The Price Our Youth Are Paying Essay

Research Question: Which are the main reasons why teenagers become “Juvenile Offenders” and how does Incarcerating them can help?

Historically, young people’s lives were governed by class structure and gender normative roles. However, the decline of traditional institutions and ascribed life courses in late modernity has given rise to the reconceptualization of youth and new sociological perspectives on youth experiences. Rather than defined by social structures, late modern perspectives emphasize the role of agency, that is autonomous decisions, in shaping the lives of contemporary youth. Ulrich Beck’s (1992) individualization thesis highlights the notion of agency in late modern society. According to Beck (1992) individuals are no longer bound by social and cultural constraints and thus must “construct their own biographies” on the basis of individual choice, failure and aspiration (1992, p.3). However, by focusing on autonomous decisions, the individualization thesis has been criticized for overemphasizing the role of agency and thus rejecting social disparities, such as class, gender, and race, which continue to shape youth experiences (Cartmel & Furlong 2006). In contrast, proponents of the thesis maintain that individualization highlights the evolution of social structures in late modernity, thereby conceptualizing the changing nature of youth experiences (Woodman & Wyn 2014). In line with these arguments, this essay will examine young people’s lives in terms of the individualization thesis. Furthermore, it will attempt to address the criticisms associated with individualization.

1.1 Explain why working in partnership with others is important for children and young people

A mother picked up her six year old daughter Salecia from the police station where she sat in handcuffs from throwing a temper tantrum at school. She was then also suspended from school for her miss behavior (Mandell). Not only were the actions performed unnecessary, but incredibly harsh for a girl her age. The action of pushing students from school straight into prison is called the school to prison pipeline. This overreliance of harsh disciplinary actions is causing the school to prison pipeline cycle to happen and continue. The school to prison pipeline is a serious issue and is mostly involved around students race rather then their actions. Students can be performing the same troublesome activities, but students who are colored or have

When a young person breaks the law in Canada, they are dealt with differently than adults, for they lack the level of maturity and development. The federal law that governs Canada’s youth justice system is Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA). The act was created in 2003 with a purpose to hold youth (12-17) accountable through sanctions that contribute to the protection of the public. The basic principles of this act are crime prevention, rehabilitation and reintegration, protection of the public and youth, meaningful consequences, and accountability. Hence, it is fair and equitable, as well as effective for youth to a great extent, with preventing crime while ensuring the accountability of a young offender. The data from Statistics Canada show that youth crime has decreased 42% since 2000. This essay focuses on how the justice system effectively ensures the protection of society, the innocent, and ensures that those who break the law, face appropriate consequences.

FACTS: Nine named appellees, each of whom alleged that he or she had been suspended from the public high school in Columbus for up to 10 days without a hearing. Dwight Lopez was one of the nine students who were suspended for 10 days for misconduct at a public school in Ohio. Lopez filed a suit that Principal Goss violated their Due Process rights by not having a hearing for their suspensions. Ohio Law empowers the principal of an Ohio public school to suspend a pupil for misconduct for up to 10 days or to expel him or her. However, the principal must notify the student’s parents within 24 hours

For a portion of their lives, the average person most likely believes that the criminal justice system executes justice and disciplines offenders accordingly. Reflecting upon the United States’ history, it is proven that this is not always the case. When the phrases “school” and “prison” come to mind, they typically have no correlation to each other⎼until the topic of the "school-to-prison pipeline" is introduced. The school-to-prison pipeline refers to policies and procedures within the classroom that push our nation's schoolchildren, especially those most at-risk, out of classrooms and into the juvenile and criminal justice systems. This pipeline reflects the prioritization of incarceration over education. Reform within schools is crucial

Punk. Jock. Nerd. We hear and think these about labels everyday, but have you ever wondered what might be behind these names? My vision for America's Youth is to stop stereotyping. It is because I was able to overcome stereotyping that I grew more confident in my athletics. I learned it was not about proving others wrong, but proving to myself I could do it.

A student enters Kindergarten who is not familiar with their ABC’s and struggles to retain a lot of information. Meanwhile their classmates are writing words making the student feel discouraged. The student is too far behind in class and does poorly causing them to misbehave in class to seek attention. The teachers constantly send the student to the Dean’s Office for punishment. By 6th grade the student is frustrated with school and never learns the material they miss out on. Rather they just get behind and drop out to pursue illegal activities to sustain themselves. Eventually, the dropped out student gets caught doing a crime and gets sent to Juvenile Court. According to Kupchik, within The School-to-Prison Pipeline: Rhetoric or Reality, schools and prison are interlinked as school reveal student’s deficits, some frustrated individuals may fail out of schools causing them to turn to illegal means, and the schools’ method in disciplining certain behavior causes students to be integrated in the Juvenile criminal system. Kupchik allows for a thoughtful discussion of the School-to-Prison Pipeline highlighting the metaphor’s implications, risk factors, and methods to remedy the issue.

Collin Blair's short film Skip The Youth provides a realistic and emotional portrayal of the relationship between a mother and her son. This relationship is complicated by the presence of the mother's ailing health. The two main characters have different approaches in dealing with this issue and what is shown through unfiltered language and joking remarks is the gripping inevitability of having to say goodbye. It's a film about coming to terms with letting go of a loved one. Sometimes that means actually resisting having to say goodbye while also trying to fulfill the obligation of putting their wishes before your own concerns.

Disengaged Youth and Mainstream school In modern societies, the life experiences of young people have changed significantly over the past years. These changes have a major affect on relationships with family and friends, experiences in education, labor market, lifestyle and the ability to become independent young adults (Furlong & Cartmel, 1997). This research paper will focus on youth disengagement and its relation to mainstream school. Disengaged youth are individual’s aged between 14-24 years old, who are not actively engaged in school or the workforce (Hanley, Nabi, Bean, Radday & Stanzler, 2012). The purpose of this paper is to analyse youth disengagement and mainstream school and to reflect critically on the impact of the macro-system on the development of series and programs within a rage of communities, using current research, reports, and theory to be able to make recommendations for practice.

The campaign, #School2Prison was created in order to adopt restorative practices for queer youth who have been charged with a crime while in school. For example, in 2013, Jewlyes Gutierrez, a transgender girl from California was charged with assault for defending herself against bullying in school. As well, in Indiana in 2012, Dynasty Young was expelled for bringing a stun gun to school, which he used in self-defense after enduring months of harassment based on his sexual orientation and gender expression (GSA Network 2009). This campaign demanded that all youth should have equal opportunity to go to school and be themselves, without the fear of victimization. This campaign is important because the ‘School-to-Prison pipeline’ is telling youth

Teenagers are more than capable of achieving great tasks in the future as well as causing great destruction with every skill stapled in their mind as they grow. Good and evil will determine the effects of which path a young mind its taught so that’s why parents must educated well with good intensions for a better future. The age of a teenager shows history how it transformed the world including the United States by family values, the high school, and dangerous adolescences etc. What teenagers did was start a fashion changing the world and its rules, becoming rebellious toward their parents values for

The devastating effect of war on humanity is reflected by Duncan Long through short story “Sudden and the poem “Anthem for Doomed Youth” by Wilfred Owen. Through imagery and characterisation, Long highlight his idea that war is not glorious but violent and gruesome and that war changes people’s attitude to survive. Owen implies his belief that there are no commemorations for death of soldiers in battle through symbolisation. By expressing their opinion on war through their writings, this conveys readers to correspond to the idea that war not a noble cause, but a plague to humanity. The catastrophe war bring upon humanity does not settle disputations but only extend them, war is fought meaninglessly and will not bring peace.

Loud cheers erupt from the back room of the restaurant as a group of laughing teenagers bond after their final theatre performance. Older folks turn their heads as their crinkled eyes and lips turn upward at the memories of their own youth. Restaurants are places filled with happy people often celebrating some sort of occasion. Maybe parents are taking their kids out to reward them for good grades or a wonderful band concert. It makes sense, then, that everyone would be in jubilant spirits.