Teen Violence: Unlocking The Mystery Of The Teenage Brain

Juvenile Delinquency
Teen violence is a huge factor in our society today. Teen violence is when a young person turns to harmful behaviors to hurt others. In our world now violence is a common way for people to emit their emotions in a negative way. It is now so casual for this violence to occur it is accepted as a thing. We have been raised to suppress our emotions and keep our thoughts to ourselves, this leads to a build up of mixed emotions and they will eventually come through in a most negative way. An article from TeenHelp states, “ 80% of prisoners in the United States were abused as children or raised in violent homes.” If a child's upbringing is in a harsh, abusive manner they will be more prone to lean towards violence in their
Either media, friends, family even our location can affect our decisions. All too often will you see articles or hear people speaking of teenage minds. A video from Fox News has been titled “ Unlocking the Mystery of the Teenage Brain”. Observing these articles can frustrate a teen as the people who compose these are more often than not uneducated in understanding teens and simply go by stereotypes to construct their report. If felt misunderstood or categorized a teen will have feelings about the beliefs spreading and they won’t be very happy. The teen may try to express their discontentment with the article only to be shot down by an oblivious adult. Sometimes they may be heard and others won’t even voice their opinions. This again brings up the upbuild of emotions sometimes released through
Sick and tired. Bob was a good guy. He was the best buddy a guy ever had. I mean, he was a good fighter and tuff and everything, but he was a real person too. You dig?” he continues to say “He’s dead--- his mother had a nervous breakdown. They spoiled him rotten. I mean, most parents would be proud of a kid like that--- good-looking’ and smart and everything, but they gave in to him all the time. He kept trying to make someone say ‘No’ and they never did. They never did. That was what he wanted. For somebody to tell him ‘No’. To have somebody lay down the law, to set the limits, give him something solid to stand on. That’s what we all want, really” Some teens may turn to violence from neglect, neglect after all according to a study done in Penn State University is responsible for large portions of teen violence. What we don’t know however, is how many teens don’t get neglected but have non-authoritative or dismissive parents, such as Bob’s. Teens in this case may feel the need to almost earn their parents attention and to achieve that, people may go to jurassics. Therefore, the Outsiders really can connect to modern day teen violence problems as well. Though the causes can be far and many they all are a problem and need to be