It is universally acknowledged that the rate of juvenile crimes is significantly increasing in some parts of the world. There are a host of factors associated with this high proportion, which can be tackled by several viable actions.
One of the key rationales behind the rising criminal acts committed by adolescents is their exposure to violence. The availability of technological gadgets in every household, without the strict supervision of parents, has left children exposed to an excessive amount of violent contents in the Internet, triggering their aggressive and uncontrollable behaviours with others. This can be compounded if the young grow up in a dysfunctional family, where domestic violence and drug abuse frequently occur, which takes a heavy toll on children’s mental stability and leads to their tendency to use violence in their daily lives. Another justification is that parents and teachers tend to neglect teaching moral lessons to teenagers. Vietnam’s national curriculum can be a perfect example as schools focus on teaching academic disciplines over moral lessons. At home, parents are not likely to spend their time sharing and emphasizing valuable moral values that humans should adopt with their children, such as patience, altruism, and so on.
However, there are some viable actions that parents and schools can take to curb adolescence crimes. First, family members should spend more quality time with their children to deeply understand them in their different development stages. For example, teens should be inextricably accompanied by their family during their puberty when their dramatic physical and mental changes take place, which can prevent them from being misled into malicious acts. Furthermore, schools need to hold more workshops aimed at educating moral values and laws in which students can discuss or share their beliefs about certain societal matters. This will possibly expand the children’s knowledge of human justice and direct them towards performing proper actions.
In conclusion, children’s involvement in criminal actions can be attributed to their exposure to violence in the Internet and in their family as well as the negligence of moral education. This issue can be dealt with the cooperation of families and schools, such as supervising their children during various stages of development and holding informative events about morals and laws.