Juvenile Stereotypes

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Looking at the news these days has increasingly getting more depressing. Hearing about men who robbed a small convenience store to juveniles committing heinous crimes. Just recently the news reported on some high school students who decided to burn down their principal’s house because he suspended them a week earlier. The principal’s family was inside the house but they luckily escaped. Because of this, as well as other scenarios, teenagers have the stereotype of being temperamental and act on an impulse. An example of this is when a seventeen year old boy took a gun to his older brother and asked him if it was his lucky day. He told the court that he did not expect the gun to fire. After reading the article, it seemed the juvenile thought

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