TEENAGE VIOLENCE

BY: KEVIN GRENIER!

TEENAGE VIOLENCE IN TWISTED

Teenage violence is shows a series of times in the book “Twisted” written by Laurie HalseAnderson

One way is when Parker and a few other guys are bullying Yoda in the locker room in school.

Another time violence is showed in “Twisted” is when Tyler gets jumped towards the end of the book by a few guys.

Violence is also shown every time Tyler says he wants to beet up his father or Chip, and has visions of seriously hurting them.

Nationwide statistics state that in 2004

23.4% of high school students were involved

in a physical fight at school or work.

More than 1 in 6 students nationwide say

that they have carried a gun, knife or a club,

and 1 in 4 say they have easy access to a

gun.

Nearly 8 percent of teens in 2005 were

threatened or injured by the use of a weapon

while on school grounds.

6 percent of students missed school in fear

that they would be physically harmed on their

way to or from school.

In 2004 750,000 young people were treated

in hospitals because of crimes related to

violence.

1 in 12 high school teens are threatened or

hurt with a weapon on average each year.

An average of 15 young people in the U.S.

are killed each day, and 80 percent of them

are killed by the use of a gun.

In 2000 1561 people

under age 18 got

arrested for

homicide.

9 percent of all

murders in the U.S.

were committed by

people under age

18.

WEST STATISTICS OUT OF 21 STUDENTS 19 percent have gotten into a serious fight at

school.

85.7 percent know someone who has gotten

into any serious fights.

42.9 percent have gotten into fights outside of

school.

47.6 percent of student and west have intended on seriously injuring somebody.

One third carry a weapon on them sometimes

28.6 percent have used a weapon to hurt somebody

One third have been beaten up before

19 percent have been attacked with a weapon

42.9 percent been threatened by someone saying they were going to physically harm them with a weapon.

4.8 percent of student at west said that they

have physically hurt there boyfriend/girlfriend

19 percent have been hit by there boyfriend

or girlfriend

57.1 percent of students think that violence

can solve a problem.

14.3 percent of students at west have carried

a gun on them

19 percent carry a knife on them

4.8 percent have carried a bat

4.8 have held a weapon but

chose to keep it a secret which

kind.

And 4.8 have used a windbreaker

jacket as a whip

HOW CAN WE PREVENT VIOLENCE?

West says some of the ways we can prevent violence is walk the other way, or talk things out. Some said you should smoke a blunt or marijuana in general. Leaving the scene might help or just simply not starting problems. You can do drugs or ignore the problem maker. They can have stricter laws on guns. You can quickly end a problem or stop bad people by having more security. Or you can avoid situations that lead to some act of violence.

Some people thought that if you use more violence than the other person it can help. Some thought that there is no way, or that violence is always the answer. And some simply did not know.

ONE STUDENT THOUGHT

That Kevin Grenier was a good way to

prevent violence.

I Don’t

recall

falling

asleep

there

WORK CITED

“Violence”. Www.sadd.org. January 6, 2010. http://www.sadd.org/stats.htm#violence.

“Fact for Teens: Youth Violence”. Www.herkimercounty.org. January 6, 2010. http://www.herkimercounty.org/content/Departments/View/11:field=services;/content/DepartmentServices/View/68:field=documents;/content/Documents/File/122.PDF.

“Violent Crimes committed by Teens”. www.teenhelp.com . January 6, 2010. http://www.teenhelp.com/teen-violence/teen-violence-statistics.html .

“Teen Violence Stats and Statistics”. Www.teenviolencestatistics.com. January 6, 2010. http://www.teenviolencestatistics.com/content/youth-violence-statistics.html .