Violence occurs when the criminal uses the intentional power of threat or physical violence against any individual victim, community or minority group. The violent act is considered manslaughter, murder, physical assault, sexual assault, kidnapping, and robbery or burglary. In this research essay, I will analyze the causes and its methods to reduce violent crime through different theoretical perspectives. Violent crime is reported by gender, age, community, and neighborhood. According to Males and Brown's article, the main reason why young people get involved in crime is poverty and lack of success. Statistics from the California Criminal Justice and Poverty Census for 2010 report that increased economic deprivation and lack of success or employment lead more youth or adolescents into a life of violent crime. The news and article exacerbates violent crime rates and overrepresents young ages in violent crime. The maximum age for crime means that young people are more involved in crime than older people. Brown's article suggests that the age-crime relationship implies that violent crime increases at a young age and then decreases with age. The child who becomes involved in crime at an early age becomes a chronic delinquent. Adolescents who have fewer relationships with their parents, labeled as antisocial by parents, teachers, neighbors and society, are more involved in crime. Furthermore, juveniles are more involved in crime, which increases the arrest rate and therefore the criminal justice system also increases the crime rate. sanction for teenagers. “Bans on teenagers buying or owning guns, abolition of the death penalty for teenagers, and age-targeted regulations lead to hypo…… half of paper…… 44(2), 279 -303.Collins, RE (2010). The effect of gender on violent and nonviolent recidivism: A meta-analysis. Journal of Criminal Justice, 38(4), 675-684.Males, M. A., & Brown, E. A. (2013). High arrest rates among adolescents: Characteristics of youth or youth poverty? Journal of Adolescent Research, 29(1), 3-24.Siegel, L. J., & McCormick, C. R. (1999). Violent crime. Criminology in Canada: Theories, models and typologies (p. 278-287). Toronto: Nelson Canada. Strom, K. J., Warner, T. D., Tichavsky, L., & Zahn, M. A. (2014). Juvenile policing: Domestic violence arrest policies, gender, and police response to parental violence. Crime and Delinquency, 60(3), 427-450 Stewart, L.A., Gabora, N., Kropp, P.R., & Lee, Z. (2014). Effectiveness of risk-need-responsibility-based family violence programs with male offenders. Journal of Family Violence, 29(2), 151-164.