Violence in modern society
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Modern Society is becoming more violentViolence is everywhere in our society and keep increasing. Violence is due to several factors like social classes, socio-economics status, and a diversity in population especially in religion, politics or cultural. The most astonish, is teen violence which keep increasing. We notice violence usually seen in adults, in teenagers.
This essay will discuss to what extent teenagers are more violent, then we will focus on the causes of these acts of violence and finally we will discuss some solutions to prevent teen violence.
We notice that there is a lot more violence in children nowadays. Lot of children are bully at school. Bullying is more prevalent among males than females and occurred with greater frequency among middle school-aged children than high school youth (from The health behavior of school-aged children, chapter 2, section 4). Bullying can be verbal harassment, being pushed or pulled out, being teased, being abuse, being threatened or intimidated. It can leads to depression, isolation, suicide, emotional problems, low self-esteem, and stress. It is really detrimental to student well-being and development.
Besides bullying, we can add knives crime which is very frequent in the UK. We can see a new case almost every week in the newspaper. Four out of five offenders are aged between 12 to 20 years old and one out of three victims is aged from 10 to 17 years old. According to the journal of school violence (Vol.1-8, 2009) 51% of young people wear knives and 38% wear knives at school. They generally start wearing knives at 11 when they move from primary school to secondary school. Young people mostly wear knives because they are part of gangs or because they are scared and want to protect them. In some case, young children of 7years old also wear knives, but they usually wear knives for older who are gang members. Knives crime is mainly caused by conflicts between gang or between teenagers.
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