The article “Worldview of high-risk Juvenile Delinquents” written by Julie H. Goldberg is focused on the relationship between violent juvenile offenders and their devastating past experiences. The participants of this research were male adolescents between the ages of 15 and 18 incarcerated who were also in the high-risk offenders Unit of a juvenile hall. The study was to predict participants’ willingness to shoot. Preexisting risk factors (delinquency, exposure to violence, and victimization) was required to be factored into any findings. There were 3 research questions and they are as follows: Firstly, are there different worldviews among these juvenile offenders, despite having nearly identical pasts filled with violence and death? Second, …show more content…
Some major findings in this study were that participants were significantly more violent than the average juvenile delinquent. They were also asked about the most serious crimes that they had ever committed finding that among the 34 participants, 5 terrorist threats, 5 murders, 2 attempted murders, 1 manslaughter, 12 burglaries, 11 strong-armed robberies, 9 assaults with a deadly weapon, 8 drug possessions with intent to deal, 6 gun possessions, and 5 shootings. There were many preexisting risk factors that included exposure to violence, vicarious victimization, and criminal and delinquent acts. In the aspect of their future expectations, they mostly had negative expectations. When the young males were asked about future risks, they really felt like they would be the victim of a violent crime or even shot at. Ordinarily they felt little could protect them, and the only means of protection would be a gun, followed by their gang. Any association with said gang members put them at risk for being …show more content…
“Within this world, these juveniles could envision no future, at least one that lasted beyond the age of 20; and given the reality of their existence, that is probably fairly accurate.” (Page 13) On the other hand, juveniles in the other half of the sample were able to imagine a world where there was the possibility of a different outcome from the one the shooters predicted. The nonshooters perceived there to be a choice about shooting in this situation and were willing to choose nonviolence. It may seem they believed that they could talk their way out of the situation. Their worldviews can be related to their decision in the fictional scenarios given. Since their life may be in jeopardy, they feel as if it is okay for them to use guns for protection, even if that means killing someone. “They perceived their best option for protection to be a gun (mean and median = 50%).” (Page 8) Furthermore, the nonshooters’ had a very optimistic worldview where they believed that there was a real possibility of getting out of “the life” (gang or street life) and maybe even getting an education and regular job. The participants can envision a nonviolent response in dangerous situations. They were asked an open-ended question about what could protect them (if not gangs or a gun) and several
John Hubner is an investigative journalist and the author of Last Chance in Texas. Through a one way mirror, Hubner spent time observing treatment sessions in groups called “Capital Offenders Group” or COG. After the sessions, Hubner discussed the situations and ways to move forward for progress with the different therapists providing the treatment for the young offenders. Hubner begins the story discussing the purpose that Giddings State School, which is how Giddings leads the world in its success with changing youth offenders, and offering psychiatric help for the kids that have experienced abuse and neglect to lead up to the consequences from their previous criminal lifestyle.
On Punishment and Teen killers In the fiction article “ On Punishment and Teen Killers” Jennifer Jenkins argues and reviews the position that the author has according debate about teens and crimes. She believes that a lot of teenager committed have serious crime. She’s also, argues that development brain are not reason for crime. She is also against advocates that are against the JLWOP.which means Juvenile Life Without Parole, At the beginning of the article she was youngest sister and her husband murdered in Chicago, offender who testified at his trial “ thrill kill” that he just want to “ see what it would feel like to shoot someone”.
In describing the shooting, Eszterhas and Roberts state that “the two sides looked, to each other, like the inhabitants of different worlds” (8). This illustrates the fierce competition between the two sides, and predicts purposeless violence and bloodshed. It is evident that the lives lost during this shooting could have been avoided with proper preparation and weaponless
In chapter 19 of Membership in Youth Gangs and involvement in Serious and violent offending, Terence P. Thornberry examines the correlation between youth gang membership and their participation in serious crimes. Throughout the reading, Thornberry highlight’s what he believes to be the three most important findings in his research. First, our author provides research exhibiting just how youth gang members are responsible for a majority of serious and violent crimes committed by the general youth. According to the reading, prior studies have determined that gang members are significantly more involved in serious delinquency than non-gang members. For example, Fagan (1990) study of a general adolescent sample revealed that only 23 percent of the participants of the study where a part of a gang, but accounted for 67 percent of felony assaults, 66 percent of minor assaults and 66 percent of robberies.
United States: Greenhaven Publishing. The book provides various opposing viewpoints regarding the cause of juvenile crime and how the criminal justice system should treat juvenile offenders. Each argument highlights the main risk factors for juvenile crime. For example, gang plays a large part of juvenile violence.
ABSTRACT On May 23rd 2014, a gunman identified as Elliot Rodger, kills six people and wounds 13 others in Isla Vista, Calif., a small town near Santa Barbara. He stabs three men in his apartment before driving to locations throughout the town where he kills three students from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Before the rampage, Rodger, age 22, posts a video called "Elliot Rodger's Retribution" on his YouTube Channel and writes a 140-page manifesto. In both, he expresses his anger over being rejected by women and his plans for revenge.
Homicide among black men in the United States is at an all-time high and is at an alarmingly high rate among young black men, ages 15 to 24. This is a disproportionately high number compared to other races in the United States. Violence, specifically homicide by the intentional misuse of firearms, has become a cultural norm among the African American community. While it may be considered a norm to many, it does not mean it is not abnormal. This is where research comes in.
I selected two cases this week to help debate the use of rehabilitation. Several case studies have shown that young homicide offenders tend to come from broken homes and violent families, have experienced parental alcoholism and child abuse, have low school achievement, and have run away from home or troubles in school. I believe cases that involve children or history of abuse may under proper screening and analysis be amenable by rehabilitation. Alex and Derek King and Lyle and Erik Menendez:
The boys sought for this experiment were already delinquent, and as noted this was a case study, these were unique individuals and as such the findings cannot be generalized to the larger population of the United States, California or even Oakland. Another fact that must be noted is that the author utilized snowball sampling, the author went to community organizations and asked to be connected to ‘at risk’ kids, and when he established communication with some of the young men, he asked them to refer him to other youths in similar situations. The author also makes note of the fact that his own experiences as a child may have had a bias on his
There are many reasons as to why people commit crimes, but why would juveniles use firearms in crime? In Kids, Guns, and Killing Fields they had surveyed and studied two groups
There is an estimation that about half of the households in the United States owns at least one gun. As such many people can have access to guns, including children and other family members. Many school based attacks involve young people carrying guns owned by their parents and going on a rage through schools and other places. Similarly, the ease of acquiring guns has led to vulnerable deaths of people across the country. Moreover, this leads obsessed people to escape their frustrations on minorities by murdering and threatening them.
Jessie Townsend May 3rd, 2016 Prof. Allen Wong ASOC283 Why Kids Get Life The documentary “When Kids Get Life” delves into four cases involving juveniles who are serving life without parole in Colorado prisons. All of these juveniles are serving this time due to first degree murder among other charges they have received. The ages of these juveniles at the time of their crimes range from fifteen to seventeen and all of them still currently remain incarcerated. By applying different delinquency theories to each case, there is a chance that one could explain or even rationalize why these juveniles committed the crimes that they did.
Kids are not born being criminals, there are numerous reasons why kids get drawn into the world of delinquency. Three main reasons are peer pressure, the desire for protection, and the thirst for power and money. Many teenagers feel pressured by peer groups into doing things that they don’t want to do, yet they perform these acts in order to fit in or to stop harassment. In the article, “Juveniles Don’t Deserve Life Sentences”, the author Gail Garinger states that adolescents are “...less mature, more vulnerable to peer pressure, cannot escape from dangerous environments, and their characters are still in formation” (¶6). A multitude of teens join criminal associations like street gangs in search of protection, most of them have a distanced
(1994). JUVENILE OFFENDERS: WHAT WORKS? A Summary of Research
A child is born with purity and innocence. Nurturing child is a crucial in every child’s life and if given proper care and attention in right way after that child grows in constructive manner. Children show good performance when children’s surrounding environment is positive and supportive towards them. Child’s physical, psychological, moral and spiritual development builds them competent of become conscious to understand their capabilities. On the other side, detrimental environment, lack of basic needs, poor parenting supervision, other factors may turn a child to a delinquent i.e.a juvenile delinquent.