Mental Health And Crime Victims

This survey has been conducted on the basis of past 10 years which confirms the high prevalence rate of victimization and violence among adolescents considering the number of large adolescent and general population studies. Department of Justice in U.S (2002) reported that the violent crime rate for adolescents of 16 to 19 years of age was double of the rate of individuals of age group 25 to 34. In order to develop the instrumental form of educational system promoting the intervening strategy, the relevant methodologies addressing the individual needs for counselling and education for the adolescents suffered from victimization need to be developed. One of the most essential ingredients incorporating the research includes concept mapping in order to promote the development and enhancement of multiple types of learning and thinking. It is effective by means of aiding summarization of ideas along with taking important notes and then translation of those documents into reflective thinking. The other essential ingredient of concept mapping comprises the idea of brainstorming support in which an individual is directed towards a proper direction with an ability to generate newer ideas by means of developing new format of concept mapping. According to the prospective, longitudinal survey conducted by National Youth Survey (NYS), the samples taken are as follows: Americans of age group 11 years to 17 years at the year 1976 (the first collected data), and the same sample of age group 27 years to 33 years at the year 1992 (the last collected data). The survey has been conducted into nine waves or interview cycles, among which the waves numbered from 1 to 5 had been collected annually during 1976-1980. Since 1980, the survey has been conducted with an interval of three years.