Adolescent violence in the home: The missing link in family violence ...

By Vivian, on September 9th, 2011

Key points:

• Adolescent violence in the home is a form of family violence, frequently resulting from children?s experience of family violence and manifesting as the perpetration of violence against parents and other family members when they reach adolescence.
• Most incidents of violence are committed by male adolescents against mothers.
• Male adolescents who use violence against mothers may progress to using violence against women as adults.
• The current service system response is frequently parent/mother/victim blaming.
• There is lack of clarity as to how the service system and criminal justice system understand and respond to this violence.
• There is merit in adapting current Australian approaches to adult family violence to address adolescent violence in the home through a coordinated community response involving police, youth justice and community services.
• One model, Step UP, used across the United States is discussed. This model shows promising results in supporting adolescent violence behaviour change and increasing victim safety.

SOURCE: Jo Howard. Adolescent violence in the home: The missing link in family violence prevention and response, Australian Domestic and Family Violence Clearinghouse, September 2011

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Source: http://bsllibrary.org.au/children-families/adolescent-violence-in-the-home-the-missing-link-in-family-violence-prevention-and-response-adfvc-10925/

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