IMPORTANCE The study suggests that years of public policy designed to reduce the burden of violence and victimization among youths is having some success. OBJECTIVE To identify trends in children's exposure to violence, crime, and abuse from 2003 through 2011. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Three national telephone surveys of representative samples of children and caregivers from 2003, 2...

Acts of violence include bullying, verbal threats, physical assault, domestic abuse, the use of objects or weapons to harm another, and gunfire. Premature death, disability, and academic failure occur due to the violent activity that surrounds many American youth. Risk factors that contribute to youth violence include a history of being abused or abusing others, school truancy, poor time use, e...

economically developed world, to develop a new agenda for youth policy generally, especially in terms of the needs of the economically dispossessed. Major structural changes in economic and social life have altered in important ways the shape of growing up, and are reflected in such phenomena as exceptional levels of youth unemployment. Some of the more dramatic effects of these changes result ...

OBJECTIVE To develop a conceptual computational agent-based model (ABM) to explore community-wide versus spatially focused crime reporting interventions to reduce community crime perpetrated by youth. METHOD Agents within the model represent individual residents and interact on a two-dimensional grid representing an abstract nonempirically grounded community setting. Juvenile agents are assig...

The massacre at Columbine High School last year unleashed a torrent of fresh concern over the threat that violence poses to society. It also energized a government research effort to understand and prevent violence. Ironically, this flurry of activity comes at a time when youth violence, as reflected in crime statistics, is in decline.

Teen dating violence (TDV) is a preventable public health problem that has negative consequences for youth. Despite evidence that youth in urban communities with high crime and economic disadvantage may be at particularly high risk for TDV, little work has specifically addressed TDV in these communities. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has developed a comprehensive approach...

stability and commercial prosperity of a given nation. Where a country has had years of civil peace and development, allowing of possibilities of personal advancement and the quick absorption into remunerative occupation of the schoolleaving youth of the country, juvenile crime is at a low ebb. When a nation, following the emotional stress of a great upheaval, has had a prolonged period of trad...

Youth justice is an important public health issue. There is growing recognition of the need to adopt effective, evidence-based strategies for working with young offenders. Music interventions may be particularly well suited to addressing risk factors in young people and reducing juvenile crime. This systematic review of international research seeks to contribute to the evidence base on the impa...

Based on the established association between child poverty and youth violence trends, this study employs both macroand micro-level research strategies to determine whether the recent changes in macroeconomic conditions and welfare reform policies that influenced child poverty trends throughout most of the 1990’s and the early 2000’s also influenced trends in youth violent victimization, and the...

We present the results of three large-scale randomized controlled trials (RCTs) carried out in Chicago, testing interventions to reduce crime and dropout by changing the decision making of economically disadvantaged youth. We study a program called Becoming a Man (BAM), developed by the nonprofit Youth Guidance, in two RCTs implemented in 2009-2010 and 2013-2015. In the two studies participatio...