CJ ST 241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Drug Abuse Resistance Education, Parenting Styles, Menards
10 Nov 2016
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Why the rise in youth violence: unemployment, alcohol, drugs, availability of guns, and domestic abuse. Dynamic cascade model of violence: adverse context, harsh parenting, poor school readiness, conduct problems, school failure, low parenting monitoring, deviant peers. Legal rulings on firearms: the brady bill, violent crime control and law enforcement acts of 1994, youth indicated that weapons are easily obtainable. Child safety: children with ready access to firearms are at an increased risk for violent offending and victimization, for child safety, guns should be kept unloaded and locked in a safe place. Trends in adolescent drug use: half of all students have tried an illicit drug before they leave high school, monitoring the future survey results, none of the eventual outcomes of hardcore drug use are positive. Adolescents" drug use based on drug type: marijuana, cocaine, alcohol and cigarettes, ecstasy, other drugs.
