Juvenile Crime

Title	Juvenile Crime
# of Words	511
# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	2.04

Juvenile Crime

Juvenile Crime

     One of the biggest problems which the United States is faced with is
juvenile crime.  The reason experts feel juvenile's commit crimes is because of
risk factors when they were younger but experts still have not found the main
reason why juvenile's commit crimes.  Some risk factors associated with juvenile
crime are poverty, repeated exposure to violence, drugs, easy access to firearms,
unstable family life and family violence, delinquent peer groups, and media
violence.  Especially the demise of family life, the effect of the media on the
juveniles today, and the increase of firearms available today have played a big
role in the increase of juveniles crimes.
     The most common risk factor is the demise of the family life and the
increase in family violence.  Between 1976 and 1992 the number of juveniles
living in poverty grew 42% and this caused an increase in crimes by juveniles.
Many of these juvenile criminals have been abused or neglected and they also
grew up in a single-parent household.  Research has found that 53% of these
children are more likely to be arrested, and 38% more likely to commit a violent
crime as an adult, then their counterparts who did not suffer such abuse.  The
symptoms of child abuse are “high levels of aggression and antisocial behavior”
and these children are twice as likely to become juvenile offenders.  Also
improper parental care has been linked to delinquency such as mothers who drink
alcohol or take drugs during pregnancy cause their babies to grow up with
learning disorders, a problem which leads them to be juvenile criminals.
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