How could education help to reduce the crime in teenagers life?

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How could education help to reduce the crime in teenagers’ life?

        Education in its broadest sense is any act or experience that has a formative effect on the mind, character, or physical ability of an individual and in its technical sense education is the process by which society deliberately transmits its accumulated knowledge, values, and skills from one generation to another through institutions. Three-quarters (75%) of young people had not offended in the last 12 months. Of the 25 per cent that committed at least one of the offences in the last 12 months, many had offended only occasionally or committed relatively trivial offences. The proportion of young people committing an offence remained stable across all three waves of the survey. This pattern held for frequent and serious offenders. The essay looks at how education decreases the level of crime and evaluates past experience and present influence. The importance of topic is in indication of connection between education and crime among teenagers and revealing the proof of decline in the number of crime as a result of amelioration in education. The problem of teenage crime is that it will affect future reputation of person and status. Moreover there is going to be a difficulty in finding a well-paid job. In addition, it can cause mental effect or worsen relationships with parents or close people.

        As McGuire and Priestley suggest in their book “We refer to making values explicit, eliciting values, changing values, values clarification, contesting values, character building and treating young offenders as adults”. Firstly, in previous years government had provided commandant hours in order to keep children from trouble. Secondly, the rule of age-restriction in pubs, bars and clubs had been added to law. Thirdly, schools set lectures about drugs, sex and alcohol, so that students can understand problems that they can cause for society and themselves. Moreover, meetings with victims and seeing and feeling the pain took place. In addition, hypnotherapy to penetrate and erase, the subconscious pain stored in their minds and body from seeing and hearing the terrible things. The political situation in the world also had an impact on the public mood especially on young people. In 20th century the civil rights movement in the USA, protests against Vietnam war, Cold War and fear of USSR led to aggressive and emotional   behavior  and resulting in high level of street crimes. More than a fifth of teenagers and young adults have admitted committing a crime in the past year, while nearly a third of primary school-age children in Bristol are displaying "problem behavior" such as fighting, arson, drinking or stealing.

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        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 ...

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