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. ... Kids in gangs are not bad. ... A person's behavior is influenced by interactions with other people such as parents, teacher's peers as well as through portrayals of people in the media. ... Nine out of ten television shows depict violence as a way to settle disputes, so kids are learning that behavior. ... Others believe it's the Lure of Fast money that starts kids on the track to crime. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

There is too much room for reasons why kids join gangs such as education, economy, and racism aren't improved can lead to create gangs. ... [Kids like me] feel the same way.... 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. ... This is where gang shows how easy it is to manipulate or influence kids which lead them to join gangs. ... This is how the gangs come in and easily influence the youths to join them. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

We punish little kids when they do something wrong and we reward them when they do something good. ... 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 experiment proved that we shape the minds of children and influence them into becoming a bad person thus committing crime. ...

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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). ... Biblography "It's our kids who are at stake", 1995 Annual Report: Drugs and Alcohol. ...

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Parents have the power to influence their children to join a gang or not to. ... Gang members will often present themselves as the, "good kid from the good family," but in reality it is the other way around. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Bullies, who are often under the age of eighteen, come from various situation that may influence their behavior. ... James Lehman MSW and child behavioral therapist as author of The Secret Life of Bullies: Why They Do It and How to Stop Them, states that "bullying is the proverbial easy way out," and sadly, that some kids take it reflects corrupted childhood innocence. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate