Question

Why do youth and young adults make up a disproportionate number of criminal offenders? In addition to what you learned from the textbook, reflect on your own life experiences when answering this question.

Answer 1

Answer :-Following are the reason young and young adults make up disproportionate number of criminal offenders:-

(1) violence in their home :- one of the most common contributor factor that youth have''don't care''attitude which allow them to get into trouble more often. Youngster when experience violence in home they act same when they are frustrated or feared.

(2) peer pressure: - if most of the friends in his/her friend circle are doing delinquent acts, then youngster may be force of doing same for acceptance in their group. So parents should check their child's friend circle to keep away their child from bad influence.

(3) social - economic factors :- social economic factors plays a crucial role as most of young and young adults criminal offenders comes from poor neighborhood. It is seen that it happens in those locality where teenagers feel inorder to prosper they must commit crime.

(4) poor education standard :-underfunded or overcrowed school tends to have lack of discipline.sometimes kind of school teenagers or young adults had studied into play a very big role.

(5) violence in social circle :- it has been seen many times when a child live in a violent neighborhood they might have tendency to be more porne to crime.

(6) Drungs :- there is no doubt in it when people or teenagers get drung addicted their tendency to do crime gets more. They get aggressive for small things and when they don't have money for drugs they don't even think twice before stealing .

Sometimes when people are in debts they do rob or steal as they facing tremendous pressure by the lender in order to repay the amount. When people don't have money to support their family financially or meeting basic needs,they get more porne to crime.