Adolescents

Today many adolescents are influenced to cause acts of violence because of their peers. Peers play A strong role in the development of the adolescent to becoming A social or anti-social individual. Many factors cause the acts of violence between adolescents bullying, non-conformity and jealousy.

For the longest of time children and adolescents are judged through different characteristics making them popular or outcasts in society . A adolescent is seen by their peers as being most likely being best friend and are rarely disliked. The outcast adolescents are seen by their peers to be non-conformant with others and have only a selected amount of friends. Developmentalist distinguish three type of children who have a different status than popular children: Those who are neglected, rejected and controversial.(Santrock,pg 189) Many violent acts are caused by the peer who is rejected , mainly because they are the outcast and do not conform with others. A major cause of violence by peers is the reality that many are bullied in and out of school.

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