Teenage Delinquency
Teenage Delinquency “If a person does not have a conscience, then there is no crime that person can’t do.” Says Senator Cheese Esquedero. The number of juvenile crimes has been growing rapidly the past few years. This oppression created by the youth has concerned people all over the world. The lack of discipline among the youth or the under-aged has enormously contributed to this problem. Youth on the edge of adulthood has easy access to illegal drugs and substances, this alone will give them a wrong mindset, and will lead them to do even more crimes. Small acts of disobedience like bullying and vandalism are happening everywhere, but most schools and communities don’t even have proper punishment for these acts. Parents, teachers and adults usually ignore these problems because they either refuse to believe it is happening or think it is not a big deal. So whose fault is this? You might ask. It may be the family’s fault if the family did not raise the child with the right morals or values. Can it be the government’s fault? The government is not responsible for the way a child behaves because they were not the ones who brought the child up. The case may only fall upon them if they do not give proper punishment to someone who has committed a juvenile crime, this may because they choose to ignore it, or allow the teenager to bribe them or their employees. Might it be the school? The school is responsible mostly for the academics of the teenager, so you cannot put the entire blame on the school, but one of the major reasons it may be their fault is because sometimes teachers do not act professionally, they power trip on students, which makes most of the students be against them, and clearly, a student cannot look up to someone they are against. How about the teenager’s peers? Teenagers are constantly pressured to do what their peers want them to do, just because they want to fit in. These are only a few possible causes, there are a lot