Juvenile Gang Crime

A critical theorist would explain an increase in the juvenile gang population are from peer groups, school, and the community. First, peer groups can be delinquent peers, gang members in class, friends that use drugs, etc. The more kids who are surrounded more often by these groups are more likely to be involved in gangs, especially if these friends are their support group. Second, children who are doing poorly in school because low aspirations, no motivation, or few role models (e.g., teachers, police, and parents) may impact the child to be surrounded by negative peer groups. As a result, there are higher chances of dropouts, change of behavior, and a different lifestyle. Third, the community—where children are raised. A very poor neighborhood

Long-lasting strategies that address the causes of youth crime must involve a variety of individuals, organizations and governments in such areas as crime prevention, child welfare, mental health, education, social services and employment. The Strategy supports the involvement of a broad range of organizations that work with children. Families, communities and victims will also be more involved in addressing youth crime under the government's new strategy.

This paper will address the functionality of the South Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice. First, it will examine the Agency as a whole and then it will explore the individuality of sectors within the agency. Second, the paper will discuss the different ways that the agency survives and serves the community. The South Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice plays a vital role in the success of at risk youth and maintaining a secure structure to assist youth that end up in troublesome situations.

The fifth program for addressing the juvenile problem is the Interventions Targeting Street-Connected Youth, which aims at improving the situation of street connected children and young people (NCJRS, 1999). The program works in a way that its targets are involved in activities that are beneficial to their lives as opposed to leaving them or exposing them to idleness and in the process the young people or street children are always engaged (NCJRS,

For any social and reformative legislation to be successful, it requires not just the good law but dedicated and motivated functionaries of the system. The object of Juvenile Justice System is prevention (ensuring that children do not come in conflict with the law) and to provide specialized and preventive treatment services for children and young persons as means of secondary prevention, rehabilitation, and improved socialization.

When approaching the reformation of juvenile delinquents, we have to take into account the various ways of treatment and prevention. Instead of throwing young children into prison as a way to get them off the streets, we need to find a strategy that helps to deter them from a life of crime. The two methods of deterring a juvenile delinquent are through reactive and proactive strategies. Reactive strategies are treatments while proactive strategies are ways of prevention. Three sociological approaches mentioned in Chapter 15 are mentoring programs, Neighborhood Youth Corps programs, and the Chicago Area Project.

In today’s society, juvenile crime is an increasing issue in the United States. When speaking on juvenile violence there are many different types of violence like youth violence, school violence, dating violence, gang violence. The problem is clear, the solution not so much. What can we do to prevent and or minimize the amount of juvenile violence and crime? Each topic selected compares to one another for example, gang violence leads into school violence, which leads into dating violence, which all wraps up under youth violence. Each of these topics is also different from one another because, they all focus on a different type of violence. Each type of violence can take a life. Whether that life is taken by any weapon of choice or a life taken by the judicial system meaning incarceration.

In today’s society juvenile crime is an increasing issue in the United States. When speaking on juvenile violence there are many different types of violence like youth violence, school violence, dating violence, gang violence. The problem is clear, the solution not so much. What can we do to prevent and or minimize the amount of juvenile violence and crime? Each topic selected compares to one another for example, gang violence leads into school violence, which leads into dating violence, which all wraps up under youth violence. Each of these topics is also different from one another because, they all focus on a different type of violence. Each type of violence can take a life. Whether that life is taken by any weapon of choice or a life taken by the judicial system meaning incarceration.

Juvenile crime is one of the nation 's most serious problems. Concerns about it are generally broadcasted by federal, state, and local government officials and by the public. In years prior, the burden developed beginning with the dramatic rise in juvenile violence in the eighties reaching an all-time peak in the first part of the nineties. Even though juvenile crime rates seem to have lowered since the mid-nineties, the reduction has not eased the concern. Many states began taking strict statutory stances toward juveniles in the late seventies and early eighties. This was an era in which juvenile crime rates were steady or dropping slightly, while federal reformers were commending prevention and less disciplinary actions. Some of the conflict between the federal program and what was happening in the states at that time may have been initiated by substantial changes in legal measures that made juvenile court procedures more similar, however not equal to those in adult (criminal) court. The reaction to the most recent spike in vicious juvenile crime has been a portrayal of laws that uphold blurred differences between juvenile courts and adult courts. Some states continued to strengthen their juvenile crime laws over the years first by making sentencing more severe, two by increasing allowable transfers to criminal court, or doing away with some of the discretion protections of juvenile court. Many such changes were enacted after the juvenile violent crime rate had already

Juvenile justice has been incorporated into the American society for over a century, but over time, this system has undergone through numerous shifts and changes before becoming what it is today. It is no doubt, then, that as the United States continues to grow, elect new officials, and change its views on major issues, the juvenile justice system will also see itself grow into something new and different to match societal desires of that time.

In 2012, the Supreme Court ruled that juveniles, who have commit such heinous crimes, could not be sentenced life in prison without parole, because it violates a constitutional amendment. Multiple justices argue, that age should be taken into consideration, as well as environment, because both can be evidence to support the reasoning of such critical actions. However, I completely disagree with the court ruling, and adolescents are capable of committing intentional crimes that put the community in harm's way. Whilst adolescents are young in age, that does not excuse their crimes or actions that put them in a prison cell.

There is an amplified rate of recurrence with which dangerous or habitual youthful offenders are judged in criminal court and then imprisoned in adult prison. The biggest increase in youthful offender crime has been among the youngest offenders.

The defining characteristic that makes a juvenile gang a topic of concern in our country is

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.

Through out history, sociologists have conjured different perspectives on society and social behavior, and from these observations sociological theories have been established. This paper will be focusing on one of these theories, which is the symbolic interactionist perspective. According to symbolic interactionist perspectives, society is the sum of the interactions of individuals and groups (Murray, Linden, & Kendall, 2011, p.20). These theorists emphasize on the interaction between one another and the symbols that represent meaning in human communication. This paper will be exploring the cause and effect of youth crime and analyzing this issue through a symbolic interactionist perspective.