Why is there such an increase in serious violent crime perpetrated by young teenagers?

Answer 1

Because they are angry.
parents are too self absorbed to take the time to raise them. So they give them video games, the kid sneaks pot out of mommies dresser, has unprotected sex in an unsupervised house, then when they still get NO attention they turn to worse and worse behavior.

Answer 2

I think it might have got something to do with the loss of morals. I'm not a religious person at all, but I was brought up with a strong sense of what's right and wrong. The media and our society is breaking more and more taboos. There are hardly any boundaries left. Too many things have become accepted or everybody is turning a blind eye to it. Neighbours don't know each other any more, so kids get away with far too much before they get caught out. It seems to have become part of being accepted in certain circles to carry weapons. If this is the case, these kind of incidents are bound to happen.

Answer 3

Well for one thing there is no real deterrent, ie we in Gt Britain have taken the word punishment out of the English language. With of all this PC behaviour, everyone thinks that life ought to be rosy for everyone,this inherent disease seems to start back at home this mamby pamby way of going on, you can't hit children. Nobody has to be brutal when correcting children, just a little tap is quite sufficient to let them know that they have stepped out of line.So with the absence of corporal punishment at school, chastisement at home, the youngster who then grows up to young teenager are all running riot. Then this leads to more serious issues but there again if they are locked up nothing of any weight, punishment wise is handed out I mean look at the news over the last 24 hrs going on about criminals have, or leave their families with serious debt problems, when the felons are locked up. who's fault is that certainly not mine.they are talking about increasing their state money on release to in excess of a £100.I tell you what lets release all the cons and lock every last decent citizen up because
we seem to be getting the worst deal.

Answer 4

They are frustrated because they are poorly educated, and there letters asking for job application forms are being ignored by the companies that should be encouraging them to take an interest in commercial practises. The youngsters see how the rich live and have it rubbed in their faces by the media, I would not lower myself to live as the rich do in this day and age they are a disgrace.
The governments duty is to provide education and jobs for the population to prosper and make it a great country to live in but they are to tied up by their own personal money making scams. All this is leading to anarchy and a police state, there future is dismal because of the greed that permeates the world.

Answer 5

This is due to parents being uninterested in their children. They are prepared to guide their offspring through the learning processes of basic skills -walking, tying shoelaces etc, but as soon as the child has obtained the skills of basic autonomy, they are abandoned to the streets and the culture that pertains thereto.

The average child will have gained these skills, plus the basic social skills, by age 10, and will be capable of acting independently to a limited degree. The child will seek to explore his burgeoning independence, but will always need to be able to retreat to the re-assurance of the parental home and to be able to discuss his experiences, positive and negative. It is vital that parents grant freedom, freedoms that increase from age 10 onwards, but the parents must be in a position to judge how their child is using these freedoms, and be prepared to impose restraint or loosen the reins as appropriate. Pubescent and adolescent children, whilst appearing rebellious on the surface, generally value and need parental guidance, and this guidance must continue until the child achieves his majority.

I will cite a few examples. Firstly, I work as a Security Officer *** Receptionist in an English Magistrates Court. We have a weekly Youth Remand Court, at which upwards of thirty five youths appear, along with parents, guardians and the rest. When I first took over the job, Youth Court was mayhem. This is because the previous security officer imposed no discipline. (Word gets around as to where you can, or cannot, get away with mischief or worse). Youth Court now is peaceful, because I treat every youth as worthy of respect (I call them all 'sir, or miss' when they arrive at the Court.) They are searched (electronically), informed of the ground rules and are told to form an orderly queue at the Reception desk.
Hoodies and all, they do this; they form a queue. Youth will respond to discipline, and may even, subconsciously, crave it. Obviously, if they behave in abnegation of the respect, they are treated accordingly.

Secondly, my last set of neighbours were a late-thirties couple with a fifteen year old daughter. She was not allowed to have her friends visit her in her house, so they pulled up on the street corner in their cars and serenaded the locality with drum and bass from their car stereos until I bubbled this illegal disturbance to the parents landlord, the local Council and the constabulary. Every bit of low-life was sniffing around this girl (and remember, I know who the low-life are because of my job). Had the parents been prepared to sacrifice a bit of their quality time to allow their daughter to have her friends indoors, both the daughter and the local community would have benefited. In the end, the landlord had so many complaints that the rental of the property was terminated, the family now live in the dodgy part of the town, and, when I last saw her, the daughter was still not allowed to have her friends indoors and was running around the streets with some of the worst elements in the town, including a lad, who, at 17, has fathered two children and should have his trousers bolted onto his body, and the zip sealed up with lead.

Thirdly, a parent would not allow her seventeen year old son who lived at home, to entertain his girlfriend in his room. The boy bought a van, equipped it with a mattress, and turned it into a passion wagon. Girlfriend is now pregnant, and the **** has hit the fan. However, had said parent applied some thought, it might have dawned upon her that seventeen year olds are likely to have sex, and if their desires are treated with respect, they may be more inclined to consider sensible precautions, such as condoms. If one is reduced to a quiock shag in the dark in the back of a van, such niceties are likely to be forgotten.

These examples come from white, middle-class Britain in a small coastal town in East Anglia. God help the kids - it is the parents that need to learn.

Answer 6

Because they are a bunch of tw@ts. They have the entire world on a plate before them, their parents are as thick as pig's **it, they don't have to tried so hard at school to pass the latest set of exams - they are getting easier to pass each year, try and deny it - and they play computer games that show them it's 'cool' to break into cars. They have absolutely no concept of what suffering is. Even if they go to jail they will have PSPs in their cells otherwise it's an infringement of their human rights!

Answer 7

the victims of crime are usually teenagers too......of course there are cases contrary to this but by and large stats show that other young people tend to be the victims of young people. I think that now our social ills have gone elsewhere, before it was stifling control by social norms that were unchosen by the individual, now that is going, its this. But its easy enough to suss out someone who looks violent and stay away and still not judge every young person you meet.

Answer 8

i'm not shocked via that, that is purely extra of their nature. In center and severe colleges you're plenty extra probable to work out a guy stepping right into a combat and a female ruining somebody's existence socially. nevertheless, neither gender is inferior.

Answer 9

Socioeconomic surroundings, rage, anger, hormones, lack of fulfilment. If a child is lost it will take the nearest path to safety, but sadly that is usually drugs, either taking or dealing.

That and what Foghorn says below. !!.

Answer 10

I think due to the excessive violence in the movies, on TV and video games we gradually become desensitized to it. I think the teens are just acting out due to what they see.