Juvenile Delinquency
With the apparent rise in juvenile delinquency as stated in Juvenile crime: opposing viewpoints, (Bender & Leone, 1997, p.107), parents should be held accountable for the criminal actions of their children. However, under rare occasions, the delinquent, not the parent is completely responsible for their own actions. In most cases juveniles should be held accountable as an adult. Parents are the basis for the development of youth, and if all is not well in the home then that child is more at risk of becoming a delinquent. Most problems stem back to the home and the parenting.
“In order to protect society from the more serious, violent crimes committed by some of today’s juveniles, critics of the system assert, stronger punishments are required than those meted out by the juvenile courts “(Bender & Leone, 1997, p.13). If the children of today were raised in stable homes with the correct and upstanding parenting then most likely they would not be committing such awful......
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