What is Known About the Prevention and Control of Youth Violence?
Since most violent behavior is learned behavior, the general strategy for prevention and treatment
interventions should be 1) to reduce the modeling and reinforcement of violence as a means of
solving problems and manipulating or controlling the behavior of others and 2) to ameliorate those
social conditions which generate and support violent lifestyles. The most effective strategy for
accomplishing this is to insure a healthy course of child and adolescent development for all youth, so
they are prepared to enter productive, responsible adult roles; and to insure that these roles are
accessible.