Add to ORKGOver the last decade a great deal of literature has been focused on the subject of youth violence. For this paper, youth violence is defined as elementary and adolescent-aged boys and girls who commit violent acts. These include: the use of physical force to produce injury or death to others, gang fighting, hate crimes, sexual and/or physical assault, bringing and/or using weapons at school, and aggressive behavior used as a means to gain a certain outcome. Many studies have been conducted focusing on several dynamics involved in this complicated issue. The focus of the present work was primarily to: review published literature, become more informed about the issue, and identify the prominent underlying themes. A secondary purpose was to fi...