Youth crime and justice: Key messages from the Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime

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...

Understanding and preventing youth crime (summary)

social support and crime;the comparative study of criminal and non-criminal youth in ilam

this article is a study about investigation of relationship between social support and youth's crime. the comparison of viewpoints and different definitions of social support (ratous, kessler and heller) and crime (hirschi's social control and strain's agnew) has been performed in order to examinie and compare enjoyment level of criminal and non-criminal of ilam city youth from s...

The Crime and Disorder Act 1998: Implications for Youth Justice in England and Wales1

The implementation of the Crime antl Disortler Atl t998 (CDA I99S) has been described as representing the most far reaching changes to the Youth Justice Svstem in England and Wales in the tast 50 iears (pitts 200:-). In this paper Joe Yates presents a critical analysis of the changes to the youth justice system brought a.bout as a result o.f the implematttrtion of the Crime and Disor' der Act 1...

Demography, Youth Fragility and Violent Crime: the Case of Brazil

PRELIMINARY. PLEASE DO NOT CITE WITHOUT PERMISSION Mimicking the US in 1980 and 1990s, Brazil is a remarkable case of a major shift in homicides. After increasing steadily throughout the 1990s and the beginning of the 2000s, homicides reached a peak in 2003, and then fell steeply. First, I show a strong time-series co-movement between homicide rates and the percentage of the population in 15-24...