Youth Violence and the End of Adolescence

By J. Hagan, Holly A. Foster. American Sociological Review, 2001

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American youth experience high levels of violence, and increasingly the U.S. public policy response is to punish young perpetrators of violence through waivers and transfers from juvenile to adult courts. Adolescence is a time of expanding vulnerabilities and exposures to violence that can be self-destructive as well as destructive of others. Such violence can involve intimate relationships or strangers, and in addition to being perpetrators or victims, youth are often bystanders and witnesses to violence. The authors hypothesize that the life-course consequences of experiences with violence, especially violence in intimate adolescent relationships, include more than contemporaneous health risks, leading also to subsequent depression and premature exits from adolescence to adulthood. An analysis of panel data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health indicates that violence in intimate adolescent relationships results in depressed feelings, running away from home, serious thoughts about suicide, dropping out of school, and teenage pregnancy. Among adolescent females, violence in intimate relationships is especially likely to lead to depression, and exposure to violence on the street combines with violence by intimate partners to result in especially high risks of pregnancy. Future work should consider how exposure to violence and premature exits to adulthood negatively affect adult life outcomes.

Subfields: Demography, General Health Professions, Health

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The Role of Depressed Mood and Anger in the Relationship Between Family Conflict and Delinquent Behavior (2004, background): “Being exposed to neighborhood violence (Gorman-Smith and Tolan, 1998; Margolin and Gordis, 2000, pp. 458‐459; Schwab-Stone et al., 1995) and experiencing violence in intimate adolescent relationships ( Hagan and Foster, 2001 ) has also been shown to result in depressed mood among adolescents.”
Violence in the Transition to Adulthood: Adolescent Victimization, Education, and Socioeconomic Attainment in Later Life (2004, background): “…and 1990s, an important and emerging area of research on adolescence has focused on exposure to violence, particularly direct victimization, and how such experiences undermine successful and efficacious transitions to adulthood (Gorman-Smith & Tolan, 1998; Hagan & Foster, 2001; Macmillan, 2001).”
Experienced and vicarious victimization: Do social support and self-esteem prevent delinquent responses? (2010, background): “In addition to research that demonstrates a relationship between adolescent victimization and a host of negative outcomes, violent victimization puts adolescents at risk for early transitions to adulthood, including teenage pregnancy and continued involvement in violence (Hagan & Foster, 2001).”
Hooking Up (2006, background): “…of unplanned pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections often describes teenage sexual behavior as a component of a broader problem behavior syndrome and typically links sexual activity to cigarette, illicit drug, and alcohol use (e.g., Hagan & Foster, 2001; Jessor & Jessor, 1977).”