Bullying can now lead to criminal cases and lawsuits. By the schools letting bullying continue it teaches students that it's ok. This creates a fearful environment instead of a learning one. Students feel "let me bully so I don't get bullied". Bullying victims can have a lot of stress added on and it can lead to retaliation such as school shootings as well as suicide.
The youths that are being tried in the adult courts should be offered to better themselves as for they are not fully developed at the ages under eighteen. Punishing a teen by taking away their rights for life is not helping the betterment of society. Another person in prison means more local taxes for another set of clothing, more food, and occasionally, more space to be built. A psychologist could benefit from these children who caused trouble, especially if the trouble was un intentional. Juveniles have greater possibility than adults to make a change in their lives with the right help with counseling and rehabilitation.
One example of this is that more police officers can go onto the police force, so that the young person sees them everywhere and believes that they mightcatch them. Specific deterrence says that if a single person is punished strongly for onecrime, then they will not commit this crime again out of fear of punishment. For example,a youth who commits a crime is put into a program. Crime prevention strategies that aresituational aim to tell young people that the benefits of crime are not worth the eventual punishment. This is to let people know that the punishment always far outweighs thecrime.
As he is unable to achieve these luxuries through work, he may turn to criminal activity because he wants to be like his peers as he feels pushed out. Sociologists believe that to some extent, relative deprivation is the key cause of crime in society however there are some other aspects that affect this. Sub-cultural theories are a belief of some sociologists where crime is explained by saying that criminals learn how to commit these crimes from their peer groups or subculture. Cohen in 1955 completed a study on working class boys in North America and found that they were easily involved in gangs. One aspect that was said to have pushed them away from the education system and towards these gangs was because they had middle class standards and values and these boys were unable to live up to the high expectations of these teachers.
To then come back and remove the children would be such as another charges to the criminal, and seems unconstitutional, unlawful, and wrong. One could declare that placing these children in crowded circumstances that would happen from the performance of this strategy would do more damage than excellent. Not all juveniles placed in enhance excellent proper care are there due to bad parenting. Some of these children end up there because the mother and father can no longer control their activities, or in between doing stints in teenager area. All mother and father or parents who lose their children would not have the same degree of violation, which runs the risk of children from better surroundings being taught through the same Public Concept adverse activities and assault from other children.
Another point researchers bring up is saying punishing kids by law makes more people think before drinking and driving. “ The law would make so that people would think twice about drinking and driving” (Thomas). People agree with this because no one wants to go to jail so it makes them to think twice about doing it. Overall being punished by the law shows kids/adults would not be able to get away with drinking under age and driving
A large variable is the presence of parental figures in the family. If parents are into criminal activity and do not pay much attention to teaching their children right from wrong there is a huge chance that these children will fall along the same path of their parents. It is very important that agencies find out about children in these types of situations and relocate them so that they have a better chance of becoming productive players in society. Another contributing factor is child abuse. When a child is being abused, he/she will more likely act out in illegal ways before telling someone.
For example, it has new criteria for the transfer of Canadians convicted and imprisoned in a foreign country to serve the sentences. Also, it has stiffened punishments for youth criminals, allowing adult sentencing for certain cases, and put an end to house arrest for large range of crimes. I believe this will not help decrease the youth crime rate but actually contribute to an increase. Youths are not fully matured and are more prone to bad influences from the public. Their misbehaviors are likely to have been originated from childhood emotional traumas.
Many people would disagree with this argument. Others would say that children at the age of thirteen know right from wrong and when committing a crime they should be tried as adults. That is not completely true. I believe children should not be tried as adults. Scientific reaserch showa that children are influenced by their environmental surroundings that may adversely affect ta child and the way they view different situations.
Punishment vs. Rehabilitation Juvenile’s who come from poor communities, fail at school, and have family members who are involved in the adult justice system are at a higher risk of becoming involved in the juvenile justice system than a juvenile who is from a wealthy community, does well at school, and have family members that are not involved in the adult justice system. Most juvenile who are involved in the juvenile justice system are victims of outside influences that are to be blamed for the juvenile’s delinquency. Now that the juvenile is beginning to show acts of crime the justice system needs to show the juvenile a different way to live. The juvenile justice system will never show progress if the focus was to punish the juveniles instead