Thinking About Emerging Adults and Violent Crime

“Thinking About Emerging Adults and Violent Crime” examines research on violent behavior and highlights how poor, minority youth transitioning to adulthood are disproportionately the victims of violent crime and are also shouldering the brunt of the current, repressive penal policies. Challenging the notion that people who commit violent crime are fundamentally different, the research shows that most emerging adults will grow up and out of crime by their mid-20’s, if given the opportunity to do so, and that desistance from violent crime is pervasive and occurs irrespective of gender, race and ethnicity, and across historical and geographic contexts. Violence, the research shows, is a characteristic of places, not people. Read the paper HERE.