Is it safe to live in the 21st century?
Teenagers criminals Now teenagers commit more crimes then adult ones! Gangs of young criminals are increasing every day. What is the reason of that? The answer is one: family's instability, alcoholism, economical problems, depreciated schools and education, imperfect law system. In 1997 13 children aged from 5 to 10 year committed crimes and burglaries. In 1998 more then 28. Last year teenagers committed about 535 crimes. During one-year period delinquency raised 16.6%. The biggest part of crimes was committed by teenagers aged from 13 to 19. Thefts from cars are 42.3% and burgalyries-31.5% off all committed crimes. Every 6th crime is burglary. Films of violence, detailed crime stories in the press have a big influence for crimes increasing. In 1998 investigated 47 teenagers’ burglaries in Siauliai, this year, after 4 monhts-28. 22 of them were investigated. Comparing with last year Siauliai has 46.7% increases. Dogging adults’ steps teenagers begin extort wealth, cheat, make drugs, use guns, process money, resell burglaries things. Statistic shows that drunk or intoxicated teenagers made many crimes. From 615 criminals 249 are pupil from secondary school. 53% guilty juveniles don’t study or work. We can group teenager criminals into two groups. One group of them become criminals, because those teenagers are weakling persons, their friends make great influence on them on their way of thinking or by these friends help they do a crime for fun. Other group of teenager’s criminals does crimes for their bad social status. How a teenager can become a criminal? A teenager can become a criminal when: · This teenager’s friends make great influence on him on his way of thinking. · This teenager is a weakling person and he can’t resist the temptation to alcohol, drugs, so he does a crime, because at that moment he did not understand what he was doing, because he was drunk. · This teenager does not have what to do in his spare time, so he does a crime just for having fun. · This teenager’s social status is bad, so he does a crime for having money. What kind of teenager criminals are in Lithuania? A teenager criminal can be: · vandal (a person who likes to draw on the cars, walls, houses, who likes to brake something); · filches (some kind of stealer); · pilferer (some kind of stealer); · pugnacious person (a person who likes to fight against somebody); · burglar (a person who steals from the houses); · rapist (a person who likes to rape women); · racketeer (a person who orders another person to give all his money); As we all know the bigger part of teenager criminals are of male sex.