High Crime Rates Among Teenagers Teenage crime is a very important problem that the United States is facing these days. Teenage crime is a name given to the crimes that are committed by people who are under the age of 18. About 20% of all violent crimes are committed by children under the age of eighteen.(Difficult, Violent Boys 1). During the early 1990`s a rapid increase was led by many states to change their juvenile justice laws …showed first 75 words of 1144 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1144 total…in recent years, teenage violent crime has been rising steadily. The real causes of violent crime have been rising steadily. The real causes of violent teenage crime are the breakdown of the family and community stability. The government might be taking some cautions for the teenage crime such as putting juveniles on trials as adults, but as long as they do not solve the real problems that lie beneath their cautions will not work effectively.