We have one of the worst adolescent suicide rates in the world. On average 294 youths die from suicide in a year. These rates have tripled since 1970. For every completed suicide there are an estimated 30 – 50 attempts. Suicide affects 1 in 13 Canadians.
There has been a decline in the number of deaths from MVAs ( halved since 1970. ❖ Groups than experience inequities: - Young people: most affected by MVAs, has high rates of suicide, violence and poisoning - Elderly people: more prone to accidents ( falls. - People who live in rural areas: More likely to suffer from workplace accidents ( mining. - Children: high rates of poisoning, injury as a result of road environments, falls and drowning ❖ STATS: - Injuries account for 6% of deaths in Australia, of that, 47% are 1-44. - MVAs have traditionally been the leading injury causing death, however suicide is now the leading cause of death for males.
“The carnage caused by underage drinking in America is unrelenting.” NLLEA Alcohol is the most commonly abused drug by teenagers in America. On www.ojjdp.gov they mention how alcohol influences you to partake in risky sexual behaviors. Youth who decide to drink and have sex have a higher chance of becoming pregnant or contracting an STD. People often look at alcohol consumption as a normal young adult behavior, but are blind to all the consequences from it. Underaged drinking is a social issue and causes many problems from learning problems to alcoholism.
Whether we believe it or not, our youth is killing themselves and the leading way is by guns. There is an estimation of 41,149 suicidal deaths each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Suicidal deaths with firearms are ranked higher in comparison to homicides, which are ranked 2:1. So many of these suicides could be prevented by households leaving their guns outside of the house or tucked away in hard to reach places. In states where gun control is not monitored as much, rates of suicide were higher; for example, Wyoming reported that in the 63% of households that contained guns, the suicidal rates were higher than in those houses that did not contain guns.
Suicide2 Suicide amongst teens is a worldwide problem. Teens are committing suicide younger and younger. Studies show that the majority of teens that commit suicide are 14 years of age. Furthermore, males commit most of these teenage suicides. (Beautrais, Annette 2001) Also in 2003 the National Youth Risk Behavior Survey showed that 16.9% of teenagers in high school had seriously considered committing suicide and 8.5% attempted suicide in the past year.
Chantal Taylor Soc 210 Mrs. Sobers 26 August 2012 Suicide occurs more often than homicide. Each year over 34,000 people commit suicide. Suicide is the third leading cause of death between people from 15-24 and the second leading cause of death between the ages 25-34. (Web MD) The rates of suicides are higher in women between the ages of 10 -19 and between the ages of 15-19 in males. (Web MD).
Teen Suicide - What's the Big Issue? Teen Suicide - What's the Big Issue? "Almost twice as many teenagers die from suicide as all natural causes combined including cancer, heart disease, AIDS, and birth defects," (DePaulo 142). Every year, teen suicide rates in the United States rise dramatically. Death happens every day to people of all ages; one of the most devastating and tragic causes of death is suicide.
Almost every 90 seconds, a person is injured due to a drunk driver. People under the age of the legal drinking age of 21 are twice as likely to be involved in a fatal crash as the people over the legal drinking age. As these teens are dying from these crashes, teens and mothers of teens are getting involved in trying to prevent these crashes. Teens Against Drunk Driving and Mothers Against Drunk Driving are just two of the many organizations that are making families more aware of this issue and are working to solve the problem of teens drinking and driving. Citations http://dui.findlaw.com/dui-laws-resources/underage-dui-zero-tolerance-laws.html?DCMP=ADC-DUI_DrunkDriving-Teenage&HBX_PK=drunk+driving+teens http://www.madd.org/ http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/DrinkingandDriving.html http://www.learn-about-alcoholism.com/statistics-teenage-drunk-driving.html
Frequent adolescents binge drinkers are more likely to engaged in dangerous behaviors such as, partaking other drugs such as, marijuana and cocaine, having multiplies sex partners and earning d’s and f’s for academic grades. Those who support lowering the legal age to eighteen from twenty-one hypothesed that the adolescents will be less likely engage in binge
Fear of Crime and the Mass Media Lisa Strickland Victims of the Justice System CJUS 435 Caron Jacobson October 16, 2011 The fear of crime is defined as an anticipation of victimization, rather than fear of an actual victimization. Characteristics exist in people that prompt them to fear, some attributes play a substantial role when determining one level of fear. Gender is the strongest predictor of fear. Women have a greater fear of crime than men. Women’s fear comes mostly from their vulnerability to sexual aggression; women are ten times more likely to be sexually assaulted than are men (Crowell & Burgess, 1996).