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Dehooding The Hoodies: Youth Work: Article Analysis

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In order to prevent individuals from committing crimes its best to keep these individuals preoccupied with important things. For example, from my own personal experience I joined the wrestling team to keep me busy and to help keep me in shape. But it also taught me self discipline and determination. In addition it saved me from a bad path I was heading to. If the city provided funds for kids to join school groups and provided money for programs, more kids would be off the streets and doing something productive. It’s really hard to understand our standpoint if they don’t know the city we come from or our hardships that we endure due to low income and violence. In the article“Dehooding the hoodies; Youth work. This article talks about the system is failing to give teenagers the help they need to avoid committing crimes. It is plausible that if the city put more interest in preventing crime, there would be less depressive kids, or kids committing crimes. We must also put into consideration what happens to the young criminal after they come out of jail. In addition, in the article “Delinquent youth in corrections: Medicaid and reentry into the community,Gupta Ravindra talks about how the juvenile delinquent isn’t given mental help to be readmitted into the community. Thus leads to the assumption that …show more content…

In the article, On Punishment and Teen Killers, Jennifer Jenkins feels no remorse toward the teen killer. But Jenkins has worked with teenager her whole life, shouldn’t she feel a little remorse towards the kids. She argues “If brain development were the reason, then teen killers would kill at roughly the same rates all over the world”. But not all teenagers go through the same situations that others do. In addition it’s a generalization to assume that minors would pursue murder due to hardship in their

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