Violence occurs when the criminal intentionally uses the power of threat or physical violence against an individual victim, community, or minority group. The act of violence considered manslaughter, murder, physical assault, sexual assault, kidnapping and theft or burglary. In this research essay, I will analyze the causes and methods to reduce violent crimes through different theoretical perspectives. Violent crime relates to gender, age, community and neighborhood. According to Males and Brown's article, the main cause of young people getting involved in crime is poverty and lack of success. California Criminal Justice and Census Poverty statistics for 2010 indicate that increasing economic deprivation and lack of achievement or employment are increasing incentives for youth or adolescents to commit violent crimes. The information and article exacerbates the violent crime rate and over-represents young ages in violent crime. The peak crime age means that young people are more involved in crime than older people. Brown's article suggests that the relationship between age and crime means that violent crime increases among young people and then declines with age. The child who is involved in crime at an early age becomes a chronic offender. Adolescents who have less relationship with their parents, labeled as antisocial by their parents, teachers, neighbors and society, are more involved in crime. Additionally, juveniles are more involved in crime which increases the arrest rate and the criminal justice system also increases the arrest rate. penalty for adolescents. "Bans on teens buying or owning guns, removal of the teen death penalty, and age-targeted rules lead to mortgage...... middle 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, MA and Brown, EA (2013). High arrest rates among adolescents: characteristics of young age or youth poverty? Journal of Adolescent Research, 29(1), 3-24. Siegel, LJ and McCormick, CR (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 violence between children and parents. Crime and Delinquency, 60(3), 427-450Stewart, LA, Gabora, N., Kropp, PR and Lee, Z. (2014). Effectiveness of risk, needs and responsiveness-based family violence programs with male offenders. Journal of Domestic Violence, 29(2), 151-164.