What is the most effective (just 1) way to reduce youth crime? Everybody please answer

ArizonaGreenTea

After school programs seem to always do the trick; sports, green earth and clubs. overall everything in your explanation seems to do the trick! but for tougher gun laws, only 18 yrs old can purchase shotgun/single shot rifle(hunting), 21 yr olds for handguns. so by saying that, tougher gun laws would not reduce youth crime since it is primarily targeting adults.

deejaydevoted

Children need a functional family.

They need love.

They need to know some one cares.

They need discipline when growing up.

theslumberer

give kids something to do, less free time will lead to less crime

sn4keeyez

I, for one, believe youth programs would help prevent a lot of youth crime. Teenagers that have a lot of time on their hands and with little to do cause trouble. Also, parents need to spend more time with their kids.

big_john_719

really the only affective thing to do is actual rehabilitation and prevention. and the scare tactics that are currently used do not prevent anything. community oriented policing, youth programs, getting involved. also a big help would be people stopping turning a blind eye to crime. people in this country have a habit of turning there head and saying "not my problem". well it is your problem. we need to get to know our police, our neighbors, and our community. then we need to find ways to truely rehabilitate criminals who are already in prison. some you will never be able to reach, they will be bad no matter what, but they are the minority. ti will take everyone of us to lower crime.

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more youth programs getting them involved in activities to keep them off streets and busy. Parental guidance and family support system. after school programs-> sports, clubs etc. mm and getting involved in there Religion or finding spiritual enlightment!

I AM JAMES...not sam

my oppinion is that people need to be better parents. they need to make their kids respect and love them (and give them a reason to respect them other than a large fist)

mamason

I think it should be mandatory for all teenagers to attend an open house for juvie hall or boot camp. Let them know that's where they are headed if they can't follow the laws of society. I think harsher punishment is more of a deterrence than rehabilitation. Kids can be manipulative, especially a little punk who's a criminal on top of it. I don't think that they should throw away the key on these kids either. But, they need to realize that they must be responsible for their actions. If you do the crime, then you do the time. That's my motto.

Scullycj

Parents take responsability of your child. Hell Iwas mor afraid of my parents than the police if I did something... If I got a call from a cop that my kid das picked up for dooing something I'd have hir apologise to the cop, tehn to ho ever she did what to then she's grounded No tvphone or anythng sit and do Nothen....
and go work off at where she did whatshe got picked up for

You dont see that today

Gun laws dont do anythng but make it harder for the people to get them leagley, The criminals will still get them The laws dont affect them

beasties70

A srtictly enforced 9 PM curfew for youths age 17 and under Sunday through Thursday. 11 PM Fridays and Saturdays.

Zeo

The perfect answer... Just kill them all and let god sort them out. Teens are too out of control and need the help and discipline that most, not all just most, adults were brought up on. The main problem I see is that the parents don't want to discipline their children and expect the police or the government to do it for them. If the parents would just take off that belt or grab a tree limb and whoop that butt then maybe, just maybe some of these teens would straighten up. Since i work for a detention center this is all i see. I just wish they would let us beat the crap out of these kids then maybe they would not keep coming back to this place like it's a vacation for them. I know you said one but i have to go with these two: harsher punishment and more responsible parenting.

sadeyzluv

The answer isn't in more prison time, more punishement and more law/government. What needs to be done is that we need to take time to reteach our youth what it is to be human beings with a conscience and compassion for others because education, entertainment, music, etc has only taught them animalistic behavior.

Eurydice

every good parent become a big brother or big sister

Nicholas P

I feel the failure lies in the parenting of children in this day and age. Alcohol and drugs have always been present, as have guns and weapons in some form or another. These are only means to and end, not the cause of the action. Half of all marriages now days fail one their first try. Compare that to two or three generations ago, when marriage meant for life. Furthermore, all these young girls getting married at 18 cause she thinks she loves the guy. He only wants in her pants, and two kids later their divorced. This is becoming commonplace in America. Spare the rod and spoil the child.

angela p

make drugs free, if a smack head want to inject him/herself why not let them hopefully they will soon be dead and they wont have to go outr robbing and mugging to pay for there habbit.

toolofoppression

change the definition of a crime.

Jolly1

Jobs. Kids with jobs don't have time to get into trouble.

The trouble is, with the increase in minimum wage, a lot of the jobs for kids are going away.

Here in Washington State, home of the nation's highest minimum wage, technology is rapidly replacing minimum wage jobs. Hardware stores, grocery stores, other retail stores, even the movie theaters, have moved to self-checkout kiosks. Self-service isn't just for gas stations and the ATM at the bank anymore.

Eric

Punishment

Men- Cut off the *****

Women- cant go shopping

jahn j

Legalise it.

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