Opinion Essay

Opinion Essay Young Crime

Young crime is happening all around the world. It could be in big cities like Oslo or New York, or smaller areas like Sætre, a welcoming and charming place in Norway. But make no mistake It doesn't really matter where you live some crime could always happen to you, like being robbed. There are multiple reasons to why young people commit crime. There are always some sort of delinquent acts taking place around the world, meaning that younger people break the law everywhere. In this article i will be talking about some reasons behind this and some solutions to stop crime.

First of all, poverty is probably the most common reason to these delinquent acts. The amount of poor people around the world is almost laughable. The fact that there are so many people living on extreme poverty whilst they are living on less than 1.90$ a day is unfair. It is easier for them to rob a store than to earn money for a meal. In some cases prison might be a better solution than their current living style, so they won't care about being put in prison which could lead to break the law whilst wanting to go to prison.

There are other reasons to young crime, such as parents and how the child is raised. The way parents raise a child can affect their child's actions. When people are young they always copy or repeat what the people older than them do, for example if you smoke your child might start, or maybe it will affect them in a different way and they wont start because they'll know how bad it is and this would have the same affect if it was to do with crime.

Prostitution and drug dealing is also a issue within delinquent acts, a lot of young adults are starting with prostitution, trying to earn that easy dollar on the street. Not necessarily poor or had a bad child hood, but they took the wrong path in their teens, or maybe they just wanted some money. Drug use and drug dealing is a problem within the young society, young children or adults being tricked to start with drugs, leading them to want more and more. Whilst other youngsters start dealing drugs, buying them of people and selling it on to others, tricking other or forcing friends to start with it, not necessarily using it themselves.

A solution to these problems would mainly be better parental control and stricter punishments from both the law and their own family/caretaker. Since the punishments on delinquent acts are minor and not really any problem for young adults, increasing the punishments would probably change the amount of young criminals by decreasing it a bit. But it would have a dramatic change if parents got better control of their children and managed to supervise them better. Another solution could be what Trump is fighting for, people to earn more and more jobs, where people will be able to get jobs and earn their own money. This would lead young criminals to try to get a job instead of trying to rob that Walmart next-door. There has already been thousands of Americans who moved to Canada, leaving more jobs open in America, as i said this could slow down some crime, by this i mean that this would stop some crime and make more people work and earn their moeny.

When young crime is happening all over the world for a various of reasons, its hard to put a solution for it, but you could always change the punishments which could stop young criminals all around the world to some degree. Poverty, prostitution and drugs are a big problem in our society and its hard to stop them. No matter what you do it wont stop it for good, making the punishments higher would increase the risk of selling drugs which would lead drugs to be more expensive. All this would make it worse when it comes to crime because people would need more money to buy drugs and people will want to sell it more because they earn a lot more. But like i said parents have a lot to say about kids, parents affect them in every way, so if the parents are criminals, that would have a bad effect on the child. But if parents punished their kids themselves it might have a better affect than jail. If the youth got jobs, they would first of all not have much free time to do crime and they will earn money to support themselves. So, they would have no reason to commit crime.