in life. Victimization means when a child or teen is harmed, abused, neglected, or becomes a victim of a crime. The article explains that abuse and neglect at home are common forms of victimization and can increase the chances that a young person becomes involved in delinquent behavior later on.
It also explains that while the media often focuses on school violence, most youth victimization actually happens at home or in the community. Many children in the United States experience serious harm each year, including physical abuse and other violent acts. The article shows that being a victim at a young age can have long term effects and may lead to more problems during the teenage years.
According to the National Report, the leading causes in death for Juvenile offenders and victims are from unintentional injuries, suicide, and homicide.
These problems tend to occur at a higher rate in disadvantaged neighborhoods. Children living in these neighborhoods often face problems other children don’t have to deal with such as an unstable home, poverty, and other bad influences around them all leading to more exposure to things like substance use and violence. The intersectional framework helps give us an accurate idea of social class, race, and gender identity affects people. It can also give us an understanding on what cultures are attracted the most to gun violence.
Social media’s roll in all of this is very crucial. It has become the main source of information and has normalized all of this violence. It is normal to scroll on your and phone and see harsh content daily. The youth having access to this makes it hard for them to understand right from wrong.
Have I witnessed a crime online? Yes. all the time. There’s not a day I don’t see violence online whether it is through a video, comments, news, picture, etc.
The leading reason for death in children and juveniles is unintentional injuries firearms and accidents. In my opinions social media makes these things a lot worse. Often times feeding the flame to make someone so upset about something to cause serious and real violence. People may see violence as a cool thing to do or post their guns and think they are cool for doing so. These types of behaviors often just insight violence and makes the world around us much scarier. I know friends i had in high school who I thought were good people then you add them on social media and see what type of posts they make and some can get very questionable and might even make you think twice before being a person’s friend. Overall, the use of drug violence and gun violence that is very easily excess able to our youth generates a lot of the issues we have today.
One of the leading causes of the deaths of children and young people, while commonly believed to be homicide thats actually false, it is said that the actual leading cause of death is accidents and unintentional injury. Besides that, research reports confirm the second most leading cause is unsurprisingly suicide, while Child victimization has been linked to problem behaviors, delinquency, and criminal behavior later in life. The constant evolution of social media and dysmorphia/ comparative thoughts can destroy a person’s confidence/ self-worth, ultimately leading them to take part in falling victim to this statistic. While talking about the media, I think if it were being used in the proper way, it could make a drastic difference. Homicide tends to receive the most attention in government and news media reports of deaths of children and youth. While this might seem like an effective measure, not many young people watch the news to see these reports, and most only get their current information from short media clips online, where most commonly the main issue is often played down to talk around multiple things, all of which aren’t being told properly with the intention of pushing a fixed belief. It says that many deaths can be prevented through better education and supervision to prevent accidental deaths and through more comprehensive provisioning of mental health services for young people. While I believe that’s true, it can only do so much, with the constant corruption of media force-feeding these beliefs into impressionable people, no amount of supervision will fix what they don’t think needs to be changed. One good example of media’s influence is to go back to school shootings, it was so commonly believed that the trend of school shootings was a set action and that kids were not safe to attend most days, but in reality, those kids had a much higher chance of getting involved in much more life-threatening acts outside of school around their neighborhoods, it says, The extensive national television and news media reporting of school shooting incidents presented the false impression that most schools are unsafe and violent places and that children and youth are more at risk of victimization in schools than elsewhere. Following that, not only were these children and young teens losing part of their education, but also potentially getting caught in a string of bad decisions, only further fueling their dislike for school and motivation to live carelessly.
According to the National Report of Juvenile Offenders and Victims, the leading causes of death for children and young people are homicides, suicides, and accidental/unintentional injuries. A few ways to improve various social policies include expanding access to housing and childcare for those on welfare to make it more accessible. The minimum wage could also be raised to a living wage with paid family leave for employees. To improve education, schools in impoverished areas could be chosen to receive more funding which would allow for an increase in school counselors that offer mental health services. As for the drug policy, instead of incarcerating drug-related offenders, they could rather be given access to various treatment programs. By looking at gun violence as an issue that stems from a health and structural inequality rather than a criminal justice issue, we can call attention to the daily injustices/discrimination in housing, employment, and policing, and implement community violence prevention programs. Patriarchal social relations play a role in fostering youth violence and victimization because it reinforces aggression, emotion suppression, and male dominance. Social media can worsen youth violence by cyberbullying escalating into offline altercations, viral violent acts turning into trends, and social pressure from peers. Although it can also help by providing a community, increasing communication, and providing a network of mental health support. I feel like everyone has witnessed a crime on social media at least once, whether that be harassment or stalking or drug related crimes.
The leading causes of death for children and young people are accidents, homicide, and suicide. Changes that might help ease some of the family stress and suffering that disadvantaged youth endure are food, money, education, and family support. having more job opportunities, access to a steady income, affordable living essentials, having better academic support, affordable education, affordable health care, and more family support. We might use an “intersectional” framework to call attention to social problems with gun violence by not just stopping at the fact gun violence is a problem needing to be solved, but instead we tend to think that most low-income communities, majority of males, and people of color are more exposed to gun violence. By using intersectional framework we know what the risks are, how to prevent them, and how to fix them. Patriarchal social relations can play a crucial role in fostering the conditions for youth violence by conditioning men to be desensitized creatures. They are taught to not show emotions which can lead to bottled up anger or aggression. Patriarchal social relations can play a crucial role in fostering the conditions for victimization as well because young men are taught all of these things which allows them to have a mindset where they think it is normal to act this way or that their ways aren’t wrong because this is what they were taught early on. Social media might exacerbate the problem of youth violence because it is just another influential way to spread behaviors. Although I have seen a few crimes being committed online, I am in no way influenced by that type of content, but there are other young people out there that may want to fit in or hop on the ban wagon because it’s popular.
The leading causes of deaths in children and young adults are unintentional injuries, homicide, and suicide. I think some policies that could benefit those at a disadvantage would be lowering living costs, raising minimum wages, putting more funding into school programs, and possibly making healthcare affordable. The intersectional framework helps give us an idea of how race, social class, and gender affects people. It also helps us see who is more at risk of becoming a victim to gun violence. This also helps prove a point that not everyone has the same experiences and not everyone will run into gun violence on certain degrees other people do. Patriarchal social relations can play a rule in how the youth think and view others. Gender places a big role in this idea, many women are often seen as the victim and men as the ones committing the violence. This allows the youth to take that idea and run with it instead of looking at it as anyone can be a victim, and anyone can be the perpetrator. I feel like social media allows the youth to become more acquainted with violence and more comfortable with it than they should be. Social media has become less filtered than before, and there is a lot more violence for the youth to see now than there was when I was younger. This could go either way; the youth may see this violence and be uncomfortable with it, or they could see it and become comfortable with it or make them want to partake in it. A big form of this is cyberbullying and unfortunately this does take many lives of children and young adults today.
Social media has increasingly become the source of violence and overall negativity. Witnessing violence on social media has become normalized in current culture. This makes it more difficult for youth to differentiate between what’s right and what’s wrong. People are becoming more desensitized to violence earlier; this could inherently worsen youth violence. The mere fact that murders can be witnessed online, things that federal workers have to be placed on psych evaluation for, can be accessed by youth is a problem. This can be especially problematic for youth without a support system. A juvenile who is trying to find their way, without a support system and is consistently exposed to violence, will be more likely to commit acts of violence. If social media could be strictly used for positivity and resource advertising, that could help mitigate youth delinquency. Unfortunately, while violence is the main advertisement on social media, it will never be a place to help negate youth violence.
What are the leading causes of death for children and young people (according to the National Report, Juvenile Offenders and Victims…. also check the CDC)?
The leading causes of death for children and young people are accidents and unintentional injury, despite homicide getting more attention in the media. Suicide is also a leading cause of death among young people.
What kinds of changes to the different social policies (i.e. welfare, minimum wage, education, drug policy) do you think might help ease some of the family stress and suffering disadvantaged youth endure? (For in spite of their problems and sometimes poor decisions, they are likely to have endured more than their fair share of hardship growing up)
Some changes that can be made for different social policies are to have resources and outreach for both youth and families who are struggling with troubled youth. In most cases, different societies struggle with crime and exposure to crime because of the lives they are living. We should also raise minimum wages, not only to ease the weight of responsibilities for struggling families, but also to deter youth from stealing, for example.
How might we use an “intersectional” framework to call attention to social problems associated with gun violence (a framework that takes into account interpenetrating social factors like race, social class, and gender)?
We can use an “intersectional” framework to call attention to social problems associated with gun violence by recognising different identities within someone and analysing how they overlap and differ. We can do this by looking within different communities and using the information to see who is more at risk and what the risks are within specific communities.
What role might patriarchal social relations play in fostering the conditions for youth violence as well as victimisation?
An example of the role that social relations play in fostering the conditions for youth violence would be male figures feeling the need to overcompensate for masculinity, which unfortunately sometimes leads to violence, because masculinity and patriarchal social relationships sometimes translate into strength, which then becomes aggression, and becomes an act or need to be violent.
How might social media exacerbate or help with the problem of youth violence?
Have you ever witnessed a crime on social media?
Social media could exacerbate the problem of youth violence by showing other troubled youths that crime is normal, and in some contexts, they learn that sometimes there are little to no consequences (especially while they are young). I have witnessed a crime on social media. I just recently saw a hit-and-run on social media, which was shocking.
I think patriarchal social relations can influence youth violence and victimization in different ways. In my opinion, when there is a strong and responsible guardian in the home who is present and involved, it can create stability and structure for a child. I believe that when a suitable guardian makes sure a child’s basic needs are met and provides healthy guidance and discipline, it can lower the chances of that child becoming involved in delinquency or becoming a victim. From what I see, having structure and supervision are important protective factors that help keep youth from engaging in risky behavior or putting themselves in unsafe situations. I also think social media can definitely make youth violence worse, especially because of AI and heavy algorithms that constantly push content based on what you already watch or interact with. In my opinion, it is very easy to get stuck in a cycle where the platform keeps feeding you the same types of videos, whether that is fights, drama, or violent content. When young people are constantly exposed to that kind of material, it can start to normalize aggression and make conflict seem more common or acceptable than it is. Social media can also escalate arguments quickly, since disagreements online can spread fast and turn into real life confrontations.
I’ve seen tons of crime on social media. I’ve actually seen way too much. There’s actually so much crime on the internet that it’s not uncommon for young people to have that “wild experience” of accidentally witnessing a beheading or other murders through an irresponsible friend/relative or even a random link from a stranger on the internet. I’ve witnessed all types of shoot outs on instagram, weed “plugs” on snapchat, and assaults on Twitter. There’s especially a lot of violent crime being posted online, which desensitizes people to gore and hurting others at a very young age. There’s no such thing as TMI anymore when it comes to social media; people post even their most private and graphic moments online for shock factor. This could include graphic sexual content, violence, criminal activity, or even someone using the bathroom. This normalization has made people feel invincible, having no need for snitches when a person willingly snitches on themself by hitting record. All it takes is one google search and the removal of the “SafeSearch” filter to come across millions of crimes being committed for the world to see.
Reading about youth delinquency and victimization really made me think about how serious the issue is. According to the National Report, Juvenile Offenders and Victims and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the leading causes of death for young people are unintentional injuries (like car accidents), homicide, and suicide. It is especially upsetting to know that for many teens, homicide—often involving guns—is one of the top causes of death. That says a lot about the level of violence some youth are exposed to. I believe a lot of disadvantaged youth are dealing with stress that most people don’t fully see. Poverty, unstable housing, underfunded schools, and family struggles can build up over time. I think raising the minimum wage, improving welfare programs, strengthening education systems, and reforming drug policies could help reduce some of that pressure. When families feel more secure, young people may have a better chance to make safer choices. Using an intersectional lens is important to me because not all youth experience violence the same way. Race, class, and gender all overlap. For example, youth from low-income communities and communities of color are often more affected by gun violence. Looking at these connections helps us understand that these problems are bigger than just individual behavior—they are tied to inequality. I also think patriarchal norms play a role. Boys are often taught to be tough and not show emotion. That pressure can lead to anger being expressed through aggression instead of healthy communication. It can also make it harder for boys to ask for help when they are struggling. Social media feels like both a problem and a tool. I’ve seen videos of fights and crimes shared online, and it’s disturbing how quickly things spread. At the same time, I’ve also seen social media used to organize support, raise awareness, and encourage positive change. I think it depends on how it’s used and how much guidance young people have. Overall, this topic makes me realize how much youth violence is connected to larger social issues, and how important it is to approach it with empathy and understanding rather than just punishment.
The leading causes of death for children and has been things like homicide and suicide. To reduce stress on disadvantaged families, social policies could focus on reducing poverty and increasing stability. Raising the minimum wage, expanding welfare benefits, improving access to education, and focusing on treatment instead of punishment in drug policy could help families feel less financial and emotional pressure. When families are more stable, youth are less likely to experience trauma that can lead to delinquency. Using an intersectional framework means looking at how race, class, and gender work together. For example, youth in poor neighborhoods and communities of color often face higher exposure to gun violence, and boys are more likely to be involved in violent incidents. Patriarchal norms that encourage boys to act tough or dominant can also increase aggression and discourage healthy emotional expression. Social media can make things worse by spreading violence, bullying, or conflicts quickly. But it can also help by connecting youth to support systems and positive messages. Overall, youth violence is connected to larger social problems, not just individual choices. I for sure have seen things like bullying and that online. There is almost no way to go online and not witness that but nothing ever worse in severity.
When I was reading this, what really stood out to me is that accidents are actually the leading cause of death for kids and teens. Not homicide. That honestly surprised me because the news makes it seem like youth murder is happening nonstop. Suicide is also really high, especially for older teens. It just shows that what we see in the media isn’t always the full picture.
I feel like a lot of youth violence ties back to what’s going on at home. If families weren’t constantly stressed about money, rent, food, and bills, that would probably lower a lot of tension. Raising minimum wage, better welfare support, and more access to mental health services could really help. A lot of kids who get labeled as “delinquent” are dealing with trauma, neglect, or instability. Sometimes it’s not that they’re bad — they’re just overwhelmed and don’t have support.
Looking at it through an intersectional lens makes sense because not every kid grows up with the same advantages. Race, class, and gender all overlap. Kids in certain neighborhoods are exposed to more violence. Young boys, especially boys of color, are more likely to be seen as threats and also more likely to experience violence themselves. It’s bigger than just individual choices — it’s about the environment and systems around them.
I also think the way boys are raised plays a role. A lot of them are taught not to show emotion and to be tough all the time. If you can’t show sadness or fear, it can come out as anger instead. That pressure to “be a man” can cause harm, both to others and to themselves.
And social media? It definitely makes things more intense. Drama spreads fast, fights get recorded, and people post things they wouldn’t say face-to-face. But at the same time, it can also spread awareness and connect people to help. I’ve seen how quickly things can blow up online. It really can go either way.
Social media can be a big problem for almost any situation. When it comes to youth violence it makes it even worse because the vast majority of youth have access to social media. When something happens with violence, it gets blasted on social media. When it happens with youth, it gets blasted even more because the youth are sometimes seen as more criminal and need to be punished as such. When that happens with youth it makes it worse because the youth cannot always defend themselves online. It also makes it worse because the youth might see it online and see all of the comments and opinions that people have about them. When the youth see those kinds of comments it might drive them to making more rash actions. After seeing so many comments it might get in their head that people see them as a criminal so they act as such. That influences their violence because they might have been someone who would not act that way but after absorbing what people are saying about them might push them into the violence direction. When that happens it hurts youth violence because it might turn someone who would not have acted that way into a violent person because of the way that people view them. Social media is a very powerful influence when it is all they are absorbed in.
According to the CDC the leading cause of death among children in the United States are unintentional injuries, homicide, and suicide. And in recent years, firearm-related injuries have become one of the top causes of death for youth. Some policies that can help the disadvantaged youth could be raising minimum wage, lowering housing prices, expanding welfare funding, expanding their knowledge in school about mental health and the effects on the body if it goes untreated, and lastly focusing on community outreach programs or just having community involvement in crime deterrence. An intersectional framework recognizes that people experience overlapping systems of disadvantage like for example their race/ethnicity, social class, sexuality, gender, etc. that shapes their risk of violence and victimization. This kind of shows that gun violence isn’t a single isolated issue, but it can be a problem despite any/all these factors. Patriarchal social structures can influence youth violence by shaping norms about masculinity, power, and conflict. For example, we have gender inequality, economic marginalization, and traditional gender roles. These examples can be repressive and assert dominance on a specific group. I believe social media makes everything worse. Social media can exacerbate youth violence. Social media causes cyber bullying, exposure to all kinds of harmful content, and it can also influence youth to start being violent even if they weren’t once before. I personally do not have any experiences of crime on social media but I have seen it happen on tv shows or movies.
The main cause of death among youth is accidents and unintentional injuries, followed by suicide, which is higher among white juveniles. I think social policy changes, such as improving welfare and raising the minimum wage, could help reduce economic stress. Many youth grow up in unstable environments with housing problems, food shortages, community violence, and limited resources. Even though the minimum wage is around $13–$15 an hour, rising prices make it feel like the new $7.50. Low-income families are barely getting by, and that stress affects children’s well-being. Raising the minimum wage would help parents and youth and reduce disruption and stress in the household.
An intersectional framework gives us insight into gun violence by showing how race, social class, gender, and community inequality intersect and determine who is most affected. Low-income communities face fewer opportunities and greater exposure to violence.
Patriarchal social relations also play a role. Many boys are taught to value dominance, toughness, and hiding emotions because showing feelings is seen as weakness, which can lead to aggression and negative responses. Women are often victims in many situations including abuse, harassment etc.
I think social media can both help and harm. It can cause threats, bullying, and pressure to retaliate because conflicts are public, and online issues can turn into in-person violence. There are also videos that children should not see. At the same time, social media can promote positive such as resources, community, and awareness.
I have seen crimes reposted on Facebook, including violent videos with little warning sometimes blurred with only emojis as captions.
The leading cause of death for children and youth is accidental injury. Suicide is the second leading cause of death especially among white juveniles. Violent criminalization and homicides are more likely to occur at home rather than school even thought we see so many cases of victimization in schools. Changing social policies like high-quality childcare and raising the minimum wage would help the disadvantaged youth. Low-income parents that are under stress usually work a low paying job that does not cover their rent alone. Parental mental health is important because it can affect the well being of their child. We can highlight intersectional framework by examining how gender, race, and specifically violence against women are connected. These individuals are in a state of vulnerability and look at groups as a whole. Social media gives a distorted view of what is going on with more violent crimes committed by juveniles. Crimes like gang-violence, school violence, and assault with weapons are the crimes that are growing. Social media exacerbates youth violence because it is an anchor for violence and is a direct link to bullying and gang-violence. I witnessed the crime of a 14-year-old girl Kirra hart on social media. She was invited to a sleepover and three of her friends tortured her and posted it on social media for everyone to see. They were all minors and social media found the girls that committed the crime. I do think social media in this case helped bring justice to this victim and can be a positive thing.
Accidents and unintentional injuries are the leading cause of deaths for children and young adults. I think social policy changes made to welfare, minimum wage, and gun control would be highly effective. There’s too much stigma around people who receive welfare or food stamps. People who are able to afford groceries and home goods, feel threatened that others who can’t afford groceries and depend on food stamps, are allowed to purchase chips and soda with an EBT card. Meanwhile it’s food on the table for some. Minimum wage is another social policy that ties with welfare because in most states the minimum wage is still at $7.50 an hour. It simply doesn’t pay the bills, forcing people to either pick up extra shifts or work 3 different jobs. It’s an institutionalized structure built by the government. Rich vs poor and who gets prioritized first. Children growing up in poverty are more likely to become criminals later in life due to the unfair disadvantages our justice system allows.
We might use an intersectional framework to call attention to social problems associated with gun violence by understanding who makes up most of the crime and who are the victims. For example its become common knowledge that men make up the most statistics for being the perpetrator. Specifically white men. Women are more likely to be the victims in situations whether from domestic violence or homicides. Toxic masculinity of men takes over the beliefs of how men should be the protectors, hunt, carry firearms, etc. It’s a volatile concept for men to digest and live by. This creates a harmful environment for their friends and families. It also teaches young men such as their sons they might have to join the violent patriarchy and the demands it requires. Most men believe shooting guns or hunting down animals is what makes you a man and this can become very negatively impactful for the future youth of men.
Social media can create conflict within the problem of youth violence because of how dehumanizing it has become. Growing up like many others, I’ve seen plenty of fights videos that get uploaded from young users. On the other hand, it can be a safe space for the youth. I’ve seen many positive young influence on social media platforms trying to make changes in the world which could be inspiring for my generation to see. Personally, I’ve never witnessed a crime on social media.
Social media can both intensify and potentially reduce youth violence; it really depends on how it’s used and what kind of environment surrounds it.
On the negative side, social media can escalate conflicts quickly. Arguments that might have stayed small in person can spread instantly to a wide audience, adding pressure, embarrassment, and a need to “save face.” Public comments, reposts, and group chats can amplify rumors, cyber-bullying, or threats. For some teens, online disrespect feels just as real as face-to-face conflict, and the visibility of it can push them toward retaliation. Social media can also normalize aggression when violent behavior is shared for attention, status, or entertainment. When youth see peers gaining followers or praise for risky or harmful actions, it can reinforce those behaviors.
At the same time, social media can be part of the solution. It provides spaces for positive peer support, mental health resources, and conflict de-escalation. Youth can connect with mentors, community organizations, or movements that promote nonviolence and accountability. Platforms can also be used to spread awareness, intervene early in conflicts, and build pro-social identities. Ultimately, social media is a tool; it can fuel violence in environments already shaped by conflict, but it can also offer connection, education, and alternatives when guided intentionally.
The leading cause of death for children and youth is accidents and unintentional injury. Suicide is also one of the leading causes of death for young people. The CDC said that while homicide is one of the leading causes of death among children and youth, many deaths can be prevented through better education and supervision.
I think that having more housing options for families would reduce a lot of stress. Not knowing where you are going to sleep at night can have a very hard impact on a person, especially if they have kids to look after. I also think that if people would just mind their business and not be so rude when they see people struggling. Having more food banks, public housing, and aid would relieve some stress as well.
Studies have shown that higher rates of gun-related deaths and injuries among black and Hispanic communities are often linked to systemic issues like poverty, lack of opportunity, and historical discrimination. An intersectional lens would delve into these root causes, avoiding simplistic explanations that place blame solely on individual behavior.
Patriarchal social relations can contribute to youth violence and victimization by promoting rigid gender norms that encourage aggression in males as a way to assert dominance and suppress emotions. This can lead to increased violence among young men and boys, as they seek to conform to these expectations. Patriarchal structures often result in the devaluation and disempowerment of women and girls, increasing their risk of experiencing violence and abuse.
I think that social media can either have a positive or a negative effect on the youth. By having social media, they can be aware of what is going on throughout the world, as many new outlets post daily, but they also can be exposed to seeing crimes and might get curious and want to participate. This could lead to young kids getting into trouble more with what is being posted on social media.
I see crime a lot on social media. Instagram, TikTok, Twitter (X), and other websites often feature videos of crimes. A lot of them also show the body-worn camera footage from police officers, and will show the people and the crime.
The leading cause of death for children and young people is firearms.
There needs to be changes to social policies to ease family stress. Minimum wage is not a liveable wage anymore, a lot of people can not afford groceries, rent, healthcare, and plenty of more important things in life. The people are working yet they can not afford anything, which causes a huge amount of stress. This is a severe problem that needs to be addressed. Disadvantaged youth also endure stress by not having options for a job, quality education, or activities.
Social media feeds tend to normalize violence, aggressive behavior, and harmful content. People can also use social media to threaten somebody or a group along with spreading misinformation. Ways social media could help is by spreading awareness on topics, but everything on social media is designed on the personal algorithm of the user. So some people may not get positive content, because they only engage with negative content. It also matters what information the person gives the social media app (gender, location, & age) because the algorithm will assume what they like based on the little information given.
I have witnessed crimes on social media, because people will post videos of it and think it is funny, which is an example of how social media is trying to normalize harmful behavior. There are some crime videos I see posted by news stations that try to spread awareness, so I do not think that is wrong. But I do see some random users post something violent and label it as “funny.”
The leading causes of death for children and young people according to the Juvenile Offenders and Victims are accidents, unintentional injuries, and firearms. According to the Centers for Disease Control, the leading cause of death for children and youth is accidents and unintentional injury. One specific instance that these statistics make me think of is when a young boy and his sister were playing with their parent’s pistol and accidentally fired it. This resulted in the sister’s death.
I do think that changes to social policies would help ease family stress and suffering. One example could be to make drug policies stricter. If there are parents who regularly engage in drug use, especially around kids, and are not punished for, then they will continue to make those poor decisions, and it will negatively affect the children.
I think that social media negatively influences youth violence because social media tends to be a space filled with bullying and it sometimes promotes aggressive content. Social media also allows trends to spread quickly. For example, there was a trend a couple years ago where students would complete “devious licks”. These were vandalizing and damaging actions directed at high school facilities. Students would destroy bathrooms or take things like soap or sanitizer dispensers off walls.
Changing certain policies could make life a lot less stressful for disadvantaged youth. Making improvements to welfare programs would help families afford things like food, rent, and clothing, which would take pressure off both parents. Raising the minimum wage would let parents work less hours and still support their families, giving them more time and energy to be present for their kids. Better education funding could give students access to counselors, tutoring, and safe after school programs, which would help them stay focused and feel supported. It could also stop them from getting into trouble by occupying their minds. Changing drug policies to focus more on treatment instead of punishment would also keep more families together and give youth better ways to cope with stress. Overall, these changes would give more stability at home and in school, giving youth a better chance to grow up without carrying so many problems.
The leading causes of death for children and young people have been accidents, firearms, and unintentional injuries. different funding could help aid them such as so parents aren’t struggling as much to help their kids with basic needs and putting their stress onto the kids. Along with that their education may not always be the best or they may not always be able to make it to their schools, investing into their education can help them more then just learning because sometimes school may be the only stable place a child has.Using an intersectional framework means we don’t just look at gun violence. we look at it by gender, race, and even social class and how it affects people’s lives. If we look at the little things we can getting a better view on the overall picture instead of blaming the individuals and give solutions to address inequalities. Patriarchal social relations can contribute to youth violence and victimization by promoting rigid ideas about masculinity, power, and control, which may encourage aggression in boys while also increasing the vulnerability of girls and others who are seen as having less power. Social media can make youth violence worse by spreading conflicts encouraging online bullying, which can escalate real-life problems. At the same time it can also help by giving young people access to support networks, positive role models, mental health resources, and platforms to speak out against violence and build community.
I could not find anything about the cause of death for children and young people on the National Report for juvenile offenders and victims and CDC. But I did see on other websites that the leading causes of death are firearms and vehicle accidents. Social media can be good or bad to help with the problem of youth violence. There are certain people and accounts on social media that preach good things and have positive vibes. But other people and accounts post really terrible things. It is not just the posts that are the problem, sometimes the comments are the worst part of social media. I cannot count how many times I went on instagram and saw comments or a post that made me sick to my stomach. As for witnessing a crime on social media I have seen a lot. Certain accounts post videos of war, some accounts post fight videos, some people post other heinous crimes being committed. I also have seen people flexing money on social media by doing illegal behavior, and this could shape the minds of young individuals which can cause them to think the way to make a lot of money is to partake in illegal activities. Overall, social media can be really good and teach kids the right and wrong thing to do. But social media can also be really bad and show kids the wrong things to do.
The leading cause of death for children and young people are unintentional injuries, firearms and accidents. Social media plays a major role in youth violence. Social media can make kids commit suicide or do bad things in public places. I’ve seen many crimes being committed and posted on social media. A major thing in high school was stealing items from bathrooms, like sinks or soap dispensers. I even saw a kid steal a toilet from a different high school after a basketball game. They post these videos on social media because they think it’s cool. Cyberbullying is also a major issue that happens with social media. It’s a lot easier to bully someone now because everyone has social media, and they can hide behind fake accounts. This leads to some kids committing suicide, and those kids should be held accountable for making them do that.
When people talk about juvenile delinquency, they tend to focus on the offense. The article pushes us to look earlier. Many youth experience abuse, neglect, and violence before they ever enter the system. That detail matters. If victimization comes first, then policy decisions shape what follows. Social policy is not separate from crime. It feeds into it.
Low wages and rising costs put real strain on families. Parents can work full time and still fall behind on rent or food. That pressure shows up at home. Kids absorb it. Strain theory explains how blocked goals create frustration and risk-taking. When basic needs feel out of reach, conflict grows. Higher wages and steadier work could ease that tension. Less stress at home means fewer conditions that push youth toward acting out.
Housing instability creates another layer of risk. Families who move often lose routine and support. Routine helps youth feel safe. Without it, school attendance drops and behavior shifts. Strong housing support and access to food programs could prevent neglect cases before they reach court. That keeps youth out of deeper system contact.
School policy also plays a part. Many status offenses involve truancy or curfew violations. Those acts signal distress more than danger. Suspension and court referrals widen the net of control. Counselors and restorative justice keep students connected to school. That connection lowers the chance of further involvement.
Drug policy shapes family stability as well. Jail time for low-level drug offenses removes parents from the home. Children lose guidance and income at the same time. Treatment and diversion protect families while addressing substance use. That approach reduces trauma and future risk.
The pattern feels clear. Hardship increases the odds of delinquency. The juvenile court reacts after harm occurs. Social policy can reduce the pressure that leads to it. The real issue is not just youth behavior. It is the environment we allow them to grow up in.
The leading causes of death for children and young people are accidents and unintentional injury.
I think the different types of government funding such as welfare, assisted section 8 housing, and free services, may aid in relieving some of the financial stress that burdens the less fortunate homes.
Using an intersectional framework to show attention to gun violence would show that risk is unevenly distributed amongst minority groups such as african americans and latinos. There would also show a pattern in gun violence being higher in the lower income neighborhoods as opposed to the wealthy. This framework calls attention to how racism, economic hardship, gender dynamics, and unequal access to resources work together. By focusing on these factors, different prevention plans may be set in place to combat the struggles that these certain groups face to break the historical cycle of hardship.
Patriarchal social relations may foster negative environments for juveniles. An example of this is firm definitions of masculinity. The streets promotes toughness among young male juveniles. This consists of emotional suppression, willingness to use force, dominance, and toughness. These patriarchal social relations have effects on intimate relationships, familial relationships, and relationships in peer groups. These all make the juveniles more susceptible to victimization because it puts them in dangerous situations.
Social media follows a pattern of exposure. This could be positive exposure where it brings attention to social issues that may spark change. Or it could be exploitative. Unfortunately, I think social media tends to be more negative in this way because it is mostly negative when it comes to youth violence. This is prevalent in cyber bullying. I believe juveniles tend to not use social media as a resource to help others out of violent situations, instead it accelerates conflict and rewards aggression with attention.
I see crime all the time on social media, particularly Instagram. I am very desensitized to seeing violence. I still struggle determining whether or not that is helpful for me going into law enforcement or if it is harmful. Instagram has shown me all crime all over the spectrum, except for sexual crimes. The exception to the sexual crimes would be the exposure to the Epstein files in great detail.
Social media definitely exacerbates youth violence in our society today. Many teenagers may live in neglectful or abusive homes where no one really cares about them. When this teenager opens up Instagram or Snapchat and sees someone their age getting a new car on their birthday or going on a trip to Europe, it can make this person feel quite discouraged and even angry towards the person appearing to get everything that they want. This could make the teenager who is neglected at home want to cause harm to someone who posts things like that just to make them feel “even”. Social media can be very deceiving as the person who appears to be cared for a lot online may have depression or anxiety behind their screen. Another example of how social media exacerbates youth violence is how people (especially teenagers) talk about one another behind their screens. People will often say hurtful things about one another online or make a joke that may have gone too far which is a modern issue in our society. What ends up happening though is a teenager may say something hurtful towards another person online or behind their backs through a secondhand conversation and when that person finds out what has been said about them, they will want revenge. This revenge will typically come in the form of violence such as fights in school or it could be even worse violence involving guns in the streets simply because of social media playing as the “middleman”.
Many different things can happen to children and young people. The leading cause of death for kids and young people is firearm injuries, motor crashes, suicide, and cancer. Stronger social policies could reduce family stress for disadvantaged youth by expanding affordable housing, increasing child tax credits, and guaranteeing living-wage jobs. Universal healthcare and school-based mental health services would address trauma early. Paid family leave, affordable childcare, and well-funded schools would give parents stability, time, and resources to support children consistently and strengthen community safety nets nationwide for families. Using an intersectional framework highlights how gun violence disproportionately affects people of race, class, gender, and geography. It reveals how systemic inequalities such as poverty, racism, and limited access to healthcare compound exposure to violence. This approach shifts focus from isolated incidents to interconnected social structures sustaining gun-related harm. Patriarchal social relations can foster youth violence by normalizing dominance, aggression, and rigid gender roles, particularly for boys, while discouraging emotional expression. These norms may legitimize control over others and trivialize harm. At the same time, they increase youth victimization by reinforcing power imbalances that make girls and marginalized youths more vulnerable to abuse. Social media can exacerbate youth violence by amplifying conflicts, spreading harmful content, and encouraging peer pressure or gang affiliation. However, it can also help by promoting positive role models, spreading awareness, supporting mental health resources, and fostering online communities that encourage dialogue, empathy, and nonviolent conflict resolution.
The leading cause of death for children and young people is accidents and unintentional injury as well as suicide. Different changes to social policies could help ease family stress and suffering from disadvantages such as community activity. The worst thing happening to these families is the idea of neglect and not having the same opportunities as others, but having more things such as: parks, YMCA’s and even after school activities then the communities can come together and even give the kids something to do rather than rely on crime for attention. This also takes the pressure off the families to have to try and provide entertainment and activities for the kids to do when they may not have the ability to do so. I have witnessed numerous crimes by youth committed on social media such as: vandalism, robbery, and simple ones like underage drug and alcohol abuse. Social media exacerbates these actions because others see people doing these actions and are getting likes and attention, so they will perform the same activity to try and get the feeling of attention from those online.
According to the article, the leading causes of death among children and young people are homicides, gun violence for instance, suicide, and accidents and unintentional injury. In terms of social media, I believe that social media both exacerbates and helps with the problem of youth violence. Many institutions and programs use social media as a platform to promote safety and guidance among youth as a preventative method from causing trouble. However, this is not always the case, for there is a great deal of violence shown on social media every day. There are always videos on Snapchat or Instagram, for example, that has people destroying wildlife, hurting others, committing illegal acts, and youth who are growing up in this type of society are thinking that it’s okay to follow in the footsteps of the influencers that inspire them. There was an incident this past summer where an all-star basketball player was suspended twice from the NBA for promoting gun use/gun violence on his Instagram live story. Because there are so many children and adolescents who view professional athletes and streamers as inspirational, they often tend to follow in their footsteps even if it leads them down the wrong path. In terms of changes to different social policies, I believe that there should be a stronger push on education and a change to minimum wage. I understand that one of the ideas of minimum wage is to tell people to “go to school and continue to receive more education results in higher pay”, however, not everyone has the same opportunities. Because of this, this problem of the cause of death among children and youth people tends to play on a repeat.
I am going to bring up the social media side of youth violence, this is serious because social media does cause a lot of kids to commit suicide lor even go and do bad things like at a school or some public place. Yes, I have seen crimes take place over social media before, whether it was fighting, graffiti, destroying property things like that. For some reason kids think it’s a good idea that when they do something stupid like commit a crime, they think it’s smart to post it on social media. I think the biggest problem we have on social media is bullying of kids and sadly some of those kids getting bullied end up committing suicide. And I think that if a kid is responsible for making another kid do that, I think they should be held accountable for that. I also think that parents need to do a better job of overseeing there kids on social media.
The leading causes of death for children and young people are suicide, homicide another leading cause of death are accidents or unintentional injury. I think that if there was more focus on education then maybe it could help but not what is taught now there needs to be more classes that teach what really happens in life and how diffrent it is to the fantized media that we see. I get learning about the past but I tend to think a lot of issues get left out there are a lot things i didnt know or understand until I came to collage. I’m not sure what we might use honestly maybe a whole new approach. The media helps with youth violence by only showing what they want we as humans learn from observing. No I have never witnessed a crime on social media when it happen live but I do remember the story of the girl who hit another girl with a shovel because they were supossed to be fighting all I remember were the memes that came out and how people kept picking sides which for two teens fighting it should of never got to that point . the media hyped it up more people doing stupid stuff is uaslly the quickest way to get famous which makes more people want to act out and do stuff to get noticed it just makes youth violence worse.
Social media I believe can not help with the problem of youth violence, it only influences it. Everyday I am on social media (Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, TikTok) I see children younger than me reacting to what they see. Their easily influenced and will do just about anything to look “cool” for their peers. It is so easy to get on social media and portray to be someone else or get involved in things they would not usually do. People are bullied for dressing a certain way, talking, or acting different than others. Youth violence starts on social media by exchanging words or going live and arguing which draws people in and at that point children feel like they have to do something or else they will look weak.
Changes within certain social policies could result in a benefit for fighting youth delinquency. It educational systems had more capital in order to fund more after school activities and school events, kids would have less time to act in delinquency. Kids without direction and with boredom may result to delinquency in order to combat that boredom. Especially for single parents with multiple kids, they have a huge responsibility in raising their kids. They also have a huge responsibility for going to work to provide the money to raise the kids as well. Kids are expensive. From having to feed them, to constantly growing out of clothes, to extracurricular activities. A raise in welfare rates or minimum wage may help a single parent, or even a struggling family fund these types of things. When kids get older and are introduced to social media, they enter a whole new world. Social media can very heavily influence the actions of our youth. One situation might be where a kid from a lower income family, who cannot afford the things he or she views on social media all day, might decide to steal that item. Youth violence can also come in the form of bullying. Cyberbullying has been a gigantic problem within the United States.
The leading cause of death for children and young people according to the Centers for Disease Control is accidents and unintentional injury. Changes to policies can help families who have stress and have disadvantaged youth. This can be done through some policies that implement better education for these children. More education and supervision of the child’s parents or guardians can help prevent accidental deaths from occurring. When children have access to education, they will understand how to think about what not to do so they will not have an accident that causes their death. Also, when children have a strong family life at home, that means that there is more supervision. Children are learning how to navigate life, so they do not always see how their actions could potentially cause them harm. That is why having supervision is so important to the safety and well-being of a child. Along with this, researchers have found that suicide is also a leading cause of death among this age group. Social media can exacerbate the problem of youth violence. I believe that there is a connection between social media and the suicide of the youth. This is because there are many youths that bully other students on social media. The bullying on social media can continue in the school by the same person and then by others after they saw on social media. After repeated bullying, some youths do not think that the situation will ever get resolved so they commit suicide. Social media does not help youth violence, it contributes to it.
After this reading it is not surprised to me that leading cause of injury is suicide and self harm. I think a good way to prevent some of these incidents would be things like raising the minimum wage would give families more time taking care of family and not working long hours just to get pass and not getting able to see their children and things they do. A father or male play a major part father might take the discipline they are given to their child in a way that can physically harm them or even mentally harm them making them fall into victimization. Social media could help by being a outlet for them such as making YouTube videos and other things and could even make money off of things within social media. Instead of doing things such as selling drugs for money or doing things they shouldn’t for easy cash. I have witnessed crimes on social media I would say its common now a days rappers post them selling drugs pointing guns at people in public while in nice cars and going well over the speed limit. Also I know people that sell drugs through social media and post on it just to get it across to more people.
I believe there is a big role patriarchal relations play in fostering the conditions for youth violence as well as victimization. Patriarchy is a social system in which men hold primary power. In most cases, that type of family dynamic is when the father applies most of the discipline. A father might take the discipline they are given to their child in a way that can physically, emotionally, or sexually victimize their child. The child is more easily exposed to greater acts of violence against them. They could even see the father victimize the mother in this type of family. This teaches children that it is right for a father to dominate the mother. That males are entitled to this type of behavior and females should accept this behavior. Or, the child could act out in rage toward their father hurting their mother by killing their father. This patriachial relation can lead to sexual assault, domestic violence and this type of teaching to the next generation. The adolescent constantly sees violence and could believe violence is the answer to other problems they face in their lives. Having this type of “role model” can lead to the youth wanting to act on violence or even cause them to be a victim themselves.
The leading causes of death for children and young people is accidents and unintentional injuries. Suicide is also another leading cause of death for young people. Between 1990-2001 suicide was more prevalent than homicide among white juveniles. The CDC notes that many deaths can be prevented through better education and supervision especially to prevent accidental deaths. Law enforcement and juvenile justice officials are focusing on efforts on reducing the number of homicides and non fatal victimization of juveniles. Other notable statistics include violent crime, neglect, and homicide when referring to young people being victimized.
Children do not have the same educational opportunities. For example, Pittsburgh Public Schools, I went to University Prep and we did not have the same amount of “college ready” work as Pittsburgh Obama. Peers that came from Obama to Prep would agree with my statement, and unfortunately I believe our work was dumb downed so we could pass because of the “No child left behind” slogan. Minimum wage is something that needs to raised, but research shows that raising minimum wage will not change how many children turn into delinquents. Minimum wage is ridiculous for so many reasons: the jobs work you to death, waiting two weeks to get paid, not getting enough hours because of school and so much more. That is why I believe children become delinquents and become victimized, and many children believe they do not need school because they are making money. When I was in 10th grade this boy was talking to the principle and said “I don’t need this shit I get money”; five months later my friend was killed. Every juvenile that is involved with criminal behavior is not because they feel unwanted at home or is being abused, majority of these children who turn into delinquents are not doing it purposely. Yes they are aware the consequences of their actions but some have no choice. It is the only way they can survive by fending for themselves and/or siblings. I have seen so many of my old classmates go from juvenile delinquents to real criminals, serving real time, and I lost so many friends due to being a delinquent and being victimized. I disagree to the statement “Some juveniles cannot be helped because they are too hard headed and not willing to listen to anyone”, because growing up with a delinquent I know that is strictly an opinion and not facts.
It does not surprise me one bit that children that children are both vulnerable to victimization and delinquency. To me these to things kind of run hand to hand with each other in some cases. This article says that children are some juveniles are victims of abuse and neglect by the hands of their own parents or guardians which to me is one of the bigger causes which leads these kids to become juveniles. The kids who are being constantly abused by the ones who are supposed to care for them are going to learn this behavior and so every time that they get angry then they are going to use violence as a way to express it. As for neglect, children who are victims of neglect at home are going to seek attention somewhere else which most of the times causes them to act out and misbehave. I do believe in some cases, that children are more safer at schools then at their own homes or communities, because at least when they are at school, they are in a organized and structured place rather than most of these homes these kids grow up are in is the polar opposite.
This article sadly does not surprise me… Children are so vulnerable to both victimization and delinquency. The article says that children are most often victimized in the own homes or community. I believe these statistics 100 percent. I know so many kids who were beaten, exposed to drugs as kids, had alcoholic family members, and more than I’d like to know that were sexually abused by family members or neighbors. I feel many children are definitely safer at school than at home. As for delinquents, so many of them are victims themselves. As a 22 year old person looking back on my school days, it is sad to think of some of the kids I went to school with. The ones who became delinquents always had severe problems with their home life. My childhood best friend became a car thief, addicted to pills, committed credit card frauds and broke into cars. His mom was on heroin and always entertained multiple men. They had barely and money and his grandparents tried to take care of him. These situations are so sad and make me even more grateful to have had two parents who loved me and guided me correctly.
Honestly its not all that surprising that suicide is one of the leading causes of death in juveniles, and I’d say its due to a multitude of things. While accidental deaths and injuries are the number one leading cause of death, its also the most encompsassing one as well, and oftentimes these accidents were just that, accidents. Suicide though, is much more sinister in that it has a direct, negative cause. And often times this cause is peer related, something that can be excaberated by social media as if someone becomes ostracized there on top of in real life, then suddenly they don’t have many places to retreat too. And then there’s actual crimes committed, which while lower than suicide and accidents are still very high, and also made worse by social media, which seems to often glorify these type of hardcore gangster mindset, and if its someone influential than all of a sudden all the people following them is going to want to start acting like them.
In modern society, youth encounter significant more vulnerabilities than were seen in previous generations. Especially in such a technological age where social media platforms have created a “like” or “dislike” form of acceptance or rejection in society, it creates problems regarding socialization and adaption. With accidental injury and suicide being on the rise among youth today, it could be argued that the breakdown in communication and ethical standards in society has led to such a drastic change in social norms that are ultimately victimizing the youth who’ve grown up with it. Parenting can also be attributed to this change in social norms and break-downs of communication. I personally believe parents of the previous generation are having difficulty raising children in a technological boom because of it’s rapid advancement. This advancement is seemingly taking away an individual’s sense of independence and importance. Especially with youth who are at a vulnerable stage in their lives, they have become society’s Guinea pig in regards to technology and are suffering socially and mentally from it.
I find it very disturbing how often kids are so easily neglected for no good reason. A kid deserves to be loved and taken good care of. No kid should be neglected regardless of their skin color or any type of disease they may have. If you can’t take care of a kid and show it love and affection then that person should not be a parent. That leaves us where we are today with juvenile delinquency and how bad it has truly gotten. Some of these statistics are very bad in this web post. Youth between ages 7 and 17 are about as likely to be victims of suicide as they are to be victims of homicide. What that tells me is that kids are so terrified of their household and the situation they are in that they feel they only recourse is to kill themselves to escape from the situation. These kids are being neglected and not even loved. When it comes to crime, you see these kids also commit crimes as a recourse for their anger and the terrible life they live. What kind of life is it when a kid can’t wait to leave for school to get out of the house and the kid wants to stay as long as possible at school so they don’t have to go home. That is as bad as it gets. This is a very important reason why we see so much juvenile delinquency in todays world. If people started to care more about the future of this country we have to loom to the youth and raise them right and give them the best opportunity to succeed and not keep pushing them down.
I believe social media influences youth delinquency and criminal activity. Now a days, a lot of kids want to be “gangsters,” and show everyone that they are tough. Some youth parade their drugs on social media, flashing guns, money, and other paraphernalia. They see rappers and famous people involved in risky behaviors as well as seeing how much money and fame they have, so youth mimic that behavior. They don’t realize that it is different for them, unlike the rappers, they do not have the resources to get themselves out of that mess or trouble. Those kids end up either dead or in jail trying to care for their kids’ family or “profile.” I have personally witnessed, with my own eyes, violence on social media—fights that involved multiple people I know—and the videos go viral locally. I have witnessed people trying to sell their drugs on social media as well as other illegal activities on Facebook. These kids see these people and want to be like them because they either have a good profile on the street, have money, or that that the person would be someone you do not want to mess with. So, they mimic the risky behavior or criminal activity and post it on social media to demonstrate their bravado or just so it will go viral. A pertinent example was the kid from Jeannette who shot his friend in the head on Snapchat. They were playing with guns and he shot him right in the head and the other kid POSTED it right on his story for everyone to see.
I don’t find it very surprising at all that the leading causes of death for children are accidental injuries and suicide. Children deal with a lot of stress either at school, at their work place, or even at home. Victimization is a very common occurrence for teenagers. It is a tough stage in their life and they seem to get targeted a lot. The struggle for teens is how to deal with. One must stay positive and do everything they possibly can to block out the negativity that is dealt to them. Avoiding troublesome situations and staying safe is a very hard task but it will keep you out of trouble. In the past, I believe that being victimized was a somewhat easier to stay away from compared to today. With almost every teenager using social media daily, it serves as an easy gateway to bullying someone online instead of face to face. When someone is cyber bullied it is open to the public and everyone can see it. There really is no avoiding it. I think that schools should regulate the use of electronics to reduce victimization among students.
According the National Report the leading cause of death for children and youth people is accidental and or unintentional injury, but also suicide. I believe it was summer of 2018, when a young student in elementary school was shot and killed in an accidental shooting by their older brother in my hometown. It was breaking news for a few days. The mother was actually just arrested for a drug charge. the changes of social policies to help ease stress are making welfare available to those off actually need it for medical reasons and that can prove they need it. Minimum wage should stay where it so that no prices get jacked up to sky high rates and education should focus on the child more than the problem. Gun violence is an issue for youth. Some grow up in communities where someone is shot everyday and every night. There is really no way to fix that issue for the child due to many reasons. I hate social media. Though I do use it, I hate it. Media ruins almost everything and makes things worse. Bullying on social media is always on the rise due to the new updates that allow you to see and hear people when they do not know. I have witnessed many forms of crimes occur while online and have gone to funerals of a young man who committed suicide because of bullying.
Leading cause of death for children and young people are accidents and unintentional deaths. Another cause of death between children and young people is suicide. The changes to social policies that might help ease some of the family stress and suffering disadvantages are effective school programs. If we had programs in schools and out of school specifically designed to deter juveniles from committing a delinquent act before being exposed to the juvenile system. It may relieve a lot of stress and disadvantages. Another idea is to have mandatory and free counseling. Sometimes children feel comfortable talking to other people besides their parents about their problems. They also may go for days without speaking to anyone about that problem building up animosity Inside their self. Having that free mandatory counseling may relieve stress and suffering disadvantages from young people. Metaphorically speaking Social media outlets such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter are already uncontrollable fires that enhances with every like, post and share that young people put up. Social media from personal experience caused a lot of unnecessary violence situation when I was in high school. For example their was a girl in my class who gotten sexually assaulted On her way from basketball practice one night. Some students made jokes about it in school and on social media. 2 days later she ended up committing suicide.
Youth delinquency and victimization are some things that people really don’t think about too much. Children and youth are victims of violent crimes, theft, abuse, and neglect. All of these have things have one thing in common which is to blame, parents and or caregivers. These minors lack the proper shelter, clothing, food, living conditions, and medical needs. Homicide receives most of the attention within news and media, but deaths by homicide are not the most common cause of deaths of children. Accidents and unintentional injury are actually the leading cause of death for children. Suicide is also a leading cause of death of young people. According to Snyder and Sickmund, they reported that between 1990 and 2001, suicide was more prevalent than homicide among white juveniles. The news channels are always mixing up the true view of juvenile crime, giving a very one-sided, inaccurate view to the public. I believe that social media also plays a big role on the situation too. Kids now a days are addicted to social media and can’t live without it. Not to mention, they believe anything they see on social media, and go so caught up into social networking, that they really don’t even really see any other side. People post what ever they want on social media, not thinking about the consequences or the fact that they don’t know who’s on the other end of their post, taking it the wrong way and being upset about it.
Parents neglecting their children is one of the causes of why they are delinquents and becoming victimized. Children are being influenced both negatively and positively by their surroundings and who they interact with. Children and youth are at greater risk of victimization in their own homes and in other parts of their communities. It is cray to think that children cannot even be safe in their own homes and communities. Juveniles are getting involved in criminal behavior because they do not feel wanted at home or are getting abused at home so they are taking it out on something else. Violent crimes committed by juveniles less than eighteen years of age have been trending down, though they are increasing in some places in recent years. According to some research done by Chance, “a growing number of juveniles are involved in school violence, gang-related violence, and assaults with weapons resulting in fatalities and serious injuries.” Juveniles are becoming involved in school and gang-related violence because they simply just do not care and are negatively influenced about what is happening around them. There are programs out there that can help these delinquents with the problems they are facing. They are called intervention programs and are used as a less costly means of rehabilitation or reformation of juvenile offenders. In my experiences, I learned that juveniles who have parents who do not care are more likely to have school problems and therefore have less friends and begin to get involved in violent behavior. Some juveniles cannot be helped because they are too hard headed and not willing to listen to anyone. There is hope for some juvenile offenders but they need to be determined to change before they get into serious trouble when they become adults.
The leading causes of death for children and young people according to the National Report, Juvenile Offenders and Victims, suicide is the leading cause of death. In-between the years of 1990 and 2001, suicide was more usual in white juveniles. To try and prevent this from happening, better education and more supervision from mental health services could help. I feel that yes more supervision and better education could help but at the same time if there is a youth who has a mental health issue and does not talk to anyone about the issue or how they are feeling, then there needs to be a way in trying to get the youth to admit their feelings and more open to talking about their problem. I also feel like parenting can be part of the solution. If the parents are there more for their children and always checking up on them and being there as parents more, then this can be part of the solution.
Abuse and neglect in the youth can be from the parent or the caregiver. To describe this abuse it can be said that a person who doesn’t provide food, shelter, water, safe living situations and medical needs. This is verbal, physical and sexual abuse. Child victimization can be connected to delinquency and criminal behavior. The leading cause in death in youths are accidents and unintentional injury while homicide ranks fourth. Suicide is also a cause in death for youths. These deaths however can be more prevented through education and supervision.
The leading death in juveniles is suicide, net is poisoning, the poison control board believes more education about poison could dilute the numbers of the poison, killing problem.
As for the social problems. I think poor education is a social problem. I’ve learned that in areas where poverty and welfare are more prominent the education system is failing. The less resources that these schools have the less education these kids have. I feel like if we can make a huge impact in these kids lives by educating them better, creating more resources for them. Some students their safe heaven is school, because their home life isn’t ok.
their are some families who are stuck in this loop of crime, welfare, and poor education and its stressful to see their kids going in that direction, better education can ease the stress of that. the better kids do in school the more likely they are to be exposed to the idea of college, and maybe get out if thie endless loop.
The leading cause of death for children and also for youth is accidental and unintentional injury. this usually goes back to bad parenting and lack of attention to their child. Accidents do happen and thats understandable, but if it gets to a point that your child is constantly getting injured, then thats a problem. Many times what does happen is that parents raise their kids how they where raised and thats not always the correct way. Since no one corrects their parenting skills they continue to raise their kids in that manner. Usually what happens then is that it goes on for generations and nothing ever changes. This most commonly leads to delinquency because since their parents don’t pay attention to them they go find other influences elsewhere that will pay attention to them, that usually leads to drugs violence and so on because those are the people that usually pay attention to them (the streets). On the other hand they are situations where the kid takes from his bad experiences and makes it into a positive and prospers with his/her life and make something out of their selves instead of getting in trouble and later on incarcerated. Sadly this is seen less often. In my eyes this has nothing to do with social class or where you come from at the end of the day this is all about the support system from parents and how much the parent wants to get involved in their child’s life , because it plays a huge part in a child’s development.
In my opinion, social media worsens and helps with the problem of youth violence. There are youths that if they see youth violence on social media they would feel bad for the person who is going through what they are going because they know that there is better. But at the same time there are youths that if they see youth violence on social media they would see it as cool and want to do it so they could get more attention through the media and then think that people would know who they are. These days, I think that it is much easier to see crime on social media especially through SnapChat, Twitter and Instagram because people post things without thinking twice. There are people who see the crime committed and will “retweet” it or “like” it and others would report it because it is or was not the right thing to do, and once reported it can come off social media so people cannot see it anymore.
Q: What kinds of changes to the different social policies (i.e. welfare, minimum wage, education, drug policy) do you think might help ease some of the family stress and suffering disadvantaged youth endure? (for in spite of their problems and sometimes poor decisions, they are likely to have endured more than their fair share of hardship growing up)
Welfare, minimum wage, education, and the current drug policy are all systems we use to help aid the community and the American people. However, many people believe that this system is flawed or helps disproportionately. From the reading, we can see that many forms of child victimization come from child abuse. Whether it is physical or mental abuse, child neglect ultimately contributes to juvenile delinquency and victimization of law.
With that being said, what if we took a new approach to the way we used our spending on things such as welfare, the minimum wage, and education? Would things be different? For example, in Friday’s class we went over the article from the school in Baltimore not providing their students with heat. In an environment like that who would even want to continue going to school? This is a fine example of youth victimization and can lead to future troubles. It isn’t a theory written in stone but you could see where it connects to delinquency. A child in need of financial help but receiving none will find other ways to obtain it. Enter: Drug Policy.
It is common for drug dealers (especially in gangs) to use younger kids to be the middle man in their drug operations. If one of these kids in Baltimore had the opportunity, do you think they’d take it? Could you really blame them? A juvenile with access to fast cash is very concerning to society. From the time they are kids looking for help until they are old enough to look out for themselves, a gang may be the best option for them. This is the correlation in which we need to be worried about. In order to reduce situations like this from arising, we need to rethink the way we go about our welfare, our education system, our wages, and our drug policy.