What is the rationale behind youth offenders?

Question

I am currently writing a thesis on global youth crimes. I believe there is a "standard factor" that makes them tick. Socio? Legal? Econ? Enviro? Edu?

Answer 1

i think you have partially answered your own question, it is all of the things you mentioned, plus there is too much unsupervised idle time for youth today, we have abandoned our youth, not too long ago there was something on the news about how 10 or 12 year olds are the new 15..what? so does that mean that now we are just going let the 12 year old makes their own rules and decisions? Its total insanity, I believe we at least in the U.S.have let our youth down by trying to be their friends instead of their parents.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

wrote my dissertation on the same topic. I recommed looking into the Repeat Offender Prevention study done in California and particularly any pulbications about research done on Orange's County's 8% theory.

I did a true experiemental design with youth offenders under the age of 15. I had a laundry list of factors (socio-economic and others). I ran a factor analysis using data collected on kids entering the system. From there I worked on what you are looking at globally, but I stuck to state and federal youth crime.

I found statistically significant factors (such as age, enviroment, substance use to abuse, etc). I could not find one factor alone that stood out. Instead it is still being theorized as a mixture of certain key factors that lead approximately 8% of first time junvile offenders to go to prison.

Answer 4

I don't know that there is a "standard" anything when it comes to teens. I think it is a combination of Socio/Bio/Psych/Enviro/Edu/Ecom factors. Kids listen to what parents/caregivers say, but they also do what parents do. They do what they know, until someone shows them something different.

Answer 5

Gangs give youth what they need. A family.

As a parent, offer your children what a gang does and you'll have no problems.

1 - You are my family. Through thick and thin, when you're right and when you're wrong, I'll be by your side.

2 - While you are my family, you will do as I say, when I say, or I will kick your *ss. Don't worry about misunderstandings, the boundaries will be very clear and enforced 100% of the time, immediately.

3 - There's only one way out of being in my family. Death.

About 90% of inmates in the US grew up without a male role model in the house.

Answer 6

Teran and Mich said it all. I would just add, one element of poor behavior of youth is the fact that they have not been taught the effect of their actions on others, they view the world as systematic effort on their own part to satisfy themselves only without regard to family and the society around them. These lessons are taught early in life, simply by, for example, shushing a child talking loudly because they might be disturbing others. If they are not taught, they simply grow as they see fit to find their own satisfaction in all areas.

Answer 7

All your listing and not any room for genetic heritability. Until you social scientists come to grips with the heritability of human behavioral traits, you will remain ineffective and find yourselves soon marginalized by science.

Answer 8

Children have nothing to do these days. Getting in trouble is something to do, even if it is wrong.
Make it easier for young people to go find work. This of course will be abused like everything else these days but at least will keep kids out of our jails....

Answer 9

it is societal, i have known juvenile offenders from wealthy families and ones from poor. Across the board most juvenile crimes are committed by kids from economically depressed families.

Answer 10

All of those things and don't forget to research their problem with their sense of entitlement ...."The world owes me everything " attitude that so many of these people seem to have.............