Crime appears to be rising in most countries in the world, especially among young people. Identify the possible causes of this trend, and propose some solutions you think effective.

In a lot of countries around the world, an increasing number of crimes are being committed by young people. The causes of
this
appear to be focused on the three areas and some solutions
also
emerge in the below paragraphs. One of the main causes of youth
crime
is a negative family environment. . These children who grew up in violent homes are said to have never received any love and support so they are likely
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violently.
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, if
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parents are always working, a young person might shoplift and even hope they get caught so that
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parents will be forced to give them some attention. Another cause is poverty, which
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seemed
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to be the principal cause of
crime
. People cannot survive without food,
however
, in some areas, the poor do not have sufficient money to buy food
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or other
necesseries
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necessaries
necessities
. A
third
factor is
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violence
from
media
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the media
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. There are many
web sites
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and teleplays including
violence
, which provides individuals
negative
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influences. Especially, teenagers are
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to be affected and tend to imitate, so the
crime
rate of the young has raised annually. Turning the possible solutions, an obvious step would be to organize
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program and
child
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care program. If we took
this
step it would
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effect on their family. A
second
remedy might be for poverty, it has to narrow the gap between the poor and rich,
that is
, the government should tax more from the rich and relieve the poor.
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for social
violence
, television and film rating
system
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systems
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need to be strictly implemented.
Moreover
, parents should supervise their children and restrict
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time of watching TV. To conclude, negative family environment, poverty and TV
violence
are
main
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reasons
of
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crime
. A coordinated response from
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family environment may lessen the severity solution.
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