Beresin, director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Residency training. ... By the time a child reaches age eight, he or she will have witnessed 20,000 acts of violence on television"(112). ... Parents should also make cautious media choices when viewing a show with children, and also discuss the inappropriateness of the violent solutions and help the child to create nonviolent alternatives. ... Furthermore, there are many solutions to keep sex in the media off of the child's mind. First, parents should put a parental lock on the computer and televisions; this way if the parents are...

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I have found several statistics regarding child offenders. ... Currently it is estimated that juveniles account for up to one-fifth of the rapes, 3and one-half of the cases of child molestation 4committed in the United States each year. ... For example, if a child experiences hostility from older relatives or witnesses the father raping and or beating the mother, the social support for deviance overcome social controls and the child embraces deviant values and behaviors. Definitions of right and wrong are extremely varied, and in this culture conflict the attitudes towards criminal behavior o...

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Although crime victim surveys produce more accurate estimates of incidence and prevalence rates than police statistics, and confirm that many offences are not reported to police, they too are acknowledged to underestimate violent crimes of an intimate nature, particularly sexual assault, domestic violence and child abuse (Grabosky 1989; National Committee on Violence 1990). ... Child victims There were 2,858 victims of sexual assault under the age of 10 recorded by the police in 1997. ... About one-fifth reported some other kind of sexual assault. ...

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Sex offenders are a highly diverse group of people, but all are individuals who have at least one of the following crimes in common: have committed violent sexual assault on a stranger, have had inappropriate sexual contact with a family member, have molested a child or any other inappropriate and criminal sexual behavior. ... Nearly all juvenile sexual offenders are a mix of heterogenous males ages 13-17, most likely to victimize females, unless the victim is a child, in which the proportion of boys is much higher (Hunter, 1999; Kalogerakis, 1992; Finkelhor, 2009). ... Research indicates tha...

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According to the Guttmacher Institute's Facts on American Teen's Sexual and Reproductive Health it is stated that 82 percent of teen pregnancies are unplanned, an astonishingly high percentage which accounts for around one fifth of the unplanned pregnancies each year. ... Family structure, age at first intercourse, future goals child sexual abuse, and underage alcohol abuse are all factors that lead to a vast amount of teenage pregnancies in o...

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