"Crime prevention for children"-has lots of stats,talks about gang affiliaton, drug use, etc. This essay goes through the juvinile court system, and punishments, also explores where "devience" starts.

Between 1980 and 1997, 55% of the victims of juvenile homicide offenders were ages 13 through 24, I would think that would send an urgent message to society saying that crime is starting at a younger age each generation.Crime sprouts from the young minds who spend their time playing with pretend guns, watching violence on tv and watching their favorite super heros violently kill the villan. Does any of this have any long term psychological results? While growing up …

…violation of probation, which leads to mindless community hours and more rehabilitation. Over all I believe that most devieance and crime starts out in the childhood years. Children learn from society, their parents , and the media on how to act and control themselves. I feel that if we dont start doing something to prevent our children from falling into that concrete jail cell that our country is going to have a real problem very soon.