their children. These programs offer strategies and tactics for helping supervise and discipline troubled children. This is done because it is believed that one of causes of delinquency is that parents of kids with delinquent tendencies simply don’t know what to do with them. This program as well as other similar ones, have been shown to have quite an influence on crime prevention.Media reports on juvenile crime are greatly exaggerated. While some headlines suggested that a “ticking time bomb” of so-called “superpredator children” is waiting to explode, the studies show that this is simply not true. Crime level indicators show that the male “at risk” population will rise over the next decade, but the levels are far from the explosive level that the media would like to suggest. In fact, the levels are lower than those reached in the late 197...
