More violent crimes are being committed by young, poor and disadvantage teens. These teenagers have developed a very observed behavior toward the real world and resort to violence and killings to settle their faults. (Barrett 17) Gang violence and the availability of guns has caused a big increase of the young children who are injured or killed. These children suffer not only the trauma of the physical violence, but also continued psychological trauma that stops them from learning in school and being able to take on the stressful daily life. (Freed 23) All over the United States more teenagers are arming themselves using guns. Law enforcements and officials and social workers claim that, as this is going on, the number of adolescents killed by guns has reached epidemic proportions. (Tabor 31)
Violent youth crime in the U.S. has been exaggerated and inaccurately documented. The results as that a majority of juvenile delinquents sent to reform school have been mislabeled as violent offenders. Society has done very little to correct this mistake. (Miller 44) Political, the media and the government have misled the public by overstating the number of youth violence incidents. Youth violence exists, but it has not increas
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