Victimization and Youth Violence
By Christine Siegfried, M.S.S.W.
The Prevention Researcher,
Volume 14, Number 1, 2007, Pages 14-16, Item# A141-SIEGFRIED
There is a significant connection between violent victimization and juvenile offending. This article explores this connection then provides judges, teachers, counselors, juvenile justice personnel, and others strategies for helping victimized adolescents heal and steering them away from lives of repeated victimization and offending.
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Youth Victimization
The Prevention Researcher,
Volume 14, Number 1, 2007
Children are among the most highly victimized segments of the population with about 1 in 3 youth reporting being victimized through either direct or indirect exposure to violence or neglect. Youth usually experience violence within the home, school or neighborhood and it is often perpetrated by acquaintances or family members.
This issue also featured these articles:
- Adolescent Online Victimization, Pages 8-9
- School-Based Mental Heath Intervention for Adolescents Exposed to Violence, Pages 17-20
- Understanding and Responding to Teen Victims: A Developmental Framework, Pages 10-13
- Victimization and Youth Violence, Pages 14-16
- Youth Victimization: Implications for Prevention, Intervention, & Public Policy, Pages 3-7
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