Peer Violence: From Children's Aggression to Delinquency

Igrački, Jasmina (2015) Peer Violence: From Children's Aggression to Delinquency. In: International Scientific Conference "Researching Security: Approaches, Concepts and Policies". 2-3 June, Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia. University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Bitola Faculty of Security, Skopje, pp. 257-267. ISBN 978-608-4532-83-5

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Abstract

Violence among peers is a growing social phenomenon, which is becoming more brutal from year to year and directly threatens children's human rights. There is an entire range of unacceptable behavior among young people, from threats, giving derogatory names, gossiping, ignoring, depreciation to physical violence which, not rarely, lead to serious physical injury. Aggressive behavior of young people towards their peers is a serious violation of human rights and represents every act that causes physical, psychological or sexual injury, suffering or social harm. Peer violence has been constantly increasing in the recent years, with a high probability to become a delinquent criminal behavior. Aggression among peers is only one of the developing phases of aggression and violence toward others. Violators towards peers become delinquents, in a considerable number, who use violence in committing criminal acts and achieving criminal aims. When studying the problem of peer violence, this must be taken into account: socio-political, socio-cultural, family, educational and individual factors. The responsibility is on everyone and without reviewing all the aspects of the problem, it is realistic to expect drastic forms of violence among peers in which life itself does not represent any value. What kind of contents and negative influences young people face with, is perhaps the best described in the words of Dušan Kovačević: “Children are born and grew up watching live broadcasts of death”, or “enduring the terror of mad parents at home, because of politics, or because of sorrow and misery, detonate these days, weeks, years, kill those close to themselves, known and unknown”.

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