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Who is to blame for juvenlie acts
When I was growing up I always heard the saying, “ that times have changed and not for the better.” I’ve never quite understood what that meant. I can remember saying, “ I can’t wait till I grow up, so I can be on my own. In middle and high school there was school fights, once the fight was broken up, all of the children involved in the fight made up and that was the end of the fight. In today’s society that has all changed. Now when there is school fight it might lead to the street and may even result in death. Teenagers in today’s society, in my opinion are willing to take far more of a risk then I was ever willing to take. They don’t think about their actions before they do them. Here in New Orleans teen violence occurs almost everyday. When people in the community want to do something about teen violence, there is no one in the legislature who wants to hear or take the blame. No one person is to blame for the rise in Juvenile crime.
The purpose for my paper is to show how and why these teens are committing these violent acts. I plan to (1) show how crime has risen within the last twenty years. (2) I plan to make an attempt to explain why these teens are committing deviant act such as shooting or killing each other. (3) I plan to talk about the facilities here in Louisiana that our Juveniles are sent to and what should be done about this.
Going back twenty years you will see that juvenile crime has risen more than twenty percent. In 1997 the black youth represented eighty percent of youths being in secure facilities. In 1994 seventy percent of the youths released from prison has committed another crime. Twenty percent of youths that are incarcerated have been diagnosed mentally ill or mentally retarded and our state is doing nothing to help them. Here in Louisiana African Americans youths are twelve times more likely to get incarcerated then white youth. In 1997 over a month period 8.5 percent of High School students carried around a weapon. Also, in 1997 1679 teenagers were charged with a violent crime. When I listen to my relatives talk about when they were growing up they were able to watch television with their doors open. The world we live in today you have to make sure that you lock your door as soon as you walk in it.
School violence is another issue America has been facing. Here in New Orleans we have had two major schools shooting take place. The first shooting happened in 2000 at [next page]