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Essay Number 51
In recent years, the number of crimes committed by young people in major cities
throughout the world is increasing. Discuss this issue. Give reasons and suggest some
solutions.
It is a very shocking situation that the number of youngsters involved in crime is increasing
day by day. In this essay, I intend to discuss the reasons for this phenomenon and suggest
some solutions.
A number of factors are responsible for juvenile delinquency. Media is one powerful
influence. Many times, vulgarity and violence is shown on TV. Children are vulnerable and
accept it as natural and try to copy what is shown. For example, in Virginia USA, a student
killed 30 students just after watching a TV program. Another cause of crime among youth is
the changing family structure. Nuclear families are the norm of the day. Earlier, there were
joint families in which grandparents used to teach moral values to children. They kept an
eye on the friend circle of their grandchildren. Nowadays, both parents are working and
children are left unattended at home. They may fall into bad company and resort to drugs
under peer pressure. For drugs they desperately need money which turns them towards
crime.
Furthermore, increasing poverty, unemployment and competition is causing hopelessness
and frustration among the youth. They are over ambitious and want to earn quick money.
They have a lot of energy and if that energy is not harnessed in the right direction, they can
go astray. Consumerist society is also a big factor to put them on the path of crime. When
they see new things in the market, they want them by hook or by crook. Parents cannot
satisfy all their whims and so they start doing petty crime which turns to major crime very
soon.
The solutions are not simple. The issue has to be dealt with on a war footing. Some
censorship of TV channels is needed. Parents should ration the TV viewing hours of children.
Parents should watch TV with children so that they know what their children are being
exposed to. We should also encourage joint families. Parents should be good role models
Good family atmosphere should be provided to children. Friend circle of the children should
be monitored. We should also educate children about the harms of consumerism. Schools
should also provide good education. Finally, government should try and reduce
unemployment and poverty which are the root causes.
To put it in a nutshell, I pen down saying that, crime among youth is a big problem and
youth alone cannot be blamed for that. We should look into the causes and take relevant
steps to fight this problem.
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