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Why do teens commit crime?!..
well,,
several points to ask..>3<
-What are the motives when teens committing crime?
- Any psychology factor?! Teenage Criminal Psychology?!
and .. some information of "Teenager Criminal Motives " ...
please help me with it..
i m going to finish the project and do it with an essay..
>33<''
thankx!

2007-01-25 22:27:17 · 7 answers · asked by cReeZtall! 2 in Politics & Government Law & Ethics

7 answers

I don't know that you can say that teenage crime can all be put in the one basket.

I'd divide up teenage crime as follows: major crimes involving sexual deviation, or sadism, or serial killing, or something of that nature. That type of crime isn't confined to teenagers, indeed, usually, teenagers are still practising to lead up to it, rather than actually committing it.

So that leads to the second, related category, teenagers practising the crimes that lead up to those sorts of crimes in the first category. This would include things like stalking, snowdropping (stealing underwear), and cruelty to animals.

In both these cases, I think we are talking about the criminally insane, or something like that. [The exact, legal definitions of criminal insanity vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. In reality, I think a lot of criminals are suffering from mental illness of some sort.]

Fortunately, teenagers in the first two categories are relatively rare.

The most common category of teenage crime is minor. One survey a few years ago found that two thirds of young men admitted to committing some form of criminal act. Another survey found that 90% of women have shoplifted. [The second survey didn't specifically mention the age at which they shoplifted, but, from what I have heard, this again is often a teenage activity.] Crimes in this minor category would include shoplifting, vandalism & grafitti, fighting, and, I would argue, drug use. When one is looking at crimes in this category, I think some of them are created by the legal system, rather than necessarily being criminal in and of themselves. Under age drinking is a classic case. If you go into a bar & order a drink, and you are 18 years of age and over, then your actions are legal. If you are 17 years & 11 months, then your actions are illegal. While there are arguments both for and against drug legalisation, the fact that (say) marijuana is illegal means that a lot of people are de facto criminals.

Then there are the more serious crimes that increasing numbers of teenagers appear to be committing: including muggings & bashings, and the murders that follow from those actions, vehicle thefts, rape and so on. And there are the teenagers that don't just use drugs occasionally, but who deal in them. Financial gain is often a factor in these crimes. Uncontrolled anger is also a factor. As with the category above, failing to think through actions, and their consequences, is often a factor. But, in these, more serious cases, the teenagers committing the crimes don't seem to have the usual inhibitions that stop the rest of us from hurting others.

You could probably find other categories of teenage crime. As for factors behind it, you could point to dozens. Some recent research would say that teenagers' brains aren't yet fully formed, and so they are less able to control their actions and see the possible consequences of their actions than people over about 25. There are teenagers from seriously dysfunctional families, and there are teenagers who are essentially, behaving like their criminal parents. In some cases, teenagers are financially disadvantaged, and so crime is committed because of need. Drugs are often a factor: because a number of drugs are addictive, and also alter behaviour, drug use can turn an otherwise law-abiding person into a criminal. There is also the usual teenage desire to try out things that are outside the usual ambit of their family's behaviour: teenage rebellion if you like, and this can lead to individuals doing both good and bad things. This ties closely to thrill-seeking.

I would suggest that it is possible that because children are protected so much, - and in recent times, the numbers of laws saying that you can't do this or that have increased so greatly, that there is a natural desire to break out, and do something illegal.

As you can see, this is a huge topic, and I've barely skated over the surface.

2007-01-25 23:12:57 · answer #1 · answered by Spell Check! 3 · 0 0

Teens have been committing crime for a long time.
It is the thrill also testing their boundaries.

What makes today different parents aren't teaching boundaries they are all for no hurting their feelings.
Discipline is required and that is no longer enforced by most parents. We now have a society that teaches people are victim of something anything.

So without discipline they have no reason to respond to warning.

Another factor kids are hurting with divorice and two parents working the focus of the families has turn to what the parents can do for themselevs. To get all the toys. Not spending time with kids.

My mother when she was a teacher should could tell which kids was going through a divorce.

I do hope this helps.

2007-01-26 06:50:16 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

Sometimes these could be reasons why teenager commit crime.1.Peer group this is influence of bad company expecialy in the school campuses.2.Parental influence most parent derive joy in commiting crime and they do not care what become of their children.Societal influence,when the society norms and values are no longer internalise then it must have an effect on the childrens.Youthful exorberant and ignorance.most often than not,these two factors have been adjudged as causes of Teenager involving in crime.This could be analyse in different ways.
The motive behind this are as follows.To satisfy basic necesity of life,to compete and measure up with their peers,to gain rec
ognisance and boost their ego.

2007-01-26 06:59:58 · answer #3 · answered by 0yewole o 1 · 0 1

Anomalies in the prefrontal cortex may handicap some individuals, making it difficult for them to show retraint. Some scientists hypothesize that the orbitofrontal cortex, an area involved in decision making, normally inhibits regions in the limbic system-specifically the hypothalamus and the amygdala, where fear and aggression arise. If a defect blocks this communication, a person might not be able to moderate his or her emotional reactions. Damage to the hippocampus may also impair the brain's processing of emotional information. In some instances, a malfunction of the amygdala may underlie violent behavior. This theory could explain the lack of fear, empathy and regret that is characteristic of criminals who plan their act and commit them in cold blood.

2007-01-26 06:39:49 · answer #4 · answered by lonewolf07 2 · 0 0

Lack of morals and respect for laws. I would assume some do it for the thrill of the moment with no regard for the consquences. A lack of parental control plays heavily in the area of a child's actions.

2007-01-26 07:53:35 · answer #5 · answered by albert_noodles 3 · 0 1

alright first off I'm gonna say that I'm 15 and i have broken plenty of laws in my life,few because every one else was doing it (peer presher)but most just simply because i liked the excitment.

2007-01-26 06:33:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

they crime because for money . because make their demand fulfills like to take mobile and hard drinks and drugs

2007-01-26 06:40:28 · answer #7 · answered by jaspreet singh 1 · 0 1

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