a views of youth violence include the casting of youth as evil and violent as well as innocent victims, however recent research shows that the media constructs youth violence in a similar manner to the construction of violent adults. Thus, violent youth are portrayed as having no conscience and acting randomly and participating in multiple types of crimes.
In addition to the media construction of the youth violator, Spencer (2005) stated that there are multiple origins of this social construction. Causal factors include child abuse, increases in single-parent families, drugs, increased weapon availability, and poverty. Spencer concludes that these conditions alone do not necessarily lead
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