Indeed, violent deaths among 15- to 19-year-olds have risen over the past 30 years.
The findings were published this month in the Archives of Disease in Childhood journal. They showed that mortality rates as a result of violence have fallen since 1974 for all under-19s but that abuse and assaults still claim the life of one child every week.
The rate of violent deaths fell from 0.6 to 0.2 per 100,000 for children aged between one and 14 between 1974 and 2008. But the number of violent deaths of 15- to 19-year-olds has risen in the past 30 or so years following a steep fall during the late 1970s. The report did also, however, reveal some sharp fluctuations year-on-year during the examined period.
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