In today’s society, crime amongst the youth is just as common as breathing. Everyday, young people are arrested, killed, engaging in violence, dropping out of school, and making poor life choices in general. These young people are often called juvenile delinquents (the term juvenile meaning young person and delinquent meaning showing or characterized by a tendency to commit crime). Juvenile delinquency is the violation of the criminal law by minors (Agnew, 4). Most of these criminal laws tend to be status offenses which would be legal if an adult status was achieved among these individuals. A common assumption of the adults that witness the growth of these juveniles is that they are listening to music that encourages and fosters thoughts and
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Women are usually objectified and sexualized. “Exposure to such sexual references is thought to be associated with earlier initiation of sex and more permissive attitudes towards premarital sex”. Also, rap is associated with more risky sex and a greater likelihood of STIs. The reason for this is that, with the exception of eleven year olds, adolescents feel more pressure from the media and music to be sexually active, they are least likely to seek sexual information from the adults in their life leaving them to be misguided by the messages in music of misogyny and violence or rape, and they overestimate the amount of their adolescent peers who are sexually active due to the large amount of sexual references that are heavy in the music that socializes them (Coyne, 97, 102). Sex is seen as a form of delinquency because many of the adolescents engaging in sexual intercourse have not reached the legal age of consent which depending on which state they reside in is between ages sixteen and eightteen. The sexual nature of music makes this act seem more and more attractive as adolescents fear they are being left out and think that they need to participate in this
Women are usually objectified and sexualized. “Exposure to such sexual references is thought to be associated with earlier initiation of sex and more permissive attitudes towards premarital sex”. Also, rap is associated with more risky sex and a greater likelihood of STIs. The reason for this is that, with the exception of eleven year olds, adolescents feel more pressure from the media and music to be sexually active, they are least likely to seek sexual information from the adults in their life leaving them to be misguided by the messages in music of misogyny and violence or rape, and they overestimate the amount of their adolescent peers who are sexually active due to the large amount of sexual references that are heavy in the music that socializes them (Coyne, 97, 102). Sex is seen as a form of delinquency because many of the adolescents engaging in sexual intercourse have not reached the legal age of consent which depending on which state they reside in is between ages sixteen and eightteen. The sexual nature of music makes this act seem more and more attractive as adolescents fear they are being left out and think that they need to participate in this