But what are those things that truly affect teenage? Is that just simply because of family, study, friends or culture? The problem of teenage suicide nowadays is already become a worldwide concern. According to the data from Centre for Suicide Prevention, in Canada, suicide is the second highest cause of death for youth aged 10-24. Each year, on average, 294 youths die from suicide.
Since the mid-1950s, suicide rates around the world have risen by 60%. Rates among young people have risen even faster, to the point where they are now the age group at highest risk in 35% of the world’s countries. The specific demographics, however, vary from country to country. China’s pattern, for example, is very different from that of most other countries. China has a suicide mortality rate of 23:100,000, with a total of 287,000 deaths by suicide each year.
They both have a high rate of robberies, but Philadelphia has a larger robbery rate than Baltimore. Baltimore and Philadelphia had recent drops in the citizens that are willing to report crimes. Philadelphia is located in the state of Pennsylvania, and the population is estimated 1,447,395. Philadelphia has 10,170 robberies in 2010 . Over the past year the rate of robberies has increased by more than 1,000.
According to the Juvenile Arrests 2001 Report, law enforcement agencies in the United States made an estimated 2.3 million arrests of persons under age 18 (2001). Juveniles accounted for 17% of arrests and 15% of violent crime arrests in 2001 according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Most of the crimes in which juveniles committed were violent crimes. The main crimes committed were drug abuse and simple assault. In 2001, for the seventh consecutive year, the rate of juvenile arrests for Violent Crime Index offense murder, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault declined (2001).
In most violent crimes, guns are used. In the recent years, in spite of many measures taken by the law enforcement agencies, campus violence rate has gone up. The FBI, Secret Service and U.S Department of Education released the study, called “Campus Attacks,”1 on the third anniversary of the Virginia Tech Massacre. It is the first comprehensive look into “targeted violence” on college campuses. The study examined all reported incidents of “targeted violence” since 1900 and found that 60 percent of the 272 cases of college violence have occurred in the last 20 years.
Compared to the rest of Britain, it is shocking. Around 350 intravenous drug addict take fatal overdoses in the whole of England and wales each year. If London’s death rate was the same as Glasgow’s, more than 1,000 youngsters would die each year – three every day. [1] Also, the weather has an
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).
A startling 293 murders were reported in 2010 in Los Angeles and 32 murders for Long Beach and yet it is even more shocking to know there are far more forcible rapes that occur in both of these areas. I would think that population size, diversity and other environmental factors have something to do with the differences in these numbers. The murder rate seems to have decreased while forcible rape increased in both cities, with an additional 630 incidents in Los Angeles and an additional 102 incidents in Long Beach. On the other hand, for the past several years, crime rates have dropped continually. The Los Angeles Police Department reported in 2008 that
Native American Social Injustices A study by the Department of Justice in 1999 found that violent crime occurs more than twice as frequent per capita on Indian reservations as elsewhere, with sexual abuse against women occurring 3 times as frequently, and that violent crime in Indian country is increasing while decreasing nationally. Indian women are 2 and half times more likely to be assaulted and more than twice as likely to be stalked as any other women in this country. In the previous 7 years, the report said, homicide on Indian reservations rose by 87 percent, while declining 22 percent nationally, and child abuse and neglect rose 18 percent, while declining 8 percent nationally. Nearly a 3rd of all Indians between the ages of 18 and 24 are victims of violence. These numbers can only show the significance of violence on Indian reservations.
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.