'Youth, Guns, and Violent Crime?'

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This paper reviews the research by Alfred Blumstein into juvenile murders. As discussed in this paper reviewing Blumstein's article, the 1980s and 1990s saw a dramatic rise in the incidents of murder and violent acts. This rise in violence led to the belief that modern youth have a huge capacity for violence. This paper reviews what Blumstein named the 'superpredator' of the 80s and 90s.

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"This review serves to summarize the article, "Youth, Guns, and Violent Crime", written by Alfred Blumstein, Ph.D. Blumstein is a professor at Carnegie Melon University where he instructs in the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy. Blumstein's specialty is in urban systems and operations research (Blumstein 39). Blumstein's research was sponsored by the David and Lucille Packard Foundation. The objectives of the study by Blumstein centered on society's contention that the world was breeding youth that were overly violent, and considered to be "superpredators" (Blumstein 39). This social belief arose from the extreme incidents of murder and violence that occurred in the 1980s and 1990s that created suspicions in society as to the violent capacity of modern youth."

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