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In non-disabled population, in Denver and Pittsburgh, 82–88 percent of these samples of high-risk youth reported engaging in some form of aggression or violence before age 13, with roughly 60 percent of Denver children and nearly 80 percent of boys in Pittsburgh reporting these behaviors before age 9. Approximately 24–33 percent reported involvement only in aggression in which no one was injured. The prevalence of minor assaults in which the victim was injured was approximately 50 percent in Denver (57 percent of boys and 40 percent of girls) and 32 percent of boys in Pittsburgh.

Tanyia also presents with oppositional behavior (verbal and physical aggression, fluctuating moods-anger outbursts, defiance), truancy from school in the 2015 school year, running away from home on numerous occasions for two days at a time when mother is out of town working, sexual behaviors, and substance use (Marijuana). Tanyia has also experienced multiple traumas of being sexually victimized at the age of 12 by a neighbor, forced to pose for sexually explicit photos, and physical abuse in the home (as evident by numerous marks on her torso). When first counseling with Tanyia, she had limited insight as to the seriousness of her behaviors and the causes of her behaviors. Through further exploration, Tanyia was able to process through her traumas and verbalize her feelings of abandonment by her mother whom is always “traveling for work” and always having to care for her siblings one of which has a physical handicap and needs 24 hour care. In discussing Tanyia’s behaviors with her parents, her mother, Ms. Jones, believes that

Ashley Smith was born in Moncton, New Brunswick, and adopted when she was just a little girl. However, at the age of 13, she became very troubled and rebellious, constantly receiving suspensions at school for her impulsive behaviour, which even landed her in youth court several times. At age 15, Smith was convicted and sentenced to one-month incarceration at New Brunswick Youth Centre for throwing crab-apples at a postal worker. Within a few weeks of her sentence, Smith became aggressive towards the correctional staff and repeatedly destroyed her segregation cell. Her behavioral issues didn’t stop there, for instance, at times she threw urine and faecal matter at the guards. Due to Smith’s resistance, self-injurious behavior, and aggression towards the correctional guards, she accumulated several institutional infractions, which added 6-years to her original sentence of a month (DiManno 2012).

This paper will detail a number of aspects regarding the case provided of Jerri and her parents specifically with his stepfather Jimmie. Jerri is 13 years old and lives with her mother and stepfather. Since the school calendar year started she has been caught severally, in this case three times sneaking from her room at nigh so that she can be with her friends. According to her, nothing illegal happens and they only hangout in the neighborhood. However, this concerns her parents who are afraid of her engaging in sexual or drugs activities at her age. The first time she was caught, her parents cancelled a trip that they had allowed her to take with a friend. In the second instance, they grounded her for a week. When she was caught the third time, she was grounded for a week and her parents withheld her allowances. A week after she was released from the long month grounding, during a school nigh she was by Jimmie her stepfather crawling through a window into a hallway that would lead to her bedroom. She threatened to crawl back out of the window and threatened to escape and never to return. When this was happening, her mother and the rest of the children were watching. Jimmie was exasperated that the previous punishments that they had subjected her to were not working and Jerri had only become more belligerent and defiant. This resulted into him grabbing her pulling her back into the window and slapped her into the face. According to Jimmie, when he was slapping her she

Living life within a dysfunctional family and living within a dysfunctional community that had little trust in societal protections left Precious without many normal safeguards that might have prevented some of the years of abuse that she endured. Awareness of Precious’ first pregnancy at the age of twelve, her morbid obesity, her violent outbursts and her inability to read or write were all reasonable cause to suspect that Precious may have been subjected to abuse, neglect.

She was in the foster care system before being adopted by Darlene, and had a good childhood. She participated in swimming and went camping with her family. At a young age Sharnell was diagnosed with FASD, ADHD, ODD, borderline personality disorder, anxiety, and a narcissistic personality. This posed problems for her and her mom when growing up as she would have severe mood swings, and become aggressive. At the age of 12 she began acting out, and showcasing dangerous behaviour like playing chicken on the road. When she as 13 these behaviours started escalating and she received a restraining order due to stalking a teacher. By 15 she was causing public disturbances, making harassing telephone calls, and assaulted a bus driver. These behaviours could become more severe causing Sharnell to be incarcerated unless something

Between 08/31/15-09/02/15, Deniyah has alleged repeatedly that her mother slaps her in the face, twist her foot around likes she’s trying to break it, and that she witnesses her grandmother beat her mother. On 09/02/15 Deniyah put her foot in her lap and turned it has if she tried to break it; the child also told the reporter her mother punches her and twist her leg. Deniyah began the conversation with school staff by stating someone was in her grandmother’s home, in her grandmother’s bed. Ms. Fields caught Justice’s friend and beat her. Whenever Justice got angry with her mother, she slapped Deniyah in her face until it bled; Deniyah did not have any visible marks or bruises. Deniyah stated her mother tells her hasn’t missed her after school

It is unknown if Blayne has bruises. Sydni has had bruises. She had a hand print on her leg. She said the mother did it. It is unknown why. Per reporter, Sydni doesn't say much. A relative has seen her get hit directly in different places. Reporter stated the mother screams and curses at the children all the time. Per reporter, Caiden is malnourished. He eats like he has never eaten before. There is food available to him such as snacks and candy but not meals. Caiden is a very angry child. Caiden and Sydni have been on medications for anxiety, insomnia, ADD, and ADHD. They take the medicine once or twice per weeks because mom doesn't get the refills like needed. Reporter stated the children have already missed 2 days of school. Autumn couldn't get up and is always in the bed. She just sleeps and doesn't work but a lot of it is because of her depression. Reporter is scared for the children. The mother goes on defense and she thinks she is a great mom. Reporter believes if she takes her medicine she will do better. Reporter last saw Caiden on Friday night. Blayne was seen about 4-5 days ago and Sydni hasn't been seen in about a week. The children do not need immediate medical

One of the most profound indicators of future criminal behavior lies in parenting. There is no greater influence on infants and young children than the parents themselves. However, some parents are simply not equipped to be successful role models for their children. Parents who engage in extreme corporal punishment, neglect to give their children proper supervision, or encourage rather than dissuade certain antisocial attitudes and behaviors can socialize their children in an extremely negative manner (Gottfredson & Hirschi, 1990)(Lahey et al., 1999). Children who are predisposed to irritability or impulsiveness might elicit antisocial responses from ill-equipped parents, possibly even physically abusive. These episodes of abuse will continue to create an environment in which children will display aggressive antisocial behavior and their parents will continue to respond negatively or ignore the child entirely (Collins et al., 2000)(Maccoby & Jacklin, 1983).

Abusive, neglectful, and dysfunctional families are often a part of the background of juvenile homicide offenders. While not the case for all, "juveniles convicted of homicide more frequently have criminally violent family members" (Darby, Allan, Kashani, Hartke, & Reid, 1998) in addition to parental absence. Compared to nonviolent youths, juvenile homicide offenders are twice as likely to have suffered physical abuse at the hands of family members (Darby et al., 1998). When juveniles experience abuse and neglect, they are at risk of developing attachment disorders (Heide & McCurdy, 2010). This type of disorder hinders the juvenile 's ability to empathize with others, which in turn makes it easier for them to disassociate themselves from any violent acts they may commit.

Those Risk factors are the impact of peers, developing pathways, of aggression. We explore these factors of violence in children and adolescents with attention to the original problem of violence to describe the difficulty, unanswered questions, and clinical relevance of the current findings of peer pressure leading to aggression. Interventions, including cognitive behavioral therapy, psychopharmacological treatment, and psychosocial treatment, are reviewed with serious recognition of the need to use multiple modalities with and to expand research to define optimal treatment for, potentially violent children and adolescents. The information considered for this review focuses on violence as defined as physical aggression toward other individuals. Other studies are included with wider definitions of violence because of their relevance to assessing the potential for violent behavior. © Society for Adolescent Medicine, 2004 although arrest rates for serious violent crimes and juvenile homicides have fallen from an all-time high in the mid-1990s, many adolescents and children remain involved in aggressive delinquent and violent behaviors such as physical fighting, bullying, using weapons, verbal threats of harm to others, and chronic impulsive aggression . In 1999, juveniles accounted for 16% of all violent crime arrests, and homicides committed by youth

Amanda drives with a suspended driver’s license. The child wets the bed and has a strong urine odor. Amanda makes the child wear a pull-up due to not wanting to clean up after her. The child is afraid to tell anything; Amanda has threatened to discipline child. Amanda has taught the child to lie. Last school year, the child missed 30 days of school. Whenever the child missed days from school, Amanda tells her to say that she was sick. Amanda would even take her to the doctor to pretends she’s sick to receive an excuse. This past weekend the child had a fever, but did not receive medical treatment. Amanda had over the counter Tylenol and allergy medicine. Amanda works weird hours when she does work at a gas station. The child has witnessed Nate and Amanda fight. The child has adequate clothing that are provided by Alice (paternal grandmother) and other family friends. CPS has been involved with the family previously, but nothing has been done. Amanda knows how to beat the system, she is aware that CPS will warn her before going out to the home. Wendy and Michael (paternal relatives) would be willing to properly care for Willow. Willow was last seen 9/11/17. The allegations were not discussed with

Based on the pathways of girls being so different that those of boys it would be imperative to provide gender-responsive programs that address the different issues experienced by girls. Ideally, we would form a Justice System that would respond to individuals per their gender differences since they are numerous. Incorporating pathways into the Criminal Justice System would allow for a better understanding of why the individual is committing a crime and help in terms of determining what to do with said individual. For example, in Private Pain and Public Behaviors, Annie got arrested breaking into her neighbor’s house while attempting to escape her abusive step-father (Weisheit & Culbertson, 2000). She did not commit a crime to steal the belongings of her neighbors but so she could be taken by the police so she would not have to return home. This type of information should dictate how to deal with the apparent juvenile delinquent rather than sentencing her for breaking and entering. Which brings us to a second recommendation, to address the underlying issues that lead to the crime. The trauma experienced by this youth needs to be addressed rather than furthered through detention. When addressing individuals’, who have experienced such trauma, the programs used to help these individuals need to take those experiences into consideration. Because majority of the current programs are oriented towards male delinquency, the approach used by the people operating the programs may be

Individual is a 10 year old 4th grade black female student at James C. Rosser Elementary who was in day treatment lasted school term. Individual mom states individual was doing well for the summer, but start causing problems toward the end. Mom states individual has started back with anger and aggression behaviors at school. Mom states the first week of school individual ran out the classroom without permission and her consequence was a paddle. Within the same week individual has been hitting on students and hollering in the classroom. Teacher states individual kicked a student in the back because they were laughing at her. Individual also yell “shut up and leave me alone at her teacher”, and she yelled “I’m going to tell my momma on you” toward her teacher the first and second week of school. Teacher states individual gets angry and argues with students, hits on students, take things from students, and threaten the teacher to tell her mother if she touches her. Last week mom states individual bust her friend noise and took her purse. Mom states individual is always doing something to the kids in the neighborhood, and has no friends. Individual was sent to the office last week and she was yelling, kicking, and threaten the school principal. Individual teacher states individual feels that she can do what she wants to anyone and not have any consequences. Individual would cry thinking that she will not get in trouble. Also, last week individual pushed a student in

I am a proud aunt of a 2-year old beautiful baby girl. Her name is Julianna Rasberry. Right now, she currently attends A Mother’s Heart Daycare facility. Last week, Julianna had a pretty tough week. On Monday, she came home with scratches all over her face. Her teacher explained to me that one incident occurred in the playroom area earlier that morning, after Julianna had been dropped off. All of the kids gathered in the big playroom that morning, when their parents dropped them off.