Discusses specific cases of teenage violence, including satanic cult activities, racial and sexual attacks, gang violence, acquaintance rape, and school violence. Examines why teens exhibit aggressive behavior and surveys the juvenile justice system.
Offers parents and teachers guidance for understanding and preventing increasing incidents of physical violence, including hazing, brutality, fighting, weapons, and murder, by pubescent and teenage girls.
Investigates the story behind a drive-by shooting in Oakland, Calif., motivated by a stolen bicycle. Looks at the family life of those involved and at the social conditions in which they lived.
Based on years of study by famed psychiatrist Donald L. Nathanson, who asks that we view the problem of explosive violence in a startling new way. Includes issues like rudeness, incivility, sexual hedonism, and drug abuse. Dr. Nathanson links these societal ills to a radical change in the way our culture handles the shame family of emotions.
The kids in this video tell it like it is about bullies in thier own words: "they make me scared." "They make me mad." "They make me not like school." Bullying is the most common form of vilence at school and in our society at large. Millions of young people are victims each year and often suffer psychological and physical damage because of it. If bullying is so prevalent, what can kids do to successfully confront it? Plenty, according to the voices in Bullying and How to Handle It. Viewers see their peers acting out situations hat drive home the message that no one deserves to be a victim of a bully, and everyone has the power to respond to bullying in positive, nonviolent ways.
Reference handbook provides a survey of the available literature on violent children, explores twenty theories for the rise in youth crime, gives biographical sketches of people working on the issue, and gives a chronology of violent acts by children.
