Essay On School Shootings

School shootings, bullying, suicides, and increase in gang violence these are things that a lot of communities are faced with. Over the past couple of years America as a country has been through series of events that has shaped this country to wat it is now. With all these changes one has to wonder how these changes are affecting the future of the youths and how it’s currently affecting them. In their report Juvenile Focus, Alvin W. Cohn, and D.Crim talks about various topics like criminal victimization, policing disparities, jailing of the poor states reform sentencing, and how they all relate to juvenile delinquency. They tackle topics like juvenile drug court, juvenile drug treatment, teens being trialed as adult in courts, psychological abuse of teens and bullying and cyber bullying between teens. Cohn and Crim also use …show more content…
In the topic of race Cohn shows us that race is a lot a factor that affects youths and not just adult. According to their report about 20% of Hispanic youths were more likely to be referred to juvenile court than white youths. Another issue discussed was the issue of technology and its problems. They talk about the issue of bullying cyberbullying and most importantly youth harassment victimization, the risk factors are also pointed out which one could says we see today with the amount of school shooting that we have been having. With all these new issues developing in American one could often wonder what happens these teens that commit these crimes. About four states in the Unite states allows youths charged with drug related crimes to be trialed as adult, while about 9 states trials 16-17 year old as through they were adult. What would this means for a minority kids who is charged with a drug case one can say a cycle of they now being “passed around” in the