Inner city population are normally made up of poor income people, which are primarily African American families. African American’s are not only disproportionate in arrests in these parts of the city but are also disproportionate in being victims also, especially in the juvenile age range. National Crime Victimization (NCVS) date showed “…that one of every six juveniles (defined as youth aged 12 to 17) had been the victim of property crime”, which is 40 percent higher than that of an adult (Walker, Spohn, & Delone, 2012, p. 445). For violent crimes, juveniles also had a high rate of being victims depending on age range, and were even high for African…
The article I have chosen for this reflection paper is “Look Out Kid, It’s Something You Did,” written by Bernadine Dohrn in 2013. This article details the criminalization of children as it has progressed over the past few decades. It opens with examples of school shootings and how they have shifted the public perspective of violence perpetrated by adolescents. With the proliferation of handguns in the homes of adolescents within the United States, the rates of children murdered by other children have skyrocketed. I feel there is a strong aspect of shock value when it comes to instances like these, which draws a disproportionate amount of media attention, but this does not account for the staggering results of cases of this nature.…
Maybe Colin Kaepernick Is Just Not That Good, By: Colin Fleming In the article Maybe Colin Kaepernick Is Just Not That Good by Colin Fleming, the author discusses Kaepernick’s issues within the NFL. Fleming goes on to address his protests against racism and police brutality, refusal to stand for the national anthem in addition to his outspoken nature. Later Fleming criticizes Kaepernick’s football playing ability and skill, hence the title “Maybe Colin Kaepernick Is Just Not That Good.”…
Violence between races, and towards races, has occurred in the South for centuries. Examples of the violence ranges from “the whipping and torture of slaves to slave revolts, from gentlemen’s duels to backwoods feuding, from the brutal backlash against Reconstruction in the 1860s to the massive resistance against civil rights protests in the 1960s”. Other types of violence that occurred in the South were “American Indian Wars, or race riots, or suicide”. Riots were very common in cities throughout the United States during the 1960s.…
and Landry’s article, the pair mention that after a violent event takes place, adolescents need to cope. This article used keywords that related to my question including the words social class, and juvenile delinquency. This…
Should juveniles be jailed for life? The young juvenile defendant wearing a tattered bright orange jumpsuit was glumly staring at his greasy sweaty hands. Beside him, his suave and professional lawyer was repetitively clicking his pen in nervousness. The judge was about to give the verdict.…
In most cases domestic violence occurs many within our community. As most of us remember, being a teenager is difficult. But picture being a teenager and living in a house with domestic violence can have devastating, life-long effects. Teens facing the unique problem of domestic violence within the household have the thought these days of trying to fit in with their peers while keeping their home life a secret. Such as, having to move into a new environment and having to make new friends, teens have it hard because of what is going on around them.…
Jenalee Dawson Week 2 /Capstone I 585 Professional Investigation October 22nd 2015 As a current social worker, for this assignment I wanted to stay within my same current field , yet focus on careers within different departments of interest working in case management and social services. My career goal is to work as a Probation and or Parole officer within the near future, and I have a strong interest in becoming a Victim Advocate and working with the District Attorney.…
The ripple effect of violence against women spills over into the family, the children and can create a generation force for years to follow. Another issue with violence against women is that it is heavily unreported. There are a few major concerns about this particular type of crime going unreported. It hinders the ability for law enforcement to track the consistency of the crimes as it relates to victim and suspect profiles, patterns of behaviors as well as locations favored for this type of delinquency. Through research utilizing victimization surveys, it was found that about half of domestic violence victims interviewed reported their last violent incident to police.…
The article tells about the outcomes of a nationwide study which studied observing an action of violent behavior, bodily abusive punishment, shocking life events, the occurrence of sexual offensives, and physical offensives. Amounts of social violence and taking advantage of 11 to 16-year-old teenagers in the United States of America are to a large degree extreme high and viewing violence is considerably more customary. Traumatic life events, such as sex crimes as well as negligence, take place at disturbingly great amounts in the United States of America. Other examples of stressful and shocking life events could be viewing parents parting or divorce, being starved by your parents, domestic violence and losing your residence as a consequence of a wildfire, or any other natural disaster. The connection joining traumatic events and drug abuse has been well proven.…
Risk Factors Just like dating violence can have negative developmental outcomes, it also causes risk factors to come up. A recent study done by Gressard, Swahn, and Tharp (2015) uses data from high school students in the ninth through twelfth grade from 38 different states. The goal of the study is to determine if gender inequality index is compatible with levels of physical and sexual adolescent dating violence victimization. Gender inequality index is a measurement that is used to determine the gap between genders. Gressard, Swahn, and Tharp (2015) used surveys to collect the physical adolescent dating violence data.…
Why is there so much violence in African American communities? Violence in African American communities can stem from a variety of things. Some children have been treated badly, while others have just been raised poorly. Also, role models and the people in the environment plays a huge part on the outcome of how violent the neighborhood is. Being in gangs and acting violent towards others in the neighborhood can be something that happens for attention or “stripes” in their neighborhood.…
Children exposed to violence have a variety of com¬plex needs, and the network of child and family interventions must reflect this diversity of needs (Cohen, Groves and Kracke 2009). Past policies tried to take many steps to end children’s exposure to violence. They created incentives to see what they can do to prevent more deaths. It was a challenge to apply what they knew about youth violence and work together to prevent unnecessary tragedies to children. To help address this challenge, the National Action Plan for Child Injury Prevention was created.…
Article 1: Age and the distance to crime. 1) In the Age and the distance to crime study, research is conducted to examine if the distance to crime varies by age, and if the distance to crime varies across different crime classifications. According to the authors, three proposals are made that suggest young offenders travel a short distance to crime that increases during adolescence; the distance to crime peaks in early adulthood and decreases as age continues to increase; and strength of Proposition 1 and Proposition 2 depends on the opportunity surface for different crime types. Utilizing offenders from ages eight (8) to sixty-eight (68), the questions are relevant to address nesting effects for the impact of age on the distance to crime,…
In the United States, gun violence is a substantial public health problem which disproportionately affects youth and minorities, particularly in disadvantaged urban areas. Numerous interventions from a large array of disciplines, have attempted to decrease youth violence. However, many of these interventions have been proven to be ineffective, which has led to the implementation of outreach workers, who engage high risk youth through the use of mentoring, referrals to social and health services, and direct meditation of gang and individual disputes. The most well-known and credited example of specialized outreach is the CeaseFire program. CeaseFire is a multi-faceted, public health based violence prevention initiative, with specialized street…