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Youth crime is a Neologism created by news reporters in the early 1950s to perpetuate Discrimination against Youth . Every possible Violent action perpetuated by any young person anywhere was suddenly attributed to the entire Generation of young people at any given time. These included petty crimes, school-related shootings, and Civil Disobedience .

Early attempts at dispelling the myths of violence perpetuated by young people against other young people came from multiple arenas, including sociology (. Today, individual advocates include cultural critic Henry Giroux , sociologist Mike Males and author/activist William Upski Wimsatt .