... i'm sorry to tell you youth were more respectful to the adults in the past, thats the fact, and yeah i think that TEENS were less aggressive in the past, now even in the smallest towns you have stupid young teenagers who think they live in the bronx, thanks ton the internet tv and ..mtv.
It's kinda "cliche" to tell me that humans have always been violent, thanks for the info captain obvious, but the point i tried to make is that medias are encouraging youth to have a fake aggressive attitude in a larger scale than ever and that it transforms our everyday lives.
Yes , YOUNG people are MORE violent than in the past, and it's getting worse by the day.
too many things you see in the medias make em believe that having an attitude is ok and cool, but it's not and it slowly but surely push teens to do bad things and destroy their lives and the lives of their loved ones.
Not even close. About 15 years ago, criminologists warned the U.S. that the next wave of teenagers were going to be like super-criminals comapred to the teens of the late 80's and early 90's. They said this because at the time, every bad behavior trend in teens and young adults had increased consistently. Cocaine was huge in both powder and rock form and it's market effects drove a lot of the youth violence. Now fast forward 15 years. Juvenile arrests for murder is less than 1/3 of what it was 15 years ago. School violence rates are about 50% of what they were. School homicides are a small fraction, there were a lot more murders in high school before but now the ones that gain attention do so because they are very dramatic. The "gangmember shoots gangmember" homicide that took place much more often back then just didn't have the same tragedy theme and the victims weren't white. A lot of the failed housing projects (Cabrini Green, Robert Taylor Homes, most of NY's) have been demolished or abandoned. THe school and youth violent incident rates in previous generations going back the large public schooling movements weren't much lower and in many cases higher. However, the violence now is much more likely to be lethal simply because of the availability of firearms today compared to before. It's similar (but in the opposite direction)to how U.S. casualty rates are so much lower in Iraq than in Vietnam - it's because the technology is much more likely to keep a wounded soldier alive than it was back then, not because it is less violent.
A cursory look at some of the figures on these pages will show how much things have gotten better.
http://youthviolence.edschool.virginia.edu/
