Overall young women aged 20-24 report the highest levels of violence. Up to 120 women are killed by their partners each year an example of this is that Paul Dalton killed his wife, cut her body up with an electric saw and stored pieces in the freezer. In contrast only around ten men were killed by there female partners between December 2003 and December 2004. In violence against wives (1980) Dobash and Dobash reported that the majority of women in their study were attacked twice a week in their own homes. The factors that seem most likely to cause a violent incident are sexual jealousy, money and their partner’s expectations of the women’s housework or homemaking skills.
For every suicide among young people, there are at least 100 suicide attempts. Over 14 percent of high school students have considered suicide, and almost 7 percent have attempted it. Bully victims are between 2 to 9 times more likely to consider suicide than non-victims, according to studies by Yale University A study in Britain found that at least half of suicides among young people are related to bullying 10 to 14 year old girls may be at even higher risk for suicide, according to the study above According to statistics reported by ABC News, nearly 30 percent of students are either bullies or victims of bullying, and 160,000 kids stay home from school every day because of fear of bullying This is one reason, one out of many on why you should not bully. These people are depressed and from personal experience you are always down and you do not care about anything. Some people don’t care about other people’s feelings.
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
Some of those reasons being the crime rates, the costs of what could happen, and injuries. Firearm injuries have killed more than 28,000 Americans each year since 1972 (Ruben). In 2007, thirty-one thousand two hundred twenty four Americans died due to homicides, suicides, and accidental shootings. Accidental shootings happen quite often. In 2007, around seventy thousand Americans were hospitalized due to accidental shootings.
<br> According to federal experts, ten to twenty-three percent of Americans <br>have used or currently using dangerous drugs while on the job, and forty-four <br>percent of drug users even admit to selling drugs on the job. Drug abusers cost an <br>employer on average $7,000 to $10,000 per employee annually (Jussim, 14) <br>(Psychemedics,1). Today, millions of workplaces
Newton’s article “Domestic Violence: An Overview: The rates of domestic violence vary along several lines, including race, gender, economic and educational status and geographical location. Gender trends: Women make up 3/4 of the victims of homicide by an intimate partner. Actually, 33% of all women murdered (of course, only cases which are solved are included) are murdered by an intimate partner. Women make up about 85% of the victims of non-lethal domestic violence. In all, women are victims of intimate partner violence at a rate about 5 times that of males.
Decrease in Juvenile Crime In 2001, according to the FBI, juveniles accounted for 17% of all arrests and 15% of all violent crime arrests (Snyder, 2003). In the late 1980s, juvenile violent crime arrest had a substantial growth then peaked in 1994. However, between 1994 and 2001, the juvenile arrest rate for Violent Crime Index fell 44% and as a result, the juvenile Violent Crime Index arrest rate was the lowest since 1983 (Snyder, 2003). Furthermore, in 2001, the rate of juvenile arrests for Violent Crime Index offenses that included forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault and murder declined for the seventh consecutive year. The juvenile arrest rate for each of these offenses has been declining steadily since the mid-1990s; for murder, the rate fell 70% and manslaughter arrest rate fell 40% from its 1993 peak through 2001.
VIOLENCE AGAINSTTolman, Rosen / DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND WELFARE WOMEN / February 2001 Domestic Violence in the Lives of Women Receiving Welfare Mental Health, Substance Dependence, and Economic Well-Being RICHARD M. TOLMAN DANIEL ROSEN University of Michigan Using data from a random sample of women from the welfare caseload in an urban Michigan county, the authors investigate the prevalence of domestic violence and its association with mental health, health, and economic well-being. Nearly a quarter of the women experienced physical partner violence in the past 12 months, and almost two thirds in their lifetimes. Recent victims had significantly higher rates of five psychiatric disorders (depression, generalized anxiety disorder, post-traumatic stress
Stalking in America Stalking is an indisputable problem within the United States. 8% of women and 2% of men have been stalked at some point in their lives; an estimated 1,006,970 women and 370,990 men are stalked annually (Tjaden & Thoennes, 1998). The definition of stalking varies; but it generally refers to harassing or threatening behavior, that an individual partakes in, which instills fear in another person. Until April of 1998, not much was known about the facts of stalking as a crime because research was limited to only small studies (Tjaden & Thoennes, 1998). The long awaited report, “Stalking in America: Findings from the National Violence Against Women Survey” by Patricia Tjaden and Nancy Thoennes, finally shed some light on this
More than 31,600 total cases of human trafficking have been reported in the last eight years (“The Facts”).In 2016, an estimated 1 out of 6 endangered runaways reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children were likely child sex trafficking victims. Of those, 86% were in the care of the social services or foster care when they ran (“The Facts”). Sex trafficking occurs in a range of venues including fake messaging, businesses, via online ads or escort services residential brothels, on the street or at truck stops, or at hotels/motels (“The Facts”). Under U.S. federal law, any minor under the age of 18 years induced into commercial sex is a victim of sex trafficking- regardless of whether or not the trafficker used force, fraud, or coercion (“The Facts”). Sex trafficking is a crime when women, men and/or children are forcefully involved in commercial sex acts.