There is a significant connection between violent victimization and juvenile offending. This article explores this connection then provides judges, teachers, counselors, juvenile justice personnel, and others strategies for helping victimized adolescents heal and steering them away from lives of repeated victimization and offending.

Although the negative effects of witnessing domestic violence are finally becoming acknowledged, many young girls are already victims of violence within their own dating relationships. Research studies uniformly find that, on average, about 25% of teen dating relationships contain violent elements. Research with pregnant and parenting teens show…

School bullying is often considered to be the fuel behind school violence. In a recent report by the Families and Work Institute, students reported that is was the small things, such as teasing, which often triggered serious episodes of violence. On the school campus, between 20 to 30% of the students report frequent involvement in bullying…