Crime

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Crime

• Teen Crime
• Between the Ages of 17 to 25
• Relates to Chapter 8
• By Shelly Berndt
• Lance Grambo
• Trevor Anderson
• Andy Beaten

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Introduction

• Teen crime was the topic that our group picked
  because it had different verity of topics to
  choose from and it sees how teens react to the
  culture around them. The topic also shows how
  teens are deprived from human potential. Our
  group picked four different topics that help
  explain teen violence, and those topic, are
  gangs, school violence, how teens became involved
  in crime, and juvenile crime statistics. Each
  topic explains how teens got involved, what the
  teens did, and why teens did what they did.

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• Research methods
• Secondary data
• Qualitative

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Gangs

• History
• Start of gangs
• Immigrants that come to U.S.
• Gangs with Drugs
• Sell drugs to make money
• Sell drugs to keep reputation
• Sell drugs to buy guns

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Gangs

• Reason why teens join gangs
• Not a healthy family
• Protection from other people
• Getting money from selling drugs

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Gangs

• How media plays a role in gang involvement.
• News castings
• Gets viewers attention by showing violence on
  T.V.
• Music
• Rap music that has angry lyrics that promote
  violence

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Gangs

• Media
• Plays a role buy spicing up the story which is
  not factual events.
• The media does this to make money

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Statistics

• Robbery/
• Aggravated Assault

• Rating for teen crime

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Statistics

• Murder

• Burglary

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Teens Involved In School Violence

• Bullying Behavior
• Physical
• Verbal
• Psychological

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Teens Involved In School Violence

• Student who are Bullies
• Difficulty following rules
• Impulsive, aggressive, and easily frustrated.
• Sees violence as appropriate and justifiable
• Influenced by inappropriate, parental,
  discipline, and kids are not rewarded or
  disciplined.
• Regulate peer influences and community
  influences.

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Teens Involved In School Violence

• Students who are victims
• Physical wellness and differences
• Lack of assertiveness and self-confidence
• Weak social skills and difficulty meeting friends
• Poor communication skills

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Teens Involved In School Shooting

• School shootings

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Causes of Crime in Late Teens and Early Twenties

• Family
• Devoiced parents
• Parents on drugs
• Parents death
• Friends

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Causes of Crime in Late Teens and Early Twenties

• Environment
• Poor household
• Raising of the child
• Genetics

• Class system
• High class
• Middle class
• Lower class

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Crime Prevention Plan

• In youth crime there is one time of day that it
  spikes. This time is right after school. This is
  when robbery, violent crime, murder, and property
  crime can be prevented. It has been proven that
  if there are activities after school, it reduces
  the total youth crime in many cities. From the
  Fight Crime Invest in Kids Reports there are
  four easy steps that can be taken to prevent
  youth crime.
• Assure all school-age children and teens access
  to after-school, weekend and summer youth
  development programs to shut down the Prime Time
  for Juvenile Crime

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• Assure all families access to the school
  readiness child care programs proven to
  dramatically reduce crime.
• Help schools identify troubled and disruptive
  children at an early age, and provide children
  and their parents with the counseling and
  training that can help kids get back on track.

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• Improve deficient parenting and prevent child
  abuse and neglect by a) Offering high-risk
  parents in home parenting-coaching and b) making
  sure child protective, foster care and adoption
  services have polices and enough well trained
  staff to protect and heal abused and neglected
  children.
• The bottom line is that if we do not invest in
  our kids at a young age we will pay for it later.
  This is not only in dollar value but with lives
  also.

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The End