– Dewana, 20, member of drug gang (Taylor:1993, 32)

Violence is a reality for the youth of America, gang violence being one of the fastest growing forms. While overall crime rates have decreased, it is becoming more common for the youth to the perpetrators. Our youth are increasingly the perpetrators and victims of some of society’s most violent crimes. Until recently, the rate of youth violence has climed drastically, between 1984 and 1993, the rate of homicides commited by juveniles increased 169%. (Walker:1993, 506) Gangs have become violent street families for many of our youth. Less than twenty years ago fewer than half of US cities reported gang activity, now 95% of the largest cities and 88% of smaller cities suffer gang-related crime. With the ever increasing population, according to demographic experts there will be a doubling of juvenile arrests for violent crimes by the year 2010. (US Depart

Children’s programs are the least likely of all genres to show the long-term negative consequences of violnce, 5%

- Most violent crimes commited by youth are committed against other juveniles

Skinheads tend to be very violent and exist in nearly every state. A large percentage of Skinheads are Neo-Nazi gangs, but not all; they often model themselves after punk rockers and Skinheads of England. The groups are connected to adult Neo-Nazi groups such as the : Ku Klux Klan, American Nazi Party, the National Socialist White Workers Party, and the Prison Party of Supreme White Pride (SWP). It is speculated that Skinheads are a reaction by middle-class neighborhoods to the sudden increase in the number of Black, Latino, and Asian residents throughout American cities and towns. The ideology of the gang being "anti-Black, anti-Jew, anti-Homosexual, while promoting their pro-god, pro-white American ideology”. (Winsbash: 1999) (Rosen: 1997)

- There are more than 223 million firearms in the Unted States.

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