“Parental abuse and negative home lives can leave children with little hope and limited choices”.(Garinger 2) The environment of a teen is very important, because by instinct they adapt to their surroundings. Also, they tend to mimic their parents and look at them as role models. Therefore, bad parenting is a major factor to their crimes.
As a teen you learn how to make relationships with others. By doing so, some of their friends influence them toward their decision making. Teens or minors “as young as 11 years young are committing crimes in “wolf packs”.( Garinger 1) Having these people around you makes the crime more easier and available for teens. Also, now a days kids rely on social media and use that as a platform to communicate with each other.
When a minor you always get the short end of the stick. They’re already limited to do so many things due to their age. Also, under some circumstances they get treated differently, so why change that now? This is unfair, because they try to treat them as an adult when they clearly are still becoming one. To conclude minors are already categorized as their own group and should have each other forms of punishment from