Youth Violence: A Discrepancy between Police Personnel and Youth

By : Sapna Yadav, Suresh Kumar

Page No: 211-222

Abstract
The study explores the discrepancy between the perception of police personnel and youth perceived analysis of factors that cause aggression and violence among youths. In view of the aim of study a data were collected from 94 police personnel and 94 youths by using youth aggression and violence checklist developed by the researcher. Post Hoc multiple comparisons analysis shows a significant difference between perception of police personnel and youths about violence antecedents on the issue of gender discrimination (t=.87, p<.001), lack of freedom (t=.82, p<.01), and physical punishment (t=.55, p<.05) in determining youth violence. The present study also indicates the difference between the perception of male and female regarding human right violation as one of the factor of youth violence. In the factor analysis, six factors (accounted 62.48 percent of variance) such as antisocial behavior, trivial information overload, unorganized resources, social evils, vulnerable disposition, and situational factors emerge to define the youth violence. These findings of the study could help security forces to understand the perspective of youth and to design preventive strategies at policy making level to manage and control the youth violence.

Authors :
Suresh Kumar : (M.Phil, PhD) Scientist - Defence Institute of Psychological Research.
Sapna Yadav : Research Scholar – Institute of Psychological Research.
 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32381/JPR.2019.14.01.23