YOUNG CRIMINALS

Human societies have established rules and laws whose violation is always penalised in different ways depending on the gravity of the offence committed. People think that offenders are anti-social human being who can be rehabilitated through punishment.

Cities are producing a lot of tense relationships and there is a process of dehumanization. Young people are bombarded with movies, TV series and ads about fashionable cars, motorbikes and clothes which the normal teenagers cannot buy and they can feel frustration and they begin stealing little things to past big things.

I don’t want to say that stealing cars or clothes aren’t crimes, but is easier to catch a young thief and send him/ her to prison than study the reasons why young people commit these violent acts.

Teenagers are received less discipline than older people because their parents are too busy to worry about what their children do in the streets with their friends. Perhaps we should look at to real causes of child crimes and try to correct them.