How can we resolve youth crime ?
Whats the cause of youth crime ?
There seems to be more knife crime every year. According to May Bulmann, an Independent reporter, Oasis Youth service in London has reported the most young victims of knife attacks in 2018.
Why are there so many knife attacks in London? Part of the reason is that when there was an economic crisis in 2008, it led to the government cutting down money to public goods such as: Leisure centres, Youth communities and libraries. This then led them to shut down because they don't have enough surpport and money to carry on.This means that kids with families who are poorer have no place to go but the street.
Dr. Anthony Gunther, a youth crime author said, "Kids and teenagers need proper role models such as: a proper father or mother, a teacher, a sportsman or someone they can trust, not a gang leader or someone else who could be called a criminal." Youth crime can also be caused by: drugs, racism and even TV violence. These all cause you to either be very agressive or depressed or really unhealthy.
Knife crime has gone up so much that it beat New York in February 1, Andrew Gilligan, a Guadian reporter claimed,"On February 1, Londons knife crime has overtaken New York's record of 14 in a month, for the first time in history. Knife crime will carry on if we dont do something quick."
In the end, the poor almost always suffer, because they have to pay yet the rich can just get a lawyer and get away with their crime, the irony is just sickening.
Comments (10)
08 Feb 2019
You have made an interesting link between the financial crisis and the recent increase in violent crime, well done.
I'd be keen for you to expand on your final sentence and explain more about what you mean here.
08 Feb 2019
We can resolve youth crime by making sure police officers patrol places with a high crime rate, and making sure children are more educated, to make sure they choose more positive life choices.
08 Feb 2019
Thank you for your comments
12 Feb 2019
Balanced_volcano you make good points in your post like:the poor always suffer in the end.You could have put some more in the end like how they suffer and where. To be honest your post was really good because of the way you explained what people have said on knife crime. Is their anything you could change or add? You also could of put a quote of what a policeman said on knife crime. That would make your post even more interesting!
13 Feb 2019
I am very strong on the idea to improve and add more youth centers.
It would make the people who do knife crime and gang members feel like they belong somewhere, not in a bad way, but in a good way.
They will finally feel that they have a place where they belong.
Being in a gang is a bad place for feeling a sense of belonging.
You are really right about how youth centers can help prevent gangs and crimes that they would do and it's true that they should feel that they belong somewhere. Adding youth centers would cost a lot of money, so do you think their could be more ways to have the same impact as adding a youth center to help those people out there?
13 Feb 2019
thank you for your comments and I will keep them in mind
14 Feb 2019
we can solve crimes by making the rules more stricter in england or we could threten people and then they could learn there lesson
14 Feb 2019
if people stop watching violent crime films then there would not be that much gangs
06 Mar 2019
thank you for your comments : lively lobster, happy sparrow and open heart, however lively lobsters not think we should threaten people because they will just retaliate.
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