DOUBLE TROUBLE: Youth from violent families: easy victims of crime?
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Youth, guns, and violent crime.
Young people are overrepresented as both victims and perpetrators of violence. Indeed, some commentators have suggested that recent cohorts of youth have been composed of "superpredators" who have little regard for human life. The evidence, however, suggests that other factors are responsible for recent increases in youth gun violence. This article analyzes the extent and causes of youth violen...
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عنوان ژورنال: South African Crime Quarterly
سال: 2006
ISSN: 2413-3108,1991-3877
DOI: 10.17159/2413-3108/2006/v0i16a998