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This is the first 1,000 characters of 1496 words (5.98 pages) in the essay titled youth and crime There has been a steady increase in the number violent crimes committed by today’s adolescence. Headlines in newspaper read “Two teen kill13 and wound several others” “Fourteen year old boy kills one and wounds another.” Incidences like these are shocking society today. Why is this violence happening? Today’s children are growing up in a more violence society. Violence is shown on television, through video games and through different advertising campaigns. Are young kids killing their peers to solve their problems, for respect, or for curiosity? Findings from interview with clinical psychologists, correctional workers, educators and, military personal solve what the problems facing today’s youth are.Presently crime amongst adolescents is increases at an alarming rate. Violent crimes committed by youths have double in the past twenty years. This number is expected to double again in the next ten years. 50% of youth in a Saskatchewan detention are incarcerated for violent crimes. Of all violent crimes committed last year in the Canada, seventeen percent of those were committed adolescents (equal to that of the United States). The rate of violent crimes is decreasing in urban centers but is steadily increasing in rural areas. Dr. Todd Willoughby, a clinical psychologist from the Saskatchewan Mental Health Unit in Saskatoon is a member of the High Risk and Violent Offenders Initiative here in Saskatoon. Dr. Willoughby works with a series of other psychologis... |
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Keywords: violent crimes, risk factors, psychoeducational assessments, clinical psychologists, violence, criminogenic, mental health unit, willoughby, saskatoon, adolescents, saskatchewan, clinical psychologist, violent youths, youth and crime, dr todd, violent offenders, steady increase