How To Eliminate Juvenile Crime

Throughout this essay, I am going to be looking at the topic of youth offending. I will be looking at what factors can be used as the predictors for youth offending and in particular I will be researching into how important social and cultural factors as predictors of youth offending. In order to do this, I will be looking at different sociologists theories as far as young offending is concerned and what evidence there is to support these theories. I will then conclude by discussing whether I believe social and cultural factors are important in determining youth offending.

Minors are a diverse group that varies in terms of the severity of criminal acts they commit, the frequency with which they commit criminal acts, how early they begin their criminal career, and how long they commit these crimes for. For many minors, juvenile lawlessness is a short-lived flirtation that disappears as quickly as it emerges. It is common and even normal for minors to engage in trivial forms of misbehavior and delinquency as they mature through adolescence and enter adulthood. However, for some minors, juvenile lawlessness has a more troubling meaning.

Within the Juvenile system no one really takes the time to systematically track the statistics concerning the changes that need to be made within the system to deter juvenile offenders. The system tends to move slowly when it involves change because it can be costly. So, with many budget cuts happening we will need to tackle the problem, by first looking at the number of juveniles that are committing crimes and at what rate. Then we need to find out what type of programs we can put in place to deter juvenile type offense and keep them down. Once we can analyze the

I think it was handled incorrectly she is only a juvenile. Charging her with murder and convicted her to life without parole would be cruel because she is only 16 years old. The brains of 16 years old are not fully matured and they are not capable of making good decisions. That’s why they have parents to guide them until they are mature. I don’t think she intended to kill the child but I guess it happened and she probably felt all alone with nowhere to turn for help. I would educate all the kids through some type of program or tied it in with physical education in the middle school. I am glad to see that in North Carolina there is a places people can go if they no longer want their kid(s). I think we can educate the juveniles using various

Regardless of what nation an individual resides in, certain issues are universally important. Examples include crime, economics, education, family, healthcare, homelessness, poverty, and many others. The United States is now the world leader in its rate of incarceration. Over the past 25 years, juvenile crime has skyrocketed, with drug crimes, gang violence, school shootings, and other violent acts being regularly featured in the news. During the past 10 years, nearly all 50 states have overhauled their juvenile justice laws, allowing more youths to be tried as adults. However, in addressing crime, there must be an effective balance between deterrence, prevention, and punishment.

In the 1980s and 1990s adolences were committing violent crimes that caused a public outcry. The community and courts wanted to have tougher penalities for juvenile offenders. This resulted in the increase of arrest rates and the trend of “get tough” on youth crimes. Judge’s saw the increase in adolence violent offenses would be destined for a life of crime. In responses to this, all states allow adult criminal prosecution of children under certain circumstances and this can cause a sentence of juvenile life without parole (LWOP).

In the past years the crime rate has increased. Not only in adults but in minors as well. As a society who sees children as our future, our priority is to set this straight. In order to fix these a problems Congress decided to create a policy that was more fair for minors since “crime legislation and policy have become more punitive and have blurred the lines between juvenile and adult justice systems. “(Citation) For petty crimes the number of minors convicted has increased rapidly. It can be found that they shouldn’t be there but they are treated as adults. To this Congress responded with the “Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Act”. This act ties in with education due to programs established to not go harsh on children and teach them they are doing wrong, after all they are children. These programs may be “found in a variety of institutional settings, including schools, community-based organizations, religious organizations, mental health settings, and the formal juvenile justice and adult criminal justice systems.” (Citation). This policy was originally presented by the Democratic party, and in the recent reform

In the study done by McLachlan, Roesch, Viloen, and Douglas (2014) they explored the procedural protections of juvenile offenders with FASD they included being tried when it is deemed that the offender is able to understand, to appreciate, and be able to communicate with their counsel. Prevalence rates include 9.1 per 1,000 births, 10% to 23% of those with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Disorder (FASD) are involved in the criminal justice system, and 1 and 3 per 1000 births for Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) (McLachlan et al., 2014). Deficits of FASD fall into 3 categories they are cognitive, behavioral, and social skills (McLachlan et al., 2014). Cognitive deficits include academic skills, motor skills, learning and memory, and executive functioning

From the early 1980’s juveniles in custody has been on the decline, however in 2006 there were a total of 601 young males and 50 adolescent females held in detention. On an average day in 2006-07, there were around 6,000 young people under supervision and around 5,000 in a community-based monitoring and nearly 1,000 in imprisonment (AIHW, 2008). The national youth detention population remained stable over a four year period with 848 to 1,081 young people in custody on any average night. There is a small and steady downward trend in the number of 10-17-year-olds in detention and the rate of imprisonment, from 3.6 to 3.3 per 10,000 on an average night. A majority of adult criminals being their criminal careers as juveniles. Intervention and

Do you think if the police were much closer to the juveniles in today’s society it would help keep juvenile crime down? Policing today might have gotten away from keeping juveniles engaged in various activities but it still does not give them reasons to get involved in crime. A lot of science goes into juveniles and why they commit certain crimes they do, some which may be stopped by the police and some that may not be. With the police having a huge effect on whether or not juveniles will be criminals it is very important that they keep engaged with each other. In the society today it is very important to keep the juveniles out of crime because they are the next generation of adults so stopping their crime habits early will only benefit the police later on. With the police staying engaged and understanding the juveniles in today’s society, juvenile crime will go down.

In this policy their needs to be an amendment for teenagers exchanging photos and videos with other teenagers. The child exploitation policies and laws should not apply to this group. With the creation of Facebook, Instagram, twitter and other social media, site practices like teens exchanging nude photos or videos has become oh so common. Because of the rapid growth of this phenomenon most parents, school officials, and law makers are not up to speed. So teens are falling through the cracks and getting charged with hefty sentences for consensual teen on teen crimes.

Juvenile Delinquency has been an active issue in the criminal justice system that is considered as an evil by the society. It is believed to be a social and psychological problem faced by the youth and the society, which violates the legal system. The violation of the legal system makes it important to overcome the problem. The need to prevent the juvenile delinquency is important to help the youth cope with the society as well as the criminal justice system. The prevention of the delinquency is only possible if the results can be gathered for the causes of this behaviour. The causes can be gathered by examining a group of youth who can become possible offenders by knowing that what causes the delinquency and at what stages of the life does it trigger. The paper will be focus on the problem of juvenile delinquency, and the factors that contribute towards the onset of delinquency in youth. The research proposal would be based upon the previous research’s done and the data collected by those research’s that depicted some of the possible factors of delinquency found in youth that could be childhood maltreatment, negative relationship between the parents and the delinquent youth, emotional disturbance faced in the adolescent, genetics and the geographical factors. The factors would be further investigated by using them as independent variables in the research to find out how these factors can be removed to make the community aware of the negative impacts the

When looking into the history of United States and elsewhere juvenile delinquency is a problem and has been one for over a century. Like other systems in place, the system involving juvenile delinquents has gone through many stages. In the case of the juvenile delinquency, it has gone through four stages, with us presently in the fourth. The causes behind juvenile delinquency are still unknown even today. Some blame it on the current culture, the over-exposure to violence, music and video games. Nevertheless, the true causes of it have yet to be determined. The point of this paper is to examine the possible causes of juvenile delinquency by looking at various fields and their reasoning behind delinquency. In addition to understand the possible causes of juvenile delinquency I will be looking at past and present assumptions including practices used currently and previously to solve delinquency.

It may seem shocking that America has one of the highest crime rates per capita compared to other similar industrialized nations. Over the years, there have been many discussions and efforts in order to reduce this problem. Perhaps one of the more sensitive issues when discussing crime in America is the problem of juvenile crime. Recently, juveniles make up 3% of all felonies committed each year and 6% of all violent crimes (criminamerica.net). These statistics have troubled politicians for decades as they have worked to find a solution. Starting in 1994 the Clinton administration started putting stricter punishment on juvenile offenders, but it was quickly realized that this harsh punishment may not be the best solution. Various studies and programs put into action have shown that early prevention in a child’s life is much more effective and more cost efficient in reducing crime. Because of these efforts, juvenile crime has reduced 68% since the violent boom of the 1990s. In light of these discoveries, it is important for states to focus on these results in order to reduce crime.

Most of the teens especially in the black community living in the United States, are affected by juvenile crime. This not only affects the teens but as well the parents and the relatives to these youngsters. While the police and the entire society have been fighting crime still the rates day by day have been increasing. Many institutions have come up with programs which may help the juvenile’s for example in America, we have crime watch, which attempts to install discipline in youngsters who engage in criminal activities for example, stealing, drugs and fighting. The juveniles are taken to prisons where they have seventy two hours to spend in prison. This has changed and transformed many Juveniles lives but to other youngsters it is nothing but a waste of time. Many programs that do not work are those that just only intervene to those kids that have committed crimes, instead of engaging all the kids.