If teenagers want to start acting like adults, they should be treated as one. Juveniles have to learn from their mistakes and leaving them in the slammer for longer than when they turn 18 would make them learn. Most teens that commit a heinous crime then get released from juvenile hall are more than likely to bounce back to their old ways. It will only get worse. It has been studied before, that older gang members use younger teens to sell drugs and do other gang-related activities for them because they know teens won’t get as big of a punishment as adults.
Research suggests that alcohol use by the offender, the victims or both, increases the likelihood of sexual assault by a male acquaintance (NIAAA). Individual under the age of 21 commit 45 percent of rapes,44 percent commit robberies and 37 percent commit sexual assault. Its estimated that the population as a whole, 50 percent of violent crime is related to alcohol use. And most of this teenagers are at high risk of sex intercourse, because the alcohol in their system is too high, they have sex with anybody without knowing the person and the person may become eventually become pregnant and they have to accept the responsibility which they might not be ready for and they may end up aborting the baby which is another sin. They may also have unprotected sex with someone who is infected with a disease such as Hiv/Aids, syphilis, staphylococcus and other sexual transmitted disease therefore passing it
This number is astonishing and it only deals with the most violent crime, murder. With these kind of numbers it would be impossible to try and analyze all violent acts that are related to illegal drugs. Secondly, is the corruption that it brings upon our adolescents of all ages and in all areas. The U.S. government’s most recent 2005 National Survey on Drug Use and Health reported that nationwide over 800 thousand adolescents ages 12-17 sold illegal drugs during the twelve months preceding the survey (Mieczkowski 1996). The 2005 Youth Risk Behavior Survey by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that nationwide 25.4% of students had been offered, sold, or given an illegal drug by someone on school property (Mieczkowski 1996).
In his essay, “Video Games Are Responsible for Increased Youth Violence,” author Ron Moten uses his experience working with troubled teenagers to uncover the negative effects of violent media. The problem he identifies is that violent media is responsible for desensitizing youth to violence, hence increasing crime in our society. Motten assumes his readers are educated and sympathetic, but uninformed of the threats posed by violent media. His purpose in his essay is to raise awareness of a connection between violent media and increased crime in society and to convince the audience that violent media needs to be regulated by laws. To achieve his purpose, Moten mainly uses ethos to appeal to his readers.
(Postman, N & Powers, S, 2008) This just goes to show the different ways in which people interpret things thru language and how they at times make false accusations based on the eye. In this reading Postman & Powers state that we will constantly come across these three kinds of statements when it comes to language “descriptions, judgments, and inferences” (Postman & Powers, 2008: The Bias of Language, The Bias of Pictures, 8(483). From Pop Perspectives by Gray, L) meaning that everyone interprets things differently when heard or seen and they either describe it, pass judgment on it or falsely state things. Now we have pictures. “It is often said that a picture is
They say that rumors spread through town in the time it takes for the truth to our on its jacket. In today’s society the damaged will often prey on the strong, confident and successful in an effort to level the playing field. Add illicit narcotics into the mix and you have bullies who can become so egotistical they will believe their own lies. Often thought of as something that only effects youth, bullying has become something that can happen to anyone at any time. In recent times there have been reports of people being bullied so bad, they have taken their own lives to escape from the constant torment.
Domestic Violence, or spousal abuse, is one of the most appalling crimes in the criminal justice system. Domestic violence involves the abuse of an intimate partner through means of physical, verbal, emotional, or sexual aggression. When most people think of domestic violence, the most frequent thought is the husband, or boyfriend, battering their defenseless female partner. What people fail to realize is that domestic violence does not happen strictly between heterosexual couples, same sex couples can become victims of battering as well. They can suffer much more than heterosexual victims.
Accepting Responsibility Across the country, juveniles are making bad decisions and heading down the wrong path. According to statistics, over one million juveniles come through the court system each year and about 200 thousand get charged as adults. Harsher penalties should be enforced upon juvenile law breakers in order to teach them the consequences of their actions, save money, and to avoid repeat offenders. Many believe that it is a terrible idea to send any child or teenager to an adult prison. They believe that these juveniles would be victim of sexual, physically, and mentally abuse.
When the kids do that, they may look to gangs. Gangs are like families to many kids. They find father figures in older gang members. When the children get involved in gangs, they fight, sell drugs, and in more serious cases, commit murders. They don’t know what they do is wrong because the gang is the only “family” they really know.
According to speculation the teens were loners and gothic. They were part of the “Trench Coat Mafia” and had been bullied. But as the story unraveled and police investigated this bloody aftermath they found that nothing that was originally speculated was true. Peter Langman (author of Why Kids Kill: Inside the Minds of School Shooters) writes, “There are not ordinary kids who were bullied into retaliation.” “These are not ordinary kids who played too many video games. These are not ordinary kids who just wanted to be famous.