Levels of youth crime are increasing rapidly in most cities around the world. What are the reasons for this, and suggest some solutions.
Levels of delinquency are soaring at high rates in many cities around the globe. It is because younger generations are more easily influenced and tend to copy almost everything they see on the television or in the media. Stricter policy about content and regulation of screen time may solve
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reasons for increasing crime among youngsters is an excessive amount of violence translated from the news, films and TV series. These sources of information demonstrate a lot of crime scenes that inexorably stay in the minds of young ones. A prime example would be the TV serial called Breaking Bad. Despite the scenes of violence, many teenagers liked and discussed every season of Linking Words
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, there are some YouTube and Instagram bloggers that encourage youngsters to do law-breaking things. Linking Words
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, stricter rules about content in the mass media may greatly reduce the amount of violence seen on the screens. Linking Words
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, if parents had regulated the time spent by their children in front of the screens, the levels of delinquency would have been much lower. Linking Words
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, recent scientific studies proved that teenagers who spent less time watching videos on YouTube or video clips on Instagram had a more stable psyche and did not have problems with social interactions.
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