Integrative Analysis Of Boyz N The Hood

Integrative Paper on Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Violence of the At-Risk-Youth
Tara Hill
Liberty

Abstract
At-risk youth can be at risk due to family problems. There are several factors that play a part in the roles of at-risk youth such as in the film Boyz N the Hood. Boyz N the hood is a movie about a group of friends that lived in the inner city and faced multiple factors leading to the juvenile delinquency and youth violence. In the paper the factors are discussed through the character Tre Styles. The character used will help you understand how the at-risk tree and the different systems of the individual cam encourage or stop the process of delinquency such as legal and ethical issues, family, individual, and peer involvement.

I will focus on the character in the movie known as “Tre Styles.” The movie took place back in 1984, with the focus being on three black young males growing up in the tough neighborhood of South Central, Los Angeles, Tre, Doughboy, and Ricky. Tre Styles played the role as an educated 10 year old youth who had problems with behavior in school and in the community. Tre initially was living with his mother in a single parent household but due to his mother being unable to deal with his aggressive behaviors (fighting, being verbally aggressive, and suspensions from school) she sent him to live with his father. Tre’s mother didn’t want Tre to end up poor, uneducated, and living on the streets and that she felt like his father could do a better job teaching him to be mature as an adult. Tre’s father a business man who works in the community in which they live is noted to be a no-nonsense disciplinarian known to us as (Authoritarian Parenting) who decides to teach his son to be a man. Tre is now living with his father and reunited with his childhood friends Ricky, Doughboy, and Little Chris. As the story line progresses we learn that Doughboy and little Chris are high-school dropouts, in a gang “The Bloods” and sell drugs, and that Trey’s best friend Ricky is a star running back for Crenshaw high school, has a child with his live in girlfriend, and is struggling

57). Research shows that delinquency and youth violence have been on the rise over the decade growing in epidemic proportions since 1993 (Hoyt & Scherer, 1998). Delinquency means for one to break the law and does not have to involve any form of criminal activity in one doing so. However, it is known that antisocial behavior, delinquency, and violence share common roots and similar consequences according to Mcwhirter et al. (2013). Violent crimes committed by youth has escalated by youth victimized by youth violence doubling the in juvenile arrests for violent crime by 2010, and fueled anxieties about future crime wave as the juvenile delinquents mature into adults (Hoyt & Scherer, 1998) with female delinquency making its mark up the ladder according to research. Usually when a youth is classified as a delinquent it is associated with antisocial behaviors within the family and in the community such as aggression and can lead to related problems such as vandalism, substance usage and running away, theft, robbery, and larceny, gang memberships and school shootings. Juveniles are typically not charged like adults unless the crime is serious. Delinquency in the United States is examined with the emphasis on its relation to local communities and the groups and institutions that form the social world of children and adolescents (Cavan &