... the analysis showed that the focus on adolescent violence was not as well founded as people thought. Relative to all issues of school discipline, violent infractions made up for just a small fraction of incidents reported by schools, finding no statistical significance to support the idea that violence was and more prevalent than in previous years (Costenbader & Markson, 1998). ... of all ages, they compared peer group effects on adolescents as well as adults. This comparison proved that adolescents, in terms of risk taking behavior, were more susceptible to the influence of peers than ad...

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