Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Spring 3-2012
Abstract
The youth of Massachusetts are of primary concern to legislators and citizens. This briefing report features three essays by experts – Lisa Jones, Ramon Borges-Mendez, and Janis Wolak – who focus on three aspects of youth wellbeing: youth victimization and other indicators of psychological health, youth unemployment, and online sexual predators of youth. Although youth well-being is of primary concern, the worrisome stories about crimes against children that regularly fill the media have unfortunately obscured some more positive news from statistical reports on these same issues. Child victimizations of various types – i.e., child sexual abuse, witnessing domestic violence, child physical abuse, sexual assaults of teenagers, physical assaults and robberies of teenagers, and homicides of teenagers – have been declining nationwide and in Massachusetts since the early 1990s, in some cases declining dramatically.
Recommended Citation
Jones, Lisa M.; Borges-Mendez, Ramon; Wolak, Janis; Hines, Denise; Collett, Michelle E.; Denhardt, Lillian; Evans, Lindsay A.; Nair, Rashmi; and Nguyen, Stephanie L., "Youth at Risk: Part 1, 2012 Massachusetts Family Impact Seminar" (2012). Mosakowski Institute for Public Enterprise. 18.
https://commons.clarku.edu/mosakowskiinstitute/18
Jones_Family_Impact_Sem__2012.pdf (1312 kB)
Wolak 2012 Family Impact Seminar.pdf (942 kB)
