American Teens Against Crime

Teen sexting has been a controversy for years, due to its legal connection to child porn. The two terms have separate definitions, but can overlap depending on the age of the person sending or keeping the message. The definition of child pornography states that any sexually-explicit picture or message of a minor, consensually given or otherwise, will always be child porn and is subject to a criminal charge. This leaves consensually sexting adolescents in a bit of a bad place. They are at risk of…

among drunk teens. Furthermore, no journal found the opposite to be true. Additionally, journals have stated that there are many negatives specifically for teens regarding alcohol. First if one drinks alcohol early on…

Crime rates have an effect on everyone in one way or another. Whether you have experienced criminal activity first hand or have heard of a crime that was committed on some type of mass media resource. According to Jeffrey M. Jones in his article in “Gallup” “Twenty-six percent of Americans say they or another member of their household were the victim of some type of property or physical crime in the last 12 months, ranging from theft to sexual assault, according to Gallup 's index of crime…

ranging from the ages 15-19 were killed at a 31.17% per million rates as opposed to White Americans were only killed at a 1.47% per million person’s rate. For that statistic to equal out for a White American, 185 more White American teens in the age range 15-19 would have to die. That statistic states more than one teen would have to die per week just to equal the amount of deaths that African American teens are facing die to police firearms…

Crucible Pre-Reading Response Today's court cases completely go against the statement that Justice is best determined in a court of law.An example of how justice isn't always best determined in a court of law would be a white teenager who killed four people in a car accident, and was only on probation instead of receiving a criminal sentence. In 2013 Ethan Couch a 16 year old white male was conducting a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol ,in the process he crashed and killed four…

cultural interest, because of this they are discriminated against and over represented in the justice system. Black kids being treated more severely than white kids when they both commit the same crime. This is an example of indirect discrimination a black kid and a white kid being treated differently when they commit the same crime due to their socioeconomic class. What we are experiencing now is second generation racism. African Americans…

that are altering their lives. Numerous amounts of teens are victims of violence each year; the effects of these continued violence can cause lifetime problems. More than 1 in every 3 girls and boys across the country, ages 10-16 years old, fall victim to violence each year (5). The violence among today’s youth is causing extreme problems that are leading to more violent outburst and behavioral issues that are having harsh effects. Violence against and among teenagers cause psychological and…

to the Europeans as Europeans were called their masters. Throughout time the conflict between whites and blacks became no better. When slavery ended, African Americans still faced racism from the whites. African Americans couldn’t take it anymore and wanted equal rights and not more less than a white person. After some time, African Americans got their rights and became equal to whites. Even Whites became understandable toward the blacks and didn’t treat cruelly like their ancestors. There were…

and more common throughout the state of Iowa and the entire US. It is now the norm for underage high school and college students to attend parties on the weekends where underage drinking occurs. We need to take more action against underage drinking to protect our youth against the harmful effects. Underage drinking in Iowa has become more and more serious as time has gone on. In some places underage drinking is almost expected from high school students. In Iowa, 66.3% of students in grades…

when it comes to underage teens who get charged as an adult for a crime and put on death row, death row is a prison block or section for prisoners who will be sentenced to stay in prison till death. Without parole or sometimes even trial, and just from reading Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson explaining how the courts and the justice system is illicit. Mr. Stevenson talks about the circumstance that have led to the teens that have been slandered throughout their lives. The teens reached out to him…