What causes Juvenile Delinquents?
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"Seth C. Triggs" seth.tri...@verizon.net
I was commuting home when people started to discuss the failed shopping and pedestrian mall downtown. After the conversation, I remembered a book by local author Mark Goldman, who mentioned at one point that businesses removed benches in the mall to discourage the teens from staying there.
I figure at some point the kids became a problem, but when? ANd what caused that, I wonder... what caused the teens to turn from mall shoppers or "mallrats" into surly thugs who harr*** customers and clerks alike... or are thieves.
Maybe there is no answer, but I just wondered, what are your theories on it?
Myself, I'm not sure. I'd like to lean towards the theory of bad parenting and an entitlement mentality.
-Seth
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Cheryl Greer vici...@pitt.edu
Boredom. Nothing else to do in town (that doesn't require lots of money) besides hang around the mall. I was never a delinquent, but I came from a boring, economically depressed, shithole town and most of the teens were juvvies for that reason. Except we didn't even have a mall, so the alternative was to hang around in parking lots at night drinking really cheap beer.
Whoo-hoo. And people wonder why I can't even name half the people in my high-school graduating cl***.
Cheryl
morg ...@columbus.rr.com (Lee Ann)
I think it's probably boredom combined with poor parenting. I, too, came from a small town where there was little or nothing to do besides hang out at the mall, drink, fight, and screw. (No wonder half the girls in my cl*** were moms before we'd been out of school a year...) However, parental effort and attention can go a long way toward channeling boredom into more appropriate channels - sports, other activities (dance, martial arts, etc.), the arts, a part-time job, volunteering, school work, chores, etc. This may be part of why we see so many sproggen being overscheduled - not only do Moomie and Duhdie want to make sure they get into Harvard, but they also want to ensure that the kid doesn't end up behind bars or a teen parent. The real problem occurs when the parent(s) don't care, or aren't available to channel the kids (let's face it, it's a rare 15 year old that can resist the urge to do what "everyone else" is), or start too late and can't control the kids.
DH used to work with juvenile delinquents. It's amazing how many of them were such perfect little angels, who *never* would have done such a thing. Part of it's denial, but I think part of it is also just absentee parenting.
I can name a couple dozen (out of over 200), and don't keep in touch with a single one. This seems to really boggle both my mom and my MIL. :-) Lee Ann
scpar ...@aol.com (Scpartee)
From the cases I have seen, it is lack of parental supervision and too much allowance money. Kids whose parents don't care who they are with and what they do, and who give the kids money rather than spend time with them are more likely to end up on drugs, pregnant, or in trouble with the law.
Christie in Dallas
vst ...@panix.com (Valerie Stark)
Adult delinquents.
Valerie
ppier ...@aol.com (PPierce2)
Strictly my own personal nonprofessional opinion but I think that child abuse (any flavor, emotional, sexual, and physical ) and neglect cause delinquency.
Also poverty and hopelessness contribute but aren't necessarily causal. PPierce2
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