Sentences with phrase «violent youth crime»

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The announcement comes just a week after ministers proposed new powers for teachers to search pupils for weapons without consent and carry out spot checks on youths at school, under amendments tabled to the violent crime reduction bill.

Strain theory fails to explain violent crime, the type of youth crime that causes most anxiety to the public.

Democrats are in favor of leniency and they want a more narrow definition of violent crime, so that youth do not go to prison for throwing rocks in windows, per The New York Times.

A compromise emerging between Cuomo and legislative leaders would divert some of the teens accused of violent crimes to a new «youth court,» said Senate Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein.

Studies have shown that young people transferred to the adult criminal justice system are 34 % more likely to be re-arrested for violent and other crimes than youth retained in a youth justice system.

This he said was in spite of the fact their decision to shut down the institution had resulted in increase in violent crimes on Ayingba and its environs, adding that «as a responsible government who has high regard for education as the pillar of the future of the state, we can not afford to fold our hands and watch the future of our youths mortgaged».

Researchers also collected information on all the violent crimes reported to the police in the city during the study, including which youth had a violent crime occur in his or her neighborhood.

For each youth, researchers compared the students» sleep on the nights following a violent crime to their sleep on nights when there were no violent crimes committed nearby.

With no responsibilities and few recreational opportunities in their neighborhoods, the youths felt a pervasive need for stimulation, and they satiated their boredom with parties that were rife with sex, drugs and alcohol; violent clashes with rival groups; and crimes such as stealing and crashing cars into vehicles driven by rivals.

Following the exploits of the Paris police department's «child protection unit,» Polisse (which screened early on) helped to establish this year's Croisette - spanning theme of children in peril, which could be found to varying extents in fellow Competition entries Michael (kidnapping and pedophilia), Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About Kevin (teenage sociopathy), Aki Kaurismäki's universally admired Le Havre (illegal immigration), and the Dardenne Brothers» Grand Jury Prize co-winner The Kid with a Bike (child abandonment); in the Directors» Fortnight entry Play (bullying); and in just about every film at the 50th - anniversary edition of the Critics» Week, from French actress - director Valérie Donzelli's opening - night Declaration of War (pediatric cancer) to Israeli actress - director Hagar Ben Asher's The Slut (pedophilia again), the fact - based 17 Girls (teen pregnancy), and the profoundly disturbing Snowtown, which recalled Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer in its verité sketch of Australian serial killer John Bunting, who lured local youths into aiding and abetting his violent crimes throughout the Nineties.

The study found that the teenage birthrate is at an all - time low, that youths were less likely in 2002 to commit violent crimes or become victims of them...

An amazing randomized experiment of a Chicago program called Becoming a Man — Sports Edition, demonstrates that participating in aggressive sports is particularly effective for disadvantaged youth in improving school engagement and reducing violent crime.

There might be tales of increasingly violent street crime and youth gangs.

Though national reports show that crime and violence among youths continue to increase, some students say schools are less violent than they were two years ago.

Where is the «accountability» for... > The «entertainment» industry flooding our youth with heinously toxic, cognitively poisonous VIOLENT VIDEO GAMES and GANGSTER - THUG GLORIFYING music / videos that promote crime, substance abuse, disgusting conduct, mistreatment & violence against women, anti-educational achievement, anti-positive values, anti-professional careers, anti-healthy, responsible behaviors!

This state also has a low rate of violent crime, though its concentration of youth is only about average.

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Females are increasingly arrested for crimes against persons and violent crimes75 and make up an increasingly large proportion of delinquent youth.1, 2 Prior studies76, 77 of youth with conduct disorders (many of whom will become delinquent) suggest that females have greater persistence of emotional disorder and worse outcomes than males.

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America's Children 1999 shows that youth are less likely to smoke, die and or be victimized by crime, but they have made fewer gains in areas that predict their economic futures... Among the report's most positive results is a 40 percent drop in serious violent crime involving juvenile offenders since 1993.»

A small percentage of disturbed youth are committing a larger percentage of violent crimes — and at younger ages.

These disturbing psychosocial qualities have contributed to a more violent and «heartless» character to the crimes being committed by today's youth.

In 1998, the serious violent crime offending rate for youth was 27 crimes per 1,000 adolescents ages 12 to17, totaling 616,000 such crimes involving juveniles — a drop by more than half from the 1993 high, and the lowest level since data were first collected in 1973.»