In our Perspective’s on Youth Violence class we have read many texts about how different factors increase or decrease violence in different communities. Some factors that stand out are victimization, violence exposure, poverty, masculine identify development, an adolescent brain development. A negative exposure to these factors will, in my opinion, cause violence amongst juveniles and increase gun acquisition amongst minors. In this essay, I’m going to go over each factor stated above and explain why I believe it has the effect that it does on young people.
First, there is victimization, defined as causing someone to be treated unfairly or made to feel as if he or she is in a bad position. In the text this was explained as how the system of …show more content…
Poverty is a factor that acts like a virus of sorts. It starts with having no income and can cause an entire lifestyle to change: having to live in bad area, having access to only bad schools, having no healthcare and more health problems, an increase in drug use and crime. All of these things can negatively affect the family unit, like a virus, and cause the home environment to deteriorate in quality which leads to something called generational poverty. Generational poverty is defined as the impossibly hard to break cycle of poverty that traps people in to a terrible existence nearly devoid hope or outside compassion, because many people believe that they would never succumb to the physical, emotional, and mental toll poverty can have on a person, so they are …show more content…
Adolescent are the most risky acting age group. They are on the cusps of adulthood and are actively trying to find who they are while their body is going through rapid changes hormonally. They are susceptible to more mental disorders and stress in this stage than an adult. In addition, to finding themselves they’re trying to find a friend group and certain groups are more dangerous than other, evidenced by all of the assemblies at my middle class middle school and high school about the dangerous of peer pressure I was forced to attend. Peer pressure can lead to at possibly the worst: joining a
First, there is victimization, defined as causing someone to be treated unfairly or made to feel as if he or she is in a bad position. In the text this was explained as how the system of …show more content…
Poverty is a factor that acts like a virus of sorts. It starts with having no income and can cause an entire lifestyle to change: having to live in bad area, having access to only bad schools, having no healthcare and more health problems, an increase in drug use and crime. All of these things can negatively affect the family unit, like a virus, and cause the home environment to deteriorate in quality which leads to something called generational poverty. Generational poverty is defined as the impossibly hard to break cycle of poverty that traps people in to a terrible existence nearly devoid hope or outside compassion, because many people believe that they would never succumb to the physical, emotional, and mental toll poverty can have on a person, so they are …show more content…
Adolescent are the most risky acting age group. They are on the cusps of adulthood and are actively trying to find who they are while their body is going through rapid changes hormonally. They are susceptible to more mental disorders and stress in this stage than an adult. In addition, to finding themselves they’re trying to find a friend group and certain groups are more dangerous than other, evidenced by all of the assemblies at my middle class middle school and high school about the dangerous of peer pressure I was forced to attend. Peer pressure can lead to at possibly the worst: joining a