Young Children Of Violence-Prone Criminals

The cases of Lionel Tate, and brothers Derek and Alex King bring into focus the problems that society has in addressing how to handle criminal cases involving deadly violence by under-age juveniles. Lionel Tate, a 12 year old in Florida was convicted of killing a 6-year-old playmate while Alex and Derek King, 12 and 13 years old respectively, were convicted of killing their father. Interestingly, Lionel Tate, who happens to be black, was sentenced to life in prison while the King boys, who are white, both received minimal terms.

In the article “Can Violent Criminals Help Troubled Teens?” By Kristin Lewis was it a good idea or bad idea that teens spend a day learning in a jail cell. To start with, people think that it was a bad idea to sent teens to learn and spend a day with prisoners from jail. As a result, “teens shouldn't’t stay a day at a prison to learn because some prisoner did something mean to Sahn and teens wouldn't’t want that to happen to them.” Also, the teens would get sick, hurt or embarrass. Furthermore, “teens don’t want to be taunted, harassed and intimidated by the prisoners that are behind bars.” To emphasize, a prisoner would be executed and that is not pretty for teens to see. For this reason, “teens are taken to the death row, where nearly 700

There have been numerous studies throughout the decades regarding childhood victimization and how it relates to adult criminality. This report will summarize a few of these studies and compare their results in order to attempt to find a correlation between childhood abuse, neglect, or sexual abuse and adult criminals.

Children Committing Violent Crimes The repercussions and treatments of young violent criminals are largely controversial and debatable. When a child commits a crime, especially a violent one, they deserve to be sent into a correctional facility. Offenders, no matter what age they are, are going to need a lot of psychiatric therapy before they’re released into the public population. No offender deserves to be let off the hook because of their age.

I was reading about that in Dear Abby. Where are those children today? Are they serial killers? Or are they police chiefs and mayors and aldermen and assemblymen? I'm saying that there are periods when kids go through very violent development and into, I mean potentially violent, they break things, they steal things, they lie, they go through these changes. I've had these people, one or two doctors in particular that I won't go into, who very casually just slapped all these assignations on here and said, ‘well of course, if you run into a kid that's doing this kind of thing, you got a developing serial killer. You better put him in treatment real quick and save his life.’ Right? To a point, I agree with them,” (“Ed Kemper - Extended Interview 1991”).

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Throughout time, society has seen its fair share of crime from miniscule crimes to the most serious types of offenses like murder and rape. Violence can come from all shape and sizes from women, men, children, mentally ill, etc. An increasing problem in recent decades include juvenile violence. Juveniles can commit violence for an infinite amount of reasons like parental abuse, being bullied in school or peers, mental illness, and other outside factors. Juvenile are in a period in their lives where countless aspects can influence the way they think, act, and even speak. Criminological theories have been created and tested to factor why juveniles partake in crime and why do they tend to be influenced to continuously break the law. Theories

While murder is taken as one of the most offensive crime, children of six years and below are not punishable under the law. The category is believed to be incapable of planning and executing crimes regardless of the magnitude of the crime committed. Between the ages of two to six years, the child is engaged in many trial activities which he does not understand their consequences. Again, the brain of the child is at the stage of developing high memory capacity. Unfortunately, the most permanently stored information is that of activities undertaken and which involved emotional feelings. They are, therefore, likely to remember and act by their feelings and not much about their thinking. At the age of six, the children are eager to understand why the rules exist and how they operate. The brain is at the stage where it does not configure much and can, therefore, fail to control the actions of the body. Also, the age represents the child most unstable emotional stage. When angry, they do not know how to solve it and what lies as alternative problem-solving methods.

There are three main debates on juvenile psychopathy. The first debate is whether the features of adult psychopathy even exist in juveniles. The disorder may be very difficult to measure reliability because of the transient and constantly changing developmental patterns that are so characteristic of childhood and adolescence. Some behavioral patterns of children and adolescents may be similar to adult psychopaths for a variety of reasons but may not really be signs of psychopathy. One side thinks that features of adult psychopathy exist in children, and the other side disagrees. There are many different factors that can frame the individual's personality. The second debate is the serious long-term social, ethical, and emotional consequences accompanying the label of psychopath for the child. A child who is told he is or can't do something, then the child is going to adapt to and believe he is and can't do whatever he has been told. The issues is if the child being tagged as a psychopath, then others will begin to see and treat him as a known psychopath. The juvenile psychopath will be limited and misunderstood in some cases. The last and final debate is that any psychopathic assessments of youth must achieve an exceptionally high level of accuracy before they can be judiciously employed in the criminal and juvenile justice systems. Any mistake would create a bigger issue to anything that is related. The process has to be performed nearly perfect. There are also gender differences in

DiIulio also described these young people as “fatherless, Godless, and jobless” and as “radically impulsive, brutally remorseless youngsters, including ever more teenage boys, who murder, assault, rob, burglarize, deal deadly drugs, join gun-toting gangs, and create serious disorders” (DiLulio, 1995, p. 23).

The number of youthful offenders that are incarcerated has been growing rapidly in these past years. A youth offender is any person that is under the legal age. It might vary in different states, but it is mainly 18. Young offenders find themselves with the challenges of accepting responsibility as well as resources in order to adapt to society as active responsible citizens. They face these challenges due to the fact that prison time and punishments in prison have changed their way of life and have halted the social abilities needed in the outside world.

Committing violent offences as a juvenile did not necessarily lead to violent offending in adulthood, with offenders even over the course of their criminal career commit non-violent offences Moffit’s (1993) adolescent limited theory is back up with McGrath (2015) findings suggesting the violence in youth offending dose not determine if juveniles will go on to have a violent criminal

Every year, child abuse and neglect affect more than one million children nation-wide (Currie and Tekin 1). Along with this, child abuse is the source of severe injury to more than 500,000 children and the death of over 1,500 children (Currie and Tekin 1). These outrageously large numbers reveal the extent to which child abuse and neglect impact society; however, they do not acknowledge the effect abuse can have on a child’s life and the repercussions that may occur in both the individual’s childhood and adulthood. While the effects most certainly include physical pain and possibly future disabilities, child abuse and neglect can also affects the child’s psychological welfare. Psychological effects are often more difficult to recognize,

Child abuse and neglect are considered a social phenomenon that plays a crucial role in American society as well as in the American criminal justice system. All types of ages, genders, ethnicities at some point or another are represented as victims or perpetrators of child abuse or neglect. Child abuse includes physical, psychological and sometimes sexual abuse to a person who is below the age of 18. Child abuse or neglect victims tend to grow up with long terms consequences such as low self-esteem, depression, and other major consequences such as engaging in criminal behavior as adults, teen pregnancy and not to mention the severity of physical child abuse consequences can end up in a death of an innocent victim. This literature

A common assumption about young people who commit violent crimes is that they are simply born evil and that nothing good can come of their lives. From this perspective, the only solution is to punish these young offenders by locking them up, either in prison or in a place for teenagers designed to make their lives as miserable as possible. Such an approach suggests that young people who hurt or kill others are untreatable. It also suggests that more prisons must be built to make our communities safe. This assumption, however, is a false one. Research shows that violent young offenders can be treated and reformed. In addition, it shows that when young people fail to receive treatment,it does