Sociology Report: Youth Crime, Social Factors, and Solutions

This sociology report addresses the escalating issue of youth crime, examining its causes and societal impacts. It highlights the rise in gun and knife-related offenses, drawing on statistics and news reports from The Guardian to illustrate the problem's severity. The report explores factors such as social disadvantage, school exclusion, and the influence of media and social media. It also investigates the correlation between youth crime, drug dealing, and the decline of youth services. The analysis critiques governmental policies and suggests remedies, including increased school safety, stronger law enforcement, youth awareness programs, and the implementation of advanced security tools. The report emphasizes the need to address the root causes of crime and protect vulnerable youth from exploitation.

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The assignment highlights the social problem related to the rise of the youth crimes in the current
era. As per the statistics of the price and the governmental agencies, the gun and knife related
crimes has increased by more than 14 per cent from the last year. The crime among the youth
population is on the increasing scale rising a questions over the effectiveness of law regarding
the younger generations in the society of the current date. The assignment explains the data and
the news published in The Guardian.
The rate of the children in the referral units has increased since the year 2011 targeting a wide
range of challenges that are societal in nature. The young individuals residing in the areas which
is disadvantaged, suffering due to the result of the schools and the youth services feel abandoned
and disillusioned. In case of the occurrence of the disillusion, the youth crimes, the crime goes
up.
The children are also at the risk over the exclusion at school with a high percentages of
perpetrators that were rusticated from the school in teen years. The media report summarizes the
youth crime as the plague of the society. The article explains how the factors and the challenges
of youth crime has been affecting people of several of the levels in the society with the needless
generation of anxiety and fear towards the leading of the overreaction and victimization.
The article highlights the active consultation over the youth violence that has been highlighted in
the police for safeguarding the young people. The article explains the factor that the possibility
of tackling the main or the root causes of the crimes is one of the priority and one of the surest
ways of surrounding of people at risks with the support structures, speaking of their needs and
their actions regarding their work. The article furthermore highlighted the statistics showing the
clear correlation among the rising rate of youth crime, the involvement of the young people in

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the drug dealing of the country together with the near decimation of the youth services that are
professionally delivered.
The report by MP in the year 2017 claimed regarding the higher rate of costs that does not
justifies the NCS. The public accounts committee of the House of Commons also expressed
concerns regarding the exceeding of the per-capita budget that had been adjusted and confirmed
that one and only 1 percent from the teenagers who are eligible signed for the NCS at the year
2018. The article concludes with the reality of world that are involved in the child crime. These
children also subjected of being exploited by adult criminals.
Critical thinking for addressing
The article gives the key messages regarding the disadvantaged population that is the youth
generation of the current era together with the society they are residing. The involvement of the
youth population in the crimes and the drug dealership are destroying their childhood and their
lives together with the lives of their families. The responsible population for the increase in the
youth crime rates in the society is the rising globalization and the platform of social media that
induced the crime rate among the youth population. Furthermore the rising rate of inequality
among the different social classes in the society are contributing the rage among the youth
population belonging from the lower class and inducing them to take part in several of the
crimes. The role of media towards this issue is towards reporting the social problem and
highlighting the weak laws and the policies towards the crimes in front of the government of the
country. The media can furthermore help to put forward this chronic societal issues before
United Nations. There lies no sort of bias within the article. The article aims to highlight the
message that the government should react towards the crime rates that have been rising among
the youth population. The article furthermore highlights the rising rate of social exclusion among

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the youths which is one of the main causes towards the youth crime rates. Apart from this, there
lies certain impact of the several philosophies of the party towards the social development of the
policy that might hinder the formation of the policies for the protection of the youth crimes in the
society. This includes the motivation towards the political powers, money and some of the other
anti social correlations that furthermore induces the crime rate among the youth.
The article aims to put forward the remedies related to the youth crime rates like governmental
involvement towards the safety at the school and strengthening of the la enforcing agencies of
the country for the elimination of the corruption. Youth awareness program for education and
introduction of the technologically improved and advanced security tools are some of the
essential recommendations that the article puts forward to the audience.

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