Is crime inevitable for children born in certain... an increase of 37 percent » Telegraph, Leapmen. Youth crime has increased significantly over the years, as the statistics provided above in 2008 in the Telegraph newspaper show. Youth crime has been a problem for a long time; However, this is becoming a major problem as it is only getting worse with the number of young people committing crimes and the severity of crimes committed by young people increasing. Criminologists as well as sociologists are trying to discover the main reason why children turn to delinquency and have managed to come up with some theories as well as good reasons why many children would consider committing a crime. (Source 1) Many criminologists believe that criminals are not created overnight; on the contrary, it takes time for a person to become a criminal. These criminologists suggest that normal people go through a long process and, over many years, accept crime and therefore become criminals. These theories suggest that every person goes through many changes in life and that their perception of life changes with them, sometimes this change being for the worse. Statistics have proven that young people tend to commit more crimes than adults because many events in these young people's lives end up improving them, but not everyone experiences these changes. Therefore, many people who were deviant in their youth tend to be much worse as adults. Moffitt (1993) suggests that antisocial behavior and aggression may be detected earlier in people's lives. Moffitt suggests that by detecting these problems earlier, society can help these children and reduce this type of behavior as well as middle of paper...... hatred towards each other given that they are always being separated. This can then lead to racism and other acts of violence between different groups. (Source 10)David Hargreaves (1967) carried out research in a boys' secondary school and discovered that the pupils' attitude towards school was less influenced by their origin than by their stream. He had discovered that students were placed in lower brackets. lost their enthusiasm and enthusiasm for learning because the boys in the lower group considered themselves failures. Interactionists support the idea of division and grouping, but they believe that the way teachers separate children is often inaccurate and unfair. Interactionists may be right that teachers are unfair, but their conclusions were inaccurate because these sociologists only saw what was happening in a few schools and not the whole world. (Source 11)

Essay / Is crime inevitable for children born in certain... an increase of 37 percent » Telegraph, Leapmen. Youth crime has increased significantly over the years, as the statistics provided above in 2008 in the Telegraph newspaper show. Youth crime has been a problem for a long time; However, this is becoming a major problem as it is only getting worse with the number of young people committing crimes and the severity of crimes committed by young people increasing. Criminologists as well as sociologists are trying to discover the main reason why children turn to delinquency and have managed to come up with some theories as well as good reasons why many children would consider committing a crime. (Source 1) Many criminologists believe that criminals are not created overnight; on the contrary, it takes time for a person to become a criminal. These criminologists suggest that normal people go through a long process and, over many years, accept crime and therefore become criminals. These theories suggest that every person goes through many changes in life and that their perception of life changes with them, sometimes this change being for the worse. Statistics have proven that young people tend to commit more crimes than adults because many events in these young people's lives end up improving them, but not everyone experiences these changes. Therefore, many people who were deviant in their youth tend to be much worse as adults. Moffitt (1993) suggests that antisocial behavior and aggression may be detected earlier in people's lives. Moffitt suggests that by detecting these problems earlier, society can help these children and reduce this type of behavior as well as middle of paper...... hatred towards each other given that they are always being separated. This can then lead to racism and other acts of violence between different groups. (Source 10)David Hargreaves (1967) carried out research in a boys' secondary school and discovered that the pupils' attitude towards school was less influenced by their origin than by their stream. He had discovered that students were placed in lower brackets. lost their enthusiasm and enthusiasm for learning because the boys in the lower group considered themselves failures. Interactionists support the idea of division and grouping, but they believe that the way teachers separate children is often inaccurate and unfair. Interactionists may be right that teachers are unfair, but their conclusions were inaccurate because these sociologists only saw what was happening in a few schools and not the whole world. (Source 11)

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