Our Vulnerable Teenagers: Their Victimization, Its Consequences, and Directions for Prevention and Intervention

Publication Date: May 2002

Publisher: National Council on Crime and Delinquency

Author(s): National Council on Crime and Delinquency; National Center for Victims of Crime (U.S.)

Research Area: Justice

Type: Report

Abstract:

Teenagers are twice as likely as any other age group to be victims of violent crime, and one in five teenagers report being the victim of a violent crime, according to a new report released today. The single greatest factor in predicting criminal behavior on the part of teenagers, the report also found, was not teenage pregnancy, drug use, or truancy, but whether they had been a victim of crime.