Another incident that was witnessed at the Victor Valley mall included seven young teenage boys and two teenage girls. Originally, it began with two separate groups of teenagers that somehow merged into one chaotic mess. The first group consisted of one Caucasian boy who had glasses on his face, two African American boys, and two Hispanic girls. The two African American boys appeared to be wearing similar apparel. Both were dressed in basketball style shorts, basketball Nike shoes, and oversized T-shirts. The Caucasian boy in this group was dressed differently that the other boys, he was dressed in blue slim/straight jeans that were fitted to his body; a snugly fit T-shirt and Nike casual shoes. This group was very loud and vulgar. It seemed …show more content…
At first glance, the merger of these two groups seemed friendly, however, within a few minutes their combined voices started getting louder. The incident became more of an altercation when one of the Hispanic boys from the second group started yelling at one of the African American boys from the first group which caused most of the other boys to laugh and taunt one another. With laughter still ringing in the air around them all, the Hispanic boy who was initially yelling became even louder. Thankfully before things got too heated and out of control, the “Paul Blart” security officer of Victor Valley Mall, escorted the arguing boys to an unknown location. Although it is unclear as to what was the reason behind the argument, it was apparent that these kids have social issues and thankfully security intervened and acted as parental figures by controlling the outcome of the situation. Throughout the observation process at The Mall of Victor Valley, many indiscretions were observed and it was determined that Friday evenings are not the ideal time for serious shoppers to attend this …show more content…
There are several reasons that play into this assumption’s outcome, reasons such as divorce, single parenting, peer-pressure, or even violence within the child’s home. The truth of the matter is that adolescents begin to become independent from their parents, and they spend more time with their peers. Being a member of a peer group is one of the most important experiences a young teen will have. Social needs, such as feelings of belonging, acceptance, and attachment, only intensify during adolescent years. However, children in this particular age range have not mentally grown up; leaving them mentally stuck between the mentality of a child and a young adult. Because these young teens are stuck in transition, they can easily be persuaded by peers to act in an irresponsible manner. The teenagers that were observed at both locations were trying to strive toward being adults. The path that each group is taking is the result of how they will transition into adulthood based on their potential income. The involvement of peers within a social circle does influence a young person’s behavior. Through my observations, the teens that had aggressive behavior were aided by their peers into being accepted for their questionable behavior. This behavior was seen as being acceptable with
...an see, there are many reasons why children and teenagers may misbehave. They could be tired, hungry, sick or just scared of the position they're in. There could be problems at home with family, fighting, and competition, and attention seeking within society. Children are easier to understand to why they misbehave but when it comes to teenagers it’s a little ridiculous. They will make lousy decisions that can cause a rough road ahead of them all because they want to be noticed. It’s unpleasant to see what this society has come too.
With the recently discovered spark of "Chicano force," Paula and the other student leaders start their battle to enhance the quality of their education. The crew decide to take extraordinary measures after their requests are disregarded by the school board. After Sal Castro cautions school authorities about the reality of the student’s' requests, he is disregarded and resolves to help the students in their fight for a better education. He encourages the students to organize a peaceful walkout strike with the five other high schools to ensure that no students are physically harmed. Soon after the walkouts begin, their cause becomes highly publicized and last for a few days. During one of the walkouts, students are faced with violence by ...
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Thereby, institutions that were intended to nurture youth (schools) have been collapsed into the practice of surveillance and criminalization, often acting as the behest of police and probation officers. In the case of Spider, he was isolated from “regular” school and sent to EOCS, which was a school for students who had already been officially labeled as deviants and delinquents by the school district. There, many of the teachers had a common practice that whenever any student misbehaved, the teachers would threaten either to call the police, to send them to jail, or call their P.O. (sometimes, even for students that weren’t on probation). In the schools attempt to main social order, it used the full force of criminal justice institutions to regulate students’ behaviors with constant threats. Also, Rios accounts that Slick’s beating, a student at an EOC, was the result of the schools impeccable communication between a security officer, the administrators, and police officer Miles. At these types of teaching facilities, stigma, labeling, detention, harassment, and humiliation are just about the only consistent experience that adolescents could count on as they entered the school. If students attempted to resist criminalization by acting up, a police officer lurked nearby ready to pounce. In essence, school was simply an extension where young people were criminalized for their style and culture. As a matter of fact, many of the boys Rios describes, saw no distinction between the school and police officers who constantly lurked around them, like a “zookeeper watching over animals at all times.” Police officers played a crafty “cat and mouse game” in which adolescent boys remained in steady trepidation of being humiliated, brutalized, or detained. Hence, this sort of control is created by a
Around five children from the reservation walk into an ice cream parlor, with one being White, sit at the counter and ask to be served. The owner of the place denies them service by lying about having ice cream and cones. To break up the argument between the owner of the parlor and the White child defending her Native friends the Sheriff’s son, Bernard (David Roya), executes his idea of “making the Native children white” by pouring flour on them, then injures one of them. To break up the altercation Billy Jack comes in and carries on a monologue before starting to beat up Bernard for the disrespectful way he treated the Native children. In this scene the Native children remain benevolent, not speaking or physically responding to being physically humiliated in public and the altercations persists. Only when Billy Jack comes in and decelerates the situation and unleashed his anger on the White townspeople and Bernard does the situation end. The scene shows the White customers idly standing by as the Native children are denied service and humiliated, silently condoning the Bernard’s racism. The owner of the shop still believes he should be able to deny service to anyone despite the law saying otherwise. The Native children disrupt the previous way of life where White people didn’t have to cater to people of color, where people of color were not seen or heard in white-only spaces. White attitudes towards people of color did not change with federal legislations starting six years before 1971. The sheriff’s son, Bernard, is just as racist as his father displaying how racism is engrained though generations. The privilege Bernard possesses allows him to, for most of the film, to get away with heinous crimes with little repercussions. Billy Jack defies his teachings and the pressure of the
She could not understand how boys and girls could be allowed to behave in such hateful and often physically abusive ways. She learned, too, that the white students attending Central High were not the only ones who displayed such hateful behavior, as many of the school’s administrators as well as the members of the local and state police forces stood by and watched the white students torment and abuse Melba and her eight black classmates.... ... middle of paper ... ...
The society is a complex web of interactions between the different factions. At the very basic level is the family unit and in this case the nuclear family unit. The social connection between family members is the basic connection that the rest of the society uses to stay together. This is a cohesion that can be considered to have adhesive elements of the various people in the society. Ideally, there is an insatiable need in human being to be part of something bigger than themselves. As such the connection at the family level and to loved ones provides the attachment that people require to feel safe and secure. It is thus common for people to tend to look for that element of connection if the family unit does not provide for the same (Publicsafety.gc.ca, 2016). Adolescents are largely at a stage where they are trying to establish their values relative to what their environment dictates. As such, they tend to be easily carried away by whatever their environment presents. Some of them end up getting initiated into gangs. This is a common element especially for those who come from the poor communities in the society. This common trend has also been established to be
As the “Official Response to the Detroit Riot,” the Harlem race riots certainly exceeded the physical and emotional destruction the Detroit riot caused. With “six persons [dead], several hundreds injured, and approximately two million dollars’ worth of property [was] damaged,” the riots proved to be an explosion of frustration violence and contradiction (Capeci xi). With an unclear beginning, this event proved to be a culmination of small situations that spawned from hot tempers, gossip, and neighboring race riots.
In his research Jay Macleod, compares two groups of teenage boys, the Hallway Hangers and the Brothers. Both groups of teenagers live in a low income neighborhood in Clarendon Heights, but they are complete opposites of each other. The Hallway Hangers, composed of eight teenagers spend most of their time in the late afternoon or early evening hanging out in doorway number 13 until very late at night. The Brothers are a group of seven teenagers that have no aspirations to just hang out and cause problems, the Brothers enjoy active pastimes such as playing basketball. The Hallway Hangers all smoke, drink, and use drugs. Stereotyped as “hoodlums,” “punks,” or “burnouts” by outsiders, the Hallway Hangers are actually a varied group, and much can be learned from considering each member (Macleod p. 162). The Brothers attend high school on a regular basis and none of them participate in high-risk behaviors, such as smoke, drink, or do drugs.
Fear is what caused the incident at Garland Street. It was not simply the idea of an African American moving into a White covenant, it was fear. Often times, the fear of another is what led to violent clashes like in the Detroit Race Riots of the 1960's. The only realitsic alternative to the violen...
What about the peers or friends children correlate with? Could this have anything to do with children’s violence today? Some say definitely. All of the crimes being committed today have been prepared by usually junior high students. Junior high students are at an impressionable age where how they act or what they do is very important to them and how others view them. So why not have all the kids see you as a “hard ass” or “someone who isn’t scared of anything”? Why not show people that you can kill, or whatever the case may be. Peers do play an important role on how children are shaped and what might cause violence in teens today.
Summarizing Susan Cooper Eastman’s article, Michael Dunn, a 47 white male shot 17 year old Jordan Davis, a black teen, over a dispute over Davis’ loud music. Jordan Davis was with three other teenagers when they parked in a Jacksonville parking lot next to Dunn. Dunn claims he shot Davis because he panicked when the dispute escalated and he saw what looked like a barrel of a gun through the back window as Davis began to get out of his car. Police say that the teen’s car was unarmed. Assistant State Attorney Erin Wolfson believes that Dunn overreacted because of the way that Davis was speaking to him and not listening to his orders to turn his rap music down. Wolfson quoted a witness who heard Dunn state “You are not going to talk to me that way” as the dispute began to get heated. Defense attorneys believe that Dunn acted in self-defense and that it is reasonable that he used deadly force. Medical evidence shows that Davis died inside his vehicl...
Imagine this: Summer break has finally kicked in and a couple of kids has decided to throw a pool party under adult supervision. The kids are munching on finger food, drinking sodas, and hanging out with their friends. Suddenly a fight between a child and her mother breaks out, and the neighbors call the police. Once the police arrived madness in the neighborhood erupted. One cop in particular began to terrorize the black children, curse at them, pulled out his gun, and manhandled them in a way that is unbelievably violent and sickening.
The social environment of teens holds an enormous influence on how the teens act and behave. Teens are easily influenced by their surroundings and they look to others for guidance. Their behavior results from that of the parent and peer influences. Parents play a particularly influential role in their child’s life and it is up to them to make sure that they are leading their sons or daughters in the right directions. A teen’s peers also play a large role in how the teen behaves when the parents are not around. A teen’s social environment, consisting of family and peers, plays a vital role in their life, therefore becoming the ultimate cause of juvenile delinquency.
For example, on the night of December 22nd, 2002, the Bra Boys had an altercation with off-duty members of the local police force. This event has ultimately resulted in the Bra Boy group being labelled as rebellious, young teens with criminal tendencies by some in the wider society. However, this view was challenged as a result of the actions of the Bra Boys during the Cronulla Riot. In this instance, the leaders of the Bra Boys were a crucial part in instigating the eventual peace between the Australian and Lebanese communities. As a result, the wider community now perceived the Bra Boys as respectful young adults, who valued equality between different cultures. From these instances, it is clear that the behaviours and values of the Bra Boys have influenced the way in which they are perceived by the wider society to a great extent, serving to both reinforce the negative stereotype surrounding the group, as well as challenge it and portray the group in a new