In some countries, a high proportion of criminal facts are committed by teenagers.Why has this happened? What can be done to deal with this?

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rates among the young are of growing concern for law enforcement officials, parents and sociologists. It is not the case that juvenile

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rates have increased across all countries, but there are countless instances over the world that illustrate a distressing trend. In the United States,

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increase in gun-related

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across all age demographics. Recently, though, there have been several alarming cases involving young white men committing mass killings against ethnic minority groups, citing their white supremacist, neo-Nazi beliefs as a justification for

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of incidents involving

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has gone up in poorer states and deprived areas of inner cities, particularly in the south of the country.

Crime

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in general has shot up across the country as a whole.

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the two key factors involved in

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are economic hardship and America's excessively permissive gun legislation. The first issue can be addressed by economic policies that don't ostracise large numbers of citizens from social mobility opportunities. In order to fight

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necessary to fight poverty and deprivation. The clear majority of crimes committed in western nations are committed by people from

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households. With regard to gun

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,

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is a specifically American problem and can only

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with a change to the second amendment, which permits all Americans to bear arms, an aspect of the US constitution

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surely out of date and unnecessary in the

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. In conclusion,I would advocate socially inclusive economic policies aimed at offering young people a genuine stake in their society as a solution to juvenile delinquency.