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HOME » FOR TEACHERS AND YOUTH WORKERS » WHAT MAKES A KID DELINQUENT Some of the many factors that contribute to the making of a youthful male delinquent Common sense observations and conclusions. FACT: The growing criminal sub-culture among us is male fed and male lead. It is fueled by social failures. It is actually meeting a need, a sick need. A criminal or "anti" or delinquent sub-culture needs the right environment to grow. We have given it the right environment and it is growing! As it continues growing it will enlist the weak, bad and evil and exhaust the good. It’s time that society realizes this danger. FACT: The youthful delinquent evolves from a series of social failures. He is indeed a failure that has evolved from an environment of failure. Violence is simply the most colorful and impacting expression of this criminal sub-culture. Thank you media! NOTE: Ten primary causes and fifteen secondary causes below. The youthful male "delinquent" is created in part by a combination of many different "failures" and negative influences. Note the following factors listed by priorities ... FAILURES? YES! Most young male delinquents and criminals are created early by a series of serious failures on the part of the positive and healthy trinity of (1) parents, (2) society and the (3) church. This series of failures begins at the childhood level. The youthful male "delinquent" is created in part by ... (1) GOD: The killing of our Judo Christian God and Bible as a social standard robbing us of an essential corporate and individual inner moral ethic! Resulting in little or no social ethics or absolutes. The youthful male "delinquent" is created in part by ... (2) MALE IMAGE: No father image or poor father image. No grandfather image or poor grandfather image. No healthy older male love, interest or example. No older male that has ever been interested in them in a positive way. Poor media father image. Result? Boys that are confused as to their true sexuality. Boys that are truly male hungry! The youthful male "delinquent" is created in part by ... (3) FAMILY: Broken and dysfunctional family units. Loose family cohesion or no family cohesion. Little or no training of character and instilling of values in children. Little or no teaching or example of the critical trinity of: (1) personal responsibility, (2) self-discipline and (3) consequences of behavior. No "healthy" corporal punishment for children or disciplining of children. The tendency of mothers to dominate, over protect and suffocate their male children. In the U.S., mothers trying to destroy "macho" and make their boys into nice compliant little girls. It’s very difficult for a single mother to raise healthy male children. The emerging of "Femamen" instead of real men. An increase of homosexuals and or sexually disoriented males. The youthful male "delinquent" is created in part by ... (4) MEDIA: Powerful and attractive negative media influence. An active media culture. Attractive (addictive) yet morally and physically destructive music, heroes and example. Encouragement to be violent. Encouragement of children and teens to become sexually active. Encouragement to rebel against the system. Encouragement to prefer death over life. The media projects bad as good! Media projects a false sense of reality. The youthful male "delinquent" is created in part by ... (5) DRUGS: Availability of and encouragement to use drugs by peers, older male siblings and Media heroes. Feeling good becomes more important than being good. Feel good now. Future? What future. The youthful male "delinquent" is attracted to ... (6) GANGS: The gang provides family. The gang fulfills the need for the true male to become a real "physical" man and join real men where thrill, danger, risk and even warfare is available. Needed structure and discipline is available with the gang. Power is available. Leadership is available. The need for acceptance into a close family. (Note: social punishment is viewed as a risk and the true male likes risk!) The youthful male "delinquent" is created in part by ... (7) LIBERALS: A growing liberal influence in society. Implying: "The state is responsible not you." "Your mother is at fault, not you." "Society has failed you." The individual is not responsible. The male or man is not responsible. The youthful male "delinquent" is created in part by ... (8) CHURCH: Churches are seen as weak and irrelevant, especially to the male youth. The church has been the backbone of society’s ethics yet the church continues to grow weaker. The youthful male "delinquent" is empowered in part by ... (9) WEAPONS: Power. The status symbol of weapons. (Reinforced by the media) The youthful male "delinquent" is created in part by ... (10) TIME: Youth have too much empty time on their hands. Boredom reigns. An environment of boredom is always dangerous for the young male. The youthful male "delinquent" is created in part by ... (11) PEERS: With young disenfranchised males, peers and older male siblings rule! Powerful peer pressure and peer attraction, example and community. (Peer influence grows among males in proportion to family disunity and dysfunction). The youthful male "delinquent" is created in part by ... (12) LIFE: The vacuum created by an empty purposeless life creates drift and a downward trend forming it’s own destructive gravity. It enhances the concept of drugs and creates the environment for crime and violence to thrive. Note: Today there are no real heroes, causes, or flags. No challenges. NOTE: Young males are attracted by challenges, be they good or bad. The youthful male "delinquent" is created in part by ... (13) LAWS: An ever growing list of laws and regulations gradually reducing the individual’s liberty. The youthful male "delinquent" is created in part by ... (14) EXAMPLE: Destructive hypocritical adult example. The young male perceives most adults as dull and uninterested. The young male sees adults demonstrating perverted values, pleasure over purpose, now over tomorrow, physical over spiritual. The young male knows he will follow in their steps. The youthful male "delinquent" is created in part by ... (15) PROTECTIONISM: A growing over protective society that protects against the reality of consequence. A protective society that prohibits thrill and risk, which are two essential needs of a growing male. The youthful male "delinquent" is created in part by ... (16) SELF IMAGE: Low male self image. Low self worth compounded by female leadership and dominance. The youthful male "delinquent" is created in part by ... (17) DIET: Poor diets. Fast foods. As good food goes, addictive drugs enter. The youthful male "delinquent" is created in part by ... (18) RITE OF PASSAGE: No male rite of passage. When does a boy become a man. (The gang knows!) In some cases in Latin American a man becomes a man when he leaves the church ... around age 13. The youthful male "delinquent" is created in part by ... (19) WORK: No physical work ethic. Physical labor is for the dumb! The youthful male "delinquent" is created in part by ... (20) HORMONES: Male hormones growing and out of control. The youthful male "delinquent" finds his creed ... (21) CREED: Young male creed. Live fast, die young and make a good looking corpse! The youthful male "delinquent" is created in part by ... (22) MATERIALISM: He is taught by what he hears and sees that happiness consists of acquiring things. Adult and business encouragement to acquire things. The youthful male "delinquent" is created in part by ... (23) FUTURE: Dismal prediction of the future resulting in a now over tomorrow philosophy. Lack of direction or purpose. The youthful male "delinquent" is created in part by ... (24) POLICE: Bad image of police. Police dress and example projects them as enemies of society rather than protectors. An adversarial and authoritarian male image. A policeman is seen as a challenge to an "anti" young male! The youthful male "delinquent" is created in part by ... (25) RAGE: An inner growing frustration that feeds a resident anger often resulting in an explosion of rage and violence. Truly a human bomb ticking away looking for the right time and place to detonate. A person dedicated to injuring himself and others. NOTE: Thinking on rehabilitation of the young offender and the criminal. REHABILITATION: The road to true rehabilitation of the delinquent or youthful offender is as hard for the rehabilitators as it is for those being rehabilitated. Who can the rehibilitator count on for support? ENFORCEMENT?: Enforcement isn't really interested in the rehabilitating of the delinquent or the criminal. Enforcement grows and thrives on crime and the criminal. That’s their business. The more crime work there is, the more money the officials can request to obtain more men and equipment to fight it. The general is happy to have a larger army to command. The enforcement officer thrives on the chase! Someone to fight! THE POLITICIAN?: The politician isn't interested because the delinquent and common criminal have little or no political value. Rehabilitation or prevention takes a long time and shows little results, the true politician will opt for the immediate. He personally wants the credit and now. He will encourage and enable traditional enforcement to do the job. "Catch the violator and put him behind bars!" The true politician thinks in stereo when it comes to crime, (1) legislation and (2) enforcement. THE BUSINESS MAN?: The business community sees no convincing correlation between the cost of rehabilitating young delinquents and the robberies and theft occurring in their own business. Business and society in general are not really convinced that rehabilitation works. The percentages are poor. Why then would we as business invest in rehabilitation? SOCIETY?: Society talks a lot but in general is not convinced that rehabilitation really works. They only see and feel crime and simply want it stopped. It seems Society in general is not interested in solution if it takes too long, and solution does take long. Society wants enforcement to do the job. Society wants a short term fix. THE CHURCH? The history of the church being really interested in the rehabilitation of the criminal or youthful delinquent proves some talk but little or no action. Evangelicals and Pentecostals seem to be taking the lead in true rehabilitation of the drug addict and criminal. They seem to be having the best results. THE MEDIA?: The media sees the criminal and criminal activity as news. Crime makes the headlines! The media is money driven and power driven why would it want to help rehabilitate the young offender? The sincere individual who really wants to work toward the real solution has a very lonely road. That individual can count on little or no support from mainline society or the rich or the powerful. MOTIVES: Every criminal and youthful delinquent is governed by three very natural and primitive survival forces. This powerful trinity is simply, ME, TAKE and NOW. ME: I'm really the only one that matters. TAKE: It’s simpler and easier to take what I want than to earn or work for it. NOW: Now is what counts, I'll worry about tomorrow when it comes. Consequences aren't even in the picture. INCARCERATION: Incarceration is necessary to protect society from criminal types however incarceration is simply postponing the inevitable. When the criminal or delinquent is released he simply returns to his past environment a little tougher a little angrier and a little smarter. In a matter of time he will continue his agenda. PUNISHMENT: It’s a fact that punishment proves to be no deterrent to the criminal and his agenda. Punishment just packs more hatred, anger and frustration into a living criminal bomb. Punishment administered to the youthful offender fixes his hatred toward enforcement and society. Punishment only creates more crime. CONCLUSION: In my estimation we would have 70% less delinquent males in our societies if we corrected the first four failures. If we as a society don't correct these failures we will continue to have an impressive growth in crime. Incarceration is the only way we an contain this epidemic. The facts and statistics seem to prove that present efforts on the part of society to effectively rehabilitate these young offenders are proving poor results. We need to seriously review present rehabilitation philosophy and methods while there is time. The true solution to preventing crime and working to rehabilitate the potential delinquent is simply too controversial and too expensive to think about much less act on. It would take incredible courage on the part of leadership to face the real reason for the male delinquent and even more courage to go for an effective solution. It’s much simpler to address the symptoms and make an economy of the criminal and his crime and that’s what we continue to do. Aren't we actually saying as a society that we are accepting a given level of crime as a norm and converting it into an economy?

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Some of the many factors that contribute to the making of a youthful male delinquent

Common sense observations and conclusions.

FACT: The growing criminal sub-culture among us is male fed and male lead. It is fueled by social failures. It is actually meeting a need, a sick need. A criminal or "anti" or delinquent sub-culture needs the right environment to grow. We have given it the right environment and it is growing! As it continues growing it will enlist the weak, bad and evil and exhaust the good. It’s time that society realizes this danger.

FACT: The youthful delinquent evolves from a series of social failures. He is indeed a failure that has evolved from an environment of failure.

Violence is simply the most colorful and impacting expression of this criminal sub-culture. Thank you media!

NOTE: Ten primary causes and fifteen secondary causes below.

The youthful male "delinquent" is created in part by a combination of many different "failures" and negative influences. Note the following factors listed by priorities ...

FAILURES? YES! Most young male delinquents and criminals are created early by a series of serious failures on the part of the positive and healthy trinity of (1) parents, (2) society and the (3) church. This series of failures begins at the childhood level.