What is the best way of reducing youth crime?

Question

I'm trying to get a ton of responses so please answer! Hoping for at least 100 answer. This is for school so please answer seriously. What do you think is the best way of reducing youth crime?
Harsher punishments.
More emphasis on deterrence, less on rehabilitation.
More emphasis on rehabilitation, less on deterrence.
More responsible parenting.
Tougher gun laws.
Corporal punishment.
Crackdown on gangs.
Youth activity programs.
Jobs.
Other - Those are just some possible answers, you can come up with your own.

lol nice essay but most of that doesn't apply to me. I'm Canadian, we are proud but hardly "worship the flag". Everybody please, please answer though as it's a survey for school that will look very impressive with 100+ responses

Answer 1

Bring them to the Courts of Justice and be punished of penalty commensurate of the offense committed.

Answer 2

I don't think youth crime is a major problem. Its been declining of late.

However, it would be nice if the parents would stop worrying about everything and protecting their kids from nothing. There's a reason that soccer moms produced Generation X.

Harsher punishments would be a disaster. We don't need to send young people to jail for most of their lives. Tougher gun laws would only lead to victims unable to defend themselves and a runaway Totalitarian police state (which is why Hitler disarmed Germany after he took over). Corporal Punishment would be bad because it might make young people even more like sheep. We've got enough cliques in schools to begin with. A crackdown on gangs would probably lead to an escalation of gangbanging (however either securing the borders or legalizing drugs, if not both, would stop the drug trade and run the gangs out of business). We couldn't enable young people to get jobs without repealing Minimum Wage and Child Labor laws, which the left would never allow. Activity programs are probably going to be boring and ineffective.

Don't believe school propaganda. The school system was created to mold children into sheep for a Socialist vision of the future. That's why you worship a flag every day at the start of school, because State Worship is the Socialist replacement for religion. Before public schools, a Thomas Edison or a Ben Franklin was typical. Both men dropped out of school in Elementary school (they don't teach you that in school or Albert Einstein's hatred of school because such things might make you see through school).

Please, whatever you do, don't give the school the Statist (as in Government Loving) answer they want. Stand up for what America was founded on and work to disprove their Socialist drivel. The government is the most dangerous threat to your freedom and you need to realize that or you could end up driving America into National Socialism (better known as Fascism or Nazism). You should recognize that you aren't at school to learn. You're at school to be brainwashed by the government. Spend your time in school hanging out and do enough to keep your grades up, but don't ever turn your back on what's right to increase your grades.

Answer 3

Usually people act out because they want to be heard. They are not allowed to express themselves, so they do it in an extreme way to make a serious statement. More adults should spend more time listening than lecturing. Listening to what a child has to say, sometimes can be the best prevention.
some other ideas could be:
1.Providing better role models for minorities
2.Free activity programs provided in neighborhoods considered at risk areas (ex. music lessons, gymnastics etc)
3.Better teachers in schools in at risk neighborhoods(reducing higher drop out, kids drop out and choose elegal activities for money)

Maybe this will help a little
Xilia

Answer 4

By setting a good example and letting our children be more responsible for their own bad or good judgment.

Answer 5

educate the parents first on how the handle their young ones. some parents are just lost in translation when it comes to that.