Youth Violence Perpetration: What Protects? What Predicts? Findings from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Heath
Journal of Adolescent Health (2004).
This study seeks to identify individual, family and community-level risk and protective factors for violence perpetration in a national sample of adolescents. It finds history of violence involvement and violence victimization, weapon carrying, school problems, substance use, health problems and friend suicide to be significant predictive risk factors.
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