There are an endless amount of ways to reduce the growing crime rates throughout the world. Many believe the most effective way to fight crime is through stricter law codes and a harsh prison system. Others believe that a more understanding and rehabilitative approach should be used to help reduce crime rates. Crime is an everlasting issue throughout America that depending on the decade, has either increased or decreased due to political, economic, social, religious and many more issues in the nation
Juveniles of color overstress the importance of being acceptable and valued. Intentional, or unintentional, there is a consistent pattern of victimization amongst juveniles who are minorities, than White juveniles. Since the 18th century to present time, evidence prove strategic divide against juveniles of color. Regardless of negative perceptions toward juvenile delinquents, the United States justice system must be nondiscriminatory, providing equal treatment in order to be effective. It is important
the community members who had convicted violent sex crimes. In the 1980's and 1990's several laws in response to "stranger danger" cases made this registry available to the whole public. This public sex offender registry gave away the offender's name, address, and photo. The registry can contain offender's as young as 14 years old and they will spend their whole life on this registry. Being on the registry only makes it more difficult for juveniles to be rehabilitated back into society. A sense of
misconduct of young people, those professionals cannot solve or circumscribe the problem of crime alone. Every citizen and every parent must participate in that task. And we must be interested in the youth itself, in the solution of what is fundamentally a problem of young people. I believe that the
was there, testify against the others, and face a few years in juvenile detention. Otherwise, he would be transferred to adult court and if he was found guilty, he would spend a much longer time in detention and prison. He decided to take the risk and go to trial (Steinberg). Trying juveniles as adults has always been a controversial topic to the public. There are many different statistics that show different percentages of juveniles being tried as adults. Many people would say that we should be
Juvenile delinquency Juvenile delinquency has been around for decades; we can all agree over the years we have watched crime rates rise with juveniles. Delinquency has always been considered as a social problem over and above the fact that it is a legal problem as well as a psychological problem.Thesis: Juveniles are blamed for a lot of crimes , but in fact there is reasoning behind it such as lack of family support, poverty and technology. According to Causes and Solutions of Juvenile Delinquency:
Young people who go against the law are called juveniles. Juvenile delinquency is when a minor (A person under the age of 18.) acts against the law. Many crimes committed by minors go unreported in a year. Youths are also more likely to get caught then adults are. Normally crimes committed by juveniles are smaller things like drug abuse, curfew violations and theft.Though there are still cases of murder and assault that happen every now and then. The most common offenses committed by young people
whether or not juveniles exposed to the juvenile justice system will be more prone to being chronic offenders (Mahoney, 1974).According to the statistical briefing book from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention “violent crimes committed by juvenile offenders peaks during the after school hours” (2012). Nearly one-third (29%) of all violent crime committed by juvenile offenders occurs between 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. In comparison, nearly the same proportion of violent crime committed by
2.0 Factors That Cause “Monster Youngster” According to Abd Wahab Kassim (n.d), the rise in social deviance among adolescents can be viewed from various aspects. Throughout 1995, 4012 adolescents (remanded in prison and Henry Gurney School) were involved in crimes where 96.2% were male adolescents. The phenomenon is rather alarming and should not be viewed lightly as there are more male detainees in rehabilitation centres and under remand. Although there is an increase in the number of male adolescents
the men from the time of social organization and family life.Violence against women can be domestic as well a public, physical, emotional or mental. Women have fear of violence in their mind which causes the lack of participation and lack of confidence. Violence against women which is counted as crimes under the Indian Penal Code are rape, kidnapping and abduction, torture (physically and mentally), dowry deaths, wife battering, sexual harassment, molestation, importation of girls, etc. The cases