In present time government added many educational solutions, thus they believe that it can help to reduce youth crime. They provided psychological trainings in school, so that students are able to learn how to behave in certain situations, contain aggression and be more self-confident. Geeta Subramanian, the youth offending team's interim head of community safety and preventive services, says: "We're trying to link education, training and employment into everything. We're trying to keep the same ethos and response, but we want to target young people before they become excluded." Furthermore, meetings for parents who have problems with children, therefore teachers or professionals could support parents in which way they have to communicate with their children. Also, Government has improved street patrols and age-restrictions, in order that children cannot buy products without any identification and are not able to hang around at night. The example of alcohol abusing is United Kingdom, because many youngsters were able to buy alcohol with fake identification, whereas now showing Passport, Police Registration or Driving License has restricted it. According to that, the number of crimes has dropped by 25%. Other reasons of youth crime are the existence of lone parents or bad environment in family, which are causing teenager spitefulness. It is very disappointing that a recent report by the Prince’s Trust, the charity founded in 1976 by the Prince of Wales (reported in The Times of 8/8/08) shows that many youngsters do not regard their parents as an example.
In addition the influence of cruel movies, computer games and books can cause the effect on crime. So then, the study tested how much children will retain of what they see in movies. They found that 8 year olds would catch three out of every five things that the parents see. This means, for example, that if there are 20 murder scenes, then the child will remember 12 of them. The next thing that they learned was that the 8 year old will remember 90% of what they saw in the movie six weeks after they saw it, and three months later, they still remember the same amount. The last thing that was observed was that children of all ages tend to accept as true the things that they see in movies. In addition, the scenes that children remember the most from a movie are action scenes, especially when it deals with sports, crime, and fighting. The evidence that was found in this part of the study makes it clear that children do pick up a lot of information from the movies that they see and will remember the scenes for a long time. Because of this, being exposed to the kind of information that is shown in a rated R film will be unhealthy for the child. As it has been said by The Outlaw “The games such as that involving shooting like "Vice City" were thought of to incite violence among teenagers and young children. Moreover sites such as Facebook, Bebo and MySpace has been a cause of youth crimes such as murdering and raping, so that followed government to restrict children to use these sites by putting age restriction. Another point has been considered by Barbara Wilding CBE QPM FRSA CCMI, Chief Constable, and South Wales Police “To put metal detectors at the school gates, and 'get tough' actions by the police and our courts”
The Government has set a target of cutting the number of youngsters caught up in the criminal justice system from 100,000 to 80,000 by 2020. Its youth crime action plan emphasized early intervention with 20,000 families whose children are considered most likely to offend. They will be required to undergo a scheme designed to improve behavior, with the possibility of eviction from council property if they refuse to co-operate. Another problem is that education not only of students but also teachers and parents. Often actions of teachers and parents lead to children’s aggression. As it has been mentioned by COLIN PRITCHARD and ALAN BUTLER Department of Psychiatry, University of Leeds “we focused upon teachers' views of the origin of the behavior and what action they might take in response to such children”.
In my opinion, education will reduce the youth crime, because as it has been seen in statement that government and society improves the restriction and reduces the crime rate. So, young people become knowledgeable and responsible for their movements by education. In order to reduce it, Government should look at economic plight as well, because it is one of the causes of crime. According to Jeff Grogger it has been estimated that his estimates suggest that falling real wages may have been an important determinant of rising youth crime over the past two decades In addition, young criminals are forced to do crime by parents, therefore it should be changed and Government should look after children whose parents are criminals, because it affects on children’s personality. The solution would be to identify these families early, insist on the parents undertaking some values education and if there is unwillingness to do this, taking the children away to be fostered. Finally, the rate of youth crime will be reduced, because as it seems in statistics that humanity is becoming more knowledgeable and clever, so by the time children will be taught how to live in a peace.
The report claims that just over one third of 16-25 year olds say they do not have a parent they consider a role model and so turn to their peer groups in gangs for guidance. More than half say friends are their main example and two thirds say that they would go to a peer first with a problem. Less than a third would turn a parent. Paul Brown, a director at the Princes Trust, says that, if young people do not have parents who are good role models and have no other adults in their life to look up, gangs fill the vacuum. Gangs are very attractive to young people if they have no sense of direction or motivation. In some schools older student are asked to be an ideal for younger children can help to decide the best way of being in the right environment. This could happen in gangs. It would be difficult to do in practice, because it would mean finding gang leader or members who would be willing to undergo training and in the end influence (without telling) people they mentor not to commit crimes.