Juvenile Crime

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Term Paper Title	Juvenile Crime
# of Words	502
# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	2.01

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.
     Another risk factor...

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