Juvenile Death Penalty
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True Crime: Youth in America
Youth Crimes are being committed by Juveniles commonly
from 13-18 at an alarming rate. Some of these crimes are
caused with no purpose or reason for committing these
crimes. Reasons for this may range from just not caring to
there being something seriously wrong with the individual
or individuals. The services that are made to help stop
this issue are being taken away because of money debts and
other things related to that matter. Social Services are
available for minor offenders as well as for major
offenders. We need to understand why youth crimes are
increasing and what is the general cause of this problem.
||Teens end up in jail for major offenses which include
murder, armed robbery, and evading police, while more
serious crimes place teens on death row; however, there is
new hope for death row teens because of new legislation
that has changed the inmates future, as well as the United
States law as well as the American prison system.|| In
learning more about this topic also there will be examples
of real life events and what ties them to this topic of
youth crime.
Although the general youth crimes across the country
involve robbery, police chases and murder the actual crimes
in general are not known by the teens committing them.
Juveniles between the ages of thirteen and eighteen are
committing these crimes. There are many reasons mainly
because of issues and their young minds are not developed
well enough to understand that all for that
they are doing they could suffer serious consequences.
Typical youth crimes such as Murder, Robbery, Grand theft
Auto, Evasion of a Officer, Major things such as that are
being committed among our youth today. What triggers our
youth to do such things? There are various things which may
trigger normal youth to commit crimes. The history of a
family can be a predictor of violent crime committers. Some
evidence shows that genetics might account for as much as
50% to 70% of violent behavior. (More Violent Young
Offenders par 14) Early aggressive behavior in preschool
have been predictors of violent offenders. (Par 13) Bipolar
disorder often is a root cause of “criminal thinking”. (par
12) Bipolar disorder increases serious anti-social
behavior. They also lack solid reasoning. (par 12)
Therefore Suicidal and Homicidal actions are associated
with bipolar disorder. (par 12) Depression is also one of
the biggest reasons for youth crime. Not only is depression
socially contagious if increased, it also magnifies suicidal
action. (Par 6) Depressed adults pay less attention to good
behavior in youth and more attention to wrong behavior. In
doing this it shows that in the next generation there will
be an increase in outcomes for children like delinquency
and substance abuse. (More violent young offenders Par 6)
Depression involves dramatic gestures such as “suicide by
cop”. (par 11) This dangerous gesture is when the person
wants to
die and uses a way to have the police to kill them such as
commit a serious crime. (Par 11) Also There are
atmospheric things such as a neurotoxin in the air that is
from lead causes damage of brain functions. (Par 15) An
aggressive behavior and being homicidal is associated with
levels of air lead concentration. (Par 15)
For convicted teens and troubled youth, to prevent
crimes from happening or from ever happening again there
are services that are available to help these juveniles.
Services that are available are established to not only
help troubled students in the home, but also to help
troubled students at school also. Workers in different
agencies manage kids cases the same way, identifying
children with problems in schools. There are different
services that are created to do certain things among the
lives of the troubled youth. These Services are located all
over the country in urban areas as well as rural areas. They
are most commonly found in schools where children that are
either in their teens or their adolescence can get help
without anything happening to them. Examples of this in in
Albemarle
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