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Research Paper on Increasing Youth Crime in Australia

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Research Paper on Increasing Youth Crime in Australia

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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1Literature review..............................................................................................................................1Implicit Theories..............................................................................................................................2Public opinions in Naming and Shaming documents......................................................................2Evaluation of analysis with academic literature..............................................................................4Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................5REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6
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INTRODUCTIONYouth justice is the compromise organs and processes that deals with offending youngpeople aged 14-18 years. With this context, this research paper will cover the aspects increasingyouth offending and crime in Australia. Various implicit theories will be evaluated on the basisof public comments and opinions with insight of multiple academic articles. The impacts ofimplicit theories in accord with the literature on public opinions about increase in youthoffending will be discussed in this research.Literature reviewAs per Bartollas and Schmalleger, (2014) states that many implicit theories reflects uponthe youth crime or offensiveness. These theories provide benchmarks to identify the rationale forincreasing crime rates among youth in Australia. Strain theory developed by Robert K. Merton inwhich he focused on the social pressure that obliged young or adult people to commit crime orconduct criminal activity. According to Thompson and Morris., (2016) neoclassical theory ofcriminology denotes that the degree of punishment is directly proportional to the decrease incriminal rates among youths and adults. It implies that level of punishment for particular crimeswill embark the feeling of fear and anxiety in young people. Eventually they will commit orparticipate in less criminal activity. Paternoster, Jaynes and Wilson, (2017) contend that sociallearning theory determines the individual behaviour which they acquired from observing otherpeople of society. It means that the growth and development of individual behaviour is partlydepends on the society or community he/she resides in. If an individual surrounded withdepressing, violent and antisocial environment, then there are chances that he/she will becomecriminal or commits crime frequently. Laub and Sampson, (2017) state that Anomie theorydeveloped by Merton in 1940 comprehend that juvenile commits crime, if they do not havemeans to make themselves happy. It determines the Juvenile Delinquency theory in whichjuveniles that do not meet social standards seek validation from a subculture.These theories help to understand the behaviour of individuals especially youths. Thecrime rate among youth is increasing day by day in the country. Methods and techniques needsto be developed in order to tackle the rapid growth of youth crime in Australia. In accordancewith this context it can be stated that increase in youth crime is not good for the country currentcondition. With the help of theories and public opinions, new methods must be implemented bythe government in order to reduce the youth crime rates in the country. Moreover, many authors1
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