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and above all, enjoyment. We dont expect that young people will commit violent acts because we know it will rob them of their future. This paper considers adolescent violence with
regard to race and gender. Discussion The first thing to be considered is what factors lead to violent behavior. These include gender (both boys and girls can be but they
take different paths to the behavior); drug use - either buying or selling - "committing nonviolent felonies, and engaging in other forms of nonviolent delinquency" ((Saner and Ellickson, 1996, p.
94). Low academic achievement or lack of appreciation for education, lack of parental support and affection, and parental substance abuse, and childrens opinion of that abuse, are all factors in
adolescent violence (Saner and Ellickson, 1996). The more of these factors a young person is subjected to, the greater the likelihood of violence (Saner and Ellickson, 1996). There is
a difference in the way boys and girls arrive at violence. Girls are "more susceptible to the effects of family problems or disruption and impaired relationships with parents" while boys
indulge in violent acts of escalating seriousness (Saner and Ellickson, 1996). Boys are also influenced by problems with school and family, but not to the same extent (Saner and Ellickson,
1996). Saner and Ellickson concluded that violent adolescent acts are often the result of multiple risk factors, behavioral, environmental and demographic (1996). They argue that there are "strong links between
violence, drug use and delinquency" that suggest there is a real need for intervention and prevention programs that take all these problems into account, rather than just identifying one (Saner
and Ellickson, 1996, p. 94). They also suggest that because weak bonds between adolescents and their families and schools contribute to deviant behavior, indicating a societal need to strengthen both
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