The Role of the Community in Preventing Youth Crime!

In recent years crime rate has been increased in double and most of the violent events are committed by youths than the adult offender. Nowadays juvenile violent behaviors became one of the global issues and tough measures initiated in national level all over the world like increasing the range of penalty for the youth who committed violent activity, strict procedures for school safety and so on. The traditional alternatives for this problem are separate unit of police department to target school areas and youth groups wherever youngsters get together, very strict ruling and judgments and finally high penalties 1.

Many researchers and psychologists working to identify the root cause of the juvenile violent behavior but they not able to provide definite causes for this fact. Public health researchers and social welfare units continues the analysis to identify the environment and agents of the youth violence. This analysis resulted about what kind of people involving in these violent activities, at what environment and at what time. And these type of results very helpful to elaborate the search of solution for the youth crime act. Hence it is a public health issue which should not be a puzzle to prevent it 1.

The role of communities in the youth environment is very important. Their relationship with the fellowmen in their community impacts the activities, aspirations and interests of young people. The influence of community has a power to change the mind and behavior of youths. The main factor is community can create opportunities for a youngster to take leadership and it will prevent the disengagement. Youths get a better platform to actively involve in local services. It is responsible of the communities to make them realize the importance of their contribution in the particular community and their participation in social activities. To attain that, communities should be responsive enough to the requirements of the youths and youths should be treated with good respect 2. The achievements and success of the youngster must be recognized by their communities to create a positive relationship with them. Teen centers, pools, skateboard parks and arenas are the best places for the youngster to get engage. Inspiring communities increases the aspiration of young peoples. They need support for their effort especially in the situation of depression, anger, and confusion, because at that stage youngster easily get induced to do immoral and violent activities. And those youngsters are said to be a youth at-risk 2.

Community recreational services are like rescue hand to the youths at risk because youngster without engagements in recreational involvement are at high risk for criminal behavior.