Narrative Essay On Juvenile Violence

. A juvenile detention center is a secure prison for young adults under the age of 18, often form juvenile delinquents. Though which they get sentenced for the crime they committed for a period. Life after being detained in a juvenile corredional faculty can be a difficult transition for a child. Have you ever followed the wrong crowd and did something you regret? Well that is what juvenile detention is for, kids who committed an illegal act.

To many Americans today, the country is a hostage-but not from oversea terrorism as one might expect to think. No today, we live in fear from our own children; and these are the same young people who we are entrusting the future of this great country with. According to the Department of Justice report released in November, thirty-eight percent of those arrested for weapons offenses in 1995 were under the age of eighteen (Curriden). In the same report, the Bureau of Justice Statistics stated that in 1995, 3 out of every 100 eighteen-year-olds were arrested for weapons offenses. A rate three times higher than for males twenty-five to twenty-nine and five times higher than for males thirty to thirty-four (Curriden).

gang members or to rival gangs. These signs say we are number one, or Power.

     Ever since the terrible tragedy at Columbine High School, there has been a numerous list of recent school shootings in America. Youth violence is a major issue in today’s society. Many people dread what causes adolescents to be so violent, committing horrible crimes.     

The starting point of violence takes place in communities and at home--not at school. Youth take what they hear and see at home and in their communities to school. The environment in some communities and households are positive and the presences of protective factors outweigh the high risk factors. However, there are communities and households where there is a lack of informal social control and high risk factors exist more than protective factors--, which affect youth in a negative manner.

Teen Violence is a big dilemma in today’s society. Violent behaviors usually start from family and peers, as well as teens observing it at there neighborhoods or communities. These behaviors are reinforced by what youth see on television, on the Internet, in video games, movies, music videos, and what they hear in their music. When children are disciplined with severe corporal punishment or verbal abuse, or when they are physically or sexually abused, or when they witness such behavior in their home, it is not surprising that they behave violently toward others. Teen Violence has had such an impact in our youth today that it leads many destructive things and that’s why we have so much violence today.

A Juvenile Detention Center is a secure prison which contains children who have committed a federal offense. The Juvenile Detention System is widely used across America. Children visit the centers anywhere from a few days to a few years. Many children who enter a center are awaiting a court hearing which decides where the child will be placed. There are many options for where a child could go, like treatment centers or group homes, but unfortunately in many cases, the choice made for them is Juvenile Detention Centers.

Did you know that gang violence affects our world today? In this century we’re experiencing more gang related crimes ever than before. Current research shows that there is an estimate of 250,000 gang members in America (Almonte and Desmond 4). The more gangs the more killings. Adolescents are getting more involved in gangs, because of this dropout rates are increasing. The more dropouts the more drug dealers. Once they begin to sell drugs they end up in jail. This is where we come in as taxpayers. Gang violence affects the public with the crimes they commit. Murders, robbery, and vandalism are some of the main crimes that are committed. These things can be prevented if we pay more attention to our teens. Rehab centers and

Minorities are also affected by the statistics of the Uniform Crime Report. When looking at minority arrests, the composition of the community really affects the numbers used. Overall in the United States the racial compositions for juveniles according to Puzzanchera (2009) showed that 78% of juveniles were white, 16% were black, 5% Asian, and only 1% Native American. These figures can be severely misleading in that Hispanic juveniles are classified as white for these studies. However, using these numbers and the reporting by agencies, violent crimes committed in 2008 were done by 47% white youth, 52% black youth and a mere 1% were committed by Asian youth, leaving the last 1% to have been committed by native American youth. As a result, black youth are more likely to commit violent crimes and be entered into the juvenile justice system.

"well, are you going to press charges? that's physical assault!" Casey flops on her bed, phone to ear listening as her friend fumes.

  The punishment of juvenile criminals, specifically those between the ages of 13 and 18, in the event that they commit crimes of murder, is not severe enough. Minors between these critical ages in the teenage life who commit crimes of murder should be prosecuted as adults in all situations and locations.

Juvenile detention centers are meant to be short-term holding facilities to meet the physical and behavioral health needs of the child. They are not to provide rehabilitation or long-term treatment to a child.

What we could do to prevent or decreased crimes in juveniles is to build enough business so that everyone who lives in the Urban area could obtain a job and become stable. A way in which we could build enough business in the Urban Area is by informing the Governor to use people’s taxes money to build the businesses instead of giving it to the people that do not work. Juvenile detention facility is a prison where they put underage teenagers that have committed a crime. The idea of a juvenile detention facility is to prevent juvenile delinquents from committing a crime again. Is juvenile detention facility effective?. Juvenile detention facility is not effective because it puts juvenile at risk, and negatively influences them psychologically and academically. So how does juvenile ends up in detention facility?. How does the detention facility affects juveniles when they come back to society, how does it affects them into getting a job in the future and why it is important for people to know that juvenile detention facility is not

Violence against children is a phenomenon happening worldwide, in forms of physical, psychological violence. Children are deprived of care, basic social services, health care and education, child abuse, neglect, exploitation, forced to beg, trafficked. Children are still one of the social groups at risk, facing many problems that remain unresolved. Although the consequences may vary according to the type and severity of the violence, the short and long-term consequences for children are very often serious and destructive and are costly. The laws that protect children’s rights are often not effective.

grew by 86% from 1988 to 1992, which was more then any other type of juvenile