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Relations between Alcohol, Violence and Victimization in Adolescence
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Shepherd, J. P.; Sutherland, I.; Newcombe, R. G. – Journal of Adolescence, 2006
Background: Compared to links between alcohol and aggression, links between alcohol and vulnerability are poorly understood. Objectives: To determine whether there is a significant relationship between vulnerability to physical violence and alcohol consumption in adolescence independent of a relationship between alcohol consumption and violent…
Descriptors: Victims of Crime, Violence, Alcohol Abuse, Aggression
The Association between Weapon-Carrying and the Use of Violence among Adolescents Living in or around Public Housing.
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DuRant, Robert H.; And Others – Journal of Adolescence, 1995
Examines social and psychological factors associated with frequency of weapon-carrying by black adolescents living in a community where there is extensive poverty and a high level of violent crime. Weapon carrying was significantly associated with exposure to violence and victimization, age, corporal punishment scale, depression, family conflict,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Aggression, Antisocial Behavior, Blacks
Adolescent Homicide: Towards Assessment of Risk.
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Hardwick, Peter J.; Rowton-Lee, Martyn A. – Journal of Adolescence, 1996
Reviews the mental health literature relevant to homicidal children and adolescents. Background and situational factors relevant to risk are described. Background factors include the witnessing of serious violence, both live and on the screen, as well as abuse through neglect and deprivation. Discusses other factors that contribute to homicidal…
Descriptors: Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Children, Evaluation
Weapon-Carrying at Swiss Schools? A Gender-Specific Typology in Context of Victim and Offender Related Violence
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Kuntsche, Emmanuel N.; Klingemann, Harald K.-H. – Journal of Adolescence, 2004
After reviewing prevalence rates, this work tries to identify gender specific groups in which weapon-carrying occurs in the context of victim and offender related violent behaviours. [kappa]-Means cluster and logistic regression analyses were calculated, based on a cross-sectional survey of a national representative sample of 1549 15-year-olds as…
Descriptors: Weapons, Schools, Incidence, Victims of Crime
Violence in Adolescents' Romantic Relationships: Findings from a Survey amongst School-Going Youth in a South African Community
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Swart, Lu-Anne; Seedat, Mohamed; Stevens, Garth; Ricardo, Izabel – Journal of Adolescence, 2002
This paper reports on a study of heterosexual adolescent dating violence among secondary school students in a South African community. Approximately half of the surveyed males, and just over half of the surveyed females reported involvement in a physically violent dating relationship either as a perpetrator and/or victim. The study found…
Descriptors: Violence, At Risk Persons, Dating (Social), Secondary School Students
Direct and Vicarious Victimization at School and at Home as Risk Factors for Suicidal Cognition among Italian Adolescents
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Baldry, Anna C.; Winkel, Frans Willem – Journal of Adolescence, 2003
Suicidal cognition is defined here as the combination of thinking about committing suicide and engaging in self-harm and is considered to indicate maladjustment following an extreme internalized reaction to negative life events. Victimization at home and at school might lead some youth to suicidal cognition. The present study aimed to examine…
Descriptors: Family Violence, Gender Differences, Suicide, Risk