can someone please help me do a reply for these 2 discussions( Weather you agree to it or not). 3-4 sentences for each please
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According to strain theory, when a juvenile experiences strain or stress, they become upset and will sometimes engage in juvenile delinquency. Individuals also exhibit different patterns over the course of their lives. (185). The biological and social changes associated with adolescence lead to an increase in strain, a reduction in control, and an increase in the social learning for crime. (185). Individual traits have an impact on delinquency as well. Research suggests that people with certain traits are more likely to engage in delinquency. Such as IQ, learning disabilities, ADHD, risk seeking, and irritability to name a few.
I found a news article on abcnews.com. It isn’t a recount of the event that happened or do I feel it is a tabloid, but it does explain why these juveniles are facing life in prison and the outrage of parents and community has in regards to this sentencing because they feel they are children. A 14-year-old boy and a 15-year-old boy face life in prison for a wrestling death of a 6-year-old playmate. As the parents are outraged about the sentencing, they express their feelings about adult prison, they state that there have been a lot of teasing of the boys, and feel that the court should take all of this into account before a harsh sentencing.
In another article from “The Atlantic,” it talks about how juveniles are rebellious, reckless, shortsighted, and susceptible to peer pressure. They are poor judges of many things that adults consider worthy of judgement. It also states that juvenile department statistics show that 93 percent of sexually abused children are victimized by family members or acquaintances. The strain theory suggests that when a juvenile experiences strain or stress, they will engage in juvenile delinquency.
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Strain theory says that stressful events have a negative impact on juveniles and their behavior, unless the juveniles possess effective coping strategies (Agnew & Brezina 2015). Patterns of offending can be described by two main categories: adolescence-limited, which mostly involves the adolescent years, and life-course persistent, which is when offenders continue offending after adolescence (Agnew & Brezina 2015). According to the textbook, we can identify some traits most juvenile offenders are likely to share, such as low self-control, irritability, and low verbal IQ (Agnew & Brezina 2015).
Part II
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=93887&page=1
This is an article about charging juveniles as adults. I thought it was particularly relevant to our readings this week because it talks about the rate of juvenile crime. According to this article, the juvenile violent crime rate is 48% higher in Florida than in other states (Robinson, ABC News 2015). I think it would be interesting to identify the traits that are common to the juveniles in Florida and which have been found to be present in the majority of juvenile delinquents as we learned about in Chapter 13 (Agnew & Brezina 2015). It would also be helpful to research the types of strain or stress these juveniles are under and how it may have affected their propensity for violence. Last but not least, I think this article ties into Chapter 10 because for juveniles who have been tried for first degree murder as adults and will spend the rest of their lives or the majority of it in prison, we will never know if their offending would have been adolescent-limited or life-course persistent (Agnew & Brezina 2015).
http://www.latimes.com/local/countygovernment/la-me-probation-sticker-shock-20160223-story.html
My second article is about the cost of housing juveniles in detention. Although juvenile crime rates are down (both articles agree on this point), governments are spending between $84,000 in Houston to $233,000 in Los Angeles per year per juvenile (Therolf, LA Times 2016). This is money that could be spent on programs aimed at reducing strain and managing the traits that contribute to juvenile crime before it begins. We could get ahead of it. I think there are a lot of community based programs that would help reduce juvenile crime rates. This article states that juveniles, once incarcerated, are 22% more likely to end up in prison as adults, which again contributes to life-course persistent crime statistics instead of reducing the criminal behavior to adolescent-limited only (Therolf, LA Times 2016; Agnew & Brezina 2016).
