This results in extreme and inaccurate views of the activities of young people, that often relies upon scare tactics and the over exaggeration of rare news stories in order to make such activities seem worse than they are. This leads to youth being constructed as folk devils, which occurs after the resulting moral panics. Examples of this include the mods and rockers of the 1960s. Although relatively few youths identified as either of these labels, as the media pushed the story of the 'war between mods and rockers' onto the public, this in turn led to more youths choosing to identify as a mod or rocker. This is known as the deviancy amplification spiral, in which the media makes a relatively small problem much worse, thus presenting young people as a problem group.
But there is a big difference between using physical punishment to discipline and physical abuse. The point of disciplining children is to teach them right from wrong, not to make them live in fear. However, it is impossible to know whether marital strife is a cause of child abuse, or if both the marital strife and the abuse are caused by tendencies in the abuser. Substance abuse can be a major contributing factor to child abuse. One U.S. study found that parents with documented substance abuse, most commonly alcohol, cocaine, and heroin, were much more likely to mistreat their children, and were also much more likely to reject court-ordered services and treatments (Besharov, 1990).
Due to the influences of the media teens believe it is ok to have lots of sex without taking proper precautions. There are many teens who do not even know the dangers that sex brings. Unprotected sex can lead to unplanned pregnancies, STD’s and HIV. While all of these effects of unprotected sex are bad, HIV is one that is increasing the most each day. HIV is a disease that is sweeping the nation due to multiple partners and unprotected sex.
More significant is that cases of cases of youthful offenders are on the rise on among the young female compared to their male counterparts and this situation is raising an alarm (Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 1999). Children who are at the risk of offending in the future are treated separately from the adults. This is given special attention reason being that they require rehabilitation to get back from the bad behavior unlike adults who require punishment. Intervention facilitates in changing the antisocial characteristics which, if not
The two stories contrast in content, but help Jones come to the conclusion that “it’s helped hundreds of people for everyone its hurt” (287). By using these personal stories, Jones makes a valid point in his argument defending the imagination of children and their violent stories. “Violent media is a big issue in the world today.” (285) Society is about the effect of violent media on the upbringing of today’s children. For instance, society has fears that children who are exposed to violent media will grow to be violent people, giving way to a violent society. However, Gerald Jones, in his argument “violent media is good for kids”, says that in contrary to what the society believes, or is made to believe, violent media builds strong, courageous and effective group in the society.
Even though stats say something else, the media automatically portrays the teenagers as the bad guy. Eighty five percent of the murders are done by adults. With titles such as “children having sex” and “killer kids” it is clearly shows why such abuses are the key factors in violence, pregnancy, drug abuse and suicide among teenagers. ) This shows that what people assume to be reality, may in fact be incorrect. But these assumptions again are based off of what society
Spanking your child without telling your child what they did wrong or why they are being punished can leave a child feeling unloved and undeseable. Some parents have been known to torment their child for every little thing they have done wrong, instead of using spanking as a form of discipline. Parents that have not been properly taught by other parents before them on the proper way to spank, can spank their child too much and have a child becoming violent and non good person for the society. A spanking should be a last recur. A parent should first explain to their child what he/she did wrong.
Why Teens Join Gangs Teenagers are often emotionally insecure and want to fit in with people who have the same mind set. Teens sometimes choose to associate with people who have a bad effect on them such as gang members. In fact, there are three major reasons why teens choose to join gangs: bad family relationships, drug addiction and influence of other teen gangsters. Perhaps the most common reason for teens to join gangs is bad family relationships. For example, some parents have arguments or fights most of the time which cause stress for their children, and sometimes parents don’t give enough time to their children.
The influence an environment has over growing adolescents will impact them. Also, easy access to firearms, violent video games, and aggressive music will furthermore add to how children and adolescents engage in certain types of behaviors that will lead them to performing a crime Culture plays a huge role on how our children in America are raised. Some parents tend to put restrictions when others try to discipline their children when they are doing something inappropriate, they have a tendency to get offended when others try to guide or correct them. My mentality on discipline is still old fashioned, if my child is doing something wrong, then by all means, take my child and correct them. It’s better to correct the issue when they are small than to repent later when it might be too and they might end up in
The subject which relates to why youths join gangs is also known as youth deviance which has caused a great deal of interest within society and criminologists. Deuchar (2009:4) states ‘Every generation of adults had demonised the behaviour of its youth’. This inclination within society has created moral panics and major concerns, which can be argued that it has only served to aggravate the problem of youths and gangs, instead of making it easier to understand. There is a link between youth subcultures and delinquency, which causes strain on society; this can be seen throughout the history, of youths and gangs. Ethically it is safer for this topic to be researched through literature.