Demonization Of Juvenile Crime

Juvenile crime has been an important and more sought after subject for policy analysts, crime researchers, sociologists, principal authorities, the policing team, and many other stakeholders who are in constant search of resolving or reducing the occurrence and recurrence of juvenile crimes in UK and across the world. There has been several literature about the use of moral panic, demonization, and politicisation of juvenile crime and the benefits and undesired consequences, but the search remains alive as even after the juvenile crime era of the 1980-1990, the questions of reducing crime still remains and haunts many policy experts and relevant authorities (Downes et al., 2013). Moral panic has been escalated in its use by the advent of national

The moral limitations of society suddenly began to have new limits designed by media editors, politicians, and other socially concerned people. Due to the poor education system and economic recession, children were ignored as their parents focused on working while children difficult to get jobs. Therefore, the juvenile crimes are soaring and widespread reported and demonized by social mass media (Carrabine, 2009). It is a fact that youth is seen to be dangerous when moral panic takes centre stage in the minds of society and at the same time they want to and are responsible for protecting the innocence of youth (Cohen, 2011). The underlying impacts of the widespread moral panic of juvenile crime are associated with the implications of policies and their respective enforcement. The youth policy which defines the justified way of dealing with juvenile crimes and providing them with justice deliverance, the policy that implies specific rules for the juvenile crime has a large responsibility. The policy analyst who is seeking to fix the loopholes or the weaker links which provides wise escape for juveniles from getting punished needs to investigate the process of crime justice and the reasoning process used for awarding punishments

This changing environment is to be noted carefully and interpreted correctly because theories, beliefs, and values have an expiry date which are replaced by new ones as time progresses and external influences makes imposition of new values on the interpreter (Stams et al., 2006). Moral panic as a theory consists of numerous and endless interpretation but the broad ones are about the realisation of the juveniles being a moral threat to society and they must be avoided at minimum costs. This behaviour is being shaped by society, along with the contribution of mass media, sociologists, and politicians who highlight issues and makes them a priority to be addressed (Green, 2003). The policy analyst needs to address these broader issues first so as to reach the core of treating the idea of moral panic and instilling new policies that justifies its negligible importance and more on restoration measures of such juvenile