Juvenile Punishment
The changes in the world social structure may indirectly affect juvenile crime rates. For example, changes in the economy that leads to fewer job opportunities for youth and rising unemployment in general make gainful employment increasingly difficult for young people to obtain. The resulting discontent may in turn lead more youths into criminal behavior. Because of that, many countries have tried to control juvenile delinquency with some punishments. Some kinds of juvenile punishment are parental punishment, perform community service and caning.
Punish the parents for their child mistakes seem appropriate to be a solution to decrease criminal act by youth. According to the Reading 11 that Anita Bect, the Jeremiah’s parent went to court because her daughter acts. Jeremiah Beck was caught shoplifting a bottle of cologne. The town of Silverton, Oregon, passed a law holding parents responsible for their kids’ wrongdoings. According to Estiningsih3 that lack of parental supervision is thought to be an influence on juvenile crime rates. I think more families consist of one-parent households or two working parents; consequently, child is likely to have less supervision at home. The other identifiable causes of delinquent acts include frustration or failure in school, the increased availability of drugs and alcohol, and the growing incidence of child abuse and child neglect. All these conditions tend to increase the probability of a child committing a criminal act. The parents responsible for these situations and deserve to charge when their child makes mistake.
I believe that perform community service in the systems of the United States is good lesson to the youth which makes mistake. According to Redmond4 that community service, unpaid work for the community performed by a convicted person by court order as an alternative to prison. Examples of community service include helping children, the elderly, or the disabled. In my opinion, perform the youth in community service will change the youth behavior because its give examples to the youth that doing something good to the other people is enjoyable. Youth will realize how bad they are. And then, when the youth join to the community service, its will gather many volunteer that alleviate the government in many aspect of community.
I think that a punishment beating with a cane is a brutal form of justice. According to the Reading 22 that Michael Fay (19), an American, was fined and sentenced by a Singaporean court to and four strokes by rattan cane, he found guilty for spray-painting graffiti on cars. According to Collier5 that Fay’s parents sought media attention and political intervention then U.S. President Bill Clinton publicly asked for leniency and called the sentence a mistake, but Singaporean leaders rejected his pleas, saying the United States exemplified the laxity of laws and public morals in the West. In my view, Fay must responsible with what he done even in it happen in the other country like Singapore because he made mistake. But its cruel form of justice when youth received a caning as punishment for a crime he committed, that isn’t educative punishment. There is another educative punishment to give good lesson for Fay, off course with wise way like some punishments above (parental punishment or perform community service).
The most punishment of juvenile have focused on how to hold off children from disadvantaged behavior, some educative punishment all this time prove succeed to decrees the probability of a child committing a criminal act. All punishment, however, are tentative and are subject to criticism.
Source :
1 : “Reading 1”, Page 10 – 12, Writing IV, Niken Sawitri, M.A.
2 : “Reading 2”, Page 13, Writing IV, Niken Sawitri, M.A.
3 : “Kontrol Orang Tua”, Dwi Estiningsih M.Psi
4 : “Community Service”, Redmond, WA.
5 : “1994: Singapore”, Collier’s Year Book.
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