Juvenile Delinquency: Crime And Crime

As a society we often find it difficult to swallow the fact that children are capable of engaging in and committing crimes. The thought of a child, a being that represents innocence, would perform an act that deviates to social order shocks and confuses society. The questions of, how could you do that? What were you thinking? Which, then leads to statements like, “We did not raise that way! ” or “You know better than that!” when trying to comprehend the concept of the unacceptable actions of juveniles. Suicides, runaways, and later life offending seem to have a common link of juvenile delinquency. Children deviating from societal norms can affect the future of society because offending. Juvenile offending can be the result of a plethora of culprits and perhaps, as a society we can to come to terms with there not being one exclusive answer to explain why juveniles deviate from social norms.
Family as an institution is where children are first socialized in most cases, so juveniles

The media was not meant to be a social institution, it was meant for entertaining, informing and mainly profit. Media has rapidly grown through movies, television, radio, and more recently, the Internet. Media is not a new to making an impression on minors. Society looks to the media as it would family or any other social institution, for rules and societal values. With the majority of video games and television shows that revolve around extreme violence it is hard for them not to have an influence on children. “ In exposure to violent video games, juveniles have an active role. Video games require players to decide and perform in the games. Thus, juveniles make active decisions to participate in violent activity when playing these video games” (Bernstein) This decision making could potentially lead to children modeling these actions in real life