The Behavior For Youth Crime

The behavior for youth crime

Introduction

Youth crime is characterized by being a multicausal phenomenon, since it usually appears given by confluence of several factors, psychological, social. economic, etc., However, in this work they will be reviewed fundamentally, those who, from a social perspective, lead the individual to manifest antisocial and deviant behaviors, although it must be taken into account, that this results from several agents that interact with each other, so notIt is a phenomenon that can be covered in isolation.

In this sense, first, mention will be made to the family, since this is the fundamental pillar that supports the foundations of good behavior. The greatest number of adolescents who have chosen the bad way, come from dysfunctional family breasts, households where rejection, lack of control, physical and/or verbal abuse, among other negative aspects, which undoubtedly lead to agreater vulnerability to commit crimes;The lack of commitment of parents about their children constitutes a serious problem today. The interest in adolescents, express affection, establish good communication with them, get involved in their school and extracurricular activities, etc., considerably decreases the risk that these young people lean towards crime.

According to Nicolson, the criminal behavior occurs largely because parents do not provide adequate conditions to their children, refers to excessive confidence in punishment, lack of rules and supervision, to incoherence when they meet behaviorsadequate and inappropriate, among other factors that stimulate these behaviors in adolescents.

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School dropout is another cause that leads to young people to be new members of criminal groups;And this is so frequent in these times that it forces to reflect on why teenagers are denying themselves the possibility of having a better quality of life through studies. Dra. Malvina Helen del Castillo ensures that this usually have their root in the affective, in the paternal, social and institutional, that is, there are various experiential situations that occur in everyday life that become some of theso many causes that motivate school dropout by students. The loss of values and the desire for obtaining material benefits have caused people’s priorities to disapprove and confuse.

Here again a marked responsibility falls on parents, which often do not guarantee the support and support needs that children need, as well as in school institutions that are not always sufficiently trained to detect young people at a risk of abandonment of abandonmentschool, either do not implement the necessary actions and programs for their students to feel comfortable and so that those with academic problems improve their performance.

Another cause for the appearance of diverted behaviors are drug use in adolescence. Teenagers in many cases lack sufficient maturity to measure the consequences of the use of toxic substances, can even be driven to abuse them, thus activating their relationship with the crime. International Studies have revealed that there is a clear feedback between the consumption of psychoactive substances and the commission of criminal behaviors, however, it has not been possible to establish what type of relationship both behaviors keep and how can one influence the genesis of the other. 

However, to analyze this problem, some causes such as the absence of an adequate family and social context must be exposed where the containment of external influences that most frequently impact the most vulnerable young people is reinforced. It is responsibility, in principle, of the family, to pay due attention to the groups with which their children relate, monitor their behaviors and educate in the formation of a social conscience that avoids that they fall into these bad practices. Statistics tell us that the link between drug use and youth crime is alarming and is rising every day.

Another important factor in the appearance of youth crime is mental disorders, a certain youthful behavior can be attributed to the diagnostic disorder as a behavior disorder. These develop in childhood and generally manifest themselves in adolescence. It is said that adolescents who have this disorder show a lack of empathy and carefreeness for social norms. If mental disorders such as behavior disorder are not diagnosed and not treated, the subject has a great potential to develop an antisocial personality disorder and continue later in his life as a professional criminal. Behavioral disorder and antisocial personality disorder has as its common characteristic the constant breach of social norms, aggressive behavior and a separation from the emotion of empathy.

It has been proposed that a criminal phenomenon may appear associated with various factors, so the combination of these is necessary, that is, combine individual factors with structural and social to make an adequate understanding of the same.

Tour of the most serious behaviors

The longitudinal studies group of Denver, Pittsburgh and Rochester, sponsored by the research program on the causes and correlates of crime developed in the United States since the 80s, have carried out the analysis of thousands of young people with the aim ofKnow what factors lead to severe crime. To do this, they focused on three elements: child aggression, evolution towards crime and overlapping behavioral problems. The results obtained in this investigation describe the crime escalation process.

The studies practiced showed that the disobedient behavior of minors begins around 12 years and progresses towards the challenge and flight of authority. Likewise, before the age of 15 some young people begin with moderate clandestine acts, being able to reach more serious acts;Finally it is concluded that the beginning of minor aggressions tends to be the first step of aggressive behavior. The progress of this route indicates that some young people evolve in several ways at the same time, showing a variety of illicit behaviors throughout development towards the adult stage that often reflect difficulties in other areas of life as is the case of failureschool, parental conflicts, etc.

In addition, this investigation shows that participation in the crime commission is much broader among adolescents than among adult men. The age range of the age of 8 to 14 marks the most frequent beginning of criminal activity, the highest prevalence peak of crime is produced between 15 and 19 years and between 20 and 29 years the greatest frequencies are recordedof abandonment of such action, finding that the frequency of these acts is relatively stable in the age variable. In this way it is exposed that most criminal races should be short, because, many young criminals do not become career criminals, however, they emphasize the determination of the different facets of these to prevent and reduce crime fromThe knowledge of the causes that affect criminal trajectories.

Another investigation carried out on adolescence in Spain, with the participation of several young people and through the use of questionnaires and psychological and social measurement scales, points out that 80% of the youth of the sample frequently claim to carry out behaviors against norms,how to drink alcohol before the age of 16 or escape from home, etc. Only about 50% are involved at some point in acts of vandalism and minor aggressions to people, less than 30% have ever stolen and less than 5% have trafficked with drugs. In addition, these percentages are significantly different between men and women. The frequency of the practice of these behaviors increases between 14 and 16 years of age and thereafter some of them begin to descend. Some criminal behaviors such as aggressions to people, vandalism, among others, can be maintained or increased slightly.

As a contribution to these statistics, reference can be made to other sources of investigation that also indicate that there are greater number of boys than of criminal girls, however, it has been perceived that at the end of adolescence, this difference begins to decrease due to the increase of the increaseof female crime at that stage. In addition, it has been studied that there is a difference between sexes depending on the type and seriousness of the crimes committed;being more frequent in girls minor thefts and prostitution, while among men there abounds physical aggression, robberies, alteration of order, etc.

Adolescence as a risk factor

It was mentioned in principle that adolescence is a stage of individual’s life characterized by great changes that can become a risk factor for the appearance of disruptive behaviors. In this period, the personal and social definition of the human being is rethink, thus emerging the search for belonging and sense of life, the creation of identity, the restructuring of the scheme and body image, the search for autonomy, the abandonment of theChildren’s identifications, the appearance of great emotional, physiological demand, etc., among other aspects that make this a determining transition stage for the quality of adult life.

The amount of physical, emotional, psychological and social factors involved in this period makes the task of deepening each of them within this section very complex, however, if we take into consideration that this end of master’s work pursues among its objectivesThe search for responses oriented towards the explanation of why adolescence constitutes a risk factor for the formation of deviated behaviors, the analysis will focus especially on those that can lead us to understand the nature of the phenomenon that is being addressed.

Numerous studies have been carried out on this subject and many of them indicate that in antisocial behavior various psycho-affective factors convergeand drugs, educational institutions, the achievement of personality, emotional competition, family, etc. One of the most frequent social problems lies in the inability to adapt young people to the environment in which they have had to live, which should give them a social projection with guarantees for their integration that tries to claim their site in society without priority in manyOccasions the characterization of these individuals as misfit, in the same way, the presence of a social regulation conditions the fact that deviant behaviors are defined as such, since obviously, in the absence of rules it would not be possible to speak of social deviation. The deviant appears consequently as the exception or the individual who, not having successfully carried out the socialization process, falls into the temptation to resort to illegitimate means to access social purposes.

This statement coincides with the theory of labeling, described in another section of this work. The teenager is excluded and the offender or deviant label is assigned, making it feel socially marginalized, lacking opportunities for insertion into conventional society. It must be understood that all antisocial behaviors are not considered crimes, and, therefore, an individual who manifests some deviant behaviors does not necessarily have to be a criminal. In this way, the members of society must help these subjects modify their behavior, to contribute to self-perception in a positive way, allowing them to participate and link to community activities, reducing the pressure imposed on them by considering them insane and incapableto fit into conventional schemes. 

These young people have to encourage them and give them self-regulation tools, show them empathy, and not direct efforts only to punishment and exclusion, which only encourages self-destruction and persistence in bad habits. The phenomenon of youth crime gathers much of the typical problem of adolescence, this is a form of social misperopation that involves a rupture of the normal possibility of interpersonal relationships marked by vulnerability to a frustrating social reality and a unstructured family environment.

For a better understanding criminal behavior, factors such as personality, sociocognitive mechanisms, emotional competition, among others, concluding that the way in which a person perceives and values reality decisively influences their emotional adjustment has been studiedbehavioral and in this sense it can be said that many behavioral problems are associated with inappropriate emotional manifestations. In addition, it has been proven that, during adolescence, due to the multiple transformations that arise at this stage, greater vulnerability is presented to develop low self – esteem. Positive self-perceptions minimize negative results linked to exposure to the risks of this period, relating to greater psychological adjustment, better personal competence and less behavioral conflicts.

Similarly, the family plays a very important role in this context, since during childhood and adolescence negative consequences are generated that translate into subsequent dysfunctional behaviors. Family support, understanding by parents, affective communication, the assessment and acceptance of the characteristics of their children, the transmission of values, active participation in school and extracurricular activities of children, etc., They contribute to the integral development of these individuals, to the promotion of their personality, to the acquisition of skills that help them strengthen their identity and have an adequate relationship with the surrounding environment, thus reducing the danger of presenting deviants deviated attitudes.

Conclusions

Educational institutions also assume an important role in this regard, since there is a close relationship between the school environment and the appearance of deviated behaviors in adolescence. The educational environment must be motivating for the student, who promotes a good relationship between peers;to help develop formal, deductive and critical thinking in students and guarantee the attention to the particular problems of each student. This is a challenge must face current society through the execution of innovative educational models and strategies, which benefits adolescents who need it so much.

They state that, the disruptive behaviors of the subjects are associated with psychological, existential and cultural deficiencies of our society that makes them fragile, being able to look for strong emotions that only transgression can offer them. He also comments that when someone feels demotivated, in truth, he may be motivated to carry out other different actions, and even radically opposite to which he should certainly produce for example, the commission of criminal activities.

There are several factors, as mentioned above, that can cause loss of interest and enthusiasm in adolescents to carry out activities that generate a positive impact, and these can be modified by others of an unconventional type, as a strategy forfight frustration. It can be said that diverted behaviors in adolescents do not occur without more, but are given from multiple biological, psychological and environmental factors and processes.