Teens thinking like Criminals 

           Until the twentieth century, there was little difference between how the justice system treated adults and children. Age was considered only in terms of appropriate punishment, and juveniles were eligible for the same punishment as adults, including the death penalty. Have you ever thought that poverty, homes issue, and acceptance can make teenagers criminals? But I am sure that people knew that where one lives can affect a ones insecurities of acceptance and become a criminal.

In the 21^st century the real reasons for teenage crime was poverty and acceptance. Some of these factors contribute to teenage crime because they need to steal simply to survive or get a hold of basic necessities. Many families nowadays are very poor and will get poorer, from the rising of interest rates and many other things. This will make the poor even poorer, with less chance of making their way up the ladder without needing to steal. People are not understanding that people in poverty need resources that they don’t have access to, making them do crimes to get the necessities they need. But being in a less fortunate home, one is without doubt going to need to steal, simply to survive each week and so that one can go to school or work. We need to come together and help people that cannot afford those necessities or some sort of guidance to these items.

There are several home issues that can effect a teenager perspective. Divorces come up as a huge effect on a teenager dramatically. The increase in the number of divorces in America during the last two decades has been dramatic: over  413,00 divorces since 1962.  More and more families are going through these hard times.. Most teenagers go to school, worried about their home life and what will happen to them. Those teenager are considered lucky because there are other teenagers that don’t even have a home. Hundreds of teenagers face numerous challenges at home, such to events like not keeping up to their school and parents’ academies standards which seem small to events such as divorce or even becoming an orphan. Many teenagers are trying to deal with problems at home by doing things are worse such as, crimes and drugs. The teenage crime has suddenly appear to increase because most of these teenagers are trying to forget about the old memories’ they have. Simply just to try and catch their parents attention or simply trying to rebel and forget about their home life. This can be considered by doing things such as binge drinking or taking drugs. We need to know what problem is and learn different ways to fixing this issue because many teenagers are suffering from without even knowing.

A huge goal for girls and boys is acceptance. Nobody likes to be left out or be called bad names, so teens do whatever the “cool people” do to be accepted. Many teens try to be cool and so do what many other criminal teenagers are doing which is thinks like binge drinking, drunk driving, and doing drugs. These events are caused because teenagers do not want to be left out.

Teenage crime is caused because of the need of want of something. Teenagers do not want to be poor and not have enough money for simple school supplies. One tends to want peace and harmony at home and also they need and want to be accepted by others. Teenage crime is rising at an alarming and things must be done. There are parents that are just stuck in the middle. These are the times parents should be helping their child at these times especially, when anything can happen and go wrong