Causes of Juvenile Violence

Children and Violence In Lost Boys, a study of race and youth violence, author James Garbarino says, "The 1997-1998 school year will go down in American history as the turning point in our country's experience and understanding of lethal youth violence. - October 1, 1997, Pearl, Mississippi: after killing his mother, sixteen-year-old Luke Woodham opens fire at his high school, killing tress and wounding seven. - December 1, 1997, West Paducah, Kentucky: fourteen-year-old Michael Carneal kills three students at …

…by the individual and the community must be put forth in order to help curb this problem. Works Cited Edelman, Marion Wright. <www.oseda.missouri.edu/kidcnt/report/ violence/nspcomm.html > Garbarino, James. Lost Boys. Chicago: Free Press, 1999. Gray, Michael. The Bobo Doll Study. New York: Random, 1998. National Television Violence Study. California: SAGE Publications, 1997. DeJong, W. "School-based violence prevention: From the peaceable school to the peaceable neighborhood." Forum: National Institute for Dispute Resolution, 25, p.8-14, 1994.