The ways to punish these children before it’s too late is by showing them what would happen if they didn’t stop. Placing them in situations where they couldn’t get out of like “Beyond Scared Straight”. Also, children who commit violent crimes should be “sentenced” to a mandatory internship at the morgue. They need to see the other side of violent crimes, it’s not like a video game where you can get more lives; it’s ugly, violent and messy. Parents should be parents, no matter if it’s the biological parents, foster, grandparents or neighbors, should be protecting those children from things that they shouldn’t be seeing. It takes a village to raise a child, and that’s how it should be rather than the village taking advantage these children