Exam 13: Youth Violence

Consequences for the bullied individual include low self-esteem, depression and anxiety, and avoidance behavior

In addition to the violence associated with youth, the 1990s also brought renewed interest to the topic of youth gangs

This focus on youth gangs in the fifties and sixties led to the production of which classic criminological work

According to the UCR data, offenders under the age of 18 accounted for approximately _______ percent of all violent crime arrests in 2012.

A key source of data on youth violence that provides a wealth of information about correlates of youth violence and actual behavior.

School shootings such as those at Columbine and Sandy Hook have received considerable media attention resulting in schools becoming more violent places since the early 1990s.

Physically harming a person or making fun of, excluding, and/or spreading rumors about a person repeatedly over time, where the victims do not have equal strength or power to the offender is referred to as:

The use of instructional methods to increase student engagement in the learning process, including cooperative and experiential learning is referred to as:

Since 1980, juvenile violent crime, measured by both arrests and victim reports, decreased until reaching a low in 1993-94 and then steadily grew through 2012

This criminologist work with gangs laid the foundation for the creation of National Gang Center.

According to Thrasher and Klein (1971) any denotable adolescent group of youngsters who (a) are generally perceived as a distinct aggregation by others in their neighborhood, (b) recognize themselves as a denotable group (almost invariably with a group name), and (c) have been involved in a sufficient number of delinquent incidents to call forth a consistent negative response from neighborhood residents and/or law enforcement agencies is referred to as a:

With the advent of social media, bullying has been extended to include harmful messages and pictures shown on phones, tablets, and computers.

Making fun of an individual and excluding and/or making fun of them constitute bullying

Among juvenile arrestees, males account for approximately 81 percent of violent crime arrests

A recent trend has been to adopt a _______ model of examining risk and protective factors associated with gang joining.

Sending, posting, or sharing negative, harmful, false, or mean content about someone else using cell phones, tablets, or computers is called:

Research suggests that bullying is more likely to take place in upper grades and tends to be least experienced in lower grades.

Racial/ethnic minorities experience higher rates of school victimizations.

Attempting to reduce problem behaviors by addressing organizational characteristics of a school is referred to as:

The rate of youth violence has fallen to historical lows since.