Speculating About A Social Crisis

comes widespread depression. We are now seeing more and more depression in younger and

younger people. We tend to classify angry, violent, and aggressive adolescents as troubled

individuals. We try to take these troubled individuals and sequester them from our troubled

world. We are appalled at the outbreaks of murder in our schools, of gang violence, and of

uncontrolled adolescent anger. We pour billions of dollars into police departments and prisons,

Both suicide and homicide in the adolescent age group (13 to 21 years old) have risen

dramatically in the past twenty years. Suicidal and homicidal behavior are closely linked in

sociological studies, and, together, are just contributing components to the growing adolescent

discontent and anger. Because the youth are so easily influenced, adolescence is a time when

children start to use their newly developed powers of logical thinking to see for themselves

whether the things they’ve been told all their lives by adults, especially their parents, are really

true. Incidents of violence involving teenagers in the US have caused many persons

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