EVERYBODY PLEASE ANSWER!!! 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 answers. 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.

Answer 1

Never under-estimate the value of a good kick in the backside.

Parents have had their hands tied over discipline and this should never have occurred, they should be allowed to physically punish their children to re instill a certain level of respect and fear in them.

Answer 2

I live in the inner city. The jails have near 30% of jail population is 20 or below locked up for some kind of a criminal act. However, my brother lives in the suburbs, and nearly ZERO of their youths are in jail; WHY???

I think is due to the fact that the fathers in the inner cities have literally abandoned their offspring. Most children born are of unwed mothers. The female has been left to shift for the family while the male is either in jail, killed off, or simply run away and bares no responsibility in the upbringing of the child. No one I can tell is the BOSS. The police are called for every kind of nonsense thing, thinking the police are the ones to solve family problems.

From my perspective, we've got to somehow get these males to view education in school as something valuable in live . Right now, its a joke. If a good male student is in school he is ridiculed and made fun of Even attacked. So what do we as a society crank out? A bunch of hoodlums who cannot make a living, must steal and comit crimes to acquire money and see that as a way to gaining wealth.

And, somehow we as a society need to place a value on moral thing, not those gold trinkets on a male's ears or that gold chain around their necks, or those sports clothing because by doing so we shrink the value of education, working hard, taking care of ones family and doin the very things that make for lesser crime in society.

Answer 3

The following are factors in reducing youth crimes:

1. Proper education,
2. Indoctrination of the consequences of crimes,
3. Tougher laws against felons,
4. Parental guidance, and
5. Rewards for good behavior.

Answer 4

The Broken Window Effect. Thats what Gulliani used to severally reduce crime in New York. The theory is if someone sees a broken window in a building they are more likely to throw a rock and break another window, than if the building had no broken windows. What he spefically did was crack down on small crime, show people they meant business, and this reduced overall crime. Jaywalking, loitering, public drinking etc were strickly enforced. People thought twice about comitting crimes and this got them off the streets. If it worked in New York, it can work anywhere.

Answer 5

Punishment can not modify behavior, to reduce youth crime there must be a way with which to channel violence. The natural disposition of young males is aggression, once this is directed positively such as in construction education or martial arts training crime will reduce.

Answer 6

I think the most important thing is responsible parenting. Parents influence the kids from BIRTH on. They have the most power until peer pressure kicks in. Parenting needs to start at the beginning, and it's NOT a spectator sport. You have to participate in your child's life. Know your kid and let them know you. You CAN NOT expect your child to respect you or your values if ALL you do is discipline when they're in trouble. You have to be there to praise them when they do something good...counsel them when they're confused...hold their hand when they try something new...it's a package deal. If you don't get that parent/child relationship established by the time their friends become a strong influence...you'll end up chasing them around, trying to 'control' them when they're 14-15. Good luck with that.

Just for the record...I never hit my kid. I didn't need to. He's 25 now, and I didn't have to deal with any crap during his growing up years, so that whole 'physical discipline' thing isn't as strong an influence as people claim. Know your kid, be there for your kid, discipline when necessary and establish a relationship THEY are comfortable enough with, that they can come to YOU with problems first...rather than anyone else. That's the key.

Answer 7

Punish and stop trying to rehabilitate.

Allow consumers to block stations from coming in on their tv via cable, etc.

You cannot regulate responsible parenting. This is the big problem.

You can however regulate a few things that lead to acting out.

1. Make it harder to get divorced.
2. Make it harder to get married over and over again.
3. Teach kids in school that having sex leads to children and one should be married before having kids. Quit teaching condom use. Kids need to learn consequences of their actions. Make abortion much harder to get. Stop allowing it because she had sex and does not want a child. Doing all of these 3 will force people to be married and stay married when having kids. Divorce and unwed parents are a major risk factor for bad behavior.

4. Then you get the government out of providing basics to citizens. We have had generation after generation of welfare familes missing fathers. See the black community. It is considered ok to have kids with multiple women and not get married. People use welfare as a crutch to not to take care of themselves.

Start here and you will see major changes.

Then you can get into tax reform. Parents are too busy chasing the dollar that they many times cannot be around their kids.

Answer 8

Education and no corporal punishment. Put money in the school systems not in the prisons. Near my run down filthy school in the South Bronx (that graduates 98% of its students) there is a beautiful brand new sparkling facility boasting beautiful basketball courts a gorgeous cafeteria and a courtyard play area. It's the new juvenile detention facility.

Answer 9

Fighting the war on poverty is always the best, if not always most immediate solution. Then work to lessen the glamorization of violence in popular media, or at least teach kids how to regard it....it's not all fun "gangsta" actitivities, it's often a lot of prison time getting repeatedly boned by a 300-lb pervert named Gustav. Follow that up with jobs, better parenting, and a curfew. "Get tough" laws and punishment often backfire.

Answer 10

Take the offender down HARD for the first offense! Boot camp style facilities, etc. Make the penalty for breaking the law so heavy that no one would want to do the time!

An extreme crackdown on gangs is long overdue.

Answer 11

I feel having more positive things for teens to do with their time is the best way to lower crime. Things that aren't going to cost the teen, or the teens parents a lot of money.