How to Reduce Crime and Deviance - Youth Crime.

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How to Reduce Crime and Deviance: Youth Crime
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How to Reduce Crime and Deviance: Youth Crime1
Introduction
Youth crime is stated to be a crime conducted by children. It refers to the crime
explicitly committed by the age group of below 18. “They are stated as juveniles, and the
offense committed by them are stated as the juvenile offense.” It is generally the cause for
the various social and economic barriers that the families face, and as a result, the juvenile
indulges themselves in such kind of criminal activity (Muncie 2014). It is considered as one
of the nation's primary concern as it deals with the children that are considered as the future
of a nation.
Purpose
The primary purpose of this briefing note is to provide a structure in the country
regarding youth crimes and discusses the measures required to combat the situation that will
reduce youth crimes and deviance in society.
Key Points
 Youth Crime are crime conducted by the children below the age of 18 years.
 The primary reasons for the children to indulge themselves into criminal conduct
are due to family background, social influence, financial issues, mental health
issues and poverty.
 Present legislation that regulate the conduct of such crime are The Crime and
Disorder Act, 1998, Sentencing Act, 2000 Criminal Justice and Immigration Act,
2008 and Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012.
 Measures such as educational programs, limiting drug availability and planned
approach can help in limiting the rate of youth crime

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Issues
The primary issues relating to the conduct and the commission of a crime by juvenile
and the increasing number of youth crimes includes the following:
 The crime conducted by juveniles does not constitute a single reason; in fact, it is the
outcome of the various social and economic factors that the child faces in their life.
Youth Crime is principally the consequence of factors such as the family
background, poverty, peer pressure, and various other social factors that are
responsible for the commission of such crimes (Nwalozie 2015).
 Nearly in 12,500 instances, it was noticed that the children were condemned for
illegal offenses as per the reports of 2018, in which a majority of 73% of the youth
are involved into the crimes relating to the community sentencing and about This 62%
of where the children were punished for direct violations (Humanium 2020).
 Awareness or doubt about an incapacity is required that more considerable labors in
order to recognize scholars whose problematic behavior in the school are due to
specific mental issues such as anxiety or depression (Pickard 2014).
 Around two-thirds of adolescence is indulged with the juvenile justice system due to
the sufferings from the mental health problems
 The amount of incidents relating to causing self-harm has also increased. The rate has
enlarged by 40% in the last year to just under 1,800 incidents (Assets.publishing
2020).
Present Legislation
The Youth justice system is to provide the legislative structure to control or regulate the
commission of such crime and deviance (Taylor 2016). It includes the following legislation
designed to combat the crisis that the youth is facing:
 Youth Justice Board is set to provide the framework of the youth justice practice
(Creaney and Smith 2014).
 The Crime and Disorder Act, 1998, states the requirement for the youth antisocial
teams.
 Sentencing Act,2000 that states the powers of the criminal courts to conduct the
proceeding of the youth.