... for me? I was by myself. When I was hungry, I cooked dinner myself, then ate alone in the kitchen. I felt sorry for myself [and] my life. [Kids like me] feel the same way." (Long 142.) This quote illustrate that growing up with no or little guidance can lead youths to choose the gang life to seek ... When these minority youths go to school they get stressed because they don't have enough resources or do not understand what's going on. Many of those kids who have immigrant parents are not educated so when they come home they aren't able to provide enough guidance to help them. In the book...

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... "Violence on TV and the music youngsters listen to these days is mortifying. It influences them a lot and makes those young kids very angry. It causes a big influence on what you thing about life in general." I thanked her for her opinions and information and moved on to find one of ... agree very much with the statement that Levin makes, "We have to reach our youngsters before they become criminals, we have to spend time with our kids and re-establish the credibility of our institutions-our families, churches, businesses, universities and schools." (Allen J. 1998) I understand that cri...

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... up of young people are causing numerous problems throughout communities. Gang violence and gang activities impact all of those around the gang members. The kids in these gangs are hurting themselves, each other, their families, and the communities they belong to. Gangs effect the children in many different ... recruits, usually teens or young adults are the ones that carry out the crimes. In actuality, gangs use a variety of methods to lure kids into their group. They may offer to give them money, clothes, jewelry or love that they feel that aren't getting elsewhere. Or they may ... to...

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... % more than intervening with the child per year. Also, the effectiveness of prisons to prevent juveniles from becoming repeated offenders is low. Kids who have already spent time in adult prisons, are far more likely to commit more serious crimes when they are released. Crime prevention programs ... been very successful in helping to reduce juvenile crime. Many states use early intervention programs that are designed to help parents of troubled kids in raising their children. These programs offer strategies and tactics for helping to supervise and discipline troubled children. This is do...

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... Deviance is a matter of degree. The greater number of people who do or who would condemn a given action, the more deviant it is. The more influence the people have in higher positions who disapproves of a given behavior the greater chance of being punished for engaging in it and the more deviant it is. ... by adults to commit crime is on the rise. Heartless killers and habitual criminals have always existed, but the number of crimes committed by younger kids has gotten higher Many have tried to figure out why and think it results from the growth of single parent families, rise in child a...

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... . "The refuge movement spread north to Boston and south to Baltimore and became the public-private merger solution to the growing number of homeless and troublesome street kids. As it spread, cruel and archaic practices spread with it. What started as a good idea based on real and pressing needs became, in the hands ... victims. The purpose of these conditions is to alter the juvenile's environment of past delinquent behaviors in the hope that, by removing those factors that were a negative influence, the youth will be less likely to misbehave (Simonsen, 1991, p. 289). The obligations and...

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... enough to be tried in an ,adult court, as someone who could (Mark P. 1). Juvenile offenders should not be tried as adults under the adult justice system. Societal problems are great influence in the way a child acts and thinks. Therefore, societal problems are a great contributing factor to the reasons why a child has for committing a crime. It is unfair to punish a child as ... killings was tied to the development of crack market in the inner city where fierce turf wars were waged and juveniles were actively recruited by the organizers of the markets" (Kids and Crime 6). This is just o...

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... involvement is extremely important and needed during teen years. The National Crime Prevention council says, "Parents not only influence their own children's choice to join a gang, they can also be agents of prevention in the neighborhood." Some kids do not have two parents, but that is okay, even one parent will do if they are emotionally there ... stability and comfort (Miller 3). One way to get teens out of gangs is to get them involved in the community with drug-free kids. Doing so can keep teens drug and gang-free. If the parents are physically there does not mean they are emotional...

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... . Also, it is almost impossible for the children to stick to the lecture material they learned in a few class hours and pit it against the stresses and strains of peer influence. I believe that if someone younger, possibly a graduate student, taught these classes, that the programs might benefit the children more. Giving them someone that they can relate to and can look ... -teens, it would show them the importance of family bonds and therefore hope to deter delinquency. If adolescents are able to form these bonds before the severe anxiety of peer influence, then it will strongly assist t...

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... those that have only committed one offense it usually is for curfew, or property damage such as toilet papering, or minor offenses such as those. The kids usually don't think they can get in trouble for those actions, but when they find out they did, then for the most part they are scared ... or their parents give them the most punishment of all." It tends to be that the kids that get involved with criminal actions more than once tend to stay in trouble with the law. Although there needs to be something done with those juveniles ... parents, their peers, or just in the minds of these ju...

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... people are socialized makes them criminals. All people are born good and must be taught or socialized to become bad. All behavior, including criminal, are learned behavior. We punish little kids when they do something wrong and we reward them when they do something good. At a young age we teach children the good from the bad. They learn this over time ... are likely to copy that violent TV show. An experiment illustrated that after kids watched violent TV, the children were observed to be playing rougher and more aggressively than the kids who watched the more passive TV shows. This exp...

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... except them, and they are looking in the wrong place. How much longer will we allow another good teen to go bad? Parents play a tremendous role in a child's life: they influence the way children talk, behave, and even perceive life. Over 33% of families live in slums where stealing and other crimes happen everyday (McGarrell). Presidents of the past have made ... the child to his or her maximum potential. Finally, parents should spend quality time with children; becoming involved with a child supports them in everything they do. These guidelines for raising kids have helped millions of ...

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... they don't realize that if they kill a person, they won't come back alive. TV, movies, music, and video games nowadays influence a lot of the children. The children are just reenacting their favorite scene from a movie, TV show, or video game. Some kids think that it's just one big video game and as soon as the game is over, the people will come ... back alive. Another reason could be because of peer pressure. Some kids pressured another kid into killing someone. The kid did it because he or she desperately wanted to fit in. We should give juveniles another chance because they"re still ...

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... blaming society for their problems and feel that they have the absolute right to do whatever they want, whenever they want. Family structure is something that is pretty hard to influence. We can't take children away from single parents who fail to provide a good, solid home for their children, nor can we go telling them that they need to raise their ... kids in a certain way and instill certain values in them. Often people are going to raise their kids, the way they were raised and the cycle will continue. Despite the poor homes that these youths come from, there are other ... ...

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... parents. This tendency to pass down deviant behavior through generations is a cycle of family violence (Lemert 48). Parents are unable to separate childhood traumas from the relationships with their own kids. A group called Child Protective Services are created to remove abuse from the sibling that can cause more harm to the victim. This is not always the best option for a family ... to wear the black clothes and act somewhat gothic, like them. This is just one example. It may just depend on the person to how much their peers and media influence them to go against the norms. Although, o...

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... parents. This tendency to pass down deviant behavior through generations is a cycle of family violence (Lemert 48). Parents are unable to separate childhood traumas from the relationships with their own kids. A group called Child Protective Services are created to remove abuse from the sibling that can cause more harm to the victim. This is not always the best option for a family ... " to wear the black clothes and act somewhat "gothic", like them. This is just one example. It may just depend on the person to how much their peers and media influence them to go against the norms. Although...

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... ). Ross (1995) also makes it clear that when children have low self-esteem they eventually start to earn poor grades or generally withdraw from academic activities. Also he found that kids who start school with low self-esteem report more delinquent acts during that year, than does those who had high self-esteem (557-58). When it comes to demographics, the ... ) the family has the less likelihood of delinquency. For males the differential association explanation states that we should focus on three key aspects of familial controls, which we expect to influence the learning of violent defi...

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... not been willing to give up on the belief that youth offenders can be rehabilitated. In fact, it has been proven that rehabilitation and community-based programs have had a positive influence on the future course of juveniles in trouble, especially first-time offenders. If every first-time offender, no matter what the crime, was forced by law to fulfill a certain number ... of hours of community service, surely it would influence the delinquent to think twice before going against the law further on in life ("White Paper Report", Koch Crime Institute, p. 1 of 3). With all this proof, som...

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... home from school. While doing so discussed life and their current situations and the sad reality of not having what they wanted. Justin a much older and smarter kid had much influence over Cody. As they continued to walk home they came upon an elderly man setting up the kick stand on his bike. Justin asked Cody if he wanted a bike, Cody ... to steal the bike but did not want to kill a man that day to get it. My first recommendation would be to have him enrolled in a state-funded institution for kids who can finish out schooling as well as focus on the ways of society, a crash course on ...

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... blame the problems their children face on someone else such as the schools or even the juvenile justice system and we were no exception. However, as parents we know our kids better than anyone else. Children have to make decisions throughout their childhood that will affect them either negatively or positively, with hope for the latter. What children do not understand ... by an ice cream cone, the possibility of this operation being repeated is greatly strengthened. Life is full of trial and error random responses and the consequences of these acts influence whether or not the acts will...

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