Why are teens seemingly committing more violent crimes these days?

Question

Why are teens seemingly committing more violent crimes these days?

Answer 1

i think a lot of it has to do with what they see on tv, and video games.......but mostly because the government stupidly decided to take away ALL parental control.

Answer 2

I think seemingly is the key word here.  We here far more about the violent crimes that do happen, unless of course they happen in places such as the inner city, where they are more common.

I think the media tends to jump on these stories, since they make good news.  The competition is really which network can provide the most s*x, blood, and guts.  Perhaps the sheer brutality of some of the crimes we see committed today stems partly from the fact that those who do them know they will get publicity.

Would Klebold and Harris have stormed Columbine if they knew they wouldn't become famous (or infamous as the case may be)?  How many people know the name of Seung h*i Cho, the Virginia Tech shooter?  How many know the names of at least 1 of his victims?  Unfortunately, the killer often becomes far more noted than the killed.

Answer 3

Popular culture celebrates competitiveness, conflict, violence - and angst.   It's on the news every night, and pumped up in every media from popular songs to films and computer games.   Bush summed the adversary world up in "You're either with us or against us".   No room for inquiry, thought, understanding, or creativity - unless there's a competitive profit in it.   What recreation or activity, from school to s*x, are kids offered that isn't competitive, which makes  most of them losers?   What education are they given to cope with an increasingly difficult, complex, and alarming world, apart from the monkey skills that might make them employable  - serving other people's objectives and profit, in commerce or war?  What real help do they get from pop culture or older mentors to help them deal with the emotional gales and intricacies of shifting from hormone charged teens to adulthood, when so much that alarms and perplexes them is "out of bounds", beyond the birds and bees and is generally avoided?   So I believe they feel isolated, abandoned, and angry, and only have anger to sustain them.   They "grow" as children focussed on their own immediate satisfactions, with parents too busy, too repressed, or too ignorant to talk to them in any depth, in a culture which promotes the idea that happiness comes from externalities, and unattainable goals (look at the movies and the car adverts).    So whatever it is, they want it NOW, as babies do.   And they don't see society doing anything much about the things that alarm them - from war to economics and climate change.  They haven't learned the patient satisfactions of hobbies or projects worked on over time, alone or in company, or the self-assurance of small achievements, and confidence in endurance itself.   They know nothing of what, and how, previous generations have survived.   Why would they not explode!   They are abandoned children, and largely undisciplined, internally or externally.  Poor little sods.

Answer 4

When they can read, understand, and have a concept of the age statutes enough to think they can get away with it...it's time to 'Lower The Bar' of age expectations.

Answer 5

It is the violent films they see in television, movies and computers. Technology has really infiltrated the young minds. Instead of reading good books they spend more time in virtual cartoons that promotes violence. It is more of powers of a certain character that allows the fresh  minds of the teens to sink in their brain. It is really frustrating because parents have no more control of their children if they are outside thir home and schools. I believe their must be an ordinance for children not allowing them to enter entertainments like internet cafes during schoold days. This doesn't bring moral values to our children and teens. Moreso, their young and fresh minds are being corrupt of these nonsense and whimsical films. It is alarming to note that these teens have embarked in promoting violence rather than be involve in a sports event.

I am really dismayed on how teens nowadays behaved. It is time for us to do something before it is too late.

Thank you for bringing up the problem. Have a great day!

Answer 6

I don't think it's that teens are committing more violent crimes now, it's that there are more teens and more publicizing of their crimes.

Answer 7

You gotta fight for your right, to paaaaaaarrrrrrtaaaaay!

Greatest song ever.