This paper describes a youth-centered activist project with a group of young women in Brooklyn, NY, and the controversy surrounding it. In 1999 the young women created a neighborhood mural with anti-violence themes. Within 6 months of the mural's dedication, the mural was whitewashed by the corporate owner of the mural wall. Using content and…

Considers violence/aggression of young. Delineates seven steps to less violent society: provide effective consequences of aggression; teach nonaggressive responses to problems; stop aggression early; restrict access to the instruments of aggression; restrain and reform public displays of aggression; correct conditions of everyday life that foster…

Reports the findings of Frank Zimring, director of the University of Chicago's Center for Criminal Justice, that the rate of four types of serious youth crime (homicide, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault) began to level off around 1970 and may now be declining. (SJL)

Notes crisis in spirit of hope within society, and growing pessimism that there are no workable solutions to massive social problems facing communities. Explains conflict cycle of stress, feelings, behavior, and reactions, then moves beyond theater of punishment with call to action. Recommends fighting three-front war of primary prevention, early…

Recommends taking a public health approach to finding a cure for the increasing spread of youth violence. Notes that the Centers for Disease Control are funding demonstration programs to help communities look for an answer. Provides statistical evidence that the problem of youth violence has escalated in recent years. Suggests youth violence…

Presents excerpts from United States Attorney General Janet Reno's address to the Coalition for Juvenile Justice in April of 1993 in which Reno asserts that the juvenile justice system cannot labor by itself to reverse societal damage done to children. Excerpts tell what needs to be done to help prevent youth violence. (Author/NB)

Presents interview with David Jarmusz, a Chicago (Illinois) police officer who specializes in gang activity. Jarmusz describes the Chicago Police Department's gang units program and gang specialist detectives, discusses goals and objectives, activities of the program, and outcomes of the project. (NB)

This issue's "Voices of Pioneers" segment features the work of Fritz Redl, pioneer in the art of helping distraught children and adolescents. Describes Redl's professional development and contributions. Includes writing by Redl in which he identifies four patterns of antisocial behavior which stem from different causes and thus require…

Schools today face serious, daily threats to the safety of students and staff. Students and school employees become victims when experiencing a crime against themselves or when threatened by the perpetration of a crime. On school grounds, these crimes are most often assaults, robberies, and extortion. Recent studies have highlighted the…

The author discusses the problems of teenage runaways: abuse which forces many to leave home, violence and sexual exploitation, lack of help from the child welfare bureaucracy. He illustrates with descriptions of several youngsters at his Covenant House crisis center, Under Twenty-One, in New York City. (SJL)

Reviews data concerning the rate of offending and the rate of victimization among children and adolescents, highlighting the lack of comprehensive national data on victimization. Children and adolescents are at substantially greater risk, on the basis of statistical incidence, for the commission of "nuisance offenses" than for serious…

Addresses the nature of youth violence and its connection to school violence, reviews actions taken as a response to school violence, and identifies the impact violence and its counter-measures have had on the school community. Suggests that educators focus on increasing the sense of community within their schools as both a response to school…

In an attempt to create more youth and adult partnerships to prevent violence throughout California, the California Attorney General's Office, the California Youth Authority, and the California Department of Health Services joined together on this community action research project. The members of the Attorney General's Youth Council on Violence…

Articles discuss European youth and the effects on them of housing, delinquency, drugs, and leisure time; unemployment and its effect on youth; youth in Italy; a proposed European youth policy; preparing children for the 21st Century; drugs and violence; and how to achieve the social, economic, and political integration of the young. (CT)

Teachers and administrators attending an institute on juvenile justice and education were asked about: (1) their views on crime and disruption in the schools; (2) their knowledge of juvenile justice processes; and (3) possible solutions to crime and vandalism. Educators need increased understanding of the relationship between school problems and…