Drunk driving is the leading cause of death for people from the age of six to thirty-three years old (Curran, 1). One in three people will be involved in an alcohol-related crash in their lifetime (MADD, 1). Everyday thirty-six people in the United States die due to the crashes and approximately 700 more are injured in car crashes that involve alcohol-impaired drivers. This year, 10,839 people will die in drunk-driving crashes; one every fifty minutes (MADD, 1). “Cracking down on those who take drugs or drink and then drive is a year round commitment for Warwickshire and West Mercia.”- West Mercia Police.
How does it feel to be bullied? Well it does NOT feel very well. For some cases, it leads to suicide. Statistics show that… Suicide is the third leading cause of death among young people, resulting in about 4,400 deaths per year, according to the CDC. For every suicide among young people, there are at least 100 suicide attempts.
Craig Price (also known as the Warwick Slasher,[1] born August 1974) is a serial killer from Warwick, Rhode Island. He was arrested in 1989 for four murders committed in his neighborhood: A woman and her two daughters that year, and the murder of another woman two years prior. [2] He had a previous criminal record for petty theft. [2] After he was discovered, Price calmly confessed to his crimes. [2][3] Arrested a month before his 16th birthday,[4] he was tried and convicted as a minor.
When the CDC asked Asian American students if they had seriously considered suicide during the past year, 19 percent answered yes, compared to 16 percent of all high school students. About four percent of Asian American teens reported a suicide attempt within the past year that required medical attention, compared to two percent of all students. Of course, not all teens who report sadness and hopelessness may actually be clinically depressed. But in 2003, social worker Teddy Chen, Ho’s colleague at the Charles B. Wang health center in Manhattan’s Chinatown, conducted a survey in which 1,032 healthy Chinese American children, ages 12 to 18, had undergone a professional mental health screening. In a finding that Chen calls “alarming,” the screening discovered that 12 percent showed signs of
As mentioned in the findings, the range is from poverty, violence (including gun possession), bullying and harassment, teen pregnancy, sexual behavior, alcohol and drug abuse, mental health issues. The “Mental Health Issues and Services” list several concise and well documented frightening facts about today’s youth. Even though alarmingly high, they reported that 12% of high school aged students’ complete suicide. Suicide rates are on the rise for persona aged 10-14 years. Limitations: There aren’t clear outlines to firm up the statistics.
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1.5 million people will be diagnosed with schizophrenia this year alone and, consequently, 10% of those will commit suicide. Schizophrenia is most likely to occur between the ages of 17-35 years, with the onset earlier in men than women. 8-13% of all schizophrenics are linked to cannabis use
They also injured 27additional students during this attack. The two suspects later committed suicide. This attack was considered one of the deadliest mass murders committed on an American high school campus until the Virginia Tech shooting in April 16, 2007. These incidents sparked debate over gun control laws, and the availability of firearms to public within the United States. Also, gun violence involving juveniles is one of the current topics on daily news and television.
Gholar, Laura April 3, 2013 Peck, J.H., & Heide, K.M.(2012). Juvenile involvement in fratricide and sororicide: An empirical analysis of 32 years of u.s. arrest data. Journal of Family Violence, 27, 749- 760. doi: 10.10007/s10896-012-9456-y This research focused on the juvenile fratricide offenders (juveniles who killed their brothers) and juvenile sororicide offenders (juveniles who killed their sisters). For the past 32 years, most studies have been limited in regards to juvenile fratricide and sororicide offenders. However prior to that, research has been limited to case studies and clinical studies focusing on adult siblicides or siblicides in general, not distinguishing between fratricides and sororicides committed by juvenile offenders.
In a more narrow and specific research, the National Institution of Mental Health reported that suicide was the third leading cause of death among youth ages 15 to 24 in 2007 (NIMH 2007). In 2011, the American College Health Association (ACHA) performed the National College Health Assessment (NCHA), which was a nationwide survey of college students at two or four year institutions, and found that about 30% of them testified having felt so depressed at some point in the past year that they find it difficult to