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Teen Violence sociology project

Alex Allen Sociology Project Teens have always been a big interest of mine, for the reason that I am currently a teen and also I would like to work with teenagers when I grow up. I want to be a psychologist and their main focus is to talk to be about their emotions and how to deal with those emotions. Teen violence is mostly the result of emotions and how most teens don’t know how to deal with them. Violence is a learned behavior. Teen violence starts from exposure at home, school, and in the neighborhood. Teens can also learn these violent behaviors from TV, the internet, video games, movies, and music. Teens that personally experience physical abuse or see it close to them it is more likely for them to be the ones who do exactly the same they are experiencing. A huge concern in teen violence is the increase in gun use. More and more teens mostly in urban areas are influenced not to just fight but to use a gun to kill. The main reason guns and teens aren’t good is because teenagers act without thinking, when teens are angry or depressed, they are more likely to kill themselves or harm themselves or others if they can easily get a gun. `A contributor to teen violence is television and video games. Thousands of studies have shown that violence on TV and in video games influence their behaviors and attitudes. On average by the age of 12 a child has witnessed at least 8,000 murders and 100, 00 acts of violence on television. It is shown that teens spend more time in front of the television than in a classroom. Violence in media, weather TV or music is glorified, and it makes it seen that it is ok and also gives teens ideas. Video games are usually target teens, but what people don’t know is that video games are used by the U.S. Marine Corps, The U.S. Army and law informant use video games to train their men how to shot a gun, these same games are being played by teenagers. Video games train teens to kill it builds anger when they don’t get there way and it gives them plans how to kill. The biggest attributer to teen violence is violence at home. Physical abuse, verbal, and abandonment are the causes for teen’s violence. Abusive home and violent neighborhoods are strong predictors of violent teen and adult behaviors. From personal research I learned a lot of teen violence is the cause from pride and fear. Teens especially boys let their pride get the best of them. They feel if they get disrespected they can’t just walk away they have to defend themselves by using violence. If one is in front of their friends it gets even worst they feel they truly have to show off just to fit in. In some situations teens feel fear, teens from urban areas feel the feel of being killed so they feel they have to kill or be killed. They believe that violence is the only way to survive. Teen violence has become more and more common. Teens are finding violence to be the only way to survive, learning techniques from television, media, and video games. Many teens aren’t taught to deal with their and when they become violent that’s how they express their emotions. People need to work together to help these teens deal with these emotions and I believe the crime rate will go down.