Austin Holzer And Juvenile Delinquency

Juvenile delinquency stems from a variety of reasons, that individually explain its cause. Dysfunctional homes, lack of parental supervision, low self-esteem, peer pressure, and many more may contribute to a child’s deviant behavior. In Austin Holzer’s situation, he allegedly gunned down a Mesa County Sheriff’s Officer in Denver, Colorado. Holzer is now 18 years old, however, committed the crime when he was 17, in February 2016. Primarily, questions are as whether, or not charge him as an adult on the account of juvenile delinquency, or first degree murder. According to Psychologist, Joe Peraino, he believes that his actions were ascribed to his “unstable childhood,”and that rehabilitation services should be sanctioned upon him, opposed to

Specifically, living standards of the sort, could produce aberrant behavior, which could strive towards juvenile drug use and gang involvement.

Austin Holzer is from an unstable home, which has significantly impacted his current lifestyle. According to Gabrielle Porter, Holzer was abandoned by his mother as an infant, being left to grow up with a physically abusive father. Consequently, as a mechanism used to endure his circumstances, he retreated to drugs. Holzer had admitted to snorting OxyContin for the first time at age 7, subsequently selling marijuana soon after, and using methamphetamine on a “nearly daily” basis by the age of 14 and 15. Holzer was also sexually assaulted by his babysitter as a youth, which resulted in him “pimping” out a girls. Not only was his human trafficking retaliation for alleviating purposes, yet also a source of income in order to accommodate his

Holzer has Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder that was never treated, due to his parental situation. With the absence of his mother, and his father failing at his parental duties, Holzer felt neglected, and frequently ran away from home. Leaving home also caused Holzer be a truant,which influenced him to be more involved in the streets. Thus, in order to fill the emptiness in his life, he resorted to a group of people who shared similar circumstances with him. With the correspondence in the situations, the negative influences upon each other only inclined. Thus, a gang was formed, and was accompanied by illicit activity. The crime Holzer committed was ascribed to his ADHD, which if treated, would have prevented the his delinquent acts. He the lack of guardianship in Holzer’s life was also perceived as a contribution to his gang participation. As a conclusion, Peraino recommended residential treatment and therapy for his disorder. His reasoning was based on the belief that, confining Holzer in an adult prison, would only supplement his behavior, making him a bigger threat to the community once released. The crack epidemic was on account for the increase in juvenile gangs and drug use, as children were seen as instruments. With drugs in the play of delinquency, territorial monopoly was exercised, which caused violence to transpire. Generally once one is