Imagine your teenage daughter is at home and receives a phone call form a friend to come over to her apartment. She goes over and finds three or four other girls whom she knows vaguely at the apartment, and realises that she has been set up. She tries to leave and is restrained by the girls. They drag her down to the laundry room by her hair. Then stripped her of her clothing, jewelry and money. She is beaten with metal bars and wooden sticks, and kicked all over because they believe that she is seeing one of the girls' brothers. She denies this and they continue to beat her up. She is saved by two police officers who happened to be patrolling the neighborhood and witness the incident. The girl is treated at h

These and many other incidents like the beating of Jonathan Wamback, who spent 16 days on life support and three months in a coma, are happening daily in our society. Youth hurting, beating and even killing other youths. Children to day are being beaten up or shot because they may look, talk or act different. This is not something that should be happening in our society, but we know with no uncertainty that is happening. Youth violence happens every day, -- at school, in the mall or even just on the street. Many regulations have been set in place to help combat or deal the problem of youth violence, one of which is the Young Offenders Act.

Children in Canada and America spend more time watching television that they spend in school. The level of violence that they see on television is about five violent acts per hour and the level of violence on Saturday and Sunday morning cartoon programming is about 20-25 violence acts per hour

The changes the government has proposed to the youth justice system share a number of important features: Flexibility for the provinces. The government's reforms recognize the unique needs, problems and differences in approach that exist among the provinces therefore offering individual provinces a balanced, flexible approach that allows them to choose options in some areas that best meet their needs and suit their systems. Treating violent and non violent crimes differently. Not all offences committed by youth are the same therefore non violent crimes should be treated differently than violent crimes.. A cooperative, integrated approach to youth crime. The proposals also reflect the need for a broader, more comprehensive approach to youth justice that looks beyond the justice system for solutions to youth crime.

Television cartoons often feature dehumanized characters, such as Ninja Turtles, who engage in the destructive acts of violence by fighting our real life social problems. With acts of violence, kids learn to think that is how they should solve their problems. Some kids TV shows or shows that kids are allowed to watch encourages fire, smoking, foul language, drinking, stealing and disrespect. When these bad attitudes seen are depicted as normal on TV shows, kids tend to believe that these attitudes are cool, normal and acceptable.

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Before focusing on the Young Offenders Act, I will look at one still prominent issue that many including psychologist say help contribute to the high rise in violence among our youth. That issue is violence on television. Some professionals believe that there is a strong correctional relationship between the violence that children watch on television and the -------------

generally speaking, a person has not reached full maturity until 18;

If we truly thought that television had no impact on viewers, why would companies spend billion of dollars on television advertising? If commerc

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