In recent years, children and teenagers committing crime is becoming commonplace in many countries. While there are some reasons that can explain why this is the case, the number of actions can be taken to mitigate this concern.
Focusing on the causes first, there two main reasons why more and more young children are committing crimes. Primary one has to do with violence at movies and social media, meaning that most young viewers may imitate aggressive scenes and actions in real life, since it seems cool or impressive to them and try to distinguish fiction from reality. For instance, children may copy fights, bullying and small crimes like pickpocketing. Another factor is associated with lack of parental supervision. To be more precise. Most parents are busy with their work and spend little time with their children which can lead to lack of parental attention in children, which is one of the basic origins of starting crime, such as theft, vandalism and bullying.
When it comes to remedies, the most obvious and effective one should be taken by parents and school authorities. That’s to say, parents should spend most of their time with their children in order to make sure the people around their children are harmless and have not bad effect on their behavior. Schools also need to add media literacy classes to school curriculum. By doing that they can help children to analyze the consequences of brutality and crime. Another workable solution is teaching children to think critically about media content and not imitate the aggressive actions in real life.
To sum up, the reasons why many young people are committing crime are twofold, yet aforementioned steps have to be taken to deal with these growing problem.