Youth Violence Prevention Project in Detroit

Youth Violence Prevention Project in Detroit
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Abstract
In the recent years, the rate of crime around the globe has increased. Most of the incidences that have been reported involve the youths in the society. While the aspect of youths turning to crime can be blamed on the social decay that has gripped the world over, all efforts need to be channeled towards assisting the youths. In America, most of the homicides are perpetrated by the youths in the total tally of the cases handled by the security agents. Some of the cases are not reported while others are not closed; this means that the figure could be even higher. Detroit is one of the cities in America that has borne the blunt of youth violence and gang crimes. What is of great importance is that most of the youths that are involved in crime, end up become seasoned criminals and terrorizing their communities. Most of the organized criminal gangs, started of as juvenile offenders, which is a shocking revelation. If the youths involved in violent activities are assisted, the future crimes could be much worse. This project will assess youths that have been recommended by health care services, schools and the correction facilities. The youths will be given personal training on ways to channel their energies to profitable ventures. Part of the program will involve personal control and financial training. The youths will then be assisted to develop financial projects that will generate money for them, their families and the society. Peer leaders will also be selected from the successful candidates to help with the continuous training of new entrants and those youths from previous programs that are not seasoned well enough.The initial project is expected to take one year from commencement.
Introduction
Youth violence is one of the aspects of the society which has contributed to a great majority of the violent acts experienced through time. Ideally, these are harmful behaviors that start at an early age in the life of the juveniles and may even continue to adulthood. In this case the youth may be the perpetrator, the victim or may be the witness to violent acts perpetrated to other persons young or old by juveniles. In most of the cases as previous research has indicated time and time again, the juveniles that are involved in the violent acts when they are young may at one point extrapolate their acts of violence to when they are old (, 2014). Most of the persons that have been convicted of acts of violence through the justice system almost always have a record of violence dating back to when they were young. Youth violence has been found to have some implications that are quite serious and tend to have some lifelong impacts on the involved persons’ social functions and psychology (Cdc.gov, 2014). At the same time there is an increase in the costs of health, welfare as well as costs of offering and sustaining criminal justice systems (Ncjrs.gov, 2014)....