Juvenile Crimes Involving Guns

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need to get tougher and school programs need to incorporate more approaches to dealing with anger in teenagers. There are many contributing precursors to juvenile crimes similar to Sammy's use of a firearm. Precursors may include low family income and poor parental child-rearing behavior (Adolescence, 2002) both factors contributing to the case study. Anger management programs for teenagers are almost a necessity these days especially in poor urban communities where anger easily turns into violent crimes due to lack of certain family variables. "The family variables which contribute the most to aggressiveness and delinquency include parental criminality, poor parental supervision, cruel or neglecting attitudes, erratic or harsh discipline, marital conflict, and large family size" (Adolescence, 2002). Teenagers in poor-urban communities find it harder to follow structure and rules that are either implemented by schools or families; therefore providing more of an environment for ...

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