In America today juvenile crime is very high in ratings. The reason why most critics feel juveniles commit crimes is because of lack of parenthood or love in theirs lives, but critics still have not found the main reason why juveniles commit crimes. Some risk factors associated with juvenile crime are poverty, seeing violence on a daily basis, drugs, easy access to firearms, unstable family life, delinquent peer groups, and media violence. Especially the demise …showed first 75 words of 496 total…

…showed last 75 words of 496 total…to 1991. The possession of firearms plays a big cause in the delinquency of children and is playing a bigger role in the crimes which juveniles commit. Another cause of the increase of juvenile crimes has been the effect of children seeing multiple murders and other acts of violence on the television. Finally the demise of the family life and the increase in family violence has been the biggest factor in the increase of juvenile crime.